The ASLA?EUR??,,????'???s Landmark Award recognizes a project that was completed 15 to 50 years ago but still has retained its central form and character with the design integrity of the project intact. The strict judging criteria include: the enduring significance the project has on its community; the contribution it has made to the community?EUR??,,????'???s quality of life. The contributions of the project must have remained consistent or increased in significance since the project?EUR??,,????'???s completion. The 2003 award goes to the Battery Park City: Master Plan and Esplanade, in Lower Manhattan, New York. The Landscape Architect: was Olin Partnership, Ltd., in Philadelphia, PA, and R.M. Hanna Landscape Architects, in Philadelphia, PA. The goal of the project was to create a hospitable, welcoming physical space where the diverse people of New York City could work, play, eat, shop, and relax. Battery Park City is built on what was once 92 acres of landfill and is now some of the most engaging, scenic, open space in New York City. The master plan allocated a diverse mix of uses that included 42 percent residential, 9 percent commercial, 30 percent public open space, and 19 percent streets and avenues. The success of the project is centered in the significant open space element that has resulted in a 1.2 mile esplanade, over 30 acres of parks, and streets that support dynamic public participation in the heart of the city. The Battery Park city project is the result of an enduring desire to build a livable space in an area where towers sit alongside low-rise buildings next to landscapes of rolling lawns, waterfront and open patches of sky. Establishing an urban fabric of diverse uses has breathed new life to lower Manhattan, while demonstrating that creating dynamic civic space can renew the hope an optimism of its occupants.