LAF/CLASS Fund Design '87 Awards
Dinner Attracts Record Audience
Grand Award Winner
15500 Sunset Boulevard
Nearly 500 landscape and building industry professionals and their guests attended the LAF/CLASS Fund Design ‘87 awards dinner held recently at the Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel in Costa Mesa.
15500 Sunset Boulevard, a luxury condominium development in Pacific Palisades, received the grand award honors at the gala black-tie affair. Terra Cotta tile, smooth-troweled plaster walls, eclectic cast fountains, stately queen palms, colorful bouganvillea and numerous flowering sub-tropical plantings were artfully combined by the LA Group, Landscape Architects, and installed by landscape contractors, Heads Up Sprinklers to create an elegant European resort environment for this award-winning “in-fill” residential community built by Fred Johnson Investments. This project also won the excellence award in the multi-family attached residential community category.
CLASS Fund President Francis Sullivan begins the black-tie gala with his opening address.
LAF/CLASS Fund is the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s California Landscape Architecture Student Scholarship Fund. During the past seven years, the LAF/CLASS Fund has built up an endowment of more than $200,000 which, on an annual basis, contributes to the educational advancement of the landscape industry with grants and scholarships to universities and students in the Southern California area.
Jim Hogan, a principal of Hogan-Roy Partners, Landscape Architects, and chairman of the Design ‘87 awards event, as well as Klaus Ahlers of Carlacio Industries were also honored as the LAF/CLASS Fund Professionals of the Year and Life Members at the awards dinner. John Culbertson of Pacific Sod and Courtland Paul of the Peridian Group are the previous winners of this prestigious landscape industry award.
The excellence award winners included:
In the resort/hotel category;?EUR??,,????'??+Four Seasons Hotel developed by Burton Way Hotels, Lifescapes, Inc., Landscape Architect, and Valley Crest Landscape, landscape contractor.
Award of Excellence
Resort/Hotel
Four Seasons, Los Angeles
The public neighborhood/local parks category was awarded to 38th Street Park, City of Newport Beach, Eichenberger, Fennell & Associates, Landscape Architects, Silveri & LeBouef, landscape contractors.
Award of Excellence
Public Neighborhood/Local Parks
33th Street Park
Santiago Oaks Regional Park by the County of Orange Environmental Management Agency won the public community/regional parks category with Hogan-Roy Partners, Landscape Architect, Moulder Brothers, landscape contractor. The East African Rock Kopje Exhibit/San Diego Zoological Society also won in the public community/regional parks category with Jones & Jones, Landscape Architects, Rock & Waterscape Systems, Inc., landscape contractor.
Award of Excellence
Public Community/Regional Parks
Santiago Oaks Regional Park
Award of Excellence
Public Community/Regional Parks
East African Rock Korje Exhibit
The category of business/commercial complexes was won by The Plaza at La Jolla Village, Wimmer-Yamada & Associates, Landscape Architect, Western Landscape Construction, landscape contractor.
Award of Excellence
Custom Single-Family Residence
Spiegel Residence
Award of Excellence
Custom Single-Family Residence Under $150,000
Norton Residence
The Spiegel residence was awarded the custom single-family residence category with Galper/Baldon, Landscape Architect, Roberto Luna, landscape contractor. Another winner included the Norton residence by Ken Norton, Ron Gregory & Associates, Landscape Architect, Rock & Waterscape Systems, Inc., landscape contractor.
The Village Grove Models developed by Mesa Homes, Hogan-Roy Partners, Landscape Architect, Oakridge Landscape & Irrigation, landscape contractor, won the single-family model complex with sales price under $150,000.
Award of Excellence
Single-Family Model Complex Under $150,000
Village Grove Models
The single-family model complex with sales price over $150,000 category was awarded to the Paragon Collection at Niguel Summit developed by J.M. Peters Company, Forsum/Summers & Partners Inc., Landscape Architect, Oak Leaf Landscape, landscape contractor.
Award of Excellence
Single-Family Model Complex Over $150,000
Paragon Collection
Rancho Santa Margarita Phase I Streetscapes by Santa Margarita Company, Peridian Group, Landscape Architect, Oak Leaf Landscape, streetscapes/monumentation programs.
Award of Excellence
Community Streetscape/Monumentation
Rancho Santa Margarita
In the student category, Kathryn K. Cerra of the UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture Certificate Program won the excellence award for the Wilshire Boulevard Cemetery & Museum of Anthropology.
Award of Excellence
Student Award
Wilshire Boulevard Cemetery and Museum of Anthropology
In all, 45 honor and excellence awards were presented to Landscape Architects, landscape contractors, builders/developers and governmental agencies as well as landscape architecture students in 16 different entry categories that comprised this year’s design competition.
Life Members John Culbertson and Courtland Paul present Jim Hogan with his life membership award. Klaus Ahlers received his life membership in absentia, thus making a total of four life members for CLASS Fund.
Incoming CLASS Fund President Bill Cathcart while making the closing statement.
The LAF/CLASS Fund Design ‘87 awards committee included Klaus Ahlers, Bob Cardoza, Bill Cathcart, John Culbertson, Chuck DeGarmo, Ray Osbornei Martin Rippens, Rob Sawyer and Jay Svidal.
