2005 Archives

Designed by: Mizue Suda and Yuki Mendia

Created by:

Walnut Total Design,
1522 Walnut Street #4
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-813-2825

This contemporary garden setting combines the best elements of a traditional Mediterranean design and the functionality of a modern space that is both picturesque and functional. The slate path is an inviting trail that brings you into the garden. It provides a pleasant contrast with the cream and terracotta walls. Together these two elements work to highlight and showcase the olive and weeping willow trees that are further accented with the shrubbery and colorful pottery. For those settings where space is a premium this garden design provides a diversity of greenery for the eyes with varied texture and functional forms.

Award: Bronze

Designers and Creators: UC Davis, Landscape Architecture Students

Created by:

Sarah Hayward
Tenay Fihe
Ken Konecny
Kari Koch
Mike Harris
Eric Mullin
Elizabeth Collett
Jessica Chase

California’s Central Valley is one of California’s under-valued aesthetic resources. Riparian/river corridors, agricultural croplands, and foothills create a uniquely woven landscape exemplifying California’s interior. These landscapes are threatened by California’s burgeoning developmental sprawl. Our garden seeks to endow viewers with a new appreciation for the Central Valley and promotes the preservation of this valuable open space. Our garden portrays the “carpet” of the central valley from an aerial perspective. Rolling foothill meld into the agricultural floor of the valley. There, the riparian landscape with its requisite poplar forest segues through agricultural fields. Amidst the quilted fields stands the lonely Oak tree, constructed of rebar to symbolize developmental incursion. All of our plants thrive in California’s dry temperate climate.
Award: Bronze

Designed by: UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design

Created by:

Yasmine Farazian
510-559-6933
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Eddie Beckhusen
Phone: 510-559-6933
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Chryssa Udvardy
Phone: 510-453-9113
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Patricia Algara Kimball
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This installation uses the interplay of light and shadow to express the accumulated memories and knowledge of Landscape Architecture into a three dimensional realm.
Award: Gold

Designed and Created by:

John M. Lamos
Studio Replica
163 Kentucky Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
707-765-2268 

Donald G. Boos
Don Boos Design
488 Main Street, #200A
Murphys, CA 95247
209-728-8526

Nature's dreams are realized in this sensual garden utilizing textural and color castings never seen before in the world of architecture and design.

This garden vision lingers between a moist edge of moss and the murmuring fall of waterfall, between the profound permanence of sheared rock walls and the bleached, dry and brittle boards on a barn, between cascading layers of fresh fragrant foliage and a coarse textured fabric methodically woven by hand. Anchored by rustic yet elegant concrete castings taken from original sources, our garden celebrates natural rock formations, shifting sands, parched cracked riverbeds, rough primitive weaves and crackled and worn linen. All presented in pre-cast modular or custom forms that compliment and enrich the flow and functions of our daily lives.

Award: Golden Gate Cup, Gold