What's Out There Denver City Guide Launches this November
Denver Botanic Gardens, photo by Barrett Doherty, 2014
On Friday, November 21, 2014, please join TCLF’s Board of Directors and Stewardship Council, leading landscape architects from across the country, and local guests at a twilight, private reception at the Denver Botanic Gardens currently showcasing the region’s first outdoor exhibition by celebrated artist Dale Chihuly. A new guide to Denver’s diverse designed landscape legacy will be unveiled during the reception. The event will culminate with the presentation of the 2014 Stewardship Excellence Award to Don and Carolyn Etter for their decades of service promoting awareness and stewardship of Denver’s great park system.
(upper) Denver Mountain Parks System, Golden; (lower) Dedisse Park,
Evergreen. Photos by Barrett Doherty.As one of the special events associated with the American Society of Landscape Architect’s (ASLA) Annual Meeting in Denver, TCLF will unveil What’s Out There® Denver, a new guide to the Mile High City’s designed landscape legacy, at a reception at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Marnie’s Pavilion on Friday, November 21, 2014, from 4:30 to 6:30pm (tickets are required). The guide, produced by TCLF in tandem with ASLA National and the Colorado Chapter, landscape architecture students at the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, and with support from Design Workshop, is a free, searchable online introduction to more than 50 sites in Denver. It is also the preface to What’s Out There® Weekend Denver in 2015, featuring more than two dozen free, expert-led tours. Denver’s broad and regionally distinct designed landscape legacy includes work by pioneers such as Olmsted Brothers, George Kessler, Lawrence Halprin, S. R. DeBoer, Koichi Kawana, Laurie Olin and Satoru Nishita, and ranges from picturesque parks and suburbs to Modernist plazas and pedestrian malls. The city guide has been optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices and also includes What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the database within a 25-mile radius.
The event will be preceded by the daylong Rocky Mountain Mod excursion, which includes tours of regional Modernist Gems by Dan Kiley, Lawrence Halprin and Garrett Eckbo – among them the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Babi Yar Park in Denver – a festive luncheon and more. Participation is limited for the daylong event and transportation will be provided.
(upper) City Park, Denver; (lower) Northside park, Denver. Photos by
Brian K.Thomson.The event will conclude with the presentation of TCLF’s 2014 Stewardship Excellence Award to Don and Carolyn Etter, whose many years of civic efforts, publications, presentations, and project and photographic work include: joint service as Managers of Denver's Department of Parks and Recreation; preservation and development work while with Historic Denver; and authorship of a collection of publications over the past forty-two years, among other accomplishments.
First awarded in 2001, the Stewardship Excellence Award is bestowed on a person, group or agency that shares TCLF's mission of "stewardship through education. Past recipients of the Stewardship Excellence Award include: individuals (Mayor Richard M. Daley, Dr. Charles E. Beveridge); not-for-profit organizations (Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, The American Academy in Rome, Greenacre Foundation); historic properties (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Casa del Herrero Foundation); local groups (Friends of Gas Works Park, Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy); state municipalities (Kentucky Heritage Council); and federal agencies (The Presidio Trust, National Park Service). The aim of the award is to spotlight stewardship stories that will educate and inspire future generations of cultural landscape stewards. The sponsors for the Rocky Mountain Mod activities are Bartlett Tree Experts, Coldspring, Kelco Landscaping and Construction and Maglin Site Furniture.