At Long Last... The 2021 NCASLA Award Winners
by Dan Lambert, PLA, ASLA
The last two years have been, well, unique to phrase it in the best possible light. A part of the disruption that the pandemic world has brought to our lives includes the struggle to determine the right way to honor our fellow professionals who have done exceptional work over the past few years as we do every year, with the NCASLA Annual Awards.
Typically, the chapter holds a gala associated with the conference to honor winners. With last year’s shift to a virtual conference, we decided to hold out until summer for better opportunities for an in-person event. As it turns out, that has not been possible in the time since and our wonderful slate of 2021 NCASLA Annual Award winners have waited patiently for the time when they will be announced.
That time is now. Here are your 2021 NCASLA Annual Award Winners!!
General Design
Honor Award – Sierra Nevada Brewery – Design Workshop
Merit Award – Sycamore Hill Gateway Plaza – Rhodeside Harwell & Perkins + Will
Merit Award – First Ward Park and UNCC Plaza – Shadley Associates PC
Merit Award – Willow Pond Stem Outdoor Classroom – Equinox, The North Carolina Arboretum
Residential Design
Merit Award – Garage Apartments Green Roof – Kathryn Blatt Ancaya, PLA, ASLA, Living Roofs, Inc/Green Roof Planting Design; Emilio Ancaya, GRP, Living Roofs Inc/Green Roof System Design, Installation and Maintenance; Peter Alberice/Architect; Garanco Construction/General Contractor – Client: Karen Ramshaw/Public Interest Projects, Inc.
Analysis & Planning
Honor Award - Nicks Creek Longleaf Reserve: Conservation & Programming Study – NC State University Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
Merit Award - Princeville Community Floodprint: Resiliency Strategies for Greater Princeville – NC State University Coastal Dynamics Design Lab
Merit Award – North Hills Innovation District – CallisonRTKL, Inc.
Urban Design
Honor Award – Innovation Quarter North District – Stimmel Associates, P.A.
Communications
Merit Award – Rutherford Bound – Destination by Design
Student Award: General Design
Merit Award – Living on the Edge -- The Future and New Look for Nags Head – Ruixin Mao; North Carolina State University
Congratulations 2021 NCASLA Award Winners!
Each of these winners will be featured through NCASLA’s social media and through email blasts over the next few months as we approach our 2022 Conference at which time 2021 honorees will receive their awards in a paired ceremony with our 2022 award winners (get those entries in if you have not yet).
Until that time, please take a moment to recognize these fantastic projects by our compatriots and professional brethren. Their hard work, and yours, continue to make for amazing places, spaces and experiences for the citizens of and visitors to our great state.
For those of you who submitted and did not take home the prize for 2021, please consider resubmitting your projects this year or furnishing submittal of new projects. Our timeline for consideration of projects is seven (7) years and all projects completed after January 1, 2015 are eligible. You may not have won in 2021, but 2022 just may be your year. I hope that it is a good year for us all.