Arizona Landscape Architects Receive Design Awards

The Arizona Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects awarded the professionals and projects that represent the most significant achievements of Arizona landscape architecture.

Awards of Excellence and Honor were presented to outstanding public spaces, commercial and residential design, and planning and analysis. Judges awarded those projects that best exemplified design and planning quality and execution, response to site context, environmental sensitivity and sustainability, and value to the public, the client, and other designers.

Several special awards were presented this year including Best Sustainable Landscape Maintenance Practices and a Community Service Award to recognize members' volunteer contributions benefitting the public.  Outstanding students from Arizona State University and the University of Arizona were presented ASLA Honor and Merit Awards. Below is a selected list of winners. For the entire list, please visit our website at www.southwest.construction.com.

Sonoran Landscape Laboratory, U of A, Tucson

General Design-Professional

Award of Excellence and President's Award (Best of Show)
Sonoran Landscape Laboratory,
University of Arizona, Tucson
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc.

Honor Award
Cancer Clinic at UMC North, Tucson
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc.

Honor Award
City of Glendale Park and Ride, Glendale
J2 Engineering and Environmental Design

Honor Award
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc.
With: Billie Tsien Architects

Honor Award
Sybil B Harrington Cactus & Succulent
Galleries at the Desert Botanical Garden
Phoenix
Cactus City Design

Honor Award
The Biodesign Institute, Tempe
Ten Eyck Landscape Architects, Inc.

Residential Design-Professional

Award of Excellence
Baja Garden, Paradise Valley
Cactus City Design

Honor Award
Paradise Valley Residence
Paradise Valley
JJR/Floor

Residential Design-Professional

Award of Excellence
Baja Garden
Paradise Valley
Cactus City Design

Honor Award
Paradise Valley Residence
Paradise Valley
JJR/Floor

Planning & Analysis-Professional

Honor Award
Pinal County Open Space and Trails
Master Plan, Pinal County
Logan Simpson Design

Honor Award
Tabalaopa Master Plan
Chihuahua, Mexico
Labor Studio-Landscape Architecture

General Design-Student Individual

Honor Award
Kornegay Design: Redesigning the Urban Warehouse, Phoenix
By: Lora Martens: Arizona State University

Honor Award
Kornegay Design: Water Harvesting and Site Design, Phoenix
By: Valerie Ahyong: Arizona State University

Planning & Analysis-Student Collaborative

Award of Excellence
Biosphere 2.1 Catalyst for Sustainability, Oracle
By: Brent Jacobsen, Lauren Barry, Melisa Kennedy,
Angela Elam: University of Arizona

Honor Award
Converging Boundaries
By: Justin Chadwick, Aimee Garza: Arizona State
University

Honor Award
Harvesting Connections, Glendale
By: Mohammed Munir, Mitch Benshoof: Arizona State University

Additional AZASLA Awards:

AZASLA Members of the Year
Coffman Studio
AAA Landscape

Outstanding Arizona Landscape Architect
Angela D. Dye, FASLA
A Dye Design

Best Sustainable Landscape
Maintenance Practices
AAA Landscape

Landscape Contractor of the Year
Valley Rain Construction Corp.

AzASLA Outstanding Alliance Award
Arizona Nursery Association
Susan Chase, ANA President. Desierto Verde
Rob Johns, ANA President-Elect. A&P Nurseries
Cheryl Goar, ANA Executive Director
Suzanne Lanctot, ANA Community, Event & Education Coordinator

Friend of AZASLA-Landscape Architecture
Paula Kornegay
Kornegay Design

Community Service Award
Matt Boehner, RCBA Architects, Springfield, MO
Tim Le, AAA Landscape, Phoenix
Lisa Ribes, Wheat Scharf Associates, Tucson
Amy Shuchert, Logan Simpson Design, Tempe

AIA Las Vegas Announces Winners of 2009 Unbuilt Las Vegas Design Awards

As a part of their 2009 “Architecture Week” celebration, AIA Las Vegas presented the second annual “Unbuilt Las Vegas” Awards. This year’s contributors included students, interns, associates, architects, AIA Las Vegas members and non-members alike.

Submissions included a total of 60 projects featuring architectural design work that to date remains unbuilt.

“Some may question why we have an ‘unbuilt’ awards program and the answer is because it stimulates the imagination, expands the horizon of what is possible and generates new thinking,” says Sean Coulter, AIA, president of AIA Las Vegas. “These projects are theoretical, academic and unbuilt projects that are quality design…. but for various reasons may or may never become reality.“

The jury for this year’s Unbuilt Awards included Ric Licata, AIA, national director for the Western Mountain Region, nationally recognized sculptors Neil Shigley and Jon Koehler; and Steve Van Gorp, Assoc. AIA, deputy director of business development for the City of Las Vegas Redevelopment Agency.

Twelve projects were recognized as being award worthy and they include:

Honor Awards

BRT Shelter Design - Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects
Huntridge Revitalization - Aptus Architecture
NAFB Fitness Center Expansion - JMA
Solterra Lofts - Aptus Architecture

Merit Awards

Detroit International Wildlife Refuge - Hamilton Anderson Associates
City of Goodyear City Center - JMA
Green Valley High School Music Building - Aptus Architecture
The Mission - Bergman, Walls & Associates
The Coffee Stay’n - Scott Grady (UNLV Student)

Citation Awards

Academic medical campus - JMA
Desert Sage School - Aptus Architecture
Radovich Cliffhouse - JLS Design

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