Among the Honor Awards in General Design was the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, landscape architecture by HM White, New York City. [See LASN Nov. 2012 Green Issue "Welcome to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Sinuous Visitor Center Integrated into the Landscape".] The leaf-shaped patio has a rain garden planted with sweet bay magnolias (right) and a large wall to retain the slope of the berm. Exterior stairs (right) gives visitors access to
the roof terrace.
Photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto

During the first week of October, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of its 2013 Professional and Student Awards.

The awards encompass public spaces, residential designs, campuses, parks and urban planning projects across the U.S. Seven of the professional award-winning projects were outside the U.S.

ASLA will present the 33 professional awards, selected from 534 entries, in Boston, November 18.

The Professional awards categories are:
General Design"?uAward of Excellence (1); Honor Awards (8)
Residential Design"?uAward of Excellence (1); Honor Awards (7)
Analysis & Planning"?uAward of Excellence (1); Honor Awards (7)
Communication"?uAward of Excellence (1); Honor Awards (4)
Research"?uAward of Excellence (1); Honor Awards (2)

Award of Excellence in General Design
Halvorson Design Partnership, Boston for Lakewood Garden Mausoleum at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

Award of Excellence in Residential Design
LaGuardia Design Landscape Architects, Water Mill, N.Y.

Award of Excellence in Analysis & Planning
Design Workshop, Inc., Austin, and Aspen, for the Lafitte Greenway and Revitalization Corridor, New Orleans

Award of Excellence in Communications
Visible | Invisible: Landscape Works of Reed Hilderbrand by Reed Hilderbrand.

Award of Excellence in Research
University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

The members of the professional awards jury were:
Thomas Oslund, FASLA, chairman; James Burnett, FASLA; Meg Calkins, ASLA;
Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA; Claude Cormier, ASLA; Kristina Floor, FASLA; David Kamp, FASLA;
Nancy Levinson; and Christian Zimmerman, FASLA.

All the professional awards are on view at www.asla.org/2013awards/index.html

Student Awards
Twenty-six student awards, selected from 391 entries representing 91 schools, were recognized in the same categories as the profession awards, with two additional categories: Community Service and Student Collaboration.

For all the student award-winning projects, go to www.asla.org/2013studentawards/index.html