On April 24, 2014 in Baltimore, the Maryland ASLA Chapter presented
Catherine Mahan, FASLA (center) an Award of Excellence for Lifetime Achievement. She founded her landscape architecture firm in 1983. Today, that firm, Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc., of Baltimore, employs 40 professionals. In 2012, she stepped down as president, but oversees the firm as chair of the board of directors. The firm received a Merit Award (Druid Hill Park Lake plan), and an Honor Award (Children's Inn Play Garden at NIH) at the Maryland ASLA Chapter Design Awards.

Clinton & Associates, PC, of Baltimore garnered two Merit Awards,
including one for Martin Meadow Pond, an eye-catching New Hampshire residential garden.

The Cameron project, a plaza/entry spaces for an apartment building coupled with a corporate headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., earned Hord Coplan Macht, Inc., of Baltimore a Merit Award in General Design.

For about 20 years the Maryland and Potomac ASLA chapters jointly participated in an annual awards banquet/ceremony. This year, however, each chapter wanted their own awards banquet. On April 24, 2014 in Baltimore, the Maryland ASLA Chapter presented its inaugural design awards, selected by a jury of peers that included members of the Vermont ASLA Chapter.

General Design

Merit Awards (superior professional accomplishment)

Project: The Cameron, Silver Springs, Md.
Firm: Hord Coplan Macht, Inc., Baltimore

Project: Sibley Memorial Hospital, D.C.
Firm: LSG Landscape Architecture, Tysons Corner, Va.

Honor Awards (excellence in landscape architecture)

Project: NIH Children's Garden, Baltimore
Firm: Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc., Baltimore

Project: Rehabilitation of South Capitol Park, Harrisburg, Pa.
Firm: Hord Coplan Macht, Inc., Baltimore

Project: University of Delaware Science & Technology Courtyard, Newark, Delaware
Firm: Ayers Saint Gross, Baltimore

Project: Diamond Teague Park, D.C.
Firm: Landscape Architecture Bureau, D.C.

Residential Design Merit Awards

Project: Creek Hill Farm, Mountville, Va.
Firm: Graham Landscape Architecture, Annapolis, Md.

Project: Underwood, Chevy Chase, Md.
Firm: Clinton & Associates, PC, Baltimore

Project: Martin Meadow Pond, Lancaster, New Hampshire
Firm: Clinton & Associates, PC, Baltimore

Project: Rooftop Retreat, Baltimore
Firm: Plusen Landscape Architecture, Catonsville, Md.

Residential Design Honor Award

Project: Severn River Overlook, Annapolis
Firm: Campion Hruby Landscape Architects, Annapolis

Design (Unbuilt) Merit Awards

Project: Druid Hill Park, Baltimore
Firm: Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc., Baltimore

Project: Downtown Columbia, Columbia, Md.
Firm: Design Collective, Inc., Baltimore

Analysis & Planning Merit Award

Project: Inner Harbor 2.0, Baltimore
Firm: Ayers Saint Gross, Baltimore

Analysis & Planning Honor Award

Project: National Agriculture Library Sustainable Master Plan, Beltsville, Md.
University of Maryland

Spencer Ellis Award (Environmental Stewardship)
Mel Wilkins, Program Management, Spa Creek Conservancy, Annapolis

Traveling Award for Innovative Excellence

Landscape Architecture Bureau, D.C.

Award of Excellence – Lifetime Achievement

Catherine Mahan
Mahan Rykiel Associates, Inc., Baltimore

View all the award winning projects at www.marylandasla.org/#!awards/chxf