Wheat Lookout wins Cool Gardens competition
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A team of architects from Barcelona has won Brandon’s inaugural Cool Gardens competition and will be showcasing The Wheat Lookout installation at the Riverbank Discovery Centre in June.
Despite never having visited the Wheat City, Marta Milà Pascual and Marc Torrellas Arnedo created the lookout tower as a celebration of Brandon’s agricultural heritage.
“I think they obviously did some research and got the feel of the city,” said Lois MacDonald, manager of riverbank development and tourism services. “Clearly they understand our community and they put together an installation that is relevant and is something we can all relate to.”
The design, which was chosen from six site-specific entries and is made from straw bales, will feature a bird-watching lookout, sandbox playground and terraces. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the tower and move the bales around to suit their needs.
The Spanish architects will be in Brandon to install The Wheat Lookout in June and MacDonald is looking forward to incorporating the public art piece into the Discovery Centre’s summer programming.
“We have over 1,800 school kids that come through every spring and our day camps throughout the summer, so we have lots of kids in the area … it will be a unique structure for our students and participants to play on,” she said, adding that the tower will be ideal for the centre’s interpretive birding program and will be open to the public in time for Canada Day.
Cool Gardens is presented by architecture advocate StorefrontMB to promote appreciation of the built environment. The four-year-old exhibition featuring contemporary garden culture and public art will be expanding from Winnipeg to Brandon for the first time this summer.
“The organization has seen it as its mandate to advance awareness provincewide and Cool Gardens seemed like a good opportunity to reach out,” StorefrontMB president and Cool Gardens co-curator David Penner said. “We are particularly excited to be facilitating a cultural exchange between Manitoba and Spain.”
The competition received a total of 45 entries worldwide and eight interactive designs will be built this year — including The Wheat Lookout.
The local installation will be on display until Sept. 25 and residents are invited to check out the tower’s building process, which is expected to start June 18.
To check out all of the 2016 entries, visit coolgardens.ca.
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