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ASLA Colorado Announces 2011 Professional Design Award Winners

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American Society of Landscape Architects Colorado is proud to announce the winners of its 2011 Professional Design Awards. Forty-three winners in the areas of design, planning and research, and communication were recognized at the Four Seasons Hotel on Dec. 1st.

The entries were judged by the ASLA Arizona chapter using a 23-point scale. Auden Schendler, the vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company, also was honored as part of the award ceremony.

The winners are:

Design over $500,000

Honor Award The Bibby and Harold Alfond Children's Garden – AECOM, Fort Collins Denver Justice Center Campus – StudioINSITE, LLC.

NREL RSF – RNL Design Residences at Little Nell – Design Workshop, Aspen Merit Awards Adams County Government Center and Natural Park – Norris Design Babi Yar Park – Mundus Bishop Design, Inc./Denver Parks and Recreation/Satura Nishita Centennial Park – Design Concepts CLA, Inc.

East-West Regional Trail – Architerra Group, Inc./ Douglas County Division of Parks, Trails, and Building Grounds Filmore Plaza – Design Workshop, Denver Lodestone Golf Club – Design Workshop, Denver Mordecai Children's Garden – Mundus Bishop Design, Inc.

Solterra – Design Studios West Valmont Bike Park – BHA Design Washington Avenue Bridge Plaza – Winston Associates, Inc.

Westminster Center Park – Architerra Group, Inc./City of Westminster, Dept. of Parks, Recreation and Libraries

Design under $500,000

Merit Awards Vail Memorial Park – Sherry Dorward Landscape Architecture, LLC Walking Mountains Science Center – Sherry Dorward Landscape Architecture, LLC

Planning

President's Award of Excellence UCross Ranch Master Plan – DHM Design Honor Award Interstate 70 Mountain Corridor Aesthetic Guidance – Design Workshop, Aspen/THK Associates, Inc.

Smoky Hill – Design Studios West Strategic Plan for the Petra Region – Design Workshop, Aspen Merit Awards Amaranth – Design Workshop, Aspen Cadence – Design Workshop, Denver Grow Haus – StudioBridge / RNL Design Loma Larga – Design Workshop, Denver Springwoods – Design Workshop, Denver Top of the Rockies National Scenic and Historic Byway – Bluegreen "Vision for Conservation" Douglas County Open Space Plan – Design Workshop, Aspen A Vision Plan for 84th Street – AECOM, Fort Collins Westside Creeks – AECOM, Fort Collins Woodland Reserve Greenway – Wenk Associates, Inc.

Research and Communications

Honor Award Garden Legacy – Design Workshop, Aspen Merit Awards Green Industries Data Toolbox – Donald H. Godi & Associates, Inc.

Residential Design Over $100,000

Honor Award Cranmer Park Residence – AECOM, Denver Hillside Garden – Design Workshop, Aspen Residence at Red Butte – Design Workshop, Aspen A Virtuous Garden Far Beyond Form and Emptiness – Marpa Design Studio, Inc.

Merit Awards Evergreen Residence – Designscapes Colorado, Phil Steinhauer Room with a View Entry – Three Sixty Design

Residential Design Under $100,000

Honor Award Redefining Family Landscape – Three Sixty Design Environmental Restoration and Reclamation Honor Award Coyote Gulch – Valerian LLC.

Eagle River Preserve – Norris Design Merit Awards Mud Lake – Kevin Lyles, Boulder County Parks and Open Space To view the 2011 Professional Design Award winners, please visit http://www.aslacolorado.org/awards/. A special thanks to ASLA Colorado’s 2011 sponsors http://www.aslacolorado.org/ sponsors. Media sponsors: Colorado Real Estate Journal and Colorado Biz Magazine; Platinum Sponsors: Landscape Forms, Rocky Mountain Recreation; Gold Sponsors: Hunter Industries; Silver Sponsors: Land Tech Contractors, Pavestone,Rain Bird; Bronze Sponsors: A1 Organics, Arkins Park Stone Quarry, CPS Distributors Inc, Plant Select, Davey Tree, JVA, Little Valley Wholesale Nurseries, Made in the Schade, Sub-Zero/ Wolf by Roth Distributing, Siloam Stone; and Friends of ASLA Colorado: Ken’s Reproductions,Valley Crest, Williamson Images.

About ASLA Colorado

The Colorado Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA Colorado) was founded in 1973 under the direction of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). For more information about the organization or to find a landscape architect, call 303.830.6616 or visit www.aslacolorado.org/. Be Connected. Be Informed. Be Better with ASLA Colorado.