Today the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
announced its 2024 Professional Awards. Thirty-nine Professional
Award winners showcase innovation and represent the highest level
of achievement in the landscape architecture profession. All
winners and their locations are listed below. Jury panels
representing a broad cross-section of the profession, from the
public and private sectors, and academia, select winners each year
and are listed below. The 39 winners were chosen out of 465
entries. For the second year, the ASLA / International Federation
of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Global Impact Award is presented to
a project in the Analysis and Planning category. The award is given
to a work of landscape architecture that demonstrates excellence in
addressing climate impacts through transformative action and
scalable solutions, and adherence to ASLA’s and IFLA’s climate
action commitments. The 2024 award goes to the Puente Hills
Landfill Park Plan in Los Angeles, by the landscape
architecture firm Studio-MLA and their client the County of Los
Angeles Department of Parks & Recreation. Puente Hills Landfill
Park, re-purposes what was once the nation’s second largest
landfill into a park for all. The plan identified extreme heat and
drought as the most likely climate impacts over time.
The Professional Awards jury also selects a Landmark Award each
year; this year’s Landmark Award celebrates Xochimilco Ecological
Park by Grupo de Diseno Urbano, S.C.. Declared a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in 1988, the 3000 hectare cultural landscape of the
Chinampas region is home to a sustainable agriculture system that
is prehispanic in origin. The park includes a plant and flower
market, a sports complex and wetlands that are home to more than
200 species of birds and hosts 2.5 million visitors annually.
“These award winning projects are transformative and inspiring,”
said ASLA President SuLin Kotowicz, FASLA, PLA. “The project
leaders clearly demonstrated technical excellence, elegant design
and a deep connection to human experiences in nature.
Congratulations to you all.”“These winners showcase landscape
architecture as the profession that’s leading the way in helping
communities thrive,” said ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen.
“These projects successfully address multiple challenges and have
set a high bar for excellence. Equitable design, economic growth,
capturing more carbon and increasing the health, safety and
well-being of communities all at the same time is a stunning
display of leadership and innovation.” Award recipients and
their clients will be honored in person at the awards presentation
ceremony during the ASLA 2024 Conference on Landscape Architecture
in Washington, D.C. on Monday, October 7th. Media are invited
to attend; please email press@asla.org for credentials. For more
information visit: www.aslaconference.com.
Members of the media please contact press@asla.org to request
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Award Categories
General Design
Honor AwardEcoCommons – Social and Ecological Resilience in the
Campus LandscapeNew York, New YorkNelson Byrd Woltz
Honor AwardAlpine Garden and AmphitheaterBeijing,
China Z'scape
Honor AwardBenjakitti Forest Park:Transforming a Brown Field
into an Urban NatureBeijing, China Turenscape + Arsomsilp
Honor AwardTom Lee Park: "Come to the River"New York, New
York SCAPE Landscape Architecture PLLC Studio Gang
Honor AwardThe Bay: “One Park for All” in SarasotaCambridge,
MassachusettsAgency Landscape + Planning
Honor AwardSandy Hook Memorial: The ClearingSan Francisco,
CaliforniaSWA Group
Honor AwardAfrican Ancestors Memorial GardenOakland,
CaliforniaHood Design Studio
Honor AwardLouisiana Children’s Museum: A Joyous Landscape in
City ParkSeattle, WashingtonMithun
Honor AwardSt. John’s Terminal: An Ecology for Technology and
InnovationBrooklyn, New YorkFuture Green Studio
Urban Design
Award of ExcellenceAtlanta BeltLineDecatur, GeorgiaPerkins &
Will
Honor AwardUrban Balcony Embracing Rewilded NatureBeijing,
China Turenscape
Honor AwardCelebrating Community Resiliency: An Equitable Garden
TransformationEvanston, IllinoisMKSK
Honor AwardWild Mile: Transforming an Urban River into a
Floating Eco-ParkChicago, Illinois Omni EcosystemsSkidmore,
Owings & Merrill
Honor AwardThe Wharf’s 7th Street Park and Recreation
PierAlexandria, VirginiaMichael Vergason Landscape Architects
Residential Design
Honor AwardNurturing Nature in the Mile High CityAspen,
ColoradoDesign Workshop, Inc.
Honor Award La Fénix at 1950San Francisco, CaliforniaGLS
Landscape | Architecture
Honor Award House on the BluffWater Mill, New
York LaGuardia Design Group
Honor AwardHighbank: The Restoration of a Lost PrairieAspen,
ColoradoDesign Workshop, Inc.
Honor AwardUlivetoSan Francisco, CaliforniaSurfaceDesign,
Inc.
Honor AwardTrinity RoadSan Francisco, CaliforniaSurfaceDesign,
Inc.
Analysis & Planning
Award of Excellence A Green Ring for the Ancient City of
PompeiiFirenze, ItalyStudio Bellesi Giuntoli
Honor Award Sojourner Truth State Park for Scenic
HudsonPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaOLIN
Honor AwardThe Resilient Campus: Historic Ecology and Water
Conservation at UCLALos Angeles, CaliforniaDesign
Workshop
Honor AwardA Cultural Approach: The Fort Peck Tribes Hazard
Mitigation PlanNew Orleans, Louisiana Spackman Mossop
Michaels
Honor AwardSeven Greenways: A Cooperative Vision for Water in
the Arid WestAspen, ColoradoDesign Workshop
Honor AwardEllinikon Park: Planning for Climate Action and
Carbon PositivityCarlisle, MassachusettsSasaki Associates, Inc.
Honor AwardBerkeley Accessible Paths and Places PlanCarlisle,
MassachusettsSasaki Associates, Inc.
Communications
Award of ExcellenceThe Topography of WellnessSharon,
MassachusettsSara Jensen Carr, ASLA
Honor AwardWhat’s Out There Guide to African American Cultural
LandscapesWashington, D.C. The Cultural Landscape
Foundation
Honor AwardConnecting to Our Indigenous Histories at Machicomoco
State ParkNew York, New York Nelson Byrd Woltz
Honor AwardThe Community First Toolkit: A Framework for
Equitable Public SpacesCambridge, MassachusettsGrayscale
Collaborative
Honor Award2023 Coastal Master Plan: A Plan for Louisiana's
Coastal CommunitiesNew York, New York SCAPE Landscape
Architecture PLLC
Honor AwardDesign By FireDavis,
California Brett Milligan, ASLA & Emily
Schlickman, ASLAResearchAward of ExcellenceDesigning with a Carbon
ConscienceCarlisle, MassachusettsSasaki Associates, Inc.
Honor AwardAssessing Public Space Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion: Tempe StudyAspen, ColoradoDesign Workshop
Honor AwardLandscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative
Global SolutionsCollege Station, TexasGalen Newman, FASLA &
Zixu Qiao
Honor AwardRace and the Control of Public ParksAuburn,
AlabamaIsaac Cohen, ASLAbuildingcommunityWORKSHOP
The 2024 Professional Awards Jury includes:Jury 1: General
Design, Residential Design, Urban Design & Landmark Award
Chair Jury 1: Jennifer Nitzky, FASLA, Studio HIP
Members: Michelle Delk, FASLA, SnohettaKyle Fiddelke, FASLA,
OJBJohn Gendall, Chapter
Agency Devon
Henry, Hon ASLA, Team Henry Enterprises, LLCMarc Miller, ASLA, Penn
StateChelina Odbert, Hon. ASLA, Kounkuey Design InitiativeMichele
Shelor, ASLA, Colwell Shelor LALance Thies, ASLA, City of
LockportJury 2: Analysis & Planning ASLA / IFLA Global Impact
Award, Research, Communications & Landmark
Award
Chair Jury 2: Glenn LaRue Smith, FASLA, PUSH Studio LLC
Members: Luis Gonzalez, ASLA, EYA, LLCRebecca Leonard, ASLA,
Lionheart StudioFrank Edgerton Martin, Frank Edgerton MartinMary
Patricia McGuire, ASLA, University of IllinoisRamon Murray, FASLA,
Murray Design GroupMarion Pressley, FASLA, Pressley
Associates Darneka Waters, ASLA, Mecklenburg County Park and
Recreation
IFLA Representative: Monica Pallares, IFLA America Region
CELA Representative: Dongying Li, Texas A&M University
LAF Representative: Austin Allen, ASLA, University of Texas at
Arlington
About ASLA and the ASLA Fund
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. ASLA
Mission: Empowering our members to design a sustainable and
equitable world through landscape architecture. ASLA Fund Mission:
Investing in global, social, and environmental change through the
art and science of landscape architecture.
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- ASLA 2024 Professional General Design Honor Award. Tom Lee
Park: "Come to the River." Memphis, Tennessee. SCAPE Landscape
Architecture PLLC; Studio Gang / Connor Ryan
Jacquelyn Bianchini
American Society of Landscape Architects
(202) 216-2371
jbianchini@asla.org