2010 Designing The Parks Awards Announced

TCLF joins the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Designing the Parks partnership in congratulating the winners of the inaugural Designing the Parks Awards 2010. In 2008, TCLF co-sponsored with the National Park Service, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the University of Virginia, Van Alen Institute and George Wright Society, a bi-coastal conference that explored the past, present, and future of park planning and design. From this forum, six guiding principles emerged which described a new design future for public parks. Over sixty projects from twenty states and six countries were submitted to compete in this first awards program; eighteen projects were selected by the jury for best representing the spirit of the Designing the Parks principles and for raising the bar of excellence in public park design.

Winners include:

HONOR AWARD for Master Plan
Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York City, New York)
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
The Master Plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park

MERIT AWARD for Master Plan
Parklands of Floyds Fork (Louisville, KY)
Wallace Roberts & Todd

MERIT AWARD for Master Plan
Minute Man National Historical Park (MA)
Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype, Inc.

MERIT AWARD for Master Plan
Flight 93 National Memorial (PA)
Paul Murdoch Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

HONOR AWARD for Site Design
Waterfront Bunkaza Cultural Plaza (Osaka, Japan)
Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & Associates

HONOR AWARD for Site Design
Teardrop Park (New York, NY)
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.

MERIT AWARD for Site Design
Concrete Plant Park, Bronx River Greenway (Bronx, NY)
City of New York

MERIT AWARD for Site Design
Santa Fe Railyard Park (Santa Fe, NM)
Frederic Schwartz Architects, Ken Smith Landscape Architects and Mary Miss, artist

MERIT AWARD for Site Design
Hudson River Park, Tribeca Section (New York, NY)
Mathews Nielsen

MERIT AWARD for Site Design
Annenberg Community Beach House (Santa Monica, CA)
Mia Lehrer and Associates

MERIT AWARD for Site Design
Eielson Visitor Center, Denali NP (Denali NP, Alaska)
Denali National Park and Preserve

HONOR AWARD for Building Design
Pocono Environmental Education Center Multipurpose Space, (Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area)
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

HONOR AWARD for Building Design
Liberty Bell Center, Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, PA)
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

HONOR AWARD for Preservation
Blue Ball Barn, Alapocas Run State Park (Wilmington, DE)
Wallace Roberts & Todd

HONOR AWARD for Preservation
Chapultepec Park (Mexico City, Mexico)
Grupo de Diseño Urbano S.C. / Mario Schjetnan

HONOR AWARD for Preservation
Cavallo Point Lodge, Golden Gate National Park (San Francisco, CA)
Architectural Resource Group and Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects / Office of Cheryl Barton