Award of Excellence & Honor Award
Represents unparalleled advancement of the profession of landscape architecture.
Lake Avenue South Park
“This seems the type of exemplary work that the profession strives for. The project shows great context of the design process with a strong emphasis on environmental sensitivity and sustainability. This type of design can only be accomplished by an experienced LA who has the ability to finesse the other supporting consultants to make all the design elements work in harmony. The design value to the client and adjacent residents is excellent as well, which makes this park a wonderful asset to the community providing recreational, social, and ecological opportunities and benefits.”
A ½-mile sinuous multi-use regional trail snakes through the park recalling the shapes and forms of riparian stream corridors. Cross-connection pathways create picnic areas and a public art plinth
SUMMARY
Lake Avenue South Park (LASP) is a ½-mile long, 8.35-acre linear community park located in the 4,200-acre Daybreak community of South Jordan, Utah. It is the first built component of a 2.5-mile-long master-planned open space corridor that will connect the two major open space amenities of the community through the center of the emerging downtown. Being the first, it sets the standard that all other components of the corridor must meet.
Parks that can serve multiple purposes and function in multiple ways become the highest valued places in a community and will be preserved and sustained well into the future. LASP was designed to be a community connector; a recreation and re-creation destination; an environmentally-friendly green infrastructure corridor; an economic value creator; and, finally, a beautiful and unique place that is integrated into its context and recalls the natural patterns of perennial stream corridors of the American West.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Community Connectivity & Walkability
Recreation & Re-creation
Green Infrastructure & the Environment
Value Creation
Placemaking & Quality of Life