Design Award of Honor

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Peter Walker & Partners, Berkeley, CA
Client: Nasher Foundation

Effective creation of series of outdoor rooms through tree bosques. . . Geometry serves as a perfect extension from the indoor space visually and functionally. . . Excellent!
           2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

This sculpture garden was designed as an outdoor gallery that can hold between twenty and thirty pieces, some permanently and some in changing displays. The great weight of some of the pieces and the movement of sculpture in and out of the garden necessitated the invention of a special soil that drains perfectly without catch basins, is strong enough to hold the weight loads, and can support the growth of a special resilient grass turf as well as many large specimen trees. To allow as much flexibility as an indoor museum space, pavement was kept to a minimum while meeting public ADA requirements. Stone plinths distribute flexible systems of lighting, sound, security, and irrigation through the garden as well as provide casual seating and additional sites for smaller pieces of sculpture.