Connecticut – The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (CTASLA) has announced the winners of its annual Connecticut Design Awards competition. CTASLA conducts the Connecticut Design Awards each year to recognize excellence in landscape architectural design, planning and analysis, communication and research. To be eligible, an applicant must be a licensed landscape architect in the state of Connecticut, and the entrant or project location must be based in Connecticut.
“We are proud to announce these award winners, which showcase the various ways that landscape architects are making contributions to our communities across Connecticut and beyond,” said Bill Pollack, LEEP AP, president of CTASLA and a landscape architect at Keith Simpson Associates of New Canaan.
Winners of the 2010 Connecticut Design Awards competition, announced at the chapter’s annual meeting in December, include:
Landscape Architectural Design – Municipal/Public Spaces
Kent + Frost, LLC (Mystic), Award of Excellence for Hygenic Art Park (New London)
Richard Bergmann Architects (New Canaan), Merit Award for Children’s A*Mazing Mathematical Puzzle as a Part of Irwin Park (New Canaan)
Landscape Architectural Design – Corporate/Institutional
Towers|Golde, LLC (New Haven), Merit Award for Betty Ruth & Milton B. Hollander Healing Garden/Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven (New Haven)
Wesley Stout Associates (New Canaan), Merit Award for Plane Geometry (Greenwich)
Landscape Architectural Design – Residential
Devore Associates, LLC (Fairfield), Honor Award for Swan Pond (Darien)
Anne Penniman Associates, LLC (Essex), Merit Award for Ocean Front House (Westerly, RI)
Landscape Architectural Planning and Analysis
LADA, P.C. Land Planners (Simsbury), Honor Award for The Route 6 Hop River Corridor Master Plan (Bolton, Coventry, Andover and Columbia)
Landscape Architectural Research
Kristin Schwab, University of Connecticut (Mansfield/Storrs), Merit Award for Sustainable Site Design: Criteria, Process & Case Studies for Integrating Site & Region in Landscape Design (Book)
The jury for this year’s competition was comprised of members of the Upstate New York Chapter of ASLA.
Press-ready digital photos of award-winning projects and contact information of award winners are available upon request.
