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38 Top Landscape Architecture Projects Earn 2017 ASLA Professional AwardsWASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced its 38 professional award recipients for 2017. Selected from 465 entries, the awards recognize the best of landscape architecture in the general design, analysis and planning, communications, research, and residential design categories from the United States and around the world. The winners will receive their awards at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Los Angeles on Monday, October 23, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The September issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) features the winning projects and is available free here: https://www.zinio.com/delivery?of=500545875 The following is a complete list of 2017 professional award winners: General Design Category Award of Excellence Honor Awards The Entrance Garden, Sao Paulo, Brazil Windhover Contemplative Center, San Francisco Owens Lake Land Art, Inyo County, California SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Central Seawall Project, Seattle The Yue-Yuan Courtyard, Suzhou, China Merging Culture and Ecology at The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina Chicago Botanic Garden: The Regenstein Learning Campus, Chicago Workplace as Landscape - Facebook MPK20, San Francisco Analysis and Planning Category Award of Excellence Honor Awards The Olana Strategic Landscape Design Plan: Restoring an American Masterpiece, Hudson, New York Waterfront Botanical Gardns, Louisville, Kentucky Positioning Pullman, Chicago Conservation at the Edge - Prototyping Low-intervention Conservation in the Patagonian Wilderness, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fitzgerald Revitalization Project: Landscapes as the Framework for Community Reinvestment, Detroit Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan, Austin, Texas Communications Category Award of Excellence Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History Honor Awards Ecology as the Inspiration for a Presidential Library Park The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin Toward an Urban Ecology 'Jens Jensen The Living Green,' A Feature Documentary Championing Connectivity: How an International Competition Captured Global Attention and Inspired Innovation in Wildlife Crossing Design Research Category Award of Excellence Honor Awards Seeding Green Roofs for Greater Biodiversity and Lower Costs Rendering Los Angeles Green: The Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS) The Ecological Atlas Project Residential Design Category Award of Excellence Birmingham Residence, San Francisco Honor Awards Telegraph Hill Residence, San Francisco Northeast Harbor, a Restoration on Mount Desert Island, Hancock County, Maine Smith Residence Casa Las Brisas - Formation of a Coastal Retreat, Las Condes, Chile Proving Grounds - A 20-Year Education in American Horticulture Agrarian Modern - The Recovery and Renewal of Manatuck Farm Abstracting Morphology Northpoint Apartments, Orinda, California The Landmark Award The professional awards jury included:
For the selection of the Research Category, the jury was joined by M. Elen Deming, ASLA, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, on behalf of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) and Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., on behalf of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Complete awards criteria, project information and images are available here: https://www.asla.org/2017awards High-resolution images are available for journalists. Please contact Karen Grajales at [email protected]. About ASLA Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is the professional association for landscape architects in the United States, representing more than 15,000 members. The Society's mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education and fellowship. Sustainability has been part of ASLA's mission since its founding and is an overarching value that informs all of the Society's programs and operations. ASLA has been a leader in demonstrating the benefits of green infrastructure and resilient development practices through the creation of its own green roof, co-development of the SITES® Rating System, and the creation of publicly accessible sustainable design resources. View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/38-top-landscape-architecture-projects-earn-2017-asla-professional-awards-300513797.html SOURCE American Society of Landscape Architects |