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Landscapes

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On December 6, in New York City, six jurors convened to parse the merits of the more than 250 projects submitted to AN‘s first annual Best Of Design Awards. The jury included Kate Orff, principal of SCAPE; Thomas Hanrahan, dean of architecture at the Pratt Institute and principal of Hanrahan Meyers Architects; Wes Rozen, principal, Situ Studio; Mic Patterson, partner, Enclos; Dan Wood, principal, WorkAC; and AN‘s own William Menking. Over the next several days we will be posting their selections in six categories, starting with    

 

 

“If we’re going to call it landscape of the year it has to be somewhat aspirational. I think this project has great civic aspirations, especially for a neighborhood park.”
—Kate Orff

 

Project Resources:

Prime Consultant and Infrastructure Designer

Best Landscape: Honorable Mention

The Reserve Urban Acupuncture
Santa Monica, California
Katherine Spitz Associates

 

Katherine Spitz Associates redesign of the owner’s proposed parking scheme wrested more than an acre of green space from the concrete surface of the industrial site, while adding 180 parking spaces. The resulting open landscape creates a vista that stretches from the landscape’s constructed wetlands to the Santa Monica Mountains on the horizon.

 

"The parking lot creates an opportunity and the design is quite good."
—Wes Rozen

 
"It’s laudable. One idea changes the whole context."
—Kate Orff

 

Project Resources:

General Contractor and Construction Management

Best Landscape: Honorable Mention

The Jewelry District Streetscape Master Plan
Providence, Rhode Island
!Melk

   

The !Melk group has completed the first phase of a plan to redesign the Jewelry District using classic New England motifs to reconnect Brown to downtown Providence. This space is already being used to catalyze change in the area.

 

"The graphic pattern of the pavers gives this small project a big impact."
—Dan Wood

 

Project Resources:

Civil Engineering
Maguire Group
Structural Engineering
Robert Silman Associate
Cost Estimating
Faithful + Gould
Contractors
Shawmut Design and Construction

 

Pavement
!Melk
Lighting
Stan Deutsch Associates
Nursery
Central Nurseries

 

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