Congratulations to Turenscape for Winning 3 ASLA 2010 Professional Awards
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2010 – The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2010 Professional Awards. Turenscape, China and Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture won 3 signature awards in General design category:
General Design Award of Excellence
Shanghai Houtan Park: Landscape as a Living System, Shanghai, China
General Design Award of Honor
The Qinhuangdao Beach Restoration: An Ecological Surgery, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China
Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park: The Adaptation Palettes, Tianjin City, China
Until this year, Dr. Kongjian Yu and his Turenscape has won 8 ASLA Professional Awards including:
2006 General Design Award of Honor
The Floating Gardens — Yongning River Park, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China
2005 General Design Award of Honor
Shenyang Architectural University Campus, Taizhou City, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China
2005 Analysis And Planning Award of Honor
The Growth Pattern of Taizhou City Based on Ecological Infrastructure, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China
2002 General Design Award of Honor
Zhongshan Shipyard Park, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, China
The prestigious jury considered 618 entries – the largest number in ASLA history – from 20 countries around the world, selecting 49 projects for distinction: 12 in General Design, 14 in Residential Design, 12 in Analysis and Planning. These awards winners represent the best in landscape architecture around the world in the categories of general design, residential design, analysis and planning, research and communication.
Dr. Kongjian Yu and Turenscape will attend the awards ceremony which will take place on Monday, September 13, at 12 noon during the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Washington, D.C.
General Design Award of Excellence
Shanghai Houtan Park: Landscape as a Living System, Shanghai, China
“This is very powerful. It is done and anybody can go and see it. It’s full of the right messages of our profession. The scope is exquisite. The presentation is excellence. Shanghai never has a blue sky, and recognizing this kind of sustainable project in that context is important.”—2010 Professional Awards Jury
Built on a brownfield of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on Shanghai's Huangpu riverfront. The park's constructed wetland, ecological flood control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in an aesthetically pleasing way.
General Design Award of Honor
The Qinhuangdao Beach Restoration: An Ecological Surgery, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China
“It is so simple that it doesn’t try to do more than beautifully achieve access. It both makes nature accessible and uses all native plants in collaboration with engineers. The narrative is compelling about what is achieved. This is another monumental undertaking. The clarity of the idea and the variety make it a beautiful project. It is a project of hope. It can be done within a limited budget.”—2010 Professional Awards Jury
Using various regenerative design techniques, a heavily eroded, badly abused and decaying beach has been ecologically recovered and successfully transformed into an aethestically pleasing and well-visited place, demonstrating landscape architects can professionally facilitate the initiatives of rebuilding a harmonious relationship between man and nature through ecological design.
General Design Award of Honor
Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park: The Adaptation Palettes, Tianjin City, China
“After a mere two years, the success of this park is stunning—as a place for people and as a place that is already alive with ecology that has reclaimed the former dump. The simple pattern of stormwater cells not only maximized the rich edges for a deliberately "messy" native landscape—this pattern also created a sense of designed landscape continuity and visual appeal that has drawn so many people into the Park. It is remarkable that 200,000 people visited the park within its first few months of being open, and yet the delicate landscape has been visibly preserved by the careful design to separate walkways from the ground, with low maintenance requirements.”—2010 Professional Awards Jury
Through regenerative design and by changing the landform, the natural process of plant adaptation and community evolution is introduced to transform a former deserted shooting range used as a garbage dump, into a low-maintenance urban park; providing diverse nature's services for the city including containing and purifying stormwater; improving the saline–alkali soil, providing opportunities for environmental education and creating a cherished aesthetic experience.
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