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2005 Illinois ASLA Awards
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. received four professional awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2005.
The Calumet Plans received a national Honor Award in “Analysis and Planning” from the American Society of Landscape Architects (www.asla.org). The client was the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development. The prime consultant was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (www.som.com). Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. had primary responsibility for the Calumet Open Space Reserve, one of three components of the Calumet Plans.
The firm also received three awards from the Illinois Chapter of the ASLA (www.il-asla.org) for the Calumet Plans, Honor Award in Planning and Analysis, the Levy Senior Center Enabling Garden (www.cityofevanston.org), Merit Award in Design, and the Gary Green Link Master Plan (www.gary.in.us/planning/developing_11.asp), Merit Award in Planning and Analysis).
The Honor award for the Calumet Plans is the second ASLA national award received by the firm. The Jackson Park Pavilion received a Merit Award in 2001. Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. has also received national awards from the Waterfront Center for the Chicago River Corridor Development Plan, in 2000, and the American Institute of Architects for the State Street Renovation, in 1998; SOM received this national award from the AIA, and Wolff Landscape Architecture was a consultant to SOM.
Including the three Illinois Chapter awards received in 2005, the firm has received 20 awards from the Illinois Chapter ASLA since 1993, more than any other landscape architecture firm in Illinois. We are proud to have the reputation as a firm that consistently does award-winning planning and design projects.
Gold Star Families Memorial and Park
The Gold Star Families Memorial and Park was presented at the January 2006 meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission on January 12, 2006, which passed a special resolution praising and recognizing the project. Construction will start this spring, with completion scheduled for fall 2006. The sponsor for the project is the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit corporation. The memorial and park are located on a 5 acre site in the Museum Campus, located between Soldier Field and Burnham Harbor, is owned by the Chicago Park District.
The project goal is to develop a memorial of national stature to honor and recognize officers of the Chicago Police Department who have died in the line and performance of duty (over 420 officers since the founding of the predecessors of the current Chicago Police Department).
The specific objectives of the project are to:
· List and honor the name of every officer who has died in the line and performance of duty
· Communicate not only that these officers died, but how they lived their lives
· Provide a destination for the annual St. Jude’s Day parade (1st Sunday in May)
· Provide a gathering space for the annual St. Jude’s Day candlelight vigil
· Provide a location for a Father’s Day service and other events
The design concept is to integrate the memorial into the park, so that the memorial becomes part of the park, used by visitors to the memorial as well as general park users, something that is open to the public and will not only serve as a destination for people wishing specifically to visit and view the memorial, but will also be inviting to visitors to the Museum Campus, the lakefront multi-use trail, etc.
There are five main feature areas of the memorial, all of which are connected by a curving and flowing informal gravel pedestrian walkway: the North Entry, the Values Nodes, the Central Gathering Space, the Sacrifice Space, and the South Entry.
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. was one of a dozen Illinois landscape architecture firms that submitted qualifications to the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation (www.cpdmemorial.org), was one of five firms selected for a short-list interview, and was the firm that was selected for this meaningful assignment.
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America
Construction is well under way at the new corporate headquarters for Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America. Located on a 70 acre site in Deerfield, Illinois adjacent to the Tri-State Tollway, Phase 1 consists of two buildings with approximately 350,000 square feet of space, structured and surface parking for 1,100 cars, roads, detention ponds, site development, and landscaping.
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. has been on the planning and design team since the beginning, and had an integral role in the development of the site Master Plan, with anticipated final build-out consisting of five buildings in four phases. Preparation of detailed landscape plans at the early design stages of the project was essential for the annexation, zoning, and entitlements process with the Village of Deerfield, as well as for project cost estimating.
Takeda’s new corporate headquarters will be certified at the “silver” level by the United States Green Building Council in its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
The planning and design team is led by Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates, Inc. (www.tvsa.com), the design architect and architect of record. Hines (www.hines.com) is the Development Manager on behalf of Takeda, and there is an extensive team of other consultants, including v3 (www.v3co.com), civil engineers and others.
Ground was broken in the summer of 2005, with construction to be completed in 2007
Business Instructional Facility, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first new classroom building at the University in years, and the first new facility for the Business School in decades. The “BIF” is organized around a three-story “commons,” an interior open space with a full-height glass curtain wall facing south. Outside of the commons is an exterior courtyard which is an extension of the commons. The indoor commons and the outdoor courtyard are at the heart of the facility.
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. was responsible for design and documentation of project hardscape and landscape, and took the lead in the design of the courtyard and site perimeter. Objectives for the courtyard include circulation to and from the building, seasonal interest and beauty, outdoor gathering space for receptions, ceremonies, and other Business School events, and small gathering places and seating for individual students and small study groups or teams.
The courtyard extends the architectural design of the commons into the landscape. Strong feature strips project out from the building, and the spaces between them are a series of linear spaces including walkways, water feature, lawn area, prairie planting, and sedge meadow. Within the prairie planting and at the edge of the courtyard are linear and circular benches that accommodate both individuals and the small teams of students so integral to the Business School’s curriculum and approach to instruction.
This will be the University of Illinois’ first LEED certified building; the goal, and the ambitious goal is Gold level of certification.
The design architect and leader of the design team is Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (http://www.pcparch.com) of New York. The architect of record is Dewberry (www.dewberry.com) (formerly Phillips Swager Associates / PSA Dewberry) of Peoria, Illinois, joined by numerous specialty consultants including Atelier Ten (www.atelierten.com), environmental designers, building services engineers, and LEED consultants; KJWW (www.kjww.com), the MEP engineer; and Clanton Associates (www.clantonassociates.com), the lighting designer.
Wolff Landscape Architecture, Inc. was the landscape architect, responsible for site hardscape and landscape design, including site and landscape LEED credits.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for May 2006, with construction to be completed in May 2008.
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