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: 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: 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: 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: 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.