Congratulations to SHUISHI for a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in General Design for the Changchun Culture of Water Ecology Park in Changchun, China! #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019
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Project Statement: Changchun Culture of Water Ecology Park is an urban regeneration project where was a water plant with an 80-year history. It has become a cultural and art community through transformation and functional replacement. In the design, the original ecological environment is preserved to the greatest extent, and the traces of history are respected to the greatest extent, and the contemporary lifestyle is maximized. The design highlights the three characteristics. Firstly, the planning, architecture, landscape and art installations are integrated with the landscape thinking; secondly, the landscape design is systematic, thereby forming a slow system, an original site animal and plant ecosystem and a water ecological self-purification system; thirdly, strict control of design, highlighting functional and humanistic feeling.
Mobility As Equality: Building Towards the Olympic/ Post-Olympic LA Transit, designed by Amanda Ton, Associate ASLA, WeiHsiang Chao, and Xin Qian of @harvardgsd. ASLA 2019 Student Award of Excellence in Analysis and Planning. #aslaawards #NationalASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #STEM
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Project Statement: Despite unprecedented public transit investment and transit-oriented development over the last two decades in Los Angeles, transit ridership remains low. More than in any other US city, the vast majority of transit riders in LA come from very-low and extremely low-income households. Yet LA Metro's transit plans have failed to adequately cater to their needs. TOD densities around stations often produce luxury condos, whose inhabitants avoid public transit. In an attempt to reverse this demographic mismatch between transit and development, this project investigates a better coordination between bus service, new public housing provision, and street design around the Vermont Station on LA's Expo Line. The project sees the 2028 LA Olympics as a major opportunity to demonstrate such coordinated planning by delivering a new-generation bus system for the city, converting Olympic housing to public housing, and delivering amenity-rich streets that not only cater to the Games, but also deliver a much needed legacy of amenities to the surrounding marginalized communities.
