Best Landscape Architecture Projects Received ASLA 2009 Professional Awards

“The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the winners of its 2009 Professional Awards. The jury considered nearly 600 entries—the largest number in ASLA history—from around the world and selected 49 projects for recognition in general design, residential design, analysis and planning, communications and research. The awards ceremony will take place at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Chicago on September 21.”
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General Design
Award of Excellence
Buffalo Bayou Promenade, Houston. Designed by SWA Group, Houston.

Buffalo Bayou Promenade, Houston. Designed by SWA Group, Houston: The project was created under challenging urban conditions, overhead freeways and utilities, steep slopes, limited access and critical flood elevations. (Photo: Tom Fox)
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Honor Awards
- Teardrop Park, New York, N.Y. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
- Macallen Building, South Boston, Mass. Designed by Landworks Studio, Inc., Boston.
- Changi Airport Terminal 3 Interior Landscape, Singapore. Designed by Tierra Design (S) Pte Ltd., Singapore.
- The Museum of Modern Art Roof Garden, New York City. Designed by Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York City.

The Museum of Modern Art Roof Garden, New York City. Designed by Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York City: View from Warwick Hoel, Sixth Avenue and 54th Street (Photo: Peter Mauss/ESTO)
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- Observation Balloon Preview Park Orange County Great Park, Irvine, Calif. Designed by WORKSHOPWEST Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York City and Irvine, Calif.
- ChonGae Canal Project, Seoul, Korea. Designed by Mikyoung Kim Design, Brookline, Mass.
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Designed by SWA Group, Sausalito, Calif.

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Designed by SWA Group, Sausalito, Calif.: The 2.5-acre living roof realizes the central design concept-“lifting up a piece of the park and put a building under it”. The sculptural mounds relate to the museum’s interior exhibits and echo the seven major hills of San Francisco (Photo: Tom Fox)
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- Museo del Acero Horno3, Monterrey, Mexico. Designed Surfacedesign Inc.+ Harari arquitectos, San Francisco.
- Poly International Plaza, Guangzhou, China. Designed by SWA Group, San Francisco.
- Zobon City Sculpture Garden, Pudong Shanghai, China. Designed by SWA Group, Los Angeles.
- Beijing Olympic Forest Park, Beijing, China. Designed by Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute, Beijing, China.
- Panhandle Bandshell, San Francisco. Designed by CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco.

Panhandle Bandshell, San Francisco. Designed by CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco: The back wall of the bandshell is constructed with 3,000 plastic water bottles, the outer skin with car hoods
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Westminster Presbyterian Church Fellowship Courtyard and Memorial Columbarium, Minneapolis. Designed by Coen + Partners, Inc., Minneapolis.