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Design Workshop Is ASLA‚Äö?Ñ?¥s Top Firm for 200806-27-08 | News

Design Workshop Is ASLA?EUR??,,????'???s Top Firm for 2008--Company Co-Founder Joseph Porter, FASLA Will Receive ASLA?EUR??,,????'???s Landscape Architect Medal

Design Workshop?EUR??,,????'???s Glacier Club project in Durango, Colo. was an ASLA 2007 Professional Award winner (general design honor). About 30 percent of the land is open space (not including the course itself) and includes eight miles of trails that connect to regional trails. Photos: D.A. Horchner/Design Workshop

Design Workshop?EUR??,,????'???s Woody Creek Garden, Pitkin County, Colo., also won a 2007 ASLA award (residential design honor award). The enclosed courtyard features stone slabs and a misting fountain. Photo: D.A. Horchner/Design Workshop)

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected Design Workshop to receive the 2008 ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm award.

Don Ensign, FASLA, and Joseph Porter, FASLA, founded Design Workshop in 1969 when both were teaching in North Carolina. Five years later they relocated to Aspen, Colo. Today, the firm employs 200 people in seven offices: Aspen and Denver, Lake Tahoe, Calif., Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Austin, Texas and Asheville, N.C. The firm?EUR??,,????'???s work encompasses county master planning, planned communities, urban centers, resorts, public parks, golf courses, residences and roadways. The firm has won over 145 awards for their work. (Visit Design Workshop at designworkshop.com.)

?EUR??,,????'??What is really gratifying about this award is that it recognizes not a single project or event, but an entire body of work,?EUR??,,????'?? said Becky Zimmermann, Design Workshop president. ?EUR??,,????'??It celebrates the consistent implementation of high quality, meaningful work and acknowledges the firm?EUR??,,????'???s influence on the direction of the profession of landscape architecture.?EUR??,,????'??

The Firm Award will be presented by the ASLA Board of Trustees during their annual meeting in Philadelphia, October 3-7.

At the same awards ceremony, Design Workshop?EUR??,,????'???s co-founder Joseph Porter, FASLA will receive the ASLA Medal for his lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession. The ASLA Medal is the association?EUR??,,????'???s top honor. Mr. Porter has more than four decades of work in the landscape architecture profession.