http://designgid.com Online destination for everyone who loves brands, smart and contemporary design. DesignGid is a web magazine dedicated to showcasing the best modern international design, covering from interior design, decorating ideas, architecture, tech concepts and best creative products. Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:56:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://designgid.com/2009/10/04/the-garden-that-climbs-the-steps-by-balmori-associates/ http://designgid.com/2009/10/04/the-garden-that-climbs-the-steps-by-balmori-associates/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:49:37 +0000 designgid team http://designgid.com/?p=102 The New York based landscape and urban design office of Balmori Associates has designed the “Garden That Climbs The Steps” in Bilbao, Spain. According to designers: "The garden climbs the stairs, running in undulating lines of different textures and colors. Envisioned as a dynamic urban space; it moves in time and with the seasons. Its lush planting cascades down as though the garden was flowing or melting, bleeding the colors into each other. In one gesture, it narrates a story of landscape taking over and expanding over the Public Space and Architecture, therefore transforming the way that the stairs and the space is perceived and read by the user. It is a garden of contrasts: the contrast between native and exotic plants, between the red flowers and the green grass, between the green grass and the grey paving. In form, the garden engages the horizontal plaza with the rising vertical plane of the steps and the upright gesture of Eduardo Chillida’s sculpture. Like the famous Spanish Steps in Rome, the garden is not only designed for visitors to ascend and descend, but for them to linger, and just be."

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