BSLA 2010 Awards Announced

The Boston Society of Landscape Architects announced the recipients of the 2010 Annual Design and Planning Awards. This year 18 projects received Design awards, and three projects received awards in the Planning Category.

The Boston Society of Landscape Architects announced the recipients of the 2010 Annual Design and Planning Awards. This year 18 projects received Design awards, and three projects received awards in the Planning Category.

Winning the prestigious Award of Excellence was “Beatrix Farrand at Garland Farm: Cultural Landscape Report,” Bat Harbor, Maine by Pressley Associates.

Other presentations were:

Honor Award in Communications – Art in the Public Sphere, Amherst, Mass. by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Merit Award in Landscape Analysis and Planning – Lincoln’s Roadsides, Lincoln, Mass. by Kenneth E. Bassett.

In the Design Category:

Honor Award in Residential and Garden Design – Pamet Valley, Truro, Mass by Keith LeBlanc Landscape Architecture.

Honor Award in Parks and Recreation Facilities – Albion Park, Somerville, Mass. by Weston & Sampson.

Honor Award in Commercial and Institutional Design – NewBridge on the Charles: A Sustainable Intergenerational Community, Dedham, Mass. by Stantec Planning & Landscape Architecture, PC.

Honor Award in Commercial and Institutional Design – The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. by Richard Burck Associates.

Honor Award in Urban Design – Kenmore Square Surface Improvements, Boston by Pressley Associates

Merit Awards in Residential and Garden Design were given to Suburban Renewal Brookline, Mass. by Keith LeBlanc Landscape Architecture; Chatham Residence, Chatham, Mass. by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects; Front Ridge Residence, Penobscot, Maine by Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design; North Cove Residence, Shelburne, Vt. by H. Keith Wagner Partnership and Maple Hill, Westwood, Mass. by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects

Merit Award in Parks and Recreation Facilities went to Wharf District Park (Central Artery / Tunnel), Boston by Copley Wolff Design Group and Coleman Park, West Palm Beach, FL, by Ground Inc.

Merit Award in Commercial and Institutional Design – Buckingham, Browne & Nichols Upper School Cambridge, Mass. by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects.

Merit Award in Historic Preservation, Restoration, or Rehabilitation – Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY by Richard Burck Associates, Inc. and Merit Award Radcliffe Sunken Garden, Cambridge, Mass. by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects.

Merit Award in Memorial Design – F.E. Dixon, Jr. Memorial, Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Maine by Richardson & Associates Landscape Architect

Merit Award in Urban Design – Northeastern University International Village, Boston by Stephen Stimson Associates Landscape Architects

Merit Award in Visionary Un-built Works – Nourish – June Calderwood Park Design Competition Toronto, ON, Canada by Ground Inc. and PMA Landscape Architects