DAVID PEARL Glass in the landscape Ian Gray & Associates landscape architects
Private residence, Toronto: gardens, balconies, carport & roof terrace with etched glass walls, fences and balustrades
David Pearl with Ian Gray & Associates landscape architects, 2001
''INSERTED LANDSCAPE'
An Installation by David Pearl and Ian Gray
This artist and landscape architect collaboration at C2 G2, The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery by Pattkau Archtects, uses the silo as an architectural link between the gallery building and the landscape. It is a siting device. The silo, both a rural and urban built form, contains an 'inserted landscape' of plants and water, as a memory device to recreate the wetlands of the gallery's surroundings prior to land reclamation and construction. The silo has glass planks etched with maps of the area in earlier periods: glass is a part of the container, glass allows you to see in and out of the silo, glass is a lens - on the past.
THE GLASS ARCHITECTURE PROJECT 1996/97
CANADIAN CLAY AND GLASS GALLERY WATERLOO ONTARIO
DESIGN EXCHANGE BAY STREET TORONTO
all images copyright David Pearl
PEARL GRAY productions
