American Society of Landscape Architects Gives Orange County Great Park Comprehensive Master Plan 2008 Professional Award of Honor

APRIL 28, 2008 – IRVINE, California – The American Society of Landscape Architects has selected the Orange County Great Park Comprehensive Master Plan – titled “A Vision for the Great Park of the 21st Century” – for the 2008 Professional Award of Honor for Analysis and Planning. The award winning master plan is the work of the Great Park Design Studio, which includes landscape architects Ken Smith Workshop West and Mia Lehrer + Associates. The American Society of Landscape Architects jury panel considered over 500 entries and selected 29 projects to receive awards.

The 2008 jury panel called the Orange County Great Park Master Plan “Marvelous.” They also referred to it as, “An innovative and sustainable approach to ecology, people and history on an amazing scale. The landscape architect’s graphics are very believable and demonstrate many new ideas. The formal strategies are bold and the designers are using this as a chance to experiment.”

“The Orange County Great Park is honored to receive national recognition for its visionary master plan,” said Larry Agran, Chair of the Orange County Great Park Corporation. “The Great Park is now an emerging reality, and this honor sets it in a class among the most prestigious projects in the nation.”
Other general design category honor awards included the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., the Boston Children’s Museum and the Lost Dog Trails’ Head in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information on all awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects, go to the society’s Website at www.asla.org/press/2008/release041508.html.

The Orange County Great Park, which is almost twice the size of New York City’s Central Park, will be a major metropolitan park and the focal point of the redevelopment of the 4,700-acre former Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro. The Great Park will include extensive natural areas and open space in addition to recreational and cultural uses.

For more information, please go to www.ocgp.org.

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