For immediate release: January 11, 2005

Design Workshop honored with four awards
in annual CCASLA program

DENVER — Design Workshop will be honored with four awards at the annual awards banquet of the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, to be held Friday, January 14, at the Tivoli Center on the Auraria campus. The firm won Honor Awards for residential design in Aspen and in the planning and urban design category (with RNL Design) for a project in Las Vegas, Nevada, and won Merit Awards for a district plan in Santa Fe and a retail complex in Palm Desert, California.

CCASLA’s Professional Design Awards Program recognizes Colorado and Wyoming landscape architecture professionals in their pursuit to lead, to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Honor awards recognize superior professional accomplishment and merit awards recognize outstanding accomplishments in the design profession.

“We are grateful to be recognized for our work,” says Associate Dan Ford of Design Workshop. “Celebrating these projects is a healthy reminder to us all that what we do as landscape architects is critical to ensuring that development is responsive and our environment remains sustainable for the generations to come.”

The award for Design Workshop’s residential design is one in a long line of honors, which include the showcasing of 10 designs in the book New Gardens of the American West published in 2004 by Watson Guptill. The firm swept that category in the 2002 CCASLA awards. The Union Park Design Guidelines, which Design Workshop created with the architecture firm RNL Design, is a project that is transforming the Las Vegas, Nevada, rail yard into a dynamic mixed-use community. The Santa Fe Community College District Plan, which won a Merit Award, is the currently featured case study on Practicing Planner, the online journal of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Gardens on El Paseo, also a Merit winner, is a retail district in Palm Desert, California, that also recently won distinction as a Great Public Space from the Project for Public Spaces.