2010 ASLA Proffesional Awards
"The Gary Comer Youth Center Roof Garden is an after-school learning space for youth and seniors in a neighborhood with little access to safe outdoor environments. Last year alone, it produced over 1,000 pounds of organic food used by students, local restaurants and the center's café. Sleek and graphic, it turns the typical working vegetable garden into a place of beauty and respite."
Winner of the Honor award one of the ASLA (American Society of landscape Architects) professional awards 2010. This rooftop system was designed by Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects with john Ronan (architect). It was commended by the jury for being“ . . . so simple and straightfroward and is clearly a good collabiration between landscape architect and architect. it is redeeming."Other designs which won awards during the ASLA professional awards which i found particuarly interesting are: Resuscitating the Fez River (Fez Morrocco By Bureau E.A.S.T.), Park 20/20: A Cradle to Cradle Inspired Master Plan (Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands By William McDonough +Partners), The Qinhuangdao Beach Restoration: An Ecological Surgery (Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China By Turenscape), San Francisco Residence (San Francisco USA By Lutsko Associates, Landscape) and also The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve Master Plan (Lim Chu Kang, Northern Singapore By National Parks Board). This project was of particular interest to me presently as i am currently bringing together a masterplan document as part of my course, so i found the project quite inspiring. the main aim of the masterplan is to move the wetland reserve from a Nature Park to that of a regional education and research facility, while retaining the iconic rustic charm. the project was beautifully put together and was commended by the jury for it's exceptional graphics. “ A Great plan with bold graphic presentation that envisions a wetland reserve as economic and cultural amenity- it's an exciting vision that has a believable solution We hope that projects like this can be built!"
Above: One of the images used in the presentation of the The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve Master Plan