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Rural Communities Need Design Help, Too

Posted in Opportunities, Policy and Regulation, Public Spaces, Smart Growth on 01/16/2013 | 1 Comment »

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The new Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design (CIRD), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Project for Public Spaces, and other organizations, is looking for proposals from rural communities who need design help. According to the group, successful applications will receive a $7,000 grant and technical assistance valued at $35,000.

CIRD, which used to be called “Your Town,” helps rural communities with fewer than 50,000 people. Through facilitated design workshops, CIRD aims to “enhance the quality of life and economic vitality” of these places. The intensive two-day workshops bring together “local leaders, non-profits, and community organizations with a team of specialists in design, planning, and creative placemaking to address challenges like strengthening economies, enhancing rural character, leveraging cultural assets, and designing efficient housing and transportation systems.”

Since the program began in 1991, more than 60 workshops have been held across the U.S., resulting in a range of new projects like new public art and business improvement districts, new waterfront parks, and complete streets.

Communities will need to find $7,000 in matching funds to participate (cash or in-kind).

Submit a proposal by March 5.

Also, the American Architectural Foundation’s innovative Sustainable Cities Design Academy (SCDA) program is asking teams that represent public-private partnerships to apply to attend design workshops in D.C.  The program connects “project teams and multi-disciplinary sustainable design experts” in workshops that “help project teams advance their green infrastructure and community development goals.” See the kinds of communities SCDA has helped in the past few years.

Image credit: ASLA 2011 Residential Honor Award. A Farm at Little Compton. Michael Vergason Landscape Architects / Michael Thomas

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Landscape Architects Announce 2013 Annual Meeting Call for Presentations

Posted in Opportunities on 12/12/2012 | 2 Comments »

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The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the call for presentations for the 2013 Annual Meeting and EXPO in Boston. The 2013 event will take place November 15 – 18 at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center.

More than 6,000 attendees are expected, and the meeting will feature a diverse spectrum of industry experts speaking on a wide range of subjects, from sustainable design to active living to best practices and new technologies.

More than 130 education sessions and field sessions will be presented during the meeting, providing attendees with the opportunity to earn up to 21 professional development hours under the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES). Many of the sessions will also qualify for continuing education credit with the Green Building Certification Institute (toward LEED AP credential maintenance), the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Certified Planners, and other allied professional organizations and state registration boards.

Submit your proposals now. The deadline for education session proposals is February 6, 2013.

Image credit: ASLA

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Create a New Vision for Toronto’s Green Line

Posted in Opportunities, Public Spaces, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 12/10/2012 | 1 Comment »

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The many organizers of the new Green Line international design competition seek visionary proposals from landscape architects, architects, designers, planners, artists that will revamp the public green space and bicycle and pedestrian access of Toronto’s 3-mile-long transmission line corridor (a.k.a. hydro corridor). The goal is to “imagine the electricity infrastructure as a Green Line — a pedestrian and cycling link across the middle of the city and a public space and recreational amenity to the many neighborhoods across Toronto that it links.” Design teams will look at both the overall vision of the park and identify opportunities for reusing an underpass. The organizers are looking for pragmatic proposals that address safety concerns while also providing new public space concepts and sustainable transportation solutions.

The Green Line passes through a number of neighborhoods in midtown Toronto, from Davenport Village to the Annex. “The Green Line is already well used by local residents. It has splash pads, sports fields, allotment gardens, parking lots and children’s playgrounds, but the spaces are mostly in poor condition and the corridor does not currently provide a continuous physical connection due to grade changes and fencing.”

The vision part of the competition will ask designers to create a “comprehensive” approach that will also tie into Toronto’s cycling network. “The Green Line should be considered as both a series of community spaces and a physical and psychological link across the city.” Green public spaces will need to be designed so they can be used 24/7, 365. Designs will need to be able to be implemented in phases.

For the underpass portion of the ideas competition, designers should provide a detailed approach to “improve pedestrian, cyclist and car-users’ safety and mobility, and make an improved physical, visual and/or psychological connection for the Green Line.” The goal is to create a model that can be used for the eight other underpasses along the line.

This ideas competition also has some unique constraints, which could prove to be an interesting mental challenge for designers. Given the primary purpose of the corridor is to transmit electricity, there are some stringent guidelines for how the public can interact with this infrastructure. There are also some major safety issues: Electro-magnetic fields come off the equipment. The International Agency for Research on Cancer says these fields are a possible carcinogen so “taking practical low or no-cost actions to reduce exposures to young children is prudent.”  Toronto now has a policy of “prudent avoidance” and calls for taking steps to keep young children away from the infrastructure. However, the city also recognizes “that recreational, trail and park uses of hydro corridors have health benefits for children and adults who use them which outweigh any potential risk from EMF exposure.”

The competition organizers intend to show the community the best designs. The organizers say that the ideas “will not be built, but are meant to get the communities who live, study and work near the site to start thinking about its future.”

The jury will award $6,000 CDN in cash prizes to the winners. The bulk of the prize money ($4,500) goes to the vision component of the competition, while the underpass portion of the competition will give out $1,500 CDN in prizes. Winners will also have their work published in a Canadian magazine, Spacing, and will be featured in an exhibition.

Submit proposals before February 4, 2013. Registration is free, but registrants must be members of the Toronto Society of Architects. Students can join for $25 CDN. Full membership is $50 CDN.

Image credit: Green Line ideas competition

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Competition: Design New Ways to Soak Up Water

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Water Management on 11/07/2012 | 5 Comments »


The Philadelphia Water Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Community Design Collaborative have launched a new design competition called Infill Philadelphia: Soak it Up! The idea is to inspire teams of landscape architects, architects, and engineers to offer up sustainable, low-cost ”green stormwater infrastructure” in Philly and other cities.

The competition is part of a broader initiative in Philly to use green infrastructure to revitalize communities. “A series of design centered programs including exhibitions, workshops, charrettes and design competitions will mobilize public-private partnerships to advance innovative, cost-effective, sustainable site design solutions in Philadelphia that can serve as inspiring, national models for watershed protection and community revitalization.” According to the competition organizers, bold, new ideas that come out of the programs will also be critical to “the implementation of Green City, Clean Waters, the city’s innovative, sustainable 25-year plan.”

The competition asks designers to reimagine three different sites. In the “Warehouse watershed” track of the competition, designers will need to reimagine “a warehouse and a city-owned vacant lot that offer possibilities for public-private partnerships and the revitalization of a high-vacancy, mixed-use residential/industrial district.” In “Retail retrofit,” the goal is to rethink a “retail strip center that has the potential to play a more central role in the surrounding neighborhood through improved walkability, pop-up space for community events, and access to river recreation.” Lastly, in “Greening the Grid,” an “historic neighborhood with an engaged community and a dense network of streets, alleys, roofs, and open space” offers opportunities for “small-scale interventions.” 

The organizers write that the property owners for the three different sites are interested in implementing the winning ideas from the competition. The designs, which have to be cost-effective and sustainable, need to address the questions: “what is the cost of the initial investment?; how long will it take to recover that investment?; and what will the cost of maintenance be over the life of the system?”

This competition is only open to professional designers. According to the organizers, each team must have include a licensed architect, licensed landscape architect, and licensed civil engineer. Also, at least one team member must practice in the Philadelphia area. 

Finalists will present at an event at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University on March 7, 2013. The jury will select one winner for each of the three different sites. Each winning team will receive $10,000.

Register by November 30, 2012 and get submissions in by January 22, 2013. 

Also, check out a new design competition called Movement on Main, which aims to bring the most innovative technologies to bear on a new green street project underway in the near Westside neighborhood of Syracuse. Initial submissions are due by December 10, 2012. The competition will result in real additions to a real design for a new $1.5 million street.

Image credit: GreenPlan Philadelphia / Wallace Roberts & Todd.

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Warren Byrd, Jr: “I Don’t Do Drugs. I Do Design Competitions.”

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces on 10/31/2012 | 1 Comment »


Design competitions are a big component to the profession of landscape architecture. Many firms, whether in an effort to maintain their high-profile statuses or to propel their smaller firms into the big leagues, will enter these competitions. At the ASLA 2012 Annual Meeting, Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA, University of Virginia; Donald Stastny, FAIA, STASTNY: architect llc; and Warren Byrd, Jr., FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects sat down to discuss the current state of design competitions and their place in the discipline of landscape architecture. The focus was primarily on the competition as a means of design exploration, a strategic tool for remaking urban landscapes, and an opportunity for positioning landscape architects as multidisciplinary team leaders.

Meyer, who has recently been appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Obama, was the first presenter on the subject of design competitions. She has extensive experience as a competition juror on the national level, including the recent Trust for the National Mall’s design competition in D.C. Meyer does not see competitions as a platform solely to honor winners, but also as a driver of new ideas that advance the state of the design professions and multidisciplinary discourse.  In reference to Rem Koolhaus’ submission for the Parc de la Villette design competition in 1982 (see image above), she said “some of the most important entries did not win. OMA was not selected because the jury was afraid of it.”

Meyer also spoke of TerraGRAM’s submission to the High Line Ideas Competition in 2003. Although TerraGRAM’s team (lead by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and D.I.R.T. Studio) did not win the job, their ideas lived through the project. “TerraGRAM’s submission is the driver of the third phase of the High Line,” alluding to the proposal to retain the opportunistic planting palette planned for the final phase of the park. “A competition is a snapshot of generational concerns.” In this case, restoration is the driver, and the competition entries are indicative of that concern.

Stastny is as intimately familiar with architectural competitions as anyone. As a practicing architect, urban designer, and process facilitator for over forty years, he’s recognized as one of the preeminent design competition advisors and managers in North America. He understands the design competition process and what constitutes a successful submission. Stastny believes that successful submissions are those that are multi-disciplinary in nature, and his competitions reflect that. He has most recently worked with The Waller Creek Competition, an international competition to redesign a 1.5 mile stretch of Waller Creek in downtown Austin, Texas. An amazing set of final proposals have been created.


Byrd also has extensive experience in the realm of architectural competitions. Byrd is interested in how competitions position urban landscapes as central to the remaking of cities. An innovative program, Greening America’s Capitals, a project of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, which is made up of the E.PA., the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), aims to use design teams to help state capitals develop green building and green infrastructure strategies. Byrd is currently working on projects in both Little Rock, Arkansas, and Hartford, Connecticut.

Byrd and his firm spend ample time on competitions as he believes that they are a good way to keep his company current. Byrd’s firm won a prominent competition in Pennsylvania, the Flight 93 National Memorial, a competition that Stastny directed. In the end, Byrd is hungry and sees the competition as a way to keep his skills sharp and his firm in production. His belief is evident in his conclusion: “I don’t do drugs. I do competitions!”

This guest post is by Tyler Silvestro, a master’s degree candidate at the City College of New York (CUNY), and writer for The Architect’s Newspaper.

Image credits: (1) OMA Proposal for Parc de Vilette / Georgia Tech, (2) TerraGRAM High Line proposal / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, D.I.R.T. Studio, Beyer Blinder Belle, (3) Waller Creek  / Waller Creek Design Competition.

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Submit: Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 10/16/2012 | Leave a Comment »


The call for entries for the 2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, which celebrates highly sustainable urban places of high design quality, is now open.

The foundation explains why they value these urban places so much: “American cities embody our nation’s greatest triumphs and most daunting challenges. At their best they showcase the rich diversity, cultural achievement, and democratic values that characterize the American spirit. At their worst they reflect our country’s most persistent social ills — economic disparity, hopelessness, neglect and abandonment. Yet there are those places that are developed with such vision and imagination that they transform urban problems into creative solutions. The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) seeks to discover those special places, to celebrate and publicize their achievement.”

In 2011, the gold medal went to the Bridge Homeless Assistance Center in Dallas, Texas, a LEED-certified healthcare and emergency service complex with a green roof, which was designed by architecture firms Overland Partners and Carmago-Copeland. Silver medals went to Brooklyn Bridge Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates;  Santa Fe Railyard Park by Ken Smith Landscape Architects; Civic Space Park in Phoenix by AECOM, Ten Ecyk Landscape Architects, and Janet Echelman; and the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects.

The projects must be real – not a plan or program – and located in the 48 contiguous United States.

The gold medal recipient gets $50,000, while four silver medals get $10,000 each.  The foundation says prize money can be used in any way that benefits the project.

Apply by December 10, 2012.

In other news, President Obama appointed Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia (UVA), to the U.S. Fine Arts Commission. While there are multiple architects, planners, and urban designers on the panel, Meyer is the sole landscape architect. In a UVA statement, Meyer said: “From an urban design and landscape architecture perspective, Washington, D.C. is an amazing city. Landscape is an important part of the structure of the city and it is a quintessential American city. It will be an interesting experience to have an impact on what happens there in the realm of design and planning.”

Created by Congress in 1910, the commission “is charged with giving expert advice to the President, Congress and the heads of departments and agencies of the Federal and District of Columbia governments on matters of design and aesthetics, as they affect the Federal interest and preserve the dignity of the nation’s capital.” The commission also oversees all national memorials in the U.S. and abroad. In this past commission, Diana Balmori, ASLA, was the only landscape designer.

Image credit:  Rudy Bruner Foundation

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Design the Waterfront Park Infrastructure of the Future

Posted in Opportunities, Sustainable Design, Technology on 09/21/2012 | Leave a Comment »


In an effort to deal with deterioriating infrastructure along its 560-mile shoreline, reduce the expense of new waterfront construction, and achieve its ambitious multi-billion-dollar waterfront redevelopment agenda, New York City’s government has just issued a request for expressions of interest for “Change the Course,” a new waterfront construction competition that seeks “innovative and cost-saving solutions for completing marine construction projects.” New York City’s Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the Hudson River Park Trust, and a host of other government groups and experts will be evaluating submissions. 

NYCEDC President Seth W. Pinsky said: “We are as committed as ever to reclaiming and transforming the city’s hundreds of miles of waterfront. This innovative competition will allow us, in an era of limited resources, to uncover new methodologies and techniques for addressing the challenges associated with our aging infrastructure, thereby ensuring its long-term sustainability.”

The first phase of the competition will seek to unearth the many factors impacting cost and sustainability. All those old, crumbling piers and sea walls that double as pedestrian promenades are clearly expensive to maintain for a number of reasons. NYC identified a few likely suspects, including ”obsolete technologies, permitting processes, current regulations, environmental issues, outdated science studies, labor issues and efficiencies.”

Entrants will then provide creative solutions that are “cost effective, sustainable, and ethically sound,” addressing conditions at one of a few spots at the Lower Manhattan Waterfront: the deteriorating, expensive-to-maintain structures between Fulton Fish Market (at the South Street Seaport); Pier 35, along the East River in Manhattan; or the Hudson River Park Pier, at the substructure of Pier 40. As for using the Hudson River Park as a test-bed for cutting-edge structures, Madelyn Wils, President & CEO, Hudson River Park Trust, said: “We look forward to working together with NYCEDC to find financially sustainable solutions for the unique infrastructure challenges of waterfront parks.” 

There’s no reason why landscape architects shouldn’t partner with engineers and submit to this competition. As Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, is now demonstrating with the Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP), landscape architects are repurposing old marine pier infrastructure to create sustainable parks. Above, see his firm’s diagram for the BBP infrastructure.

The top prize winner will get $50,000, with 2nd and 3rd place getting $25,000 and $15,000. 

The first phase request for expressions of interest are due November 16, 2012. Winners will be announced in early 2013.

Image credit: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

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Ever Wanted to Design an Iconic Bench?

Posted in Opportunities, Urban Design on 09/21/2012 | Leave a Comment »

Well, for all you landscape architects, architects, urban designers, and outdoor furniture lovers out there, here’s your chance. Design Museum Boston just announced its Street Seats Design Challenge, an opportunity to design an iconic bench or “street seat” for the Fort Point Channel in South Boston’s cutting-edge “Innovation District.” Individual designers or teams from around the world are invited to participate. The design competition will not only result in a fabulous new bench for the district, but a spot in a public exhibition at the Museum and walking tour around the Channel. 

Submissions will need to offer sustainable outdoor sidewalk furniture designs that can handle Boston’s weather extremes. Design Museum Boston also wants to see a “focus on reuse, using environmentally friendly materials, and innovative construction methods.”

According to Design Museum Boston, the Fort Point Channel area is a burgeoning arts and design center. In 2011, the area had some 1,300 businesses, 33,000 workers, and 1,900 residents. The Fort Points Arts Community says there are more than 300 artists working in the revamped historic warehouse buildings, with lots of painters, book artists, digital media artists, designers, and sculptors.  

The Channel area links the waterfronts of downtown and South Boston so the city is putting in a “new kind of public park” along this piece of the waterfront. The Boston Redevelopment Authority explains all the high hopes for the space: “Not since the early 20th century reclamation of the Charles River Basin from an industrial swamp has there been such an opportunity to create an urban waterfront destination on such a scale. Fort Point Channel can become Boston’s ‘Next Great Place.’”

Boston Mayor Menino also has big plans for the district, with 1,000 acres of residential, commercial, and industrial space planned for the whole South Boston waterfront. The area is to be the home for a new cluster of “knowledge-based companies.” Already, it’s home to the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum and the Boston’s Children’s Museum.  

Entries will be on view at the Design Museum Boston’s galleries at Factory 63 and online. Semi-finalists will get a $750 fabrication grant and their bench-contender will be installed around the Fort Point Channel for seven months. Three finalists will be chosen, taking home $9,000 in prize money. We assume the winner’s bench design will go into production and be installed in the community. 

If submissions are received by November 20, registration for members of the museum is free and non-members pay $30. After then, registration fees increase.

Registration opens September 24.

Image credit: Design Museum Boston

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Bridging the Divide Between Man and Nature

Posted in Forests, Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Public Spaces, Urban Design on 09/17/2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and Central Park Conservancy are hosting a conference on October 5 in New York City called Bridging the Nature-Culture Divide II: Stewardship of Central Park’s Woodlands. The conference will focus on the challenges involved in crafting a sustainable future stewardship program for Central Park’s woodlands, but also leap off into interesting debates about man and nature in urban parks, tackling issues at the heart of what landscape architects do.

The woodlands, writes TCLF, may appear “feral” but are actually a ”historic designed landscape.” In today’s world, with the focus on climate change, TCLF and the Central Park Conservancy wonder what it means to sustainably manage such a seemingly wild place, a landscape Olmsted described as representing “the superabundant, creative power of nature” but found at the heart of a great city.

TCLF writes: “The 843-acre Central Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and Calvert Vaux, with a succession of additions and refinements by Samuel Parsons, Jr., Michael Rapuano, Gilmore Clarke and others, is also host to 230 bird species, along with turtles, fish, and countless species of butterflies, dragonflies, and other insects.” Focusing in on the park’s great man-made woodlands in particular, TCLF writes that they are “among the most historically significant designed landscapes in the country, they provide valuable refuge for wildlife, and they are a vital recreational resource for New Yorkers.”

But, given these places aren’t wild, how should they be managed? TCLF and the Central Park Conservancy see a new approach: ”When we expand our definition of ecology to include people and cultural values and recognize that human activity is part of any ecosystem we touch, the question becomes not ‘how do we strike a balance between nature and culture?’ but ‘how to do we interact with nature in a way that is both meaningful and sustainable?’”  

The one-day symposium will feature panels of officials from New York and San Francisco along with landscape architects and environmental designers from the around the country. The discussion will zoom in on the specific challenges involved in woodland restoration and management in Central Park, but panelists will also look at other cases from around the U.S. exploring design, management, and stewardship, and ”how their lessons can be applied to Central Park’s woodlands.” 

TCLF conferences attract some of the best landscape architects, both as speakers and attendees. Moderators and speakers include Christian Zimmerman, FASLA, Vice President for Design & Construction, The Prospect Park Alliance; Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture; Dennis McGlade, FASLA, President/Partner, OLIN; Margie Ruddick, ASLA, Margie Ruddick Landscape; and Keith Bowers, FASLA, Biohabitats. See what they will be discussing in more detail.

Register for the symposium on October 5.

For those who can’t make the conference but will be in NYC, there’s no excuse to miss out on TCLF’s free What’s Out There tours, which follow on October 6-7.  The 25+ tours in all five boroughs are led by landscape architects, designers, and other professionals. TCLF writes: “Some are places we see daily, while others are ‘hidden in plain sight.’” Some great ones include the Noguchi Museum in Queens; The Cloisters in upper Manhattan; Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx; multiple Prospect Park tours in Brooklyn; and Snug Harbor in Staten Island. The Weekend is organized in cooperation with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (NY-ASLA), Archtober 2012, the Central Park Conservancy, the Municipal Arts Society, the New York Restoration Project, New Yorkers for Parks and Open House New York.

Image credit: Central Park Woodlands / TCLF

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ASLA Announces 2012 Professional Awards

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Opportunities on 08/28/2012 | Leave a Comment »

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2012 Professional Awards. The awards honor the top public places, residential designs, campuses, parks and urban planning projects from across the U.S. and around the world. High-resolution images and full project information can be viewed online.

ASLA will present 37 awards to professional landscape architects and their firms, selected from more than 620 entries in the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis and Planning, Communications, and Research. In addition, The Landmark Award recognizes a distinguished landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago that retains its original design integrity and contributes to the public realm of its community.

This year, the professional awards jury included: José Almiñana, FASLA, Chair; Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA; Gail Brinkmann, ASLA; Kathryn L. Gleason, FASLA; Mikyoung Kim, ASLA; Tom Leader, ASLA; Thomas R. Oslund, FASLA; and Jim Schuessler, ASLA.

The September issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) features the winning projects and is available online for free viewing. September’s LAM will also be featured on the endcap of the magazine section in nearly 500 Barnes & Noble stores beginning September 14. Winners will be announced at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Phoenix on Monday, October 1.

The winners of the ASLA 2012 Professional Awards are:

General Design Category

Award of Excellence (see image at top)
A Green Sponge for a Water-Resilient City: Qunli Stormwater Park, Haerbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China
By Turenscape and Peking University

Project statement: “Contemporary cities are not resilient when faced with inundations of surface water. Landscape architecture can play a key role in addressing this problem. This project demonstrates how a stormwater park acts as a green sponge, cleansing and storing urban stormwater, and can be integrated with other ecosystem services, including the protection of native habitats, aquifer recharge, recreational use, and aesthetic experience, in all these ways fostering urban development.”

Honor Award
Canada’s Sugar Beach, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
By Claude Cormier + Associés, Inc.

Lafayette Greens: Urban Agriculture, Urban Fabric, Urban Sustainability, Detroit
By Kenneth Weikal Landscape Architecture

Quarry Garden in Shanghai Botanical Garden, Songjiang District, Shanghai, China
By THUPDI and Tsinghua University

Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus – New Academic Complex, Mesa, Ariz.
By Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc.

200 5th Avenue, New York
By Landworks Studio, Inc.

Powell Street Promenade, San Francisco
By Hood Design

Tudela-Culip (Club Med) Restoration Project in ‘Cap de Creus’ Cape, Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain
By EMF Landscape Architecture and Ardevols Associates Consultants

Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, Orange, Texas
By Jeffrey Carbo Landscape Architects, in association with William T. Arterburn, ASLA, and MESA

Winnipeg Skating Shelters, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
By Patkau Architects Inc.

National 9/11 Memorial, New York
By PWP Landscape Architecture

Sunnylands Center & Gardens, Rancho Mirage, Calif.
By The Office of James Burnett

Residential Design Category


Award of Excellence
Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments, San Francisco
By Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture

Project statement: “The Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments provide a dignified home for formerly homeless residents with 120 fully-equipped studios and supportive services, including counseling, medical care, job-training, and employment opportunities.  The landscape design encompasses a streetscape, a central courtyard, and a roof deck – all fully-accessible with custom furnishings. The project uses local materials and offers a multi-faceted stormwater management with permeable paving over a gravel infiltration system, rain gardens, and a green roof.”

Honor Awards
Quaker Smith Point Residence, Shelburne, Vt.
By H. Keith Wagner Partnership

Quattro by Sansiri, Bangkok, Thailand
By TROP Company Limited

New-Century Garden: A Garden of Water and Light, Palm Springs, Calif.
By Steve Martino and Associates

Malinalco Private Residence, Malinalco, State of Mexico, Mexico
By Mario Schjetnan / Grupo De Diseño Urbano

Maple Hill Residence, Westwood, Mass.
By Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects

Reordering Old Quarry, Guilford, Conn.
By Reed Hilderbrand LLC

Urban Spring, San Francisco
By Bionic

Analysis & Planning Category


Award of Excellence
The One Ohio State Framework Plan, Columbus, Ohio
By Sasaki Associates, Inc.

Project statement: “The One Ohio State Framework Plan redefines the role of planning at one of the largest universities in the country. In response to increasingly complex challenges — a sustainability imperative, reduced access to capital,  and a driving vision centered on increased collaboration — it provides a unique combination of principles, scenarios and innovative software tools that allow the university to agilely adapt to changing circumstances while always moving towards a long-term vision of campus and community.”

Honor Awards
Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan, New York
By West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, P.C.

Wusong Riverfront: Landscape Infrastructure Pilot Project, Huaqiao, Kunshan City, Jingsu Province, China
By SWA Group

Core Area of Lotus Lake National Wetland Park Landscape Planning, Tieling City, Liaoning Province, China
By Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute

Coastal Roulette: Planning Resilient Communities for Galveston Bay, Galveston Bay, Texas
By SWA Group

Nanhu: Farm Town in the Big City, Jiaxing, China
By SWA Group

A Strategic Master Plan for the Dead Sea, Dead Sea, Jordan
By Sasaki Associates, Inc.

SW Montgomery Green Street: Connecting the West Hills to the Willamette River, Portland, Ore.
By Nevue Ngan Associates

Red Mountain / Green Ribbon: Linking Across Birmingham’s Great Divide, Birmingham, Ala.
By WRT

Communications Category


Award of Excellence
“Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design”
By Bradley Cantrell, ASLA, and Wes Michaels, ASLA
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Project statement: “Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture is a book about bridging analog and digital landscape representation techniques. Digital landscape representation relies heavily on the past, and we attempt to tie past and present together. The book is intended to highlight examples, explain techniques, and provide context for how we use digital media as designers and landscape architects.”

Honor Awards
“Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation”
By Sharon Gamson Danks, ASLA, Bay Tree Design, Inc.
Publisher: New Village Press

“Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA”
By SWA Group
Publisher: Birkhauser Architecture

Landscape Urbanism Website and Journal
By Sarah Peck, ASLA

What’s Out There
By The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Research Category

Honor Awards
Arizona Department of Transportation Ironwood Tree Salvage and Saguaro Transplant Survivability Studies
By Logan Simpson Design Inc. and Arizona Department of Transportation

Productive Neighborhoods: A Case Study Based Exploration of Seattle Urban Agriculture Projects
By Berger Partnership

The Landmark Award


Village of Yorkville Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
By Ken Smith Landscape Architect and Schwartz Smith Meyer Landscape Architects, Inc.

Project statement: “The Village of Yorkville Park has become a local landmark. While small in size, the park has played an important role in the revitalization of the neighborhood since its completion in 1994. Recently, the park underwent some restoration work, but its original design integrity as a distillation of regional ecology, along with its role as a neighborhood connection point, remain as strong as ever.”

Explore all the ASLA 2012 Professional Award winners.

Image credits: (1) ASLA 2012 Professional General Design Award of Excellence. A Green Sponge for a Water-Resilient City: Qunli Stormwater Park, Haerbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. Turenscape and Peking University, Beijing / Yu Kongjian, (2) ASLA 2012 Professional Residential Award of Excellence. Drs. Julian and Raye Richardson Apartments, San Francisco. Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco / Bruce Damont, (3) ASLA 2012 Professional Analysis and Planning Award of Excellence. The One Ohio State Framework Plan, Columbus, OH. Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA / Sasaki Associates, (4) ASLA 2012 Communications Award of Excellence. Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Contemporary Techniques and Tools for Digital Representation in Site Design. Bradley Cantrell, ASLA and Wes Michaels, ASLA. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (5)ASLA Landmark Award. Village of Yorkville Park, Toronto. Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York City, Landscape Architect of Record: Schwartz Smith Meyer Landscape Architects, Inc. / Peter Mauss/ESTO.

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