Firm: Spurlock Landscape Architecture Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: There are a lot of butterflies and life in this area. It just felt good to walk through it. Gorgeous with the salvias and the organic retaining wall. Really compelling are the grasses in the foreground with the mounding and where the building mirrors the mounding in [...]
Firm: Schmidt Design Group Category: Construction Detailing Jurors’ Comments: This is a welcome change from what was existing. Thinking of the users of the site, showing appreciation of what healthcare professionals do, a place to come out and hear that water moving to have a moment.
Firm: Schmidt Design Group Category: Parks, Trails and Recreation Jurors’ Comments: I like the organization of it where they’ve maintained that whole bay of play areas and seating pads. All these kinds of human moments are well scaled and create a good community.
Firm: LPA Design Studios Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: I’m happy to see concrete versus asphalt. I like the terracing. I like the DG. Generous spacing of terraced seating prevents children from kicking each other in the back. Love the chalk boards. I especially liked the arching chalk board that gives the kids an artistic easel [...]
Firm: LPA Design Group Category: Commercial Jurors’ Comments: Postage stamp size always tries to find ways to play with scale and create an inviting character and they did a good job here.
Firm: GroundLevel Landscape Architecture Category: Single Family Jurors’ Comments: It's a small site but it packs a punch. The olive tree in the middle was field grown and they brought it in. Really impressive. It’s a beautiful project. The use of the planters and pottery is the perfect scale, everything just clicks.
Firm: GroundLevel Landscape Architecture Category: Commercial Jurors’ Comments: There’s a welcoming, nurturing quality to this with a unique palette that works really well. Maturity of the plant material helps sell this, defines those spaces very nicely, makes you want to use it. Definitely an amenity for the employees.
Firm: Grounded Landscape Architecture Category: Pro Bono Jurors’ Comments: This is a heck of a pro bono undertaking, from conceptual design to construction docs and permit processing. This is the type of project that we look to engage all different generations of the communities. It takes a brownfield site to turn into an incredible trail [...]
Firm: Grounded Landscape Architecture Category: Unbuilt Works Jurors’ Comments: It's refreshing to see a project where site planning is a huge component of it where you can see all the systems and overlay components that lend itself to site design. Its proximity to Silicon Valley really makes it fit
Firm: Grounded Landscape Architecture Category: Single-Family Jurors’ Comments: This is a dazzling project. I want to live there, the detailing is superb, vertical space of the spa and stepping stones. They thought this through and I love seeing that. As tightly controlled as it is, they’ve allowed the plant material to run wild which complements [...]