ASLA 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.”