2017 ASLA Professional Awards Announced

The ASLA made the announcement Tuesday, a few months after it revealed the recipients of its 2017 Honors. All winners will receive their awards on 23 October 2017, during the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo in Los Angeles.

Award of Excellence

• Klyde Warren Park - Bridging the Gap in Downtown Dallas, Dallas, by OJB Landscape Architecture for the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation 

• The Entrance Garden, Sao Paulo, Brazil, by Alex Hanazaki Paisagismo for Eliane Revestimentos
• Windhover Contemplative Center, San Francisco, by Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture for Stanford University
• Owens Lake Land Art, Inyo County, California, by NUVIS Landscape Architecture for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
• SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by WRT for the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethlehem 
• Central Seawall Project, Seattle, by James Corner Field Operations LLC for the City of Seattle Department of Transportation and Office of The Waterfront 
• The Yue-Yuan Courtyard, Suzhou, China, by Z+T Studio Landscape Architecture for Avic Legend Co. Ltd. 
• Merging Culture and Ecology at The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, by Surface 678 for the North Carolina Museum of Art 
• Chicago Botanic Garden: The Regenstein Learning Campus, Chicago, by Mikyoung Kim Design and Jacobs/Ryan Associates for the Chicago Botanic Garden 
• Workplace as Landscape - Facebook MPK20, San Francisco, by CMG Landscape Architecture for Facebook

Award of Excellence

• Birmingham Residence, San Francisco, by Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture for Linda Dresner 

• Telegraph Hill Residence, San Francisco, by Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture 
• Northeast Harbor, a Restoration on Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, Maine, by Stephen Stimson Associates | Landscape Architects 
• Smith Residence, by Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture 
• Casa Las Brisas - Formation of a Coastal Retreat, Las Condes, Chile, by C. Stuart Moore Design 
• Proving Grounds - A 20-Year Education in American Horticulture, by Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture for Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan 
• Agrarian Modern - The Recovery and Renewal of Manatuck Farm, by Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture 
• Abstracting Morphology, by HOLLANDERdesign | Landscape Architects 
• Northpoint Apartments, Orinda, California, by JETT Landscape Architecture + Design Inc. for Aline Estournes, Northpoint Apartments LLC 

Award of Excellence

• Storm + Sand + Sea + Strand -- Barrier Island Resiliency Planning for Galveston Island State Park, Galveston, Texas, by Studio Outside for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department 

• The Olana Strategic Landscape Design Plan: Restoring an American Masterpiece, Hudson, New York, by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects for the Olana Partnership and The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation 
• Waterfront Botanical Gardens, Louisville, Kentucky, by Perkins+Will for Botanica 
• Positioning Pullman, Chicago, by Site for the National Parks Conservation Association 
• Conservation at the Edge - Prototyping Low-intervention Conservation in the Patagonian Wilderness, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Reed Hilderbrand LLC Landscape Architecture for Victor F. Trahan III, FAIA 
• Fitzgerald Revitalization Project: Landscapes as the Framework for Community Reinvestment, Detroit, by Spackman Mossop Michaels for the City of Detroit 
• Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan, Austin, Texas, by Page and Sasaki Associates for the Texas Facilities Commission 

Award of Excellence

• Fluid Territory: A Journey into Svalbard, Norway, by Kathleen John-Alder, ASLA, Rutgers University, Tromsø Academy 

• Climate Change Impacts on Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific West Region, National Park System by Cultural Landscape Research Group, University of Oregon for the Pacific West Region, National Park Service
• Seeding Green Roofs for Greater Biodiversity and Lower Costs by Richard Sutton, FASLA, for the Sandhills Publishing Inc., Arbor Day Foundation, Tetrad Property Group, LPS NRD, and Lincoln Urban Development 
• Rendering Los Angeles Green: The Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS) by Lee-Anne Milburn, FASLA, for the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Sanitation 
• The Ecological Atlas Project by Studio Roberto Rovira 

Award of Excellence

• Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History, by Benjamin George, ASLA

• Ecology as the Inspiration for a Presidential Library Park by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. for the George W. Bush Presidential Center 
• The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin by The Cultural Landscape Foundation 
• Toward an Urban Ecology by Scape, published by The Monacelli Press
• 'Jens Jensen The Living Green,' A Feature Documentary by Viva Lundin Productions and the University of Michigan
• Championing Connectivity: How an International Competition Captured Global Attention and Inspired Innovation in Wildlife Crossing Design by ARC Solutions 

The Landmark Award

• The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, by OLIN for the J. Paul Getty Trust 

The 2017 ASLA Professional Awards jury*:

• Elizabeth Miller, FASLA, Chair, National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, D.C.
• Diane Jones Allen, ASLA, DesignJones LLC, New Orleans
• Maureen Alonso, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.
• James Lord, ASLA, Surfacedesign Inc., San Francisco
• Janet Rosenberg, FASLA, Janet Rosenberg Studio, Toronto
• Glen Schmidt, FASLA, Schmidt Design Group Inc., San Diego
• Todd Wichman, FASLA, Stantec, St. Paul
• Barbara Wyatt, ASLA, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.