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.
Barangaroo Reserve, designed by @pwpla, Sydney, #Australia. ASLA 2019 Professional Honor Award in General Design. #LandscapeArchitecture #aslaawards
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Project Statement: Named for an influential Aboriginal woman of pre-colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is a globally-significant, 22-hectare waterfront renewal project that redefines Sydney Harbor. Barangaroo Reserve was the first phase in a 3-district master plan. The project re-created a "Club Cape" headland by transforming a concrete container port into a park with over 75,000 plantings native to the region. Guided by historical maps and paintings, the design of the headland includes a foreshore of 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated directly from the site. Walking and bicycle pathways separated by the "1836 Wall" symbolically mark the original precolonial shoreline. A "One Planet Living" project, Barangaroo Reserve reused and recycled all existing materials onsite for the headland. Hidden beneath the new headland, the Cutaway is a massive void formed through sandstone excavation to host art exhibits, performances, or a future Aboriginal Cultural Center. Barangaroo Reserve transforms a huge expanse of empty concrete into usable space for both people and animals on land and in water, marking the transformation of an industrial site into a modern reinvention of its more sustainable past.
Iqaluit Municipal Cemetery, designed by LEES+Associates, in Iqaluit, NU, Canada. ASLA 2018 Professional Honor Award in General Design. #LandscapeArchitecture #ASLAawards #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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Project Statement: and should be. Drawing on local and traditional knowledge, the thoughtful combinations of natural materials and indigenous cultural elements create a dynamic community space where the arctic landscape and its peoples are remembered and celebrated. With an organic design that embraces the beauty of sparseness, the simplicity of this design is what creates its magic. A strong geometry of pathways, visible even under the snow, leads to a ceremonial gathering space framed by an arch of bowhead whale jaw bones. Striking but simple forms honour indigenous traditions, using a juxtaposition of natural materials and artifacts. Environmental values underpin the design approach with a customized operations plan to preserve the tundra and manage changes in permafrost. The cemetery makes an eloquent statement, a blending of time, honouring those that have passed with the current landscape and the people that live within it.
