Garden Dialogues 2014: Vancouver, BC
On September 20th and 21st, get exclusive access to private gardens in Vancouver and hear directly from the designers and their clients about their collaborative process.
How do clients and designers work together? What makes for a great, enduring collaboration? Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to visit some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice.
These events are now complete.
Photo by Nina Mendoza
Saturday, September 20, 10:00am to 12:00pm | Vancouver, BC
Eppich Garden
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, with Nick Milkovich, architect
A dramatic, three-tiered contemporary home with exquisite views of the bay is complemented by a series of terraces that lead to a tranquil pool over which a portion of the house in cantilevered. The terraces are defined through paving, rectangular pools and grass and other plant materials, and punctuated by stone stairs. Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander has also incorporated azaleas, rhododendrons, and roses, so that the owners could enjoy their “own Garden of Eden in all seasons.” more photos
Photo by Nic Lehoux
Saturday, September 20, 2:30 to 4:00pm | Vancouver, BC
Reflections
Paul Sangha of Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture, with Fossil Project Services, landscape contractor
This elegant and dramatic 1.6-acre property features extraordinary views and it provides an ideal setting for the client’s sculpture collection. The site, on a natural cliff overlooking soaring trees, the Pacific Ocean, sandy beaches and beautiful coastal mountains. Descending from a large reflecting pool is a semi-circular promontory, which gives way to a large and relaxing outdoor entertaining space. more photos
Photo by Martin Knowles, courtesy Hapa Collaborative
Sunday, September 21, 10:00am to 1:30pm | Vancouver, BC | Includes Barbecue Lunch
Koo's Courtyard and Mid-Main Park
Joseph Fry and Doug Shearer of Hapa Collaborative with Bruce Haden, architect
Ingenuity is on display at these two very different communal spaces by Hapa Collaborative. The narrow 8-1/2' wide site shared by the six families of Koo’s Gardens, an award-winning urban infill project, reflects the project’s industrial aesthetic, and transformed small, underutilized patios into delightful shared social spaces. In the Mount Pleasant Community, the focal point of Mid-Main Park is a large-scale and entertaining red “bendy straw” trellis, a nod to the Palm Dairy milk bar that occupied the site from 1952-1989. The inviting main promenade cleverly integrates sustainability, storm water management, drought tolerant shade planting and pervious paving into its design. more photos
Photo by Brett Ryan
Sunday, September 21, 3:00 to 5:00pm | Vancouver, BC | Includes Weekend Closing Reception
The Courtyard House Garden
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, with Nick Milkovich, architect
This 1956 RR McKee-designed mid-century Modern home was largely untouched when the current owners purchased it in 2002. Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander was brought in to elegantly re-sculpt the .75-acre site. To create privacy and enhance the borrowed view of the Pacific Spirit Park, ocean and mountains, the north lawn was elevated nine feet courtesy 250 dump truck loads of fill from the south lawn, resulting in a serene and verdant oasis. Oberlander brought in architect Nick Milkovich who oversaw the reconstruction and extension of the original house. more photos