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ASLA Jury Selects 2009 Professional Award Winners05-07-09 | News

ASLA Jury Selects 2009 Professional Award Winners

Houston-based SWA Group received an award of excellence in the general design category for Buffalo Bayou Promenade. The promenade runs west along Buffalo Bayou from downtown Houston and adds 23 acres of parkland to Houston’s inner city. Photo: Tom Fox, Rhett Rentrop

On May 5, 2009, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of its 2009 Professional Awards. The jury considered nearly 600 entries, the largest number in the history of the competition.

The award categories are general design, residential design, analysis and planning, and communications/research. This year there were 49 projects selected, including three awards of excellence: one in general design, one in analysis and planning and one in communications. The remaining awards were given the designation “Award of Honor.”

The awards ceremony will take place at the ASLA annual meeting in Chicago, September 21.

Tierra Design (S) Pte Ltd. won an honor award in general design for the Changi Airport Terminal 3 interior landscape, Singapore. The four water features (60 ft. tall and 20 ft. wide) are made from shredded glass panels laminated to stainless steel plates. Photo: Albert K.S. Lim 2008

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects of Phoenix received an honor award in general design for the Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz. The east plaza features alternating bands of sandblasted and exposed aggregate concrete, cast-in-place seatwalls. Aloes and Mexican honeysuckles add interest. Photo: Terry Moore, 2008

Houston-based SWA Group received the award of excellence in the general design category for Buffalo Bayou Promenade. The promenade is in downtown Houston and adds 23 acres of parkland to the inner city.

“All awards should inspire and teach and this project sends a great message on scale, proportion, materials and perseverance. So many cities have these opportunities. By capturing open space under a labyrinth of highways the landscape architect has made the intimidating unintimidating. It sends a great message for the future of parks,” commented the jury.

The Award of Excellence in analysis and planning went to “Scout Island Strategic Plan,” New Orleans, designed by Mossop Michaels, LLC, New Orleans.

LASN, as we do each year, will recognize each of the award winners and images of those projects in our ASLA Show Issue (Sept.).

ASLA has photos and project descriptions of all the award winners at www.asla.org/2009awards.