New York ASLA Chapter

City Courtyard, adjacent to Manhattan's Central Park, is a small retreat from the congestion of the city. The City Courtyard fountain uses solid slaps of Renaissance gray limestone to replicate the materials in the base course of the wall and stairs, all lending to the monolithic scale of this intimate garden space.
Photo: Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design

The 2012 ASLA Chapter Design Awards were presented April 24th at the Hort, the Horticultural Society of New York in NYC. Ten Honor awards and 13 Merit awards were presented to 16 firms, with three firms receiving multiple awards. Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design of New York City was the big multiple honoree, winning three Honor design awards, and one Merit award. The Honor awards went to the firm for the "Briar Patch Garden," "City Courtyard" and the "Dune House."

Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects also earned an Honor Award in landscape architectural design for the "Dune House."
Photo: Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design

Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC earned an Honor award in landscape architectural design for Expanding Horizons Life Enrichment Center in Kings Mountain, N.C.

This 26-acre waterfront park is the last link in Manhattan's continuous Hudson River Greenway. The site is 35-ft. below the upland streets.
Photo: Thomas Balsley Associates

The New York City Department of Parks & Rec was awarded an Honor award for Printers Park Playground. Thomas Balsley Associates received an Honor award for the Riverside Park South waterfront project in NYC.

The "Briar Patch" garden at this home on Long Island draws its design cues from the understated architecture on the property. Clear cedar siding is used in place of cedar shake, along with large, horizontal expanses of glass, void of mullions and muntin bars. In late spring the paths come alive with Lady's Mantle (Alchemilla mollis), Flowering Allium (Allium "Gladiator, and Blue Catmint (Nepeta sp.).
Photo: Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design

President's Dinner"?(R)?Back On!
The chapter's President's Dinner, originally scheduled for Nov. 1, was postponed after the ravages inflicted along the Eastern Seaboard by Sandy. As we go the press the event has been rescheduled for Nov. 29 at Tribeca Three Sixty in New York City. The event will honor Douglas Blonsky, president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy, Commissioner Carter Strickland of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and The Architect's Newspaper.

Garden trellises look out onto the meadow, an inviting park-like space for patients to stroll, bird watch or play bocce ball.
Photo: Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC

The land that Printers Park Playground in Longwood, Bronx now occupies was once a part of the estate of Richard March Hoe (1812-1886). In the 1970s, the buildings and land were condemned, then turned into asphalt tennis courts in the mid-1980 before once again being closed to the public because of unsafe conditions.
Photo: NYC Parks & Rec

The land that Printers Park Playground in Longwood, Bronx now occupies was once a part of the estate of Richard March Hoe (1812-1886). In the 1970s, the buildings and land were condemned, then turned into asphalt tennis courts in the mid-1980 before once again being closed to the public because of unsafe conditions.
Photo: NYC Parks & Rec

Douglas Blonsky, RLA, ASLA is the president and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy. The Conservancy has raised (and spent) over $600 million on the restoration and maintenance of Central Park; $470 million of that was raised from private philanthropy.

Kenneth Smith, of Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect, NYC, joined the 2012 ASLA Class of Fellows. He was recognized in the "works" category.

Henry White III of HM White Site Architects, NYC, was elected to the 2012 ASLA Class of Fellows in the "work" category.

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