The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) honored top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications, and research projects out of 459 entries from around the world.
The Art Institute of Chicago’s south garden won the Landmark award. Designed by Dan Kiley, the garden was built atop a parking garage in 1967 and sees more than two million visitors per day. Two raised beds are planted with three rows of honey locust trees, shading privet, ground cover, and flowering bulbs. The garden also features the Fountain of the Great Lakes sculpted by Lorado Taft in 1913, framed by the trees that canopy the entire space.
There were five other categories and the winning projects were split into award of excellence and honor award recipients. The award of excellence winners include:
- “At Hudson’s Edge: Beacon’s Long Dock as a Resilient Park, Beacon, New York,” by Reed Hilderbrand LLC for the Scenic Hudson Land Trust–general design category;
- “Penn’s Landing Redevelopment and Feasibility Study, Philadelphia,” by Hargreaves Associates for the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation–analysis and planning category;
- “Landscape Performance Series: Demonstrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Value of Sustainable Landscapes,” by Landscape Architecture Foundation–communications category; and
- “Cedar Creek, Trinidad, Texas,” by Hocker Design Group–residential category.
The recipients will receive their awards at the 2015 ASLA Annual Meeting on November 9.
