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Hargreaves Associates is thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the 2016 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The National Design Awards recognize excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines in 11 categories. Now in its 17th year, the annual awards were established to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. Winners are selected based on the level of excellence, innovation and public impact of their body of work. Museum Director Caroline Baumann said: “This year’s class of winners reflect design’s remarkable empathy for contemporary social concerns…these designers and design firms cross disciplinary boundaries, explore innovative materials and develop new models of problem-solving in pursuit of these goals.”

Founded in 1897, Cooper Hewitt is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. First Lady Michelle Obama serves as the Honorary Patron for this year’s National Design Awards, which was first launched at the White House in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates is pleased to announce that we were awarded the 2016 Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize at the 9th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona, Spain on September 30th. The Rosa Barba Prize was formulated in 1999 as a European prize and is now international with the intent to raise the discourse on landscape architecture globally and to celebrate world-class projects that make a difference.

The prize was awarded for our work on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, a project that the Mayor of London called “the winner of the Games” and that transformed a 274 acre derelict brownfield site and channelized river into the public realm that formed the centerpiece of the Games and the legacy park for future generations to enjoy – and to catalyze urban, ecological, economic and social change to London’s East End.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park was one of 10 finalists’ projects from around the world and was lauded by the jury as “strategic, holistic, catalytic and intelligent. It remediates, transforms and activates. It points to prioritizing well-designed public realm parkland and environmental remediation as the primary center-pieces for urban re-development, and is an example of landscape architects ‘leading the way’ through complex multi-disciplinary projects.”

We are also pleased to announce that we will be honored at the annual gala at the Cooper Hewitt Museum on October 20th as this year’s recipients of the National Design Award in Landscape Architecture. Now in its 17th year, the annual awards were established to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. Winners are selected based on the level of excellence, innovation and public impact of their body of work. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates will be providing full design services for the 13 acre park under the new bridge.

Downtown East Commons, which opened last week, is a new kind of public space for Minneapolis. While our older parks such as Loring and Elliot are designed to be calming escapes from city life, the Commons celebrates the city itself. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates led the design for the 274 acre parklands that formed the centerpiece for the London Games, recognized as the ‘Greenest Games’ in history, with the park declared the ‘winner of the Games’ by the Mayor of London. Read more.

Hargreaves Associates was awarded the 2016 SCUP Excellence in Planning for a District or Campus Component Merit Award. SCUP offers an awards program that recognizes excellence in planning, design and implementation efforts of firms and institutions, as well as the achievements of individuals whose lives and passions involve higher education.

The prize was awarded for our work on the Stanford School of Medicine Space Master Plan. The jury commented on as “space analysis master plan is compelling and it was well done”. The Space Master Plan identifies future space needs of the School of Medicine, qualitatively and quantitatively. It identifies two scenarios that accommodate these needs in the most appropriate facilities, locations and adjacencies to enhance the collective mission of learning, patient care, and research. The plan identifies the criteria used to evaluate space scenarios and implementation strategies, and establishes planning goals that provide the framework for future decision-making and to shape the plan. Read more

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“Connecting green spaces, remediation, making people places, an approach into the city—every single problem is rolled into one package.” – 2015 Awards Jury

Hargreaves Associates led the consultant team and worked with the client, stakeholder agencies and neighborhood groups to develop an urban design plan and feasibility study for the redevelopment of the 45 acre Penn’s Landing site, with an emphasis on an integrated approach to the overall development strategy, infrastructure needs and public realm opportunities. The plan resulted in strategies for transportation systems, structural deck systems and the design concept for a world class 21st century urban park that will catalyze the realization of almost 2 million square feet of mixed-use waterfront development and result in an overall economic benefit of $1.6 billion for the city. After years of planning for Penn’s Landing, the Feasibility Study for the first time represents a plan embraced by all stakeholders and sets forth a clear path for funding, phasing and implementation of this long held ambition to connect downtown Philadelphia to the Delaware River.

Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe. The award of excellence is the highest level, awarded to only one team in each of the six categories. Read more

Hargreaves Associates’ Crescent Park in New Orleans is a recipient of a 2015 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum. Hargreaves Associates led the design effort, collaborating with prime Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, and architects Adjaye/Architects and Michael Maltzan Architecture on the 2015 completion of the 1.4-mile long riverfront at the namesake curve of the Mississippi River. The fundamental success of the park is the transformation of a long off-limits rail corridor and decaying wharf complex into a linear landscape affording stunning views of downtown, and long absent direct access to the river for the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods.

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally. The program awards pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.