The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the recipients of its 2004 Professional Awards, which will be presented during the ASLA annual meeting, October 29–November 2, in Salt Lake City. The nine-member jury selected 33 projects to receive awards from a field of more than 550 entries.

Design Award of Honor

• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, by Peter Walker and Partners
This sculpture garden creates as an outdoor gallery that can hold 20–30 pieces, some permanently and some in changing displays. The great weight of some of the pieces and the movement of sculpture in and out of the garden necessitated the invention of a special soil that drains perfectly without catch basins, is strong enough to hold the load, and can support the growth of a special resilient grass turf as well as many large trees. To allow as much flexibility as an indoor museum space, pavement was kept to a minimum while meeting public ADA requirements. Stone plinths distribute flexible systems of lighting, sound, security, and irrigation through the garden as well as provide casual seating and additional sites for smaller pieces of sculpture. “Effective creation of series of outdoor rooms through tree bosques . . . Geometry serves as a perfect extension from the indoor space visually and functionally . . . Excellent!” the jury said.

• Tidewater Residence, Virginia Beach, Va., by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
The seven-acre site for this house and garden sits on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, the largest and most biologically productive estuary in the U.S. The site was abandoned and overgrown, the last available tract in a suburban development where houses dominate the waterfront and where riprap and bulkheads typically have replaced the natural shoreline stabilization provided by tidal marshes. The owners were determined to break the stereotypical mold for shoreline development by hiring a landscape architect whose philosophy was grounded in the principles of sustainable design. The subsequent dialogue began when the property was purchased and evolved into a fully realized interplay of house and garden that respects and responds to the setting and sensitive local ecology. “Simple elegance integrates building and site,” the jury commented. “Excellent use of materials to help engage the site . . . Very sensitive to the site . . . conscious effort of sustainable design . . . would love to be there now.”

Design Award of Merit

• Pacific Heights Residence, San Francisco, by Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture
• Seonyudo Park, Seoul, South Korea, by SeoAhn Total Landscape
• Learning Garden for P.S. 19, Queens, N.Y., by Ken Smith Landscape Architect
• Nakasato Juji Project, Niigata, Japan, by Yamada Landscape Architects
• Peirce’s Woods at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa., by W. Gary Smith, ASLA
• Rijksmuseum Twente (National Museum), Enschede, Netherlands, by Lodewijk Baljon Landscape Architects
• Feral Geometry: A Narrative of Modern Materials on the Bank of Turtle Creek, Dallas, by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc.
• General Mills Corporate Headquarters, Minneapolis, by oslund.and.assoc.
• The Eastbank Esplanade, Portland, Ore., by Mayer/Reed
• Trillium Projects, Seattle, by Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
• Readiness Command Army Corps of Engineers Charlotte Residence, Charlotte, by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
• Saitama Plaza, Saitama, Japan, by Peter Walker & Partners
• Lever House Landscape Restoration, New York City, by Ken Smith Landscape Architect (pictured)
• Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food, and Arts, Napa, Calif., by Peter Walker and Partners
• Cedar River Watershed Education Center, Cedar Falls, Wash., by Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, Ltd.

Analysis and Planning Award of Excellence

• Downtown Ottawa Urban Design Strategy 2020, Ottawa, by Urban Strategies Inc.

Analysis and Planning Award of Honor

• Anacostia River Parks Target Area Plan and Riverwalk Design Guidelines, Washington, D.C., by Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC
• Green Through Red, Buiten Vennep, Netherlands, by Lodewijk Baljon Landscape Architects
• Eco-Effective Design Strategies, University of California, Davis, by William McDonough + Partners (pictured)
• Middle Rio Grande Bosque Restoration Project, Albuquerque, by Sites Southwest LLC.

Analysis and Planning Award of Merit

• West Harlem Master Plan and Waterfront Park, New York City, by W Architecture and Landscape Architecture LLC
• Preserving Native Texas: A Plan for the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, Fort Worth, by Mesa Design Group and The Portico Group, Seattle
• Historic Belle Isle Master Plan, Detroit, by Hamilton Anderson Associates, Detroit
• Mayo Plan #1—Mayo Woodlands, Rochester Township, Minn., by Coen + Partners, Inc.
• Silresim Superfund Redevelopment Study, Lowell, Mass., by StoSS.

Research Award of Merit

• Residential Impacts to Water Quality & Aquatic Habitat, by Sally Schauman, FASLA, adjunct professor, Duke University, and professor emeritus, University of Washington.

Communications Award of Honor

• Half My World: The Gardens of Anne Spencer, A History and Guide, by Reuben M. Rainey, ASLA, University of Virginia, and Rebecca T. Frischkorn; Warwick House Publishing
• Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South, by James R. Cothran, FASLA, Robert and Company; University of South Carolina Press.

Communications Award of Merit

• New Conversations with an Old Landscape: Landscape Architecture in Contemporary Australia, by Catherin Bull, ASLA, The University of Melbourne; The Images Publishing Group
• Therapeutic Landscapes Database, by Naomi Sachs, ASLA,Therapeutic Landscapes Resource Center Inc.
• The Built Environment Image Guide—for the National Forests and Grasslands, by the USDA Forest Service.

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