A total of 28 projects from across the country have been honored as part of this year’s American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Awards program.
In an announcement made on October 3, the organization named its Excellence and Honor Awards winner across seven categories, including The Landmark Award, which was given to Hargreaves Jones for their 2001 transformation of Crissy Field for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy in San Francisco.
"Many of this year’s winning projects were focused on reconnecting communities to landscapes, illustrating the important role landscape architects play in creating places for communities to live, work, and play," ASLA President Eugenia Martin said in a statement. "We congratulate this year’s winners for their extraordinary contributions to their communities and the profession."
GENERAL DESIGN AWARDS
Award of Excellence - Palm Springs Downtown Park by RIOS (Palm Springs, CA)
Jury citation: "Sited on the grounds of the historic sanitorium resort, the Desert Inn, the design draws on its legacy as a destination for health, nature, and pleasure seekers. The park comprises three overlapping spaces: the Palm Grove, with over 130 Washingtonia filifera, California’s only native palm; the Outcrop, on the park’s northern edge designed as an immersive park experience that relates to the surrounding mountains; and the Theater. Each offers distinct programmatic capacities and reveals facets of the region’s geology, vegetation, and rich history. The park’s dramatic centerpiece is a powerful waterfall and an interactive water feature of jets and fog emitters, which the jury called remarkable!"
Honor Awards
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN AWARD
Award of Excellence - Edwin M. Lee Apartments by GLS Landscape|Architecture (San Francisco, CA)
Jury citation: "Dramatic and effective integration of architecture and landscape architecture with circulation. Inclusive design quality rarely observed in affordable housing for veterans and the homeless."
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URBAN DESIGN AWARD
Award of Excellence - HOPE SF: Rebuild Potrero by GLS Landscape|Architecture (San Francisco, CA)
Jury citation: "The 38-acre neighborhood will have a unique open space network of terraces, sloping parks, community services, and streets linked together by landscaped staircases carved from the south-facing slopes of Potrero Hill. Also being added are 1000 units of market rate and affordable homes, daycare, pre-school, community center, recreational facilities, neighborhood-serving retail, and open space amenities. The jury praised the urban design as a “masterful integration of affordable housing into intense topography that defines new hierarchies of public space."
Honor Awards
ANALYSIS AND PLANNING AWARD
Honor Awards
RESEARCH AWARD
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COMMUNICATIONS AWARD
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THE LANDMARK AWARD
Award Recipient - Crissy Field: An Enduring Transformation by Hargreaves Jones (San Francisco, CA)
Jury citation: "While reintroducing and amplifying the natural and cultural features of the site, the project restored 40 acres of habitat consisting of 22 acres of vegetated dune and dune swale habitat and 18 acres of tidal marsh, allowing fresh and salt water to merge. A 1.5-mile promenade alongside an extensive protected coastal dune habitat unifies the site. And the Crissy Field Center supports a variety of education and outreach programs for youth. The jury lauded it as a culturally and ecologically effective icon. A city-defining landscape amenity."
Select project details from this year’s recipients will be archived in the Library of Congress, a first for the awards program. A special in-person awards gala will be held as part of the ASLA’s Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Francisco between November 11 – 14, 2022. Ticketing information for the event can be found here.
Learn more about this year's ASLA 2022 Professional Award winners and honorees here.
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I know this is somewhat semantics (not totally), but by using the term “garden” rather than “landscape” we would move closer to where we ought to be. A garden asks more from the inhabitants. A landscape is something to traverse. A garden requires cultivation, and a more intimate relationship between humans and non-human life. A garden has deeper connotations historically as well. The term “landscape” is so empty and subordinate.