ASLA Announces 2024 Professional Awards

ASLA has 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 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 Diseño 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 host 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 Student and Professional Awards Ceremony at the ASLA 2024 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C., October 6-9. Media are invited to attend; please email [email protected] for credentials.

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Award Categories

General Design

Honor Award
EcoCommons - Social and Ecological Resilience in the Campus Landscape
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Honor Award
Alpine Garden and Amphitheater
Z'scape

Honor Award
Benjakitti Forest Park: Transforming a Brown Field into an Urban Nature
Turenscape + Arsomslip

Honor Award
Tom Lee Park: "Come to the River"
SCAPE Landscape Architecture PLLC; Studio Gang

Honor Award
The Bay: "One Park for All" in Sarasota
Agency Landscape + Planning

Honor Award
Sandy Hook Memorial: The Clearing
SWA Group

Honor Award
African Ancestors Memorial Garden
Hood Design Studio

Honor Award
Louisiana Children's Museum: A Joyous Landscape in City Park
Mithun

Honor Award
St. John's Terminal: An Ecology for Technology and Innovation
Future Green Studio

Urban Design

Award of Excellence
Atlanta BeltLine
Perkins & Will

Honor Award
Urban Balcony Embracing Rewilded Nature
Turenscape

Honor Award
Celebrating Community Resiliency: An Equitable Garden Transformation
MKSK Studios

Honor Award
Wild Mile: Transforming an Urban River into a Floating Eco-Park
Omni Workshop; Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Honor Award
The Wharf's 7th Street Park and Recreation Pier
Michael Vergason Landscape Architects

Residential Design

Honor Award
Nurturing Nature in the Mile High City
Design Workshop

Honor Award
La Fénix at 1950
GLS Landscape | Architecture

Honor Award
House on the Bluff
LaGuardia Design

Honor Award
Highbank: The Restoration of a Lost Prairie
Design Workshop

Honor Award
Uliveto
SurfaceDesign, Inc.

Honor Award
Trinity Road
SurfaceDesign, Inc.

Analysis & Planning

Award of Excellence
A Green Ring for the Ancient City of Pompeii
Studio Bellesi Giuntoli

Honor Award
Sojourner Truth State Park for Scenic Hudson
OLIN

Honor Award
The Resilient Campus: Historic Ecology and Water Conservation at UCLA
Design Workshop

Honor Award
A Cultural Approach: The Fort Peck Tribes Hazard Mitigation Plan
Spackman Mossop Michaels

Honor Award
Seven Greenways: A Cooperative Vision for Water in the Arid West
Design Workshop

Honor Award
Ellinikon Park: Planning for Climate Action and Carbon Positivity
Sasaki Associates, Inc.

Honor Award
University of California, Berkeley Accessible Paths and Places Plan
Sasaki Associates, Inc.

Communications

Award of Excellence
The Topography of Wellness
Sara Jensen Carr

Honor Award
What's Out There Guide to African American Cultural Landscapes
The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Honor Award
Connecting to Our Indigenous Histories at Machicomoco State Park
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Honor Award
The Community First Toolkit: A Framework for Equitable Public Spaces
Grayscale Collaborative

Honor Award
2023 Coastal Master Plan: A Plan for Louisiana's Coastal Communities
SCAPE Landscape Architecture PLLC

Honor Award
Design By Fire
Brett Millligan, ASLA; Emily Schlickman, ASLA

Research

Award of Excellence
Designing with a Carbon Conscience
Sasaki Associates, Inc.

Honor Award
Assessing Public Space DEI: Tempe Study
Design Workshop

Honor Award
Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise: Innovative Global Solutions
Texas A&M University

Honor Award
Race and the Control of Public Parks
Isaac Cohen, ASLA; buildingcommunity WORKSHOP

Jury 1: General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design & Landmark Award

Chair Jury 1: Jennifer Nitzky, FASLA, Studio HIP

Members:

• Michelle Delk, FASLA, Snohetta
• Kyle Fiddelke, FASLA, OJB
• John Gendall, Chapter Agency
• Devon Henry, Hon ASLA, Team Henry Enterprises, LLC
• Marc Miller, ASLA, Penn State
• Chelina Odbert, Hon. ASLA, Kounkuey Design Initiative
• Michele Shelor, ASLA, Colwell Shelor LA
• Lance Thies, ASLA, City of Lockport

• Jury 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, LLC
• Anyeley Hallova, Adre
• Rebecca Leonard, ASLA, Lionheart Studio
• Frank Edgerton Martin, Frank Edgerton Martin
• Mary Pat McGuire, ASLA, University of Illinois
• Ramon Murray, FASLA, Murray Design Group
• Marion 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

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