Awards

AIA California Council Urban Design Merit Award | Public Sediment: Unlock Alameda Creek

Bay Area, CA

The SCAPE-led Public Sediment team was awarded a AIA California Merit Award in the Urban Design category, for their Unlock Alameda Creek proposal. The team developed Unlock Alameda Creek for the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge. The team’s proposal is based on the premise that sea level rise adaptation must happen upstream. Low sediment supply and bayland drowning represents a slow but devastating scale of loss that threatens ecosystems, recreational landscapes, and places hundreds of thousands of residents and the region’s critical drinking water, energy, and transportation systems at risk. To creatively adapt to this challenge, the team has focused on bringing back sediment to the Bay. The Public Sediment team includes Arcadis, The Dredge Research Collaborative, TS Studio, UC Davis Department of Human Ecology and Design, Cy Keener, and Architectural Ecologies Lab.

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MacArthur Fellow | Kate Orff, Founder & Principal

Creativity, potential, and a promise for future accomplishments are the three criteria for selection for the MacArthur Fellowship. The Fellows are meant to touch on social challenges and bring exceptional innovation and experimentation to inspire diverse people and places.

Kate Orff has joined the MacArthur Fellowship Program – Class of 2017, the first Landscape Architect in the Foundation’s 36 year history to be honored with the award. She brings fresh ideas towards new forms of public space, reviving hidden ecological systems and encouraging urban residents to become active stewards in their environment.

Selected Awards