New England Farm

Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects

Hoerr Schaudt

Landscape Architects

Eric J. Smith

Kristy Perkins Construction

DaPonte Landscaping

John Peixinho

Tom Scheerer

Situated on sixty acres on Rhode Island’s coast, the clients of this New England farm wanted a comprehensive landscape vision that would infuse their property with characteristics of the regional vernacular in a relaxed, comfortable style. Hoerr Schaudt’s design involved a thorough edit of the site, uniting the vast landscape into a cohesive structure, and discreetly inserting surprises around every corner. The comprehensive rejuvenation was performed with expert subtlety, crafting a landscape that looked as if it had been there all along.

Using mature trees along the entrance drive, the formerly unremarkable arrival sequence was transformed into a dignified, rustic allée. Other spaces that add interest include a cutting garden and a reconstructed, antique party barn. The design of the landscape effortlessly moves between farm and sophisticated country estate, providing an array of experiences for the clients’ varied needs and interests.

Northwestern University, Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center

General Design, Constructed Projects

Northwestern University’s

Ryan

Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center is one of the most versatile practice, competition, and recreation venues in the nation.

The Fieldhouse is home to the University’s football and Olympic sports practice. Consolidating athletic facilities on the main campus allows direct adjacencies for programs as well as a new sports medicine and athletic training center.

The University, pinched between the City of Evanston and Lake Michigan, required an innovative solution for their sports and recreation needs. SmithGroup designed three synthetic turf fields to be used by athletic teams and for intramural and club programs. The new complex was designed to prevent stormwater from traveling to city storm sewers. SmithGroup’s integrated green infrastructure includes infiltration vaults, water quality treatment structures, and bioswales to enhance the natural hydrologic cycle. The curved coastal wall allows the building to withstand the dynamic waterfront conditions.

Plan to Play: Oswegoland Park and Recreation Master Plan

The Plan to Play: Park and Recreation Comprehensive Plan is a tool to drive long-range planning, direct decision-making, and assist with resource allocation for the Oswegoland Park District in Oswego, Illinois. Plan to Play enables decision-makers to prioritize resources for growth and development while relying on extensive analysis that is rooted in community sentiment. The Plan capitalized on Oswegoland’s existing assets, including 63 parks across 1,290 acres, three facilities, programs, and staff operations.

During analysis, the community’s vision was translated into tangible implementation strategies that were relayed back to the public. The planning effort included four key phases: Analyze, Engage, Envision, and Implement. The outcome of this effort will guide the District’s future growth and development while addressing the unique needs of our community. Most important, the comprehensive plan was a chance to learn how to play the Oswego way!

Plan to Play enables decision-makers to prioritize resources for growth and development while relying on extensive analysis that is rooted in community sentiment. The Plan capitalized on Oswegoland’s existing assets, including 63 parks across 1,290 acres, three facilities, programs, and staff operations.

Prairie View Station Area Plan

Surrounded by underutilized parcels, unannexed land, and untapped potential, the Village needed a framework to design a new destination — one that responds to traveler and resident needs as well as drives economic activity and a higher quality of life.

The Prairie View Metra Station Area covers 128 acres in the northern part of the Village of Buffalo Grove. Surrounded by underutilized parcels, unannexed land, and untapped potential, the Village needed a framework to design a new destination — one that responds to traveler and resident needs as well as drives economic activity and a higher quality of life.

The process focused on making an authentic destination in Buffalo Grove by defining the critical elements that make up the Station Area and drawing upon those elements to make a cohesive and legible environment that is attractive to investors and developers. The public engagement process provided a variety of methods to solicit input into the planning process, capturing a holistic understanding of the public’s needs, preferences, priorities, and vision. The planning framework integrates future land use, economic development, and multimodal transportation planning strategies. Buffalo Grove adopted the plan in 2019.

The REACH at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

HOLLANDER

Robert Silman Associates Arup Langan Engineering

Landscape and architecture are designed as a single, living component at The REACH, the newlycompleted expansion to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Together, they function as performance art: Architecture grows from Hollander Design’s landscape, and earth fuses with structure by Steven Holl Architects. Created as a living memorial to JFK, The REACH subverts the traditional concept of a performing arts venue in nearly every way.

The surface of The REACH is a sloping, riverside landscape comprised of 130,000 square feet of gardens and greenways. Just under half is on structure. At several points, sedum “swoops” twist up from flat to vertical wall, giving the landscape a sculptural, playful quality. Visitors encounter outdoor performance spaces, dining areas, a grove of 35 ginkgo trees planted in memorial to JFK as the 35th president, art installations, and a simulcast lawn offering projections of arts events.

Riverfront Fort Wayne, Promenade Park

Lamar Johnson Collaborative

Matt Maranzana

Chip Crawford

Todd Meyer

Katie Martin

Jessie King

Sophia Essian Design Collaborative

Hoch Associates

Engineering Resources, Inc.

American Structurepoint

Hagerman, Inc.

Randy Burkett Lighting Design

Michael Curry

The City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has a rich history of Native American and European settlers who strategically designed fortified camps at the confluence of three rivers that evolved into the now modern city. In recent years, civic leaders recognized the value of creating riverfront attractions that strengthen their downtown into a regional destination.

Promenade Park is a new six-acre development that spans the banks of the St. Mary’s River in downtown Fort Wayne. The goals of this user-friendly park were to connect the community to the river with a focus on recreation, dining, and entertainment venues; programmed events; social equity; resilience; and ecological restoration. The result is a riverfront that now gives the community direct access to its river and opportunities to experience the ebbs, flows, and sounds of nature, along with an equitable landscape for people of all ages, races, physical abilities, and economic situations.

South Lakefront Framework Plan

SMITHGROUP

MERIT AWARD TEAM

SmithGroup Carol Yetken Landscape Architects

Studio V Design

CATEGORY Planning & Analysis

LOCATION Chicago, Illinois

CLIENT Chicago Park District

COMPLETION YEAR

2018

The South Lakefront Framework Plan envisions a future for Chicago’s Jackson Park and South Shore Cultural Center in reference to several proposed projects that would significantly impact these historic landscapes. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and host to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the South Lakefront area carries great historical and cultural significance. SmithGroup integrated and coordinated the various planning efforts that led to the final plan document.

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and host to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the South Lakefront area carries great historical and cultural significance.

Using the input of the community as a foundation, SmithGroup developed a vision for the park that prioritizes relocated or new park programming, supports communities, and activates underused parts of each park. Three scenarios explore alternate solutions to 30-plus variables within the parks. The solution celebrates water by repositioning existing waterways and water features into a central usable element while bolstering its role as a sustainable performance landscape. The completed plan provides a framework for the parks for the next 15 to 20 years.

University of Chicago

Crerar Science Quadrangle

In 2016, the Crerar Science Quadrangle was redesigned to provide more functional and directional movement and to create an eye-catching place expressive of the surrounding science buildings, cohesively blending the built and natural environments.

Jacobs/Ryan Associates

Thoughtful landscape design is a defining aspect of the University of Chicago’s campus environment, and its impact is experienced daily by students, faculty, and staff. In 2016, the Crerar Science Quadrangle was redesigned to provide more functional and directional movement and to create an eye-catching place expressive of the surrounding science buildings, cohesively blending the built and natural environments.

Exploration of inspirational images led to collaboration between Jacobs/Ryan Associates and the University. A collaborative and iterative process gave way to double-ringed LED lights suspended on catenary cables from posts positioned around a square plaza and a circular planting of groundcover and trees. The popular project was featured in Landscape Architecture Magazine in January 2019 and received a 2019 award from the Illuminating Engineering Society and the 2019 American Architecture Award® honoring new and cutting-edge design.

Vision Clark Street Corridor Master Plan

THE LAKOTA GROUP MERIT AWARD TEAM The Lakota Group Kevin Clark Sam Schwartz Engineering Clue Group AP Monarch

CATEGORY Planning & Analysis

LOCATION

Chicago, Illinois

CLIENT Rogers Park Business Alliance COMPLETION YEAR 2017

Significant bilingual outreach to residents and business owners ensured the plan reflected the vision of the whole community.

The Lakota Group was engaged by Rogers Park Business Alliance to create a corridor plan for Clark Street in Rogers Park, Illinois. Lakota worked with the project steering committee to provide recommendations to improve coordination among business owners and promote the corridor through branding, public art, and programming. Several concepts were explored to improve economic vitality along the corridor through both land development and business development. Significant bilingual outreach to residents and business owners ensured the plan reflected the vision of the whole community.

The final plan synthesizes the feedback received throughout the process and illustrates the issues and opportunities of the corridor and the vision for its future. Recommendations prioritize preserving the unique history and character of the corridor and include short-term, tactical improvements as well as long-term investments. An extensive action plan outlined funding opportunities and priority levels to guide the community in achieving their vision.

Nachusa Grasslands Visitor Use Center

LARDNER/KLEIN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, P.C.

JENSEN AWARD TEAM

Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C. Design Management Architects, Inc.

Wendler Engineering Services, Inc.

Sjostrom & Sons, Inc.

Signature Interpretive Design

Immersing the visitor in this native prairie, the results speak to Jens Jensen’s philosophy of emphasizing the significance of nature in people’s lives.

After reintroducing the American bison to its Nachusa Grasslands Preserve, the Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter, needed to manage the influx of new visitors. With its mission focused on scientific research and land stewardship, managers did not have the resources to educate new visitors to the role bison play in the restoration and stewardship of this native prairie. Existing visitor facilities were minimal.

Lardner/Klein, supported by Design Management Architects, Wendler Engineering, and Signature Interpretive Design, met the challenge of introducing visitors without overpowering the surrounding landscape by creating a visible, yet invisible, Visitor

Center. Located on a wind-swept knoll, metal roof reflecting and disappearing into the endless sky, the facility draws visitors into an interpretive rich shelter framing distant views, telling the story of the vast prairie beyond. Immersing the visitor in this native prairie, the results speak to Jens Jensen’s philosophy of emphasizing the significance of nature in people’s lives.