Winning!
May 26, 2011 § 3 Comments
Creeks are big winners in this year’s Westside Urban Forum Design Competition, with design honors going to:
Ballona Creek Greenway Plan (category: Plans)
Piggyback Yard (category: Plans)
Milton Street Park (category: Open Space)
And Friends of the Los Angeles River gets a special nod, the John Chase Legacy Award, for their tireless efforts over the years. Congrats!
Restoration Design Group, the stream-restoration oriented design firm I work for, produced the Greenway Plan with ALTA Planning + Design and Ecotone Studios for the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, and RDG also provided some restoration-oriented input into the Piggyback Yards concept, a collaboration by Mia Lehrer + Associates, Perkins + Will, Michael Maltzin Architects, and Chee Salette Architects for Friends of the L. A. River. SWA designed the Milton Street project for the Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority. Cheers all around!
Next step: moving these things from plans to actual projects. Can we add an award category for Political Will?
And thanks to Jim Lamm for emailing the results.
Great news!! So glad to see your tireless efforts being recognized. Congratulations Jessica!
Congrats to the creek folks on this!! (and, on a not so entirely creek-freaky note: they’re also honoring CicLAvia… so L.A.’s creek freaks get five awards!!)
Whoopsies I should have recognized that. Congrats to Ciclavia!!!
And thanks!