August 4, 2004

	Nasher Sculpture Garden
	Saitama Plaza
	Lever House Landscape Restoration
	Anacostia Riverparks Plan

The American Society of Landscape Architects in mid-July selected the winners of its annual ASLA Professional Awards. The nine-member jury selected 33 winning projects from over 550 entries.

An abundance of honors went to Berkeley, California- based Peter Walker & Partners, whose founding principal, Peter Walker, FASLA, in June took home the ASLA Medal, a lifetime achievement designation that is the Society’s highest honor. The firm won an Award of Honor for the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, a spectacular garden designed as an outdoor gallery holding between twenty and thirty pieces owned by collector Raymond Nasher. The plan elegantly incorporates a stone terrace, large trees, reflecting pools and fountains along with sculptures, sited next to a pavilion by Renzo Piano. The firm also received a Merit Award for its work at the modern yet spiritual Saitama Plaza in Saitama, Japan.

A Prize for Analysis and Planning went to the Philadelphia, P.A. firm of Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC, for the Anacostia River Parks Target Area Plan & Riverwalk Design Guidelines in Washington, DC. The firm designed a cohesive land-use plan, centering around design unity and greenspace. Their efforts are the centerpiece of a redevelopment of this traditionally neglected waterfront. Other winners included Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York, for its work on the Lever House Landcape Restoration project in New York, which employed significant research to return crispness and clarity to the well-known urban garden . The awards will be presented during the ASLA Annual Meeting, October 29-November 2, in Salt Lake City.

The ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects representing more than 14,200 members. For the complete list of award winners go to www.asla.org.

Sam Lubell

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