Recently, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced the recipients of the Awards of Excellence.
This year, 15 projects received a national award. One project, the Rooted in Clay – WY Garden (Winnipeg, MB) by Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects, was selected for the Jury’s Award of Excellence, which is given to one project annually which best demonstrates the CSLA’s vision — that of advancing the art, science and practice of landscape architecture.
These award-winning projects are preeminent examples of Canadian landscape architecture. They illustrate the range of what landscape architects do and how landscape architects are helping to reshape our communities by defining the places where we live, work and play. According to the jury:
This year’s awards demonstrate that project excellence doesn’t always have to come from big bucks and be of huge scale to make an impact. Projects such as the Jury’s Award of Excellence, Rooted in Clay, or the outdoor play space of Winnipeg’s Casa Montessori, or the simplicity of the way finding tools of Escales découvertes (large scale) clearly demonstrate that in many cases, simple approaches can be extremely effective.
Winners of 2019 CSLA Awards include:
2019 CSLA Jury Award of Excellence and Residential Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect
Rooted in Clay – WY Garden (Winnipeg, MB)
Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects
Medium-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha) Grange Park Revitalization (Toronto, ON)
PFS Studio
Small-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha) Foot of Lonsdale Plaza (North Vancouver, BC)
Hapa Collaborative Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
Landscape Management
Toronto Ravine Strategy (Toronto, ON)
City of Toronto
Medium-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha)
The Bentway (Toronto, ON)
PUBLIC WORK office for urban design & landscape architecture
Small-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha)
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design –
University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)
PUBLIC WORK office for urban design & landscape architecture
Planning and Analysis
TOcore: Downtown Parks and Public Realm Plan (Toronto, ON)
PUBLIC WORK office for urban design & landscape architecture
Research
Toronto Green Streets Technical Guidelines (Toronto, ON)
Schollen & Company Inc.
Residential Landscape
Hunting Valley Residence: Classical Stewardship (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Virginia Burt Designs, Inc.
Small-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha)
Vibrant Daring Ephemeral Wild – Casa Montessori & Orff School (Winnipeg, MB)
Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects
Communication
High Level Line (Edmonton, AB)
High Level Line Society
Medium-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha)
Site Development of the Central Islands of the Bonaventure Project (Montreal, QC)
Groupe Rousseau Lefebvre
Large-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (over 5 ha)
Escales decouvertes (Montreal, QC)
civiliti + julie margot design with Vian paysages and LN Paysages
Medium-Scale Public Landscapes Designed by a Landscape Architect (1 to 5 ha)
Breakwater Park (Kingston, ON)
Claude Cormier et Associes
Planning and Analysis, Large-Scale Design
Plan directeur du pare La Fontaine (Montreal, QC)
Ville de Montreal – Service des grands pares, du Mont-Royal et des sports (VdM)
Find out more at https://www.csla-aapc.ca/awards/awards-excellence