Landscape Design | National Design Awards 2008 | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Awards

The Landscape Design Award is given to an individual or firm for exceptional and exemplary work in urban planning or park and garden design.

Olin Partnership
Winner: Landscape Design

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Finalist: Landscape Design

Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Finalist: Landscape Design

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America’s 50 Greenest Cities | Popular Science Annotated
 
 
How the Rankings Work:
We used raw data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide, which collected survey data and government statistics for American cities of over 100,000 people in more than 30 categories, including air quality, electricity use and transportation habits. We [...]

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Panopticons: Singing Ringing Tree | KIWIPULSE // ROCK YOUR WORLD Annotated
 
Panopticons: Singing Ringing Tree
 
This steel sculpture has won the National Award of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for architectural excellence in 2007. The sculpture is set in the landscape of the Pennines overlooking Burnley, in the north west of England. It was [...]

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A Daily Dose of Architecture: Half Dose #42: East River State Park Annotated
 
 
 
East River State Park
 
 
The outcome of 2005’s Williamsburg Waterfront Design Competition — for the water’s edge between N7th and N9th Streets in the East River State Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — resulted in a masterplan collaboration of three of the winners: Gareth [...]

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Governors Island Proposals – New York Times
Winners are:
the Dutch firm West 8, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Rogers Marvel Architects, Quennell Rothschild & Partners and SMWM
See here, their World Park plan.

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