Jackie Gleason Theatre
Jackie Gleason Theatre
South Beach, Miami (Florida), U.S.A.

Pleasure gardens for an entertainment complex

We were hired to design the grounds for the renovated Jackie Gleason theatre, the future home of a permanent Cirque du Soleil show. Our landscape is a lush display of floral sensuality, complementing the Cirque’s imagination-rich stage spectacle of erotic abandon. Taking full advantage of the warm South Florida climate, our pleasure gardens are replete with vivid colours, heady fragrances, and varied textures, choreographed to achieve a year-round extravaganza of fruits and flowers. Refreshing water follies punctuate this tropical paradise. A true Garden of Eden, complete with pleasures and temptations.

Client
Cirque du Soleil

Area
10 100 m2 (2,5 acres)

Year
2005-2009

Status
Concept

Categories
Institutional
Plaza / Garden
Perspective, CC+A + NOMADE + Alain Carle, June 2006
Inspiration, Marius Watz, Bubblecolor for Teeling Eyeballs, 2001
Conceptual image, CC+A, March 2006
Plan, CC+A, June 2006

Conceptual image in context, CC+A, June 2006

Inspiration, Cirque du Soleil
Detail of The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1766, The Wallace Collection, London + modifications CC+A, June 2006
Detail of The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1766, The Wallace Collection, London + modifications CC+A, June 2006