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Winners, Finalists Named for 10th Annual National Design Awards05-05-09 | News

Winners, Finalists Named for 10th Annual National Design Awards

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The 2009 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 2,500 designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the union. The award recipients will be honored at a dinner Oct. 22, 2009 at Cipriani in New York.

The awards are given for a body of realized work, not individual projects.

Chess Park in Glendale, Calif. is illuminated by 28-ft. tall towers shaped like abstract chess pieces. The landscape architect is Rios Clementi Hale Studios, one of two finalist in the landscape design category for the 10th Annual National Design Awards. Chess Park was featured in the April 2006 issue of LASN www.landscapearchitect.com/research/article/6665.

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The winner in the Landscape Design division was HOOD Design of Oakland, Calif. His work includes the landscape for the new de Young Museum in San Francisco, Baisley Park Community Garden, Jamaica, Queens, N.Y., Splash Pad Park, Oakland, Calif., and Macon Yards, Poplar Street, Macon, Ga.

Walter Hood established his firm in 1992 in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Hood is a professor and former chair of the landscape architecture and environmental planning program at the University of California, Berkeley.

The two finalists in the Landscape Design division were Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles, and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco.

Rios Clementi Hale Studios was founded in 1985 as a multidisciplinary design firm. Clients include the Los Angeles Music Center, Universal Studios, the United States General Services Administration, Austin City Limits, Westfield Corporation and the California Endowment.

Andrea Cochran, FASLA, has been practicing landscape architecture in the San Francisco Bay area for over 25 years. Her work includes residential projects in Pacific Heights, San Francisco, and Hillsborough, Calif.; Stone Edge Farm, Sonoma, Calif., and Walden Studios, Alexander Valley, Calif.