The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced its professional award recipients for 2016.
Selected from 456 entries, the awards honour top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications and research projects in Canada, the U.S. and around the world. Two Canadian projects were recognized among the winners ? Underpass Park in Toronto by PFS Studio (General Design Category, Award of Excellence) and Corktown Common: Flood Protection and a Neighbourhood Park in Toronto by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc. (General Design Category, Honour Award).
The professional awards jury included:

Kona Gray, ASLA, Chair, EDSA, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Keith Bowers, FASLA, Biohabitats Inc. Baltimore
Jennifer Guthrie, FASLA, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Seattle Mami Hara, ASLA, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia
Christopher Hume, Architecture Critic, Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario
Lee-Anne Milburn, FASLA, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Willett Moss, ASLA, CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco
Suman Sorg, FAIA, DLR Group | Sorg, Washington, D.C.
Laurinda Spear, ASLA, ArquitectonicaGEO, Miami

Underpass Park
Photo by Tom Arban. Courtesy of ASLA
Underpass Park by PFS Studio is a highly imaginative public space in a rather unexpected place. Located beneath a complex of existing highway overpasses in Toronto?s downtown, an otherwise forgotten and derelict remnant has been transformed into an active publ...