On March 9, 2015, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced the national and regional winners of its annual Awards of Excellence:  Projects define the places we live, work and play.

Congratulations to the landscape architecture Guelph alumni recipients, which included:

National Honour: 

• Marc Ryan, PUBLIC Work office for urban design and landscape architecture for Midtown in Focus (Toronto).  Category:  planning and analysis

National Merit: 

• Ryan Mortson, Stantec Consulting Ltd for Bow RiverWalk (Calgary).  Category:  design/conception.
• Dean Gregory, The University of British Columbia for Pedestrian Campus (Vancouver).  Category:  design.
• Virginia Burt, Virginia Burt Designs, Canada Inc., for Acadia Point (Blandford, NS).  Category:  residential design.

Regional Citation: 

• Joseph Fry, Hapa Collaborative for Terra Nova Adventure Play Experience (Richmond) and McBurney Lane (Langley).  Category:  design.

The national awards will be presented at the CSLA Congress Gala at the Hilton Mexico City Reforma on Saturday, May 23, 2015.  For more information regarding the CSLA Awards of Excellence please visit the CSLA website [1].