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Sun Herald Design Awards
Winners of the Sun Herald's inaugural design awards, selected by jurors from Mississippi State University, are being recognized this week for creating the best in the built and natural environment in South Mississippi since Hurricane Katrina. The winners will be announced by category. Sunday: Architecture; Monday: Engineering; Tuesday: Environmental; Today: Landscape architecture; Thursday: Planning.
The 420-acre community of Florence Gardens is the winner of the Landscape Architecture Honor Award.
The community has a master plan that includes a commercial district, private academy, a broad range of housing types, connected walking paths and preserved wetlands and woodland areas.
Florence Gardens' landscape architecture extends from its common elements to the individual home sites. Each home is sited on its lot by Florence Gardens' landscape architect to achieve proper drainage and to save existing vegetation.
Here are the juror comments:
"The members of the jury were impressed with the continuum between the master planning and detail design of this project and how the landscape was an integral part of the planning, design and development process at all levels. The jury was especially impressed with the incorporation of various best management practices into development of the overall site as well as individual residential lots. Although some plant materials are selected and used to please the client and make homeowners happy, overall ecological design approach seems to ensure sustainability principles at the greater scale as the total neighborhood and development. Interdisciplinary approach seems to be evident in successful implementation of the project from the start to finish."
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