BALMORI ASSOCIATES

Balmori Associates is an international urban and landscape design firm founded by Diana Balmori. The BAL/LAB series is a record of the ideas and experiments developed in our office. Concepts discussed in office meetings are taken up by groups who research, brainstorm and test technological feasibility. All images and works © 1990-2015 Balmori Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Jardins de Métis installation, more photos here.

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Sketching peripheral vision at Four Freedoms Park with neuroscientist Denis Pelli and his students.

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The Drawing Center will present Balmori Associates’ “Meditation Room: Horizon” at this years’ Ideas City in New York City.

Location of Event:  

Sara D. Roosevelt Park  Chrystie + Houston Streets

https://www.google.com/maps?daddr=Sara+D.+Roosevelt+ParkChrystie+++Houston+Street@40.723198,-73.990974

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Stop by EXPO GOWANUS to learn about BALLAB's floating island experiments at the Gowanus Canal!

Thursday, May 28, 2015 5:00PM to 8:00PM Open to the Community

PS 32 317 Hoyt St. Brooklyn, NY

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A Landscape Manifesto #3: All things in nature are constantly changing. Landscape artists need to design to allow for change, while seeking a new course that enhances the coexistence of humans and the rest of nature. #nyc #nature #landscape #architecture #city #urban #design

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Selecting planting palette for berms in São Paulo Corporate Towers. See more on our facebook page.

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"Dancing Trees"

Wall panorama test

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Check out our animation from our proposal for the 11th Street Bridge Park Competition, DC’s first elevated park over the Anacostia River. 

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"Dancing Trees" 

Study for a wall panorama

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Thanks to all of those who made it to the book launch last night, it was a great turn out! We had a lot of fun last night and we hope you did too!

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See you tonight for Diana Balmori's "Drawing and Reinventing Landscape" book launch at the Strand. 

#balmori #drawing #booklaunch #barrybergdoll #thestrand

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It's a colorful morning here in the Balmori meeting room!

#balmori #balloons #postitnotes #leaves #presentation #design #art #installation

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Diana Balmori photographed by Kristin Gladney as part of her "Portraits of a Creative" series.

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Tree tagging day at the nursery in Connecticut.

#ballab #balmori #balmoriassociates # #leaves #treenursery #landscape 

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The water hyacinths were no match for the waters of the Gowanus Canal… back to the drawing board. 

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After one year some vegetation has colonized our floating landscape! Let the chain of ecological succession begin. 

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Amongst the trash a crab (Atlantic Rock Crab?) is spotted at the edge of our floating landscape.