Image credit: Cool GardensCool Gardens, presented by Storefront Manitoba, has issued a call for proposals for the 2025 edition of the design competition, which is a curated public exhibition of contemporary garden installations that takes place across Manitoba. The 2025 exhibition will include sites across the City of Winnipeg, on Treaty 1 Territory and on the homeland of the Red River Mtis.For more than 10 years, Cool Gardens has commissioned temporary installations by architects, landscape architects, designers, and artists that invite curiosity and play, while promoting public engagement with designed landscapes. These temporary installations aim to demonstrate how critical and poetic interventions in public space can meaningfully affect peoples experiences of urban environments.Cool Gardens set out to mirror The Forks Warming Huts: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice, which features winter warming huts installed along the frozen Red and Assiniboine Rivers. As its summertime counterpart, it explores the concept of COOL-ing as a recurring theme.Cool Gardens 2025 will officially run from July 5, 2025, to September 28. Up to five new competition winning garden installations will be chosen and mounted, along with several invited and returning installations. New partnerships with the Assiniboine Park Conservancy, the City of Winnipeg, and the Osborne Village Biz will allow Cool Gardens to expand its reach with a range of new competition sites for 2025, in addition to some old favourites.The deadline to submit a proposal is March 9, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. CST.For more information, click here.The post Cool Gardens design competition issues call for proposals appeared first on Canadian Architect.