ASLA Presents
Professional Awards

The Hawaii chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) presented its 2009 Professional Awards at the Waikiki Yacht Club on Aug. 25. The awards, given every three years, recognize the best in landscape architecture for design, planning and analysis and communications.
Recipients of excellence awards are:
• Walters, Kimura, Motoda, Inc. — general design award for Waikiki Beach Walk
• Loriann Gordon, ASLA — residential design award for the Knudson residence at Hualalai
• Umemoto Cassandro Design Corp. — planning and analysis award for the East-West Center Campus Landscape Improvements Master Plan
Honor awards were presented to:
• PBR Hawaii & Associates, Inc. — planning and analysis award for the Kahanu Garden Master Plan for the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hana, Maui
• Helber Hastert & Fee — general design award for the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Umemoto Cassandro Design with Leland Miyano, residential design award for the Aliomanu residence, Kauai
• PBR Hawaii — communication award for the Hoopili Community Task Force Vision Statement for this Ewa community
Merit award winners include:
• Helber Hastert & Fee — general design award for the Waikoloa Performance and Cultural Gardens
• Lester H. Inouye & Associates — general design award for the Puukani water feature at Sacred Hearts Academy
• PBR Hawaii — planning and analysis award for the Lihue Civic Center Master Plan
• Umemoto Cassandro Design — general design award for the Hualalai Canoe Club
• Walters, Kimura, Motoda with EDAW, Inc. of Irvine, Calif. — general design award for the Royal Hawaiian Center Revitalization
• Dana Anne Yee — general design award for the Hokulani Elementary School Peace Garden and Hawaiian Garden, Honolulu
ASLA Hawaii also presented its Malama Aina Awards for environmental stewardship to Charles “Chipper” Wichman, CEO of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Kauai, and Stan Oka of the City & County of Honolulu’s Urban Forestry Division. Honored with Pookela Awards for lifetime achievement in the landscape architectural field were Juli Kimura Walters and Paul Weissech, and posthumously Ray Cain, Tom Papandrew and George Walters.