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| Seattle receives four ASLA awards in landscape architecture  The city of Seattle will cement its place as one of the world's most renowned centers for design when the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) presents four of the highest awards in landscape architecture to local projects and landscape architects. The presentation will take place during ASLA's annual meeting in San Francisco, October 6-9. The University of Washington and Open Space Seattle 2100 Coalition will receive a national honor award for analysis and planning for its Open Space Seattle 2100 Envisioning Seattle's Green Infrastructure for the Next Century. This grassroots collaborative planning process directly engaged hundreds of multidisciplinary design professionals and citizens to create long-term plans for Seattle's interconnected "green infrastructure."Philips Farevaag Smallenberg will receive a national honor award in design for the 17th-floor Washington Mutual Bank's roof garden. The green roof provides decks and pathways showcasing views across Elliott Bay, all while integrating elements that tell a story about the bank, its local origins, and the community it serves. Another national honor award in design will go to the Olympic Sculpture Park. While Weiss/Manfredi served as lead designers, the veteran award-winning firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture of Seattle provided the landscape architecture. The project sits on Seattle's last undeveloped waterfront property. It connects three separate sites, capitalizing on views of the skyline and Elliot Bay and rising over existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized waterfront. In addition, Seattle's own Richard Haag, FASLA, will be awarded the organization's Design Medal in honor of his exceptional accomplishments in design, including Gas Works Park and Bloedel Reserve. Haag is a previous recipient of the distinguished ASLA Medal, the highest honor the Society may bestow upon a landscape architect. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |