ASLA Announces 2006 Professional Awards

32 projects selected

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2006 Professional Awards. The jury considered more than 500 entries and selected 32 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 9 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. 

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The restored Alumnae Valley, part of the winning "From Brownfield to Greenfield: A New Working Landscape for Wellesly College Wrenched from its Toxic Past

General Design Category, Awards of Excellence:

  • From Brownfield to Greenfield: A New Working Landscape for Wellesley College Wrenched from its Toxic Past, Wellesley, Mass.

Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Mass./New York

Client: Wellesley College

  • Court Square Press Courtyard, Boston

Landscape Architect: Landworks Studio, Inc., Salem, Mass.

Client: Pappas Properties, Inc.

General Design Category, Awards of Honor:

  • University of California, Berkeley: Units 1&2 Dormitories Urban Landscape (The Bowtie), Berkeley, Calif.

Landscape Architect: GLS (Gary L. Strang) Landscape/Architecture, San Francisco

Client: University of California   

  • The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans

Landscape Architect: Sawyer/Berson Architecture & Landscape Architecture, LLP, New York

Client: New Orleans Museum of Art

  • The Floating Gardens — Yongning River Park, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China

Landscape Architect: Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture and Turenscape, Beijing

Client: The Government of Huanyan District     

  •  Columbus Circle, New York

Landscape Architect: Olin Partnership, Philadelphia

Client: City of New York

  •  Small is Beautiful, Millburn, N.J.

Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc., Cambridge, Mass./New York

Client: Tahari, Inc.     

  •  South Boston Maritime Park, Boston

Landscape Architect: Halvorson Design Partnership, Inc., Boston

Client: Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport/MPA)

  •  The Elizabeth & Nona Evans Restorative Garden Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland

Landscape Architect: Dirtworks, PC, New York

Client: The Cleveland Botanical Garden 

  •     SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, Ore.

Landscape Architect: Kevin Robert Perry, ASLA, Sustainable Stormwater Management Program, Portland, Ore.

Client: City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services

  •  Lite-On Electronic Headquarters, Taipei, Taiwan

Landscape Architect: SWA Group, Sausalito, Calif.

Client: Lite-On Electronic Headquarters 

  • Chess Park, Glendale, Calif.

Landscape Architect: Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles

Client: City of Glendale, Calif.

  • Henry C. Beck, Jr., Park, Dallas

Landscape Architect: MESA, Dallas

Client: Beck Architecture        

Residential Design Category, co-sponsored by Garden Design Magazine, Award of Excellence:

  • Quartz Mountain Residence, Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Landscape Architect: Steve Martino & Associates, Phoenix   

Residential Design Category, Co-sponsored by Garden Design Magazine, Awards of Honor:

  • Tables of Water, Lake Washington, Wash.

Landscape Architect: Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, Seattle  

  • Glencoe Residence, Venice, Calif.

Landscape Architect: Marmol Radziner and Associates, Los Angeles

Client: Ron Radziner, Affiliate ASLA, and Robin Cottle

  •  Horizon Residence, Venice, Calif.

Landscape Architect: Marmol Radziner and Associates, Los Angeles

Client: Leo Marmol     

  • Greenwich Residence, Greenwich, Conn.

Landscape Architect: Stephen Stimson Associates, Falmouth, Mass.

  • Brille Residence, East Hampton, N.Y.

Landscape Architect: Edmund Hollander Landscape Architect Design, P.C, New York

Client: Brian and Leslie Brille

  • The Passage, New England

Landscape Architect: Horiuchi Solien Inc., Falmouth, Mass.

  • House by the Creek, Dallas

Landscape Architect: MESA Design Group, Dallas

Client: Caren Prothro        

Analysis and Planning Category, Award of Excellence:

  • Providence 2020 Plan, Providence, R.I.

Landscape Architect: Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass.

Client: City of Providence     

Analysis and Planning Category, Awards of Honor:

  • Habitat Trails. Habitat for Humanity: From Infill House to Green Neighborhood Design, Rogers, Ark.

Landscape Architect: University of Arkansas Community Design Center, Fayetteville, Ark.

Client: Habitat for Humanity   

  • Crosswaters Ecolodge, Guangdong Province, China

Landscape Architect: EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Client: Longmen Mt. Nankun Zhongheng Ecotourism Development Co., Ltd.

  • Parque Amazônia, Belém, Pará, Amazônia, Brazil

Landscape Architect: Morris Architects, Orlando, Fla.

Client: State of Para, Brazil        

Research Category, co-sponsored by Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Journal, Awards of Honor:

  • Intrinsic Landscape Aesthetic Resource Information System

Landscape Architect: Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, Ltd., Seattle   

  • From Landscapes to Lots: Understanding and Managing Midwestern Landscape Change

Landscape Architects: Paul H. Gobster, Ph.D., ASLA and Robert G. Haight, Ph.D, Science Co-Leaders, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Evanston, Ill.

Client: USDA Forest Service

Communications Category, Award of Excellence:

  • Land Forum Magazine, Berkeley, Calif.

Landscape Architect: Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture, Inc., Berkeley, Calf.

Communications Category, Awards of Honor:

  • Forgotten Rain: Rediscovering Rainwater Harvesting

Landscape Architect: Heather Kinkade-Levario, Phoenix

Client: Granite Canyon Publications   

  • Manchester: Rebuilding the City Centre DVD

Landscape Architect: EDAW, Inc, San Francisco

Client: EDAW, Inc.

  •  Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

Landmark Award, co-sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation:

  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Landscape Architect: Zion Breen & Richardson Associates, Site Planners/Landscape Architects, Cream Ridge, N.J.

Client: The Museum of Modern Art

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