Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s winning proposal for Aberdeen City Garden
by Perrin Drumm
Earlier this week it was announced that Diller Scofidio + Renfro‘s proposal for Scotland’s Aberdeen City Garden had been chosen over an impressive group of entries that included leading architecture and landscape architecture firms West 8, Foster + Partners, Snohetta & Hoskins, Mecanoo and Gustafson Porter. Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) have been commissioned for a slew of impressive projects in recent years, including The Berkeley Art Museum, The Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, a new convention center in Bogota, the Hypar Pavilion at Lincoln Center in New York, and of course, the many phases of the High Line.
Charles Renfro, the Principal-in-Charge of The Aberdeen City Garden project calls his proposal, the Granite Web, a “true hybrid of building and landscape…Some of the other proposals simply placed pavilions in a park. We created a layered three-dimensional matrix where the building is woven under and into the park.” The elevated areas in the 3D renderings look like raised butterfly wings, gigantic canopies under which…[read more]
