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Home My WebLink About1997-12-15; Parks & Recreation Commission; 1297-4; Hosp Grove ParkPARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION -AGENDA BILL AB# 1297-4 MTG 12-15-97 DEPT CSD TITLE: HOSP GROVE PARK/AWARD RECOGNITION (INFO) RECOMMENDED ACTION: Acknowledge an award received by the City of Carlsbad for Hosp Grove Park. ITEM EXPLANATION: The City of Carlsbad recently won a Merit Award from the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for the design of Hosp Grove Park. The Award was presented and accepted on behalf of the City by Mark Steyaert, Park Development Coordinator. The Design Awards Competition was sponsored by the Local Chapter of ASLA and the awards ceremony was held Friday night December 5,1997. Several years ago, the Parks and Recreation Commission recommended to the City Council that Park Bond funding awarded to the City of Carlsbad be utilized to create the 5 Vz acre Hosp Grove Park Special Use Area. Council approved the Commission's recommendation and the Park was designed by Mark Steyaert who also managed its construction. Since its development, the park site has proven to be a well utilized recreational use area. EXHIBITS: 1. News Article - San Diego Union Tribune, December 7, 1997. home H-22 THE SAN Dn-x.o UNION-TRUJUNF. • SI/MMY. DECEMBER 7,1997 'Community7 rates high in winning landscapes By Karen C. Wilson GARDEN KDITOR W ork by two city of San Diego landscape planners on the pioneering Multiple Species Conservation Program, which sets aside land for habitat and species preservation, took the top prize Friday night in the 1997 Design Awards Competition spon- sored by the local chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. DATEBOOK "A Galleria of Landscapes" Exhibition of landscape projects entered in the 1997 Design Awards Competition sponsored by the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Today through Jan. 15; South Chula Vista Library, 389 Orange Ave., Chula Vista. Free. For library hours of operation, call (619) 585-5755; all other infor- •—'ion, call the ASLA chapter • at (619) 283-3818. In a ceremony at the South Chula Vista Library (which itself coasts an award-winning land- scape), landscape architect Tom Story and environmental planner Karen Scarborough received the ^'resident's Award for Excellence or their roles in crafting the local jortion of the complex regionallabitat-conservation plan adopted >y the City Council last March. Jurors said they wanted to rec- 'gnize the project not just for its >rward thinking and regional ASL*/Photos Hosp Grove Park: The redesign of this public park in Carlsbad included replacing unsightly land- scape details like an asphalt drainage ditch with a more aesthetically pleasing cobble creek that continues to act as a functional watercourse during rainy periods. impact, but also as a means of acknowledging and publicizing the role of landscape architects in the process — a fact, they said, that might otherwise be over- looked. The Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) was one of several community- focused landscape projects to win an award in the chapter's fifth annual design competition. The 14 other awards handed out went to rtdoor classroom: Urban students experience nature close up at e Gompers Environmental Learning 1Mb, which won an ASIA erit Award for resource conservation. mostly large-scale civic-enhance- ment projects, such as the "Camino del Mar Streetscape" project by Spurlock/Poirier Landscape Architects. Their three- mile redesign of a portion of Del Mar's main artery garnered them one of the two Honors Awards handed out Friday night. The firm, which is currently involved in the high visibility land- scaping of the new Getty Center complex in Los Angeles, also received a Merit Award for its fun, "never-to-be-built" "Harvard Yard Pink" landscape project — a tem- porary, site-specific design that imagines a fantasy landscape of pink-snow-covered tree trunks for the East Coast university campus. The other Honors Award of the night went to Wallace Roberts & Todd for its landscaping of an armed services recreation cen- ter/public hotel at a former Army base in Honolulu. The jurors said they were particularly impressed with the sensitive way in which the design incorporated important ele- ments of native Hawaiian history. Tellingly, no awards were given out in two of the nine landscape categories, both of which targeted small-scale designs. Although there were some entries in both the categories — single-family res- idential landscape design, and landscape details (small design- .-;- O enhancing touches) — the jurors believed that none was special enough to merit an award. "The general feeling was that they were OK, but not exception- al," said one juror. For the most part, the projects entered into this year's competi- tion were ones that had a strong community base, according lo incoming ASLA chapter president Terry Barker. "I think it's a reflection of the times that a majority of the pro- jects submitted were what I would call socially conscious one? ' said Barker. "Many of the entries were for very moving projects," she said, citing as examples a landscape for a combined Alzheimer's patient/children's day-care facility that paired the needs of the elder- ly with those of the young: and an accessible children's park design that focused on the needs of dis- abled parents who had to super- vise the play of their healthy chil- dren, neither of which won an award. "Unlike past competitions, where entries were heavily weighted toward institutional and corporate/commercial projects, hardly any of the 47 entries this time fell into that category." Barker said. Many of the winning designs mx were for projects not typically associated with landscape archi- tecture, Barker said, but part of the purpose of the competition is to call attention to the many, var- ied roles that a landscape architect can take on — from mapping the future urban landscape to his- torically recon- structing gar- dens, such as those surround- ing the House of Hospitality in Balboa Park (a project that gar- nered a Merit Award for designers Garbini & Garbini). "For example, you don't con- nect a landscape architect with an outdoor science laboratory," said Barker, "yet that's precisely the case with the Goinpers Environmental Learning Lab designed by the Schmidt Design Group." The lab, a hands-on natural-sci- ences learning center used by some 8,000 secondary-school stu- dents in the San Diego Unified School District, won a Merit Award for resource conservation. Also winning Merit Awards were: • The redeveloped landscape at the la Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art by Garbini & Garbini. Pipe dream: Spurlock/ Poirier's Harvard Yard Pink won an award in the "never- to-be-built" landscape category. • Hosp Grove Park, a public park redesigned with hiking trails, won for the city of Carlsbad. .";. • KTU+A's safety study for the1 Mission Beach boardwalk; and its ' community-outreach design work- shops for the city of Oceanside's "El Corazon de Oceanside" pro- ject. • Two land- scape projects by Wallace Roberts & Todd — one, part of the Point Ix>ma Waste Water Treatment Facility Master Plan, and one. part of the updated Mission Bay /*• Park Master X' Plan. ';. • Wimmer Yamada and Caughey's design for the ARCO Olympic , Training Center in Chula Vista; landscape improvements in the Sports Fishing Landing area of the America's Cup Harbor by Deneen Powell Atelier Inc.; and a land- scape enhancement project at Batiquitos Lagoon by Lettieri- Mclntyre & Associates Inc. In conjunction with the landscape awards, "A Galleria of Landscapes," an exhibition showcasing the 47 landscape projects entered in the competition, will be on public dis- play at the South Chula Vista Library through Jan. 15. Meritorious design: Colorful landscape details by Deneen Powell Atelier Inc. focus on common denominators to tie together dis- parate areas of America's Cup Harbor. f>Q