Firm: Coastal Sage Landscape Architecture Category: Historic Restoration and San Diego Landmark Jurors’ Comments: How do you blend accessibility in with current standards for historical restoration, and interpret the original intent? It's hard to do with landscape because the landscape expires and is dynamic, or there aren’t enough good historic records.
Firm: The Lightfoot Planning Group Category: Environmental Solutions Jurors’ Comments: If I were living in those apartments as a kid, I’d be right down in this.
Firm: SWA Group Category: Planning and Analysis Jurors’ Comments: This hit home in terms of the understanding and connection between agriculture and community. Love the idea of expressing the farm to table movement and having a newfound respect for the agricultural landscape as a beautiful landscape.
Firm: KTUA Landscape Architecture and Planning Category: Planning and Analysis Jurors’ Comments: I think what I find most compelling about this is the different modes of transportation they're dealing with. Managing all of those systems is a real challenge.
Firm: Urban Arena Category: Multi Family Jurors’ Comments: I think it’s a pretty clean, detailed design. It's unique. A lot of times on podium projects you end up with a rectangular pool. They avoided that, which is nice.
Firm: Carson Douglas Landscape Architecture Category: Pro Bono Jurors’ Comments: I really love the black and white image of the donor tiles. The paving and concrete balls gives you a sense of the true design and construction efforts that went into it. I love the story how they met with the planning commissioner who denied [...]
Firm: Carson Douglas Landscape Architecture Category: Single Family Jurors’ Comments: When I see this high end residence, I’m so enamored of the work. For these designers to be able to execute at this level is pretty phenomenal. They get kudos on the environmental side of the scoring. Rustic feel, congruent materials, hard not to be [...]
Firm: Pamela Burton and Company Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: There’s a lot going on, which is interesting: Extensive planting which, when it fills in, will have a really nice quality to it. I quite like the detailing. You can see there are human scale moments, serpentine benches, visual screen on interior courtyard and planting approach [...]
Firm: Spurlock Landscape Architecture Category: Public and Municipal Jurors’ Comments: Pretty interesting functions for a civic center, farmers market and sunset viewing. Almost like those uses upstage the actual civic function.
Firm: Spurlock Landscape Architecture Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: What impressed me about it were these bridge walkways that criss-crossed through the open area. The juxtaposition of the natural elements, stormwater basin, against the architectural heavy glazing is stunning, really great qualities from a planting perspective, striking against that tech campus.