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best private plots 08
Result
First Prize
Albèric Moreels – Belgium
Hôtel Verhaegen
Garden Sculpture
Second Prize
Hager Landschaftsarchitektur – Switzerland
Privatgarten J. in Berlin
Gas Station Garden
Third Prize
Carlos M. Teixeira – Brazil
The Prosthesis Garden
Prosthesis Garden
Special Mentions
Augusto Calonder – Switzerland
Dinder House
Surface Design – USA
Erman Residence
Weathers - Sean Lally – USA
Amplification
Overview
International award recognizing exemplary design of private open spaces
| Category | Award / Competition Result |
| Type | International, Award, Open, Single-Stage |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Country | Austria |
| RegDeadline | 2 June 2008 GoogleCal iCal |
| 2 June 2008 (Must be Postmarked) | |
| Eligibility | The competition is open to landscape architects, architects, designers, artists, florists, landscaping firms and nurseries, as well as to garden owners—or teams consisting of a combination thereof. |
| Target Field | The open space must be clearly identifiable as intended for private residence and use and have been completed after January 1, 1998. |
Description
The competition highlights the garden as a place of innovation, as a space for creative expression and action, as contemporary dialogue between architecture and landscape. The award criteria include: idea, artistic and conceptual quality, use of plants and materials, relationship between inside and outside, delimitation of space and organisation of open space, technical and ecological planning. Special attention will also be given to the individual diversity of use and functionality.
Jury
Jane Amidon (Landscape Architecture, USA)
Petra Blaisse (Design, Netherlands)
Erik Dhont (Landscape Architecture, Belgium)
Edouard François (Architecture, France)
Jane Bihr-de Salis (winner of best private plots 07, Switzerland)
Prize
First prize: 7,000 euro
Second prize: 5,000 euro
Third prize: 3,000 euro
The thirty best outdoor spaces and gardens will be published in the catalogue “best private plots 08 – Die besten Gärten 2008 - internationale Beispiele zu Gartenarchitektur”; it will be presented at the award ceremony. The best thirty outdoor spaces and gardens will also be shown in an exhibition.
Entry Fee
None
Entries
1. Poster (A0 format)
2. Handout A3 (A handout with the same content as the poster, as the basis for the preliminary jury, A3, text in English)
3. CD – Digital Requirements
A0 Poster and one A3 Handout and Project description (one A4 sheets (ca. 5,000 characters)) and Images (4 to 8 photographs (A4))
Timetable
Announcement of nominated projects, www.privateplots.at: 30 July 2008
Ceremony and Announcement of the winners, Presentation of the catalogue “best private plots 08 – Die besten Gärten 2008”
Exhibition of the nominated projects: from September 27 to November 5, 2008 (at the Loisium Visitors’ Center, Langenlois)
Links
Past winners
Promoter
Team private plots
Official Website
http://www.privateplots.at/en/index.html