Sagaponack Residence
This oceanfront property in Sagaponack, NY won the top Award of Excellence. LaGuardia Design Landscape Architects of Water Mill, NY created a new dune-like landscape around the residence, which was moved inland 400 feet to a flat cornfield in an attempt to save it from the inevitable rising tides. The designers created a pond and used the fill from it for the house, whose first floor terraces were raised 17 feet. Closer to the water, dunes were rebuilt and native plants were used for screening and for wildlife habitats.
Recovered Modernism: A Landscape Matrix Enriches a Dallas Hacienda
Reed Hilderbrand won an Honor Award for his redesign of the landscape around this 1981 modern house, which was over-run with invasive plants. After removing the invasives, Hilderbrand discovered a piece of rare Texas blackland prairie, and the design focused on preserving it and connecting it to the rest of the landscape. Plantings near a stream on the site were chosen for their ability to withstand flash floods, and boulders and weirs were sited in order to prevent erosion.
This property on the shores of Seneca Lake in New York's Finger Lakes region is sited in a ravine that empties into the lake. Michael Vergason Landscape Architects was called in to preserve existing trees and stabilize the native landscape, which had four distinct ecological communities. The design, which won an Honor Award, included plantings on slopes and tying down dead trees in order to slow erosion and create nursery areas where seedlings could be planted.
A run-down landscape in the Coastal Range south of San Francisco has now been restored to native California grassland by Lutsko Associates Landscape, which won an Honor Award for the project. The house was sited to bring in the oak woodlands and the surrounding grasslands. A new meadow planted with native grasses and wildflowers surrounds the formal landscape elements around the house: a pool, a courtyard, lawns, and vegetable gardens. A very simple palette completes the picture: trees, stone, gravel, and water.
For more detail on the above projects and all of the award winners, see the ASLA website here.
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