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American Society of Landscape Architects: ASLA 2016 professional General Design Honor Award,Quzhou Luming Park

2016-09-22 Source:ASLA

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is excited to announce its 30 professional award recipients for 2016. Selected from 456 entries, the awards honor top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications and research projects in the U.S. and around the world.



ASLA 2016 Award of Excellence, Residential Design Category. DBX Ranch: A Transformation Brings Forth a New Livable Landscape by Design Workshop Inc. Photo: D.A. Horchner / Design Workshop Inc.


The winners will receive their awards at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in New Orleans on Monday, October 24 at the New Orleans Ernest M. Morial Convention Center.


The September issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) features the winning projects and is available for free viewing here.


The following is a complete list of 2016 professional award winners:


General Design Category


Award of Excellence


Underpass Park, Toronto, Ontario

by PFS Studio with The Planning Partnership for Waterfront Toronto


Honor Awards


Framing Terrain and Water: Quzhou Luming Park, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China

by Turenscape for the Quzhou City Government          


Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park, Bishan, Singapore

by Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl for the Public Utilities Board / National Parks Board, Singapore


Converging Ecologies as a Gateway to Acadiana, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

by CARBO Landscape Architecture for St. Landry Parish Tourist Commission


The Metro-Forest Project, Bangkok, Thailand

by Landscape Architects of Bangkok (LAB) for PTT Public Company Limited


The Power Station, Dallas

by Hocker Design Group for The Pinnell Foundation                  


Corktown Common: Flood Protection and a Neighbourhood Park, Toronto, Ontario

by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. for Waterfront Toronto in Partnership with Toronto Region Conservancy Authority (TRCA) and Infrastructure Ontario (IO)


Grand Teton National Park Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center, Moose, Wyoming

by Swift Company llc for the National Park Service, Grand Teton National Park Foundation and Grand Teton Association


Eco-Corridor Resurrects Former Brownfield, Ningbo, China

by SWA for Ningbo Planning Bureau - East New Town Development Committee


Analysis and Planning Category


Award of Excellence


The Copenhagen Cloudburst Formula: A Strategic Process for Planning and Designing Blue-Green Interventions, Copenhagen, Denmark

by Ramboll and Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl for the Municipality of Copenhagen


Honor Awards


Central Puget Sound Regional Open Space Strategy, Puget Sound Region, Washington

by University of Washington Green Futures Lab for The Bullitt Foundation and The Russell Family Foundation


Rebuild by Design, The Big U, Manhattan, New York

by Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Rebuild by Design


Memorial Park Master Plan 2015, Houston

by Nelson Byrd Woltz for the Houston Parks and Recreation Department, The Memorial Park Conservancy, and Uptown Houston                                      


Baton Rouge Lakes: Restoring a Louisiana Landmark from Ecological Collapse to Cultural Sanctuary, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

by SWA Group for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation                


Bayou Greenways: Realizing the Vision, Houston

by SWA Group for the Houston Parks Board                  


Communications Category


Award of Excellence


What’s Out There Guidebooks

by The Cultural Landscape Foundation


Honor Awards


Roving Rangers: Bringing the Parks to the People

by BASE Landscape Architecture, for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and the Santa Monica Mountains Fund


Activating Land Stewardship and Participation in Detroit: A Field Guide to Working with Lots

by Detroit Future City, published by Inland Press            


Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards: Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

by Design Workshop, published by John Wiley & Sons


PHYTO: Principles and Resources for Site Remediation and Landscape Design

by Kate Kennen, ASLA, and Niall Kirkwood, FASLA, published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group


DredgeFest Event Series

by The Dredge Research Collaborative


Sea Change: Boston

by Sasaki Associates Inc.


Research Category


Honor Awards


Weather-Smithing: Assessing the Role of Vegetation, Soil and Adaptive Management in Urban Green Infrastructure Performance

by Andropogon Associates Ltd. for the University of Pennsylvania


Residential Design Category


Award of Excellence


DBX Ranch: A Transformation Brings Forth a New Livable Landscape, Pitkin County, Colorado

by Design Workshop Inc.


Honor Awards


Kronish House, Beverly Hills, California

by Marmol Radziner


The Restoring of a Montane Landscape, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

by Design Workshop Inc.


Chilmark: Embracing a Glacial Moraine, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects


The Rivermark, Sacramento, California

by Fletcher Studio for Bridge Housing Corporation                    


Water Calculation and Poetic Interpretation, Carmel, California

by Arterra Landscape Architects


The Landmark Award


Michigan Avenue Streetscape: 20 Years of Magnificent Mile Blooms, Chicago

by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects for the City of Chicago/Michigan Avenue Streetscape Association


The professional awards jury included:


Kona Gray, ASLA, Chair, EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Keith Bowers, FASLA, Biohabitats Inc. Baltimore

Jennifer Guthrie, FASLA, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Seattle

Mami Hara, ASLA, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia

Christopher Hume, Architecture Critic, Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario

Lee-Anne Milburn, FASLA, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California

Willett Moss, ASLA, CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco

Suman Sorg, FAIA, DLR Group | Sorg, Washington, D.C.

Laurinda Spear, ASLA, ArquitectonicaGEO, Miami


Source: https://www.asla.org/NewsReleaseDetails.aspx?id=49128


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