Landscape Architecture Awards Bestowed

More than 500 projects replied to the call for entries.

Meaghan O'Neill -- Interior Design, 5/18/2006

The American Society of Landscape Architects, a national professional association founded in 1899, has named the winners of its 2006 Professional Awards. More than 500 projects were considered; in the end, the jury selected 32 recipients in nine categories. An awards ceremony will be held October 9 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.

In the General Design Category, Awards of Excellence went to Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts for a brownfield reclamation project at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts; and Landworks of Salem, Massachusetts for the Court Square Press Courtyard in Boston. General Design winners include the Floating Gardens—Yongning River Park in Zhejiang Province, China, by the Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture and Turenscape of Beijing; the Besthoff Sculpture Garden New Orleans Musuem of Art, by Sawyer/Berson Architecture & Landscape Architecture of New York; and Columbus Circle in New York, by Olin Partnership of the same city; among several others.

Standouts in the residential Design Category include Marmol Radziner and Associates of Los Angeles, which took two prizes, and Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture of Seattle. The Museum of Modern Art in New York took the only Landmark Award; it was designed by Zion Breen & Richardson Associates of New Jersey.