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ASLA?EUR??,,????'???s Professional Awards 2003

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) annually awards outstanding achievement by landscape architects. This year?EUR??,,????'???s professional awards included more than 400 entries worldwide. The categories were:

  • Design
  • Analysis and Planning
  • Research
  • Communications

Category I-Design

The projects were judged for design; functionality; context; environmental responsibility; and relevance to the profession and public. The entries list the project and location, followed by the landscape architect or firm.

Design Excellence Award






Sandstone was used for the building and watercourses for the lobby of the Westlake Corporate Campus. (Photo by: Tom Fox)


Westlake Corporate Campus, Circle T Ranch,
Westlake, TX
SWA Group, Dallas, TX



Design Honor Awards






Perennial and annual flowers on the border of the Hither Lane property. (Photo by: Alan Ward)


Hither Lane, East Hampton, NY
Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA






The cactus garden at the Getty Museum?EUR??,,????'???s southern promontory. (Photo by Tim Rue, TRUE Photo)


J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA



Design Merit Awards






Mid-summer panorama at the Christian Science Center. (Photo by: Alan Ward)


Christian Science Center Seasonal Plantings, Boston, MA
Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA






Meadow – View to mountains. (Photo by: Eckert & Eckert)


Conference Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA






Twilight view of industrial garden with lower concrete stairs/seating and concrete tank bases (lily pads) as artifact. (Photo by: Janet Retallia)


Tide Point, Baltimore, MD
W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, LLC, New York, NY






Pedestrian crossings (Photo by: Tom Fox)


Lewis Avenue Corridor, Las Vegas, NV
SWA Group, Sausalito, CA






Boy on Planets – Reflecting a playful approach, a neighborhood plaza incorporates a symbolic version of the solar system, with over-scaled planets carved out of solid granite. The planets are linked with narrow stainless steel ?EUR??,,????'??rings?EUR??,,????'??? inlaid into the granite flooring to indicate their orbiting paths. Beyond, tall granite columns mark the location of a central neighborhood gathering space overlooking the lake. (Photo by: Dixi Carrillo)


Jinji Lake Public Open Space, Park, and Landscape, Suzhou, China
EDAW, Inc., San Francisco, CA






This path of decomposed granite leads through the bamboo grove; the planter walls are crushed stone clad in bronze. (Photo by: Christian Lemon)


560 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Hart Howerton, San Francisco, CA; Christian Lemon, senior designer, project manager






South perennial gardens. (Photo by: Jim Abbott)
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Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, New York, NY
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA






The summer plantings in front of the Museum of the Art Institute appear to create a jungle habitat for one of the Institute?EUR??,,????'???s iconic bronze lions. (Photo by: Linda Oyama Bryan)


Michigan Avenue Streetscape, Chicago, IL
Douglas Hoerr Landscape Architecture, Inc., Evanston, IL






The park during an annual town festival.
(Photo by: ARVIDA/Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architects)


Watercolor Cerulean Park, Watercolor, Walton County, FL
Nelson-Byrd Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, VA






Large planes of glazing on the ground floor enhance the connection between inside and outside, as exterior night lighting activates the gardens atmosphere. (Photo by: Peter Malinowski)


Emerson Residence, Los Angeles, CA
R. Michael Schneider, Orange Street Studio, Los Angeles, CA






The fiber optic lighting of Orion and uplighting of meteor trails and moonlighting of the Ginkgos. (Photo by: D. Finnin/AMNH)


Arthur Ross Terrace of the Rose and Priest Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Charles Anderson, Seattle, WA






The Cone Garden with an overlay of spring blossoms.
(Photo by: Tom Fox)


Tokyo University Foreign Studies Campus, Fuchu, Japan
SWA Group, Sausalito, CA






Panorama looking south from the threshold. (Photo by: Alan Ward)


Maple Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA






Storm water management and ?EUR??,,????'??Wetland Park.?EUR??,,????'??
(Drawing by: Wells Appel Land Strategies)


Pennswood Village Regional Storm Water Quality and Management System, Middletown Township,
Bucks County, PA
Wells Appel Land Strategies, Philadelphia, PA



Category II
Analysis & Planning

Analysis And Planning Honor Awards






View from southern motorway toward the entrance to Highbrook Business Park, Waiouru Interchange and Manukau City. (Images by Chris Grubbs)


Highbrook Business Park, Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, CA






The Blue Ring 100-year vision, coming a century after the Olmsted Brother?EUR??,,????'???s ?EUR??,,????'??Green Ring,?EUR??,,????'?? supports linking urban open spaces using water– the bodies of water that geographically define Seattle as well as the rain – as its organizing principle. The Blue Ring will connect to the suburban Green Ring using streets redeveloped to provide open spaces. Images by: Mithun


The Blue Ring: Seattle?EUR??,,????'???s Center City Open Space Strategy, Seattle, WA
Mithun, Seattle, WA






Carr?EUR??,,????'???s Hill Landscape Design Master Plan, showing proposed buildings and landscape (Photo by: Olin Partnership)


University of Virginia Carr?EUR??,,????'???s Hill Master Plan and Landscape Design for the New Arts Precinct and Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, PA






Green fingers extend into developed areas, bringing the Bayou environment deep inside the new city. New urban neighborhoods focus on open space networks (Drawing by: Dodson Associates, Inc.)


Masterplan for Buffalo Bayou and Beyond, Houston, TX
Dodson Associates, Inc., Ashfield, MA






The plan incorporates and addresses ongoing initiatives within the corridor and presents an organized approach to redevelopment. The illustrative master plan shows the many diverse opportunities for revitalizing the river corridor over the next five to fifteen years


The Tidal Schuylkill River Master Plan, Philadelphia, PA
EDAW, Inc., Alexandria, VA






Massive regarding of an existing rail yard will create a series of bluffs that open up the river?EUR??,,????'???s edge to accommodate greater flood flows, allow river edge access, create a more diverse river edge ecology, and allow multiple pedestrian connections to adjacent neighborhoods over remaining rail lines (Drawing by: Wenk Associates, Inc.)


A Vision for the Menomonee River Valley,
Milwaukee, WI
Wenk Associates, Inc., Denver, CO






Wetland mitigation at the Santa Lucia Preserve. Three years after construction, the wetlands have become integrated into the natural beauty of the Preserve. Consistent hydrology has helped to establish a diverse community of native wetland plant species. (Photo by: George Salvaggio)


Wetland Mitigation at the Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel, CA
Wetlands Research Associates, Inc., San Rafael, CA






An aerial view of Fort Scott, Captured in 2001. (Copyright ???????(C) Robert Campbell)


The Presidio Trust Management Plan, San Francisco, CA
Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA



Category III Research

Reserch Merit Award






Restoring the Earth: Reconstructing the Post-mining Environment
Jon Bryan Burley, ASLA , Michigan State University, Perrinton, MI




Category IV Communications

Communications Honor Awards






The Boston Esplanade, 1999 (Photo by: Alex McLean, Landslides)


Inventing the Charles River
Charles River Conservancy,
Newton, MA






Aerial composite image of the city?EUR??,,????'???s elegant street grid system and substantial open spaces is overlaid by several site images of proposed future memorial and museum locations as the sites appear today. (Images by: National Capital Planning Commission)


National Capital Memorials and Museums Master Plan
Leo Daly, Washington, DC, & EDAW, Inc., Alexandria, VA



Communications Merit awards






The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago?EUR??,,????'???s Parks


Julia Sniderman Bachrach,
Chicago Park District, Department of Planning and Development






Garden History Reference Encyclopedia CD


Tom Turner, University of Greenwich, London, UK






Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel


Kenneth Helphand, FASLA, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Center for American Places


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