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Inviting ambience. Warm lighting and comfortable sound. Design cubes, space for young talent. The catwalk for your innovative ideas. The conference garden, for your inspirational business meetings. Camera gates to protect intellectual properties. Welcoming guests with unique hospitality. Meeting the community of the high-priced garden furniture segment at the “unique hour”.
Leisure Extravaganza: Singapore’s Gardens By the Bay
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- Impressive Structures: The Supertrees
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- Wallking in Lofty Hights Among the Supertrees
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- View from Walkway in the Supertrees
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- Lit-up Spectacle: Supertrees at Night
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- Forest Dome in the Cooled Conservatories
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- Cloud Forest Dome in the Cooled Conservatories
They have been open for only three months and already welcomed over one million visitors, among them the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: Singapore’s Garden by the Bay are a huge success. The dramatic leisure destination was designed by UK landscape architects Grant Associates, and has been shortlisted for two Awards presented at the World Architecture Festival, which will be celebrated in Singapore from October 3 to 5.
At 101 hectares, Gardens by the Bay will eventually be one of the largest gardens of its kind in the world comprising Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central. Grant Associates was responsible for master planning the first and largest of the three planned gardens, Bay South, which stretches over 54 hectares and opened in June 2012. Bay East and Bay Central are yet to be completed.
A remarkable blend of nature, technology, environmental management and imagination, highlights of Bay South include 18 Supertrees (25-50 metre vertical gardens that light up at night) and two giant Cooled Conservatories, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, housing Mediterranean and Tropical climate plants. The project also includes a rich variety of Horticultural Gardens, designed around the themes ‘Plants and People’ and ‘Plants and Planet’.
garden unique 2012 Has Closed Its Doors: See You Next Year!
spoga+gafa 2012 and with it garden unique has closed its doors. All in all the international garden trade fair welcomed 36,300 trade visitors from 103 countries. They came to see 1,975 suppliers and manufacturers from 56 countries, who presented their goods and services for making the garden a more attractive and more comfortable place to spend time in.
As the platform for high-end garden and outdoor furniture, garden unique scored high in visitors‘ interest. 36 international premium brands presented their new trends and innovations for the gardening season 2013.
Monday evening was dominated by the “unique hour”, the great award ceremony to announce the expert jury‘s winners of the garden unique design contest. Reto Togni, with his outdoor kitchen “Canorta”, Marco Gottardi, with his table and chair ensemble “LINEA”, and Manfred Makedonski, with his “bottle cooler” and “bottle stand” were awarded for the excellence of their interpretations of “Dining Outdoors”.
Already, we are looking forward to seeing new design and innovations next year, at garden unique 2013! Save the date: September 8 to 10, 2013.
Until then we will be supplying you with interesting projects of the lush green and leafy kind. Stay tuned!
The Jury has decided: Winners of the garden unique Design Contest
 First Prize Jury Winner: Outdoor Kitchen CANORTA by retogni from Switzerland |
 Second Prize Jury Winner: Foldable Furniture LINEA by Marco Gottardi from Italy |
 Third Prize Jury Winner: Bottle Stand cum Chiller by MMDesign from Germany |
The expert jury of the garden unique design contest has decided on their three winning designs! They are proof of how widely the associations range when it comes to “Dining Outdoors”.
The awards were given to the promising designers on Monday, September 3, during the “unique hour” at garden unique.
Winner of the Third Prize is Manfred Makedonski from Germany, who took to solving a very real-life problem: whether casually in the park, at the beach or at a lakeside, your beverage is at peril of tipping and gets warm annoyingly fast. Makedonski’s proposal is as simple as it is helpful: a minimalistic rod combined with a felt sleeve to slip your bottle into – all you need to keep your drinks save and chilled.
The Second Prize was awarded to the furniture collection LINEA by Marco Gottardy from Italy. The slim silhouettes together with the elegant lines that make up the surfaces of the pieces and their pleasing colours make for the real summer feel. Plus they are easy to fold and store away, which is always good for those small spaces and the change of seasons.
The First Prize went to the outdoor kitchen CANORTA by retogni from Switzerland. It is a kitchen fully equipped with sink, gas stove and a fitting seating arrangement designed to take cooking out of the kitchen right into the middle of things at your next garden party. It is made up of several modules, which are fast to assemble and make the whole kitchen easy to transport to where the party’s happening.
The awards were given to the promising designers on Monday, September 3, during the “unique hour” at garden unique.
Congratulations to the three winning designers!
European Prize for Urban Public Spaces
Public space is the wealth of our cities. It is the origin of bustling urbanity, of a city’s unique character and of its inhabitant’s contentedness. The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery and defence of public space in our cities. The winners of this year’s seventh edition had to be selected from 347 projects from 36 European countries.
Chelsea Flower Show opens Summer Season
Are you looking for the wild or for a sanctuary? For the exotic or for something close to home? No matter where your horticultural preferences may lie, you will find something to suit your taste at the Chelsea Flower Show. Once again, the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, London, have been transformed into spectacular gardens and floral displays fit for the “catwalk of the gardening world”. Its doors just opened but will admit RHS members only until May 24, when everyone will be welcome to marvel at the 16 Show Gardens, 8 Artisan Gardens, and 8 Fresh Gardens created by some of the finest contemporary designers.
Landscape Architecture meets Public Space: Street-Days in Leiden, NL
With seminars, workshops and a presentation competition for landscape architects Street-Days, a new two-day event devoted to landscape architecture and public space, will celebrate its arrival on the scene on June 14 and 15 at De Waad in Leiden.
International Garden Design Award: Best Private Plots 2012
Gardens come in all sizes and colours. The international garden design award “best private plots – Die besten Gärten 2012” is looking for the best of them.
Let’s go for a picnic: the PICNIC Innovation Mash Up on May 15
Discover creativity to be in the game with your business: during the PICNIC Innovation Mash Up in Amsterdam on May 15 creative industry experts show you how to get your head around design thinking, scenario planning, crowdsourcing, service innovation and open design.
Design Contest has started! This Year’s Topic: Dining Outdoors
A new great opportunity for designers, newcomers or big names alike: following the overwhelming success of last year’s garden unique design contest, which was held supported by jovoto.com, there will be a new brief this year. There is a call for designs for objects perfect for culinary occasions under the open sky. From easy to carry furniture or parasols for the picnic with family and friends right up to the outdoor kitchen complete with chairs and shading to cater for professional and exclusive big festivities.
Living Nature: Floriade 2012
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- Innovatoren Entrance Building
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- Villa Flora
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- Floriade 2012 Park Plants
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- Country Pavilion Spain
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- Country Pavilion Spain Forum
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- Country Pavilion Spain Interior
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- Country Pavilion North Rhine-Westphalia
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- My Green World
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- The Park
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- Green Living
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- Green Living in the Kitchen
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- Country Pavilion Belgium
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- Country Pavilion Azerbaijan
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- Aquapavillion
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- Allee der Tuinculturen
Those always longing to immerse themselves in the countless forms and colours nature offers around the globe can now do so in one short trip to the Netherlands’ Venlo region: on April 5 Floriade 2012, the sixth World Horticultural Expo, opened its doors to be a stage for exhibitors from all over the world. It is a rare opportunity, the Expo is only held every ten years and is host to over 100 international participants, who present their culture and flora in numerous gardens and pavilions.
A high-rise like a lush landscape
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- Parkroyal on Pickering, Singapore
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- Duxton Plain Public Housing, Competition, Singapore
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- Newton Suites, Singapore
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- Newton Suites, Singapore
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- Resort Alila Villas Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia
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- School of Arts, Singapore
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- The Met, Bangkok
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- Vertical Cities
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- The exhibition at the DAM
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- R. Hassel, Mun Summ Wong
Their buildings look like they came to us from a distant future in which plants have regained the upper hand – WOHA, a young architectural office from Singapore headed by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell, pushes the boundaries of the common understanding of a building structure.
Vertical Gardens by Patrick Blanc
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- Cartier Foundation, Paris
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- Pershing Hall Hotel, Paris
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- Pershing Hall Hotel, Paris
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- Musée du quai Branly, Paris
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- Musée du quai Branly, Paris
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- Caixa Forum, Madrid
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- Caixa Forum, Madrid
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- Rue Belliard, Brussels
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- Patrick Blanc, Nouvel Tower Praterstrasse 1, Vienna
Cities are turning green. And not just thanks to parks and revitalised river banks, urban farming or guerrilla gardening. It is the buildings themselves that add to the growing flora of our urban habitats.
Garden Unique interview: garden design trends
Garden Unique interview: garden design trends from Dezeen on Vimeo.
The “unique hour” on 5 September from 6 pm
In addition to an interesting talk, the exchange of ideas and tasty buffet treats,
a further highlight awaits the VIP guests: The presentation of the winning entries
for the Architecture & Design Contest 2011. To conclude, there will be an exciting
combination of fashion show and furniture trends with the “Furniture Fashion Shows”.
Garden Unique interview: Wilson McWilliam Studio
Garden Unique interview: Wilson McWilliam Studio from Dezeen on Vimeo.
Garden Unique interview: architecture and garden design
Garden Unique interview: architecture and garden design from Dezeen on Vimeo.
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Top-Class guests
Inviting not just fair visitors but garden unique guests. Welcoming the international community of top garden furniture suppliers. Talking to architects, planners, designers and top retailers.
