ASLA Announces 2007 Professional Awards

WASHINGTON, April 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2007 Professional Awards. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 38 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 8 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in San Francisco at a ceremony and champagne reception sponsored by Landscape Forms. Print-quality photos and project descriptions are available online at: http://asla.org/awards/2007/07winners/

  This year's winners are:

  General Design Category
  Award of Excellence
  M. Victor and Frances Leventritt Garden at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard
   University, Boston, Mass. Designed by Reed Hilderbrand, Watertown, Mass.

  Honor Awards
  Curran House, San Francisco, Calif. Designed by Andrea Cochran Landscape
   Architecture, San Francisco, Calif.

  The Red Ribbon -- Tanghe River Park, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province,
   China. Designed by Turenscape (Beijing Turen Design Institute) and Peking
   University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing, China.

  One North Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ill. Designed by PWP Landscape
   Architecture, Berkeley, Calif.

  The Restoration of Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, Calif. Completed
   by National Park Service, Lakewood, Colo.

  Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Ariz. Designed by Martha Schwartz Partners,
   Cambridge, Mass.

  Washington Mutual Bank Roof Garden, Seattle, Wash. Designed by Phillips
   Farevaag Smallenberg, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.

  University of Minnesota Duluth -- Swenson Science Building, Duluth, Minn.
   Designed by oslund.and.assoc., Minneapolis, Minn.

  Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Wash. Designed by Weiss/Manfredi with
   Consultant Team, New York, N.Y.

  Glacier Club, Durango, Colo. Designed by Design Workshop, Denver, Colo.

  Harvard Graduate Student Housing at 29 Garden Street, Cambridge, Mass.
   Designed by Richard Burck Associates, Inc., Jonathan Levi Architects with
   Bergmeyer Associates, Somerville, Mass.

  NE Siskiyou Green Street, Portland, Ore. Designed by Kevin Robert Perry,
    ASLA, Portland, Ore.

  Mount Tabor Middle School Rain Garden, Portland, Ore. Designed by Kevin
   Robert Perry, ASLA, Portland, Ore.

  Residential Design Category, co-sponsored by Garden Design Magazine
  Award of Excellence
  Elie Saab Residence, Faqra, Lebanon. Designed by Vladimir Djurovic
   Landscape Architecture, Brourmana, Lebanon.

  Honor Awards
  Private Residence, San Francisco, Calif. Designed by Andrea Cochran
   Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, Calif.

  Erman Residence, San Francisco, Calif. Designed by Surfacedesign, Inc, San
   Francisco, Calif.

  Malinalco House, Malinalco, State of Mexico, Mexico. Designed by Mario
   Schjetnan/Grupo de Diseno Urbano, Mexico City, Mexico.

  Manhattan Roof Terrace, New York, N.Y. Designed by Sawyer/Berson
   Architecture & Landscape Architecture, LLP, New York, N.Y.

  Farrar Pond Residence, Lincoln, Mass. Designed by Mikyoung Kim Design,
   Brookline, Mass.

  Pump House, Highland Park, Texas. Designed by MESA, Dallas, Texas.

  Sonoma Vineyard, Glen Ellen, Calif. Designed by Marta Fry Landscape
   Associates, San Francisco, Calif.

  Woody Creek Garden, Pitkin Vounty, Colo. Designed by Design Workshop,
   Inc., Aspen, Colo.

  Connecticut Country House, Westport, Conn. Designed by Wesley Stout
   Associates, New Canaan, Conn.

  Lunada Bay Residence, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Southern Calif. Designed by
   Artecho Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Venice, Calif.

  Analysis and Planning Category
  Award of Excellence
  Hunters Point Waterfront Park Project, San Francisco, Calif. Designed by
   Hargreaves Associates, San Francisco, Calif.

  Honor Awards
  The Park and New Town upon the fishponds -- The Planning of 2007 China
   International Garden Show Park Area in Xiamen, Xiamen, China. Analysis
   and planning by Atelier DYJG, Beijing, China.

  Wildhorse Ranch, Steens Mountain, Ore. Analysis and planning by DHM
   Design, Denver, Colo.

  Atlanta BeltLine Redevelopment Plan, Atlanta, Ga. Analysis and planning by
   EDAW, INC., Atlanta, Ga.

  Penn Connects: A Vision for the Future, Philadelphia, Pa. Analysis and
   planning by Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass.

  University of Balamand Campus Master Plan, Al Koura, Tripoli, Lebanon.
   Analysis and planning by Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, Mass.

  Lower Howard's Creek Corridor Management Plan, Clark County, Ky. Analysis
   and planning by Parsons Brinckerhoff, Lexington, Ky., in conjunction with
   Ned Crankshaw, ASLA.

  Open Space Seattle 2100 Envisioning Seattle's Green Infrastructure for the
   Next Century, Seattle, Wash. Analysis and planning by the Department of
   Landscape Architecture, University of Washington and the Open Space
   Seattle 2100 Coalition, Seattle, Wash.

  Research Category, co-sponsored by Council of Educators in Landscape
   Architecture (CELA) and Landscape Journal
  Award of Excellence
  Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand, FASLA
  Trinity University Press, San Antonio, Texas.

  Honor Award
  The Green Build-out Model: Quantifying Stormwater Benefits of Trees and
   Greenroofs in Washington, DC
  Casey Trees Endowment Fund, Washington, DC

  Communications Category
  Award of Excellence
  TOPOS -- The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban
   Design, Munich, Germany

  Honor Awards
  The Chicago Green Alley Handbook, Chicago, Ill.
  Hitchcock Design Group, Chicago, Ill.
  Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms Series
  The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Washington, DC

  About ASLA

Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 17,000 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters. Landscape architecture is a comprehensive discipline of land analysis, planning, design, management, preservation, and rehabilitation. ASLA promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication, and fellowship. Members of the Society use their "ASLA" suffix after their names to denote membership and their commitment to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Learn more about landscape architecture online at http://www.asla.org/.

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