Awards

ASLA-NY 2018 Awards

SCAPE is honored to receive 3 ASLA New York Awards this year. SCAPE was selected for Honor Awards for the Hall of Science Discovery Terrace in the category General Landscape Architecture Design and for the Gowanus Lowlands in the category of Analysis, Planning, Research, and Communications and a Merit Award for the New York-Presbyterian & Columbia University Medical Campus Joint Master Plan in the category of General Landscape Architecture Design. The design awards ceremony and reception will be held on Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 at the Center for Architecture.

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.

Buckminster Fuller Award | Living Breakwaters Rebuild By Design Competition

Staten Island, NY

In 2015, SCAPE was named the recipient of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) Challenge, a “socially responsible design’s highest award” for Living Breakwaters, a comprehensive climate change adaptation and community development project. The Fuller Challenge, launched in 2007 has recognized an emerging field of practice: the whole systems approach to understanding and intervening in complex and interrelated crises for wide-scale social and environmental impact. The Living Breakwaters project reduces risk, revives ecologies, and connects educators to the shoreline, inspiring a new generation of harbor stewards and a more resilient region over time by deploying a layered strategy that links in-water protective forms to on-shore interventions that will help protect the shoreline while improving the quality of life for residents and visitors alike.

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Selected Awards