Christy Ten Eyck and her team were recently awarded an American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) honor award for her living laboratory design at The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA) at the University of Arizona. That is two ASLA honor awards in the past two years. To put it in perspective, only twelve projects from around the world are honored each year, Ten Eyck has truly accomplished something rare. We are so excited to announce that Stabilizer® was used to stabilize the decomposed granite for each of these well-regarded projects.

“This project shows us everything that we should find in a university landscape. Not a blurred interpretation of “native” but rather a commitment to accuracy. An innovative and progressive incorporation of natural systems and social spaces. Blending the functional aspects with social spaces is a rare commitment to this level of honesty. ”
—2010 Professional Awards Jury

Arizona is home to both projects and last year’s award winner, the Arizona State University BioDesign Institute, earned the first ever LEED Platinum Certification in the state. This year’s winner is just as unique having been constructed without a large budget, illustrating that life promoting environments are born from the balances we strike between human and plant, hardscape and nature. In balancing the hardscape with nature (Stabilized DG) the urban heat island effect is reduced allowing for 5 distinct Arizona biomes to exist within this one project. Read more about this incredible project here.