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Potomac/Maryland ASLA Chapter Design Awards12-17-08 | News
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Potomac/Maryland ASLA Chapter Design Awards




Mahan Rykiel Associates (MRA), a Baltimore based landscape architectural, urban design and planning firm, took home two awards from the Maryland and Potomac ASLA chapters: the Vue Rooftop Garden in Inner Harbor East (Honor Award), and the Wyman Park Dell master plan (Merit Award). Wyman was conceived and designed by the Olmsted Brothers.The Vue (pictured) is two blocks from the Baltimore Harbor and a new addition to the Harbor East redevelopment, combining office, hotel and condominiums. The rooftop plaza features extensive green space, a large open lawn, flowering trees, a fountain, paving patterns and textured plant masses.

The Maryland and Potomac Chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects presented their 2008 design awards/banquet December 9 at the Baltimore Hilton Convention Hotel. The awards were selected by a jury of peers. This year?EUR??,,????'?????<

There were 65 entries, a record number for the chapter. The award winners are:

Analysis & Planning

Honor Award

  • National Capital Framework Plan?EUR??,,????'?????<

Merit Awards

  • Old Town Manassas Sector Plan?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Upper Marlboro Town Vision Plan?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • 14th Street NW Multi-Modal Transportation and Streetscape Study?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Wyman Park Dell?EUR??,,????'?????<

Communications

Merit Awards

  • Tree Space Design: Growing the Tree Out of the Box?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Love Me/Love Me Not?EUR??,,????'?????<

Design

Honor Awards

  • National Aquarium in Baltimore?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Janelia Farm Research Campus?EUR??,,????'?????<

Merit Awards

  • Running Cedar?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Polar Bear Watch, Maryland Zoo?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Sybil Harrington Cactus and Succulent Galleries?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Water Street Residence?EUR??,,????'?????<

Traveling Award

  • The Aquiary Outdoor Interpretive Area?EUR??,,????'?????<

Group Landscape Architecture

Honor Awards

  • Norfolk Botanical Garden, World of Wonders (WOW) Children?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • Wharf District Park?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • The Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum and
  • Education Center at Mount Vernon?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • The Vue?EUR??,,????'?????<

Merit Award

  • North Shore Park?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • The National Cathedral Amphitheater?EUR??,,????'?????<
  • The Gateway at MICA?EUR??,,????'?????<
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