Call For Entries Underway for APLD Awards

The DiPrisco Garden, designed by Suzanne Arca, was a Gold Award winner at the 2011 Association of Professional Landscape Design awards event. The call for entries for the 2012 awards is now underway.
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The Association of Professional Landscape Designers is seeking nominees for its 2012 International Landscape Design Awards.

The APLD International Landscape Design Awards Program honors the best in landscape design from around the world. The program brings exceptional talent to the attention of peers, potential clients and the world of design. APLD also recognizes that sustainability is an increasingly necessary component in all landscape design, and it will be considered in the judging of all pertinent categories.

The best entries, judged by a distinguished international jury, will receive a gold award. Other deserving entries will receive a merit award. The judging criteria will total 100 points. A score of over 90 is needed to be awarded gold, and a score over 80 is needed for the merit award. There can be more than one gold, or merit, in each category. This places the entrants in competition within the bar of excellence, as opposed to competition within the pool of entries.

From the gold award entries, the judges will choose the 2012 APLD International Landscape Designer of the Year. Awards will be presented during the awards dinner at the 2012 APLD International Design Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2012.

Submission materials can be submitted on a CD, accompanied by the application and entry fee. Online submissions using APLD?EUR??,,????'?????<