The International Garden Festival is pleased to announce the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 2010 edition of Festival. A total of 276 proposals for conceptual gardens were submitted by over 600 architects, landscape architects, designers and artists from 34 countries, a record number of participants since the inception of the Festival in 2000.The jury was composed of Angela Grauerholz, director of the Centre de Design de l’UQAM, Martin Leblanc, architect with Sid Lee Architecture, Mélanie Mignault, landscape architect with NIPpaysage, Lisa Rochon, author and architecture critic with the Globe and Mail, Bernard St-Denis, professor, École d’architecture de paysage de l’Université de Montréal, Alexander Reford, director of Les Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens and founder of the Festival and Emmanuelle Vieira, artistic director of the 11th edition of the Festival. The three teams chosen by the jury to create gardens in 2010 are:Studio Bryan Hanes (Bryan Hanes, Jose Menendez, Yadiel Rivera Diaz, Brenna Herpmann) landscape architects, and DIGSAU (Jules Dingle, Jeff Goldstein, Mark Sanderson, Jamie Unkefer, Aaron Jezzi) architects, all based in Philadelphia, USA, and their project “Veil Garden”Habitation (David Vago, Simone Marsh and Nick Brown) landscape architects from Sydney, Australia, and their project “The grass is greener”Rosetta Sarah Elkin, a Canadian landscape architect based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and her project “Tiny Taxonomy”Special mention was given to 2 teams for the quality of their project:Leena Cho, landscape architect, and Matthew Jull, architect, from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and their project “Dirt Roll”Marc Pape, Sinisha Brdar, Nicolas Marier, Thierry Beaudoin, architects from Montreal, Dominique Leduc actress from Montreal and Paula Meijerink, landscape architect from Cambridge, USA, and their project “Undermining Paradise / L'envers du Paradis”The names of designers from Berlin, Germany, invited to take part in the 2010 Festival will be unveiled in January, 2010.To view the complete press release, click here.