Going green on Great White Way.The Broadway Mall Association--a not-for-profit organization that helps to care for the planted median malls that run along Broadway from 60th Street to 168th Street--announced winners in its Third Annual National Garden Design Competition that drew designers from eight states and Canada. With invitations extended to accredited landscape architecture schools in the United States and Canada, as well as posted with the American Society of Landscape Architects The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 17,000 members and 48 chapters, representing all 50 American states, US territories, and 42 countries around the world. , at the New York Botanical Gardens, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens and with the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Horticultural Society, the competition received 45 submissions. The first place prize; a composition of oakleaf hydrangea hydrangea (hīdrān`jə): see saxifrage. hydrangea Any of approximately 23 species of erect or climbing woody shrubs that make up the genus Hydrangea (family Hydrangeaceae). with ornamental grasses, 'Autumn Joy" sedum sedum: see stonecrop. sedum Any of about 600 species of succulent plants that make up the genus Sedum, in the stonecrop, or orpine, family (Crassulaceae), native to temperate zones and to mountains in the tropics. and cleome and yellow-twig dogwood dogwood or cornel (kôr`nəl), shrub or tree of the genus Cornus, chiefly of north temperate and tropical mountain regions, characteristically having an inconspicuous flower surrounded by large, showy bracts which , was designed Manhattan resident Denisha Williams. Williams, a project associate at City College Architectural Center, has a master's degree in Art History and returned to City University for a second degree and second career in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture Design. Second place was won by Kelly J. Engelbracht from Washington State University Washington State University, at Pullman; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1890, opened 1892 as an agriculture college. From 1905 to 1959 it was the State College of Washington. mad Third Place was captured by a group of students from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of RI. "The jury for this competition is an incredible line-up of design professionals whose work I admire. I'm honored and awed that this group selected my design for the planting on Broadway," said winner Williams. The mission of the association is to beautify and maintain the malls of Broadway to restore the public glory of New York City's oldest and most traveled thoroughfare, from Columbus Circle through Harlem to Washington Heights. |
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