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• Trustee Nominations - due May 30
• GreenWorks Landscape Architecture an Integrating Habitats Award Winner
• Portland Spaces Magazine Root Awards
• 2008 Oasis Awards for Outdoor Kitchen Design Call for Entries
• Portland Spaces Magazine Free Subscription for Members

Trustee Nominations
Nominations for the Oregon Chapter of ASLA Executive Committee position of Trustee will be taken through the end of May 2008.

Please send nominations to Melinda Graham (mgraham@2inkstudio.com) by Friday, May 30, 2008. Approval of the ballot for this election will be completed in June, with voting open to all Chapter members in July. Voting will be completed, the successful candidate and National ASLA will be notified, and the results will be announced in August of 2008.

GreenWorks Landscape Architecture an Integrating Habitats Award Winner
A GreenWorks Landscape Architecture led-team was awarded First Place in Metro’s international design competition, Nature in Neighborhoods: Integrating Habitats, for Category 2: A Commercial Project in a Wetland-Adjacent Area. For more information about their winning entry, please visit http://www.greenworkspc.com/pages/show/282-habitats.

Portland Spaces Magazine Presents the First Root Awards: Portland Design from the Ground Up!
Architects, interior designers, contractors, landscape designers, craftspeople, and innovators who work in greater metropolitan Portland are invited to submit their best work of the last three years in more than 20 categories ranging from houses and individual rooms to commercial offices and restaurant interiors. A jury of nationally renowned design and building professionals will judge the entries. Portland Spaces will honor the winners at a party and feature them in the November/December 2008 issue.

The esteemed jury includes:

• Karrie Jacobs – founder of Dwell and architecture and urban planning critic at New York magazine, the New York Times, and Metropolis
• Katherine Lambert – a leading advocate of ecological design, the founding principal of Metropolitan Architectural Practice, and the chair of interior design and professor of visual studies at the California College of the Arts
• Iris Harrell – founder and president of Harrell Remodeling in San Francisco, a certified green business

The competition will be open for submissions from May 12 to July 14, 2008. Submitting is easy: Send us a 500-word description, up to eight high-resolution images, and a $50 entry fee per project (with discounts for early and/or multiple submissions). The entry form and complete instructions are available at: www.portlandspaces.net/designawards.

Nominations will also be accepted in four special categories: The Masters; Rising Stars; Portland, World (for exported design); and Sustainability.

Besides being a celebration of the incredible design work being produced in the Portland metro area, the Root Awards will benefit a new college scholarship fund with cash awards for top students in the fields of design and construction.

The Root Awards are presented in association with AIA Portland and ASLA, and sponsored by Gerding Edlen Development.

Please direct questions to Xylia Buros, Design Awards Coordinator, at (503) 222-5144 x173 or xburos@portlandspaces.net.

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2008 Oasis Awards for Outdoor Kitchen Design Call for Entries
The Oasis Award for Outdoor Kitchen Design is the only national competition created specifically to recognize exception outdoor kitchen design. This is an open call for all architects, landscape architects, landscape designers, kitchen designers, interior designers and students to enter the 2008 competition.

The winning entry will be featured in the October/November ASLA Awards issue of Garden Design Magazine and online.

For complete entry details and application form, visit www.OasisAward.com. Entry deadline is August 1.