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Planning and Analysis
This category highlights the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide and evaluate landscape architecture design.
Award of Excellence Winner:
Honor Award Winner:
Merit Award Winners:
Other Submitted Projects:
Award of Excellence Winner
South Waterfront Greenway Development Plan
Jury Comments:
"This is a project that will turn heads far beyond the Northwest and represents a new era of thinking about how dense, urban enclaves integrate with their riverbanks."
"An excellent, inspiring urban design proposal that integrates riparian restoration, public recreation, and expression of the areas industrial past. The jury was impressed by the projects quality at both planning and design scales."
"Extraordinary project. Excellent attention to civic, natural and environmental remediation while achieving economic goals."
Landscape Architect:
Walker Macy / Thomas Balsley Associates
Client:
Portland Parks & Recreation
Consultants:
Civil and River-Related Engineering : KPFF Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Bio-Engineering, Riverbank Restoration and Watershed Management: Watercycle, Inc.
Biology and Habitat for Fish & Wildlife: Fishman Environmental Services, LLC
Geotechnical Engineering: Geotechnical Resources, Inc.
Hydrologic Evaluation: Parsons Brinckeroff Inc.
Artist: Buster Simpson
Cost Estimating: Architectural Cost Consultants, LLC
Urban Rainwater Specialist: Patrick M. Condon
Landscape Historian: Robert Z. Melnick
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Honor Award Winner
Actions for Watershed Health: 2005 Portland Watershed Management Plan
Jury Comments:
"An exceptional comprehensive, strategic and integrated plan for improving Portland’s watershed health in all five of its watersheds."
"The proposal is conceptually brilliant, ecologically sound, and institutionally challenging."
Landscape Architect:
Dawn Uchiyama
Client:
City of Portland
Consultants:
Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
EnviroIssues
Oregon State University
Clean Water Services
Technical Advisory Committee: members represented Environmental Services, Bureau of Planning, Portland Parks and Recreation
Watershed Science Advisory Group: members represented Columbia Corridor Association, SWCA Environmental Consultants for Portland Development Commission and the Port of Portland, Port of Portland, The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission, Sierra Club, Metro, Multnomah Country Drainage District, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, NOAA Fisheries, Portland Audubon Society, Portland Bureau of Planning, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Willamette Riverkeeper, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
With participation from representatives of: Stormwater Advisory Committee, Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Tryon Creek Watershed Council, Columbia Slough Watershed Council
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Merit Award Winners
Regional Inventory and Wetland Mitigation Banking Strategy for Clark County, Washington
Jury Comments:
"Very thorough research and a great tool to create awareness about wetlands."
"An invaluable descriptive inventory of wetland resources for guiding urban development in Clark County. Great framework, an atlas of information."
Landscape Architect:
Vigil-Agrimis, Inc.
Client:
Clark County Public Works
Consultants:
SWCA Environmental Consultants
J.D. White Company, Inc.
Earth Design Consultants
EcoTrust
Other Team Members:
Clark County Department of Assessment and GIS
Clark County Department of Community Development
City of Vancouver Department of Long-Range Planning
Washington Department of Ecology
University of California, Riverside - East Campus Entry Area Study
Jury Comments:
"Good use of a natural site feature to establish direction for the design. The arroyo is what makes it uniquely UC Riverside and not an imitation of Princeton or Yale."
"This project has a 'big idea' and pays attention to place and detail by drawing inspiration from the existing arroyo landscape to inform future development."
Landscape Architect:
Walker Macy
Client:
University of California, Riverside - Capital and Physical Planning
Consultants:
Architect: Thomas Hacker Architects
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Other Submitted Projects
Lincoln Downtown Master Plan
Landscape Architect:
Crandall Arambula PC
Client:
City of Lincoln, NE
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Tianjin Village
Landscape Architect:
Vala-Christensen Landscape Architects, Inc.
Client:
BDCL Design Group, Ltd.
Consultants:
Architect: Pettinari Design and Site Planning
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