TX/ASLA Design Awards by Kay Tiller, Executive Regional Editor SAN ANTONIO, TX The Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (TX/ASLA) presented an unusually large number of design awards at their 1998 Annual Meeting last month. The presentations were made by Chapter President Ann McGinnis, ASLA. Winning awards of Excellence in the "Constructed Projects" Category were: The SWA Group/Houston for The baytown Nature Center and The SWA Group/Dallas for Las Ventanas Al Paraiso near Cabo San Lucas. The Johnson Creek Consortium, represented by James Richards, ASLA, was awarded for The Johnson Creek Corridor Plan. That night, a total of seven Honor Awards and twelve Merit Awards were presented to Texas Landscape Architects and their respective clients. McDugald-Steele of Houston received an Honor Award for their work on the Goddfrey Residence in Houston; Newman, Jackson, Bieberstein of Dallas took an Honor Award for North Addison Park in Addison. The Office of James Burnett in Houston was also presented an Honor Award for the 396 Greens Road Campus of Exxon in Houston. Merit Awards in this category included The SWA Group/Houston for Forbidden gardens in Katy; Richard mason and The El Paso District of the Texas Department of Transportation for the special designs used along Interstate 10 in the El Paso district. In the "Unrealized Projects" category, three awards were presented. An Honor Award went to MESA Design Group of Dallas for the Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano. Merit Awards were presented to Archiscape of Waco for the Carleen Bright Arboretum in Woodway, and carter & Burgess' Dallas office for the Freedman's Cemetery Memorial in Dallas. Other awards included a Merit Award in the "Communication" Category to Lewis May studio for a presentation the firm designed for an international audience on the development of a "think tank and retreat center" in the Texas panhandle near the small town of Wheeler. Entitled "The Making of Place... Wheeler, Texas," the presentation included photographs of the area. The TX/ASLA Honor and Merit Awards were judged this year by the Arizona State University landscape architectural faculty members.