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Australian project chosen for the International Garden Festival

The International Garden Festival has announced the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 2010 edition of the festival.

A total of 276 proposals for conceptual gardens were submitted by over 600 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists from 34 countries.

The three teams chosen by the jury to create gardens in 2010 are:

- Studio Bryan Hanes (Bryan Hanes, Jose Menendez, Yadiel Rivera Diaz, Brenna Herpmann) landscape architects and DIGSAU (Jules Dingle, Jeff Goldstein, Mark Sanderson, Jamie Unkefer, Aaron Jezzi) architects, all based in Philadelphia, USA, and their project 'Veil Garden'
- Habitation (David Vago, Simone Marsh and Nick Brown) landscape architects from Sydney, Australia, and their project 'The grass is greener'
- Rosetta Sarah Elkin, a Canadian landscape architect based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and her project 'Tiny Taxonomy'

Special mention was given to two teams for their project:

- Leena Cho, landscape architect, and Matthew Jull, architect, from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and their project 'Dirt Roll'
- Marc Pape, Sinisha Brdar, Nicolas Marier, Thierry Beaudoin, architects from Montreal, Dominique Leduc actress from Montreal and Paula Meijerink, landscape architect from Cambridge, USA, and their project 'Undermining Paradise/L'envers du Paradis'

The Festival will be held from June 26 to October 3, 2010 in Canada.

In March, the Gardens will present the première of the new documentary on the Gardens by Philippe Baylaucq.

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