Claude Cormier - Architectes paysagistes
Landscape architects
BLUE LAWN
MONTREAL (QUEBEC), CANADA

BLUE LAWN

MONTREAL (QUEBEC), CANADA

Project
Installation for the museum grounds
Client
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Year
1996-1997
Status
Proposal
In conjunction with Diller and Scofidio’s American Lawn exhibition, we offered to turn the CCA’s ever-greener grass blue. A non-toxic paint was created for the project, which celebrates the North American obsession with the perfect lawn. This seminal work attests to the power of colour to defamiliarize the backdrops of everyday life and transform them into sites of renewed attention and contemplation.

Surface
1,800 m2 (0.4 acres)


Credits
1. Test, CCAPI, Spring 2007
2. Conceptual plan, CCAPI, Autumn 1996
3. Test, CCAPI, Spring 2007