Firm: KTUA Landscape Architecture and Planning Category: Parks, Trails, & Recreation Jurors’ Comments: This is a nice trail system that is successful and functional in its greater context. The use of custom signage on this project is unique and attractive.
Firm: Schmidt Design Group Category: Parks, Trails, & Recreation Jurors’ Comments: What a great site. It is themed very well for its overall setting – contextual, fun, playful, and memorable. The designers did an exceptional job of creating a space given the modest scope of work and advanced timeline.
Firm: LPA Design Studios Category: Un-Built Works Jurors’ Comments: This is a very important type of project – the idea of providing supportive housing using modular, prefabricated units with access to outdoor environments.
Firm: Schmidt Design Group Category: Un-Built Works Jurors’ Comments: The awareness that this type of project brings to a community is hard to disagree with. It proposes a lot of interesting concepts and provides a social opportunity to live sustainably.
Firm: Fiore Landscape Design Category: Residential Single Family Jurors’ Comments: The design of the landscape complements the down-to-earth, low-profile architecture and avoids upstaging it. The attention to materiality creates a composition that is calming and well rooted in its surroundings.
Firm: CDLA Category: Residential Single Family Jurors’ Comments: This is a beautiful project with a variety of interesting spaces and elements of surprise. The texture and colors of the plant palette and construction materials work very well together, and demonstrates a definite expertise in planting design.
Firm: Urban Arena Category: Residential Jurors’ Comments: This project is vibrant and fun, with a variety of nice details that make for an attractive setting that is also functional.
Firm: Spurlock Landscape Architects Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: This project does a great job in accommodating both pedestrian and non-motorized circulation within a very busy campus. It’s well thought out, well planned, and functions as an integral part of the overall campus.
Firm: Spurlock Landscape Architects Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: An attractive setting has been created here, and is appropriately tailored to the site’s program and use. The boulders, landscape and variety of site features create a playful element.
Firm: LPA Design Studios Category: Institutional Jurors’ Comments: The materiality of this project is appealing, and the plant palette is well representative of Southern California’s native landscape. The ample seating opportunities are appreciated and well designed. It seems like a great place to eat lunch outside and just relax.