Key：USA | 2008 | Park

项目概况:

the lurie garden, having won 2008 asla award of excellence, is designed by gustafson guthrie nichol. the lurie garden is a 3-acre, rooftop garden in downtown chicago’s millennium park. the garden expresses chicago’s distinct, urban landscape history as a bold, contemporary landmark that also offers quiet respite for people and urban wildlife with the various plants and natural materials. it creates one oasis with high level design and different functions, which not only improve the people’s aesthetic standards, but also the outstanding representative of landscape design with the character of environment sensitiveness and sustainable development. the lurie garden’s design concept responds to the rich history of the site and the city by conceptualizing and expressing the present and future of chicago. the shoulder hedge is a living wall that protects the garden’s interior from heavy pedestrian traffic, especially after concerts on the adjacent great lawn. within the shoulder hedge, the garden has two interior "plates" that are planted with perennials and trees. the plates, called the dark plate and light plate, strongly contrast with each other. the dark plate, referencing the marshy, mysterious past of the site and city, immerses people in the landscape. visitors can experience this dream-like immersion in a swollen volume of robust plants and earth form. the light plate, referencing chicago’s modern and artistic control of nature, offers control and prospect. the raised pathways and lower sweeps of plantings provide an exhilarating experience of surveying a bright and clean, controlled landscape. the seam is the boundary between the two plates. it is composed of a boardwalk that "floats" over a shallow water feature. one crosses the seam in order to move from the wild immersion of the dark plate to the controlled empowerment of the light plate.