Carol Franklin, FASLA Principal Andropogon Associates, Ltd. Philadelpia, Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, mLA Category: Works of Landscape Architecture My favorite project that I worked on was the Nikko Kirifuri resort recently completed in Japan with architects Venturi, Scott Brown and Asssociates was a "soup-to-nuts" project. Andropogon began with site protection and ended with planting and site restoration. The landscape plan included siting new buildings, designing roads, bridges, parking and paths. The project was envisioned as a "Village in the Woods" where all the built elements were designed to work with the problems and opportunities posed by the complex landforms, steep slopes, highly erodible soils, and mature forest. For example, the stormwater management systems held and treated runoff in new ornamental ponds that were sited in deep gullies present in the eroded hillsides.