ASLA 2008 Professional Award Winners Announced

General Design Category, Award of Excellence

The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, Seattle, Washington
client: Millennium Park, Inc.
(Photo: Linda Oyama Bryan)

General Design Category, Honor Awards

Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, Cambridge, Massachusetts
client: Boston Children’s Museum
(Photo: Elizabeth Felicella)

Walden Studios, Alexander Valley, California
Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, California
(Photo: Marion Brenner)

Lost Dog Wash Trailhead, Scottsdale, Arizona
Floor Associates, Inc, Phoenix, Arizona
Architect: Weddle Gilmore Architects, Tempe, Arizona
client: City of Scottsdale
(Photo: C. Porter Brown)

Fountain Promenade at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico
Grupo De Diseño Urbano SC, Mexico
client: Citizen’s Regent Group and Revive Chapultepec Board of Donors
(Photo: Francisco Gómez Sosa)

Lagoon Park: Living at the Edge of Wilderness, Santa Barbara, California
Van Atta Associates, Inc., Santa Barbara, California
client: University of California, Santa Barbara
(Photo: Saxon Holt)

Washington Monument, Washington, DC
Olin Partnership, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania
client: National Park Service
(Photo: Peter Mauss/Esto)

James Clarkson Environmental Discovery Center, White Lake Township, Michigan
MSI Design, Columbus, Ohio
client: Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority
(Photo: Justin Maconochie Photography)

Gannett/USA Today Headquarters, McLean, Virginia
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects, Ltd., Alexandria, Virginia
client: Gannett, Inc.
(Photo: Timothy Hursley)

Residential Design Category, Co-sponsored by Garden Design Magazine

Award of Excellence

Ketchum Residence, Ketchum, Idaho
Lutsko Associates, San Francisco, California
(Photo: Marion Brenner Photography)

Honor Awards

Bassil Mountain Escape, Faqra, Lebanon
Vladimir Djurovic Landscape Architecture, Broumana, Lebanon
client: Jimmy Bassil
(Photo: Geraldine Bruneel)

New Poetic Mountain Habitat-the Fragrant Hill 81 Yard, Beijing, China
Zhu YuFan, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Research Center of Landscape vs. Design Study, Bejing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, P.R. of China
client: Liu Yong
(Photo: Zhu Yu Fan)

Unfolding Terrace, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
Terrain-NYC, Inc., New York, New York
(Photo: terrain)

Malibu Beach House, Malibu, California
Pamela Burton & Company, Santa Monica, California
(Photo: Bruce Botnick)

Coastal Island Retreat, Spring Island, South Carolina
Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, Inc., Washington, DC
(Photo: Richard Felber)

Passage to the Lake, Stoneham, Maine
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, New York, New York
client: Margaret Nomentana
(Photo: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.)

Beach House, Amagansett, New York
Dirtworks, PC, New York, New York
(Photo: Dirtworks, PC)

San Juan Island Residence, San Juan Islands, Washington
Paul Broadhurst & Associates, Seattle, Washington
(Photo: Steve Dubinsky)

Altamira Ranch, Palos Verdes, California
Marmol Radziner & Associates, Los Angeles, California
(Photo: Steve Gunther)

Analysis and Planning Category, Award of Excellence

Viet Village Urban Farm, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mossop + Michaels
Urban Landscape Lab LSU, New Orleans, Louisiana
client: Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation
(Image: Mossop+Michaels)

Analysis and Planning Category, Honor Awards

Port Lands Estuary: Reinventing the Don River as an Agent of Urbanism, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, New York, New York
client: WATERFRONToronto

New Terrain for the North Lake Region of Chongming Island, Shanghai, China
SWA Group, Los Angeles, California
client: Shanghai Urban Planning Administrative Bureau

Orange County Great Park Comprehensive Master Plan “A Vision for the Great Park of the 21st Century”, Irvine, California
Ken Smith Workshop West, Irvine, California, Team Lead, and Mia Lehrer + Associates, Los Angeles, California
client: City of Irvine / Orange County Great Park Corporation

Porchscapes: An Affordable LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
client: Habitat for Humanity of Washington County

New Orleans Riverfront: Reinventing the Crescent, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts
client: New Orleans Building Corporation


Communications Category, Honor Awards

So What?
ahbe landscape architects, Culver City, California
client: ahbe landscape architects
(Photo: ahbe)

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Landscape Journal: Design, Planning, and Management of the Land, Madison, Wisconsin
SUNY ESF, Syracuse, New York
client: Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA)

Louisiana Speaks: Our Voice. Our Plan. Our Future
Center for Planning Excellence, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
client: LRA Support Foundation

Bird-Safe Building Guidelines
SCAPE Landscape Architecture PLLC, New York, New York
client: New York City Audubon

The Landmark Award, Co-sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Tanner Fountain
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peter Walker, The SWA Group, Berkeley, California
client: Harvard University
(Photo: Alan Ward)