The new Novartis Campus transformed a 51-acre site beside the Rhine River from an industrial landscape flanked with old train tracks into a modern and largely pedestrian research and administrative campus filled with outdoor parks, greens, and large-scale art.
World renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture in Berkeley, Calif., has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the prize, which is the institute’s highest honor. Walker will be honored during ULI’s annual fall meeting October 16-19 in Denver.
Peter Walker, FASLA, will receive the ASLA Design Medal in recognition of exceptional design work over a sustained period of at least ten years. Walker’s fascination with materials and experimental use of water, landform, and plant materials have produced some of the most provocative projects in the profession.
Located in Lower Manhattan, this 8-acre site resides in one of the most densely populated urban neighborhoods and business centers in the world. On many levels, the project was intensely complex, with multiple constituents influencing the design from local and state politicians, family members of the victims, a multi-headed client framework, outside design critics, and the general public.
ASLA Design Medal: Peter Walker, FASLA Peter Walker, FASLA, will receive the ASLA Design Medal in recognition of exceptional design work over a sustained period of at least ten years.
The Firm Award: PWP Landscape Architecture will receive the Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest award ASLA may bestow upon a landscape architecture firm in recognition of distinguished work that influences the profession.
2012 Landscape Architecture Firm Award Recipient goes to PWP Landscape Architecture.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum architecture and engineering team wins a Liberty Award at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Downtown Dinaner 2012
Renowned Landscape Architect Peter Walker To Receive 39th Annual Thomas Jefferson Medal In Architecture At The University Of Virginia
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