A couple exceptionally fresh projects slipped into the ASLA awards this year (which were just released yesterday), both by CMG Landscape Architecture of San Francisco:
As Pruned notes, CMG’s work seems out of place in the ASLA awards, situated amongst “projects whose budgets seem crass in an age of credit crunch and foreclosure”, a “cabal of slick hyper-modernity and conspicuous designery”. Both the Crack Garden and the Bandshell are undeniably fresh and creative, perfect examples of the sort of user-generated urbanism (backyards, after all, are as much a part of the urban ecosystem as sidewalks) aimed at generating a diverse (social or botanical) ecology which Rebar outlined in their too-brief five minutes at the recent Ecological Urbanism conference.
