Category: Awards

Congrats to the CHLA team for our recent ASLA awards on the Childs Point project!

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We’re excited to share the news! CHLA wins an ASLA Honor award for our “Parking Lot Alive!” project at the Adkins Arboretum. Adkins is a 400-acre native garden and preserve located on the Eastern Shore of MD. It’s open to the public and well worth the visit!

Learn more about Adkins Arboretum here

We are excited to announce that our Willow Hill project has just won a Merit Award at the 2022 Perennial Plant Association!

Willow Hill demonstrates how thoughtful design and site planning can positively improve the health of a waterfront property. Despite a multitude of hardscape and landscape challenges, the new owners’ request for an undemanding garden that harmonized with the tidewater ethos was fulfilled. Extensive drainage was added around the house and overlaid with a palette of colorful native grasses and perennials. In lowland areas of the site, the landscape architects repaired a collapsed stormwater pipe, filled a sinkhole, reduced the extent of the lawn, and planted a large “sponge” of native wetland species.

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Big news! Our Ironstone project has just won a Merit Award from the 2022 Perennial Plant Association.

Architect: Hansen Architects
Landscape Contractor: Scapes Inc.

When the clients purchased this property in 2015, they were confronted with a maze of masonry spread across their property — all created with an orangey-brown stone that the locals call ironstone.
In addition to the existing hardscapes, the waterfront site boasted a main house, guest cottage, and the ruins of an earlier home, felled by a hurricane and abandoned.
The clients brought on the landscape architects to create order from this chaos, and requested that the masterplan include a pool, shade pergola, terraces, and a complete planting overhaul.
Across the rest of the property, the landscape architects used stepping stone paths, rebuilt ironstone walls, and recommended planting edits to knit together the main house, pool, guest cottage, piers, and waterfront gardens.
Along the waterfront, existing hardscapes were preserved to save money; budgets were instead spent on removing invasive species and establishing strong perennial buffers between the house and the water.
The final result is a landscape that feels both old and new — with materials rooted in the past and a modern planting palette.

View the award here.
View the project here.

Luxe Interiors + Design’s annual RED Awards recognizes and honors excellence, innovation and the best residential architecture, interior design and landscape architecture projects across the country.

We are so incredibly excited to be included in this year’s winners! See us on Luxe here.

Large swaths of native grasses and perennials were intentionally selected to heighten the awareness of various artworks throughout this Annapolis, Maryland, garden. The negative-edge pool accentuates the property’s modern lines.

Principal Bob Hruby with CHLA’s latest award.

CHLA wins the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Merit Award in Residential Design for Accotink Creek, Fairfax, VA. See the award-winning property here.

Senior Associate, Nick Ries at our award-winning Bridgeview garden.

The PPA judging committee applauded CHLA’s cohesive design with attention to all aspects of the landscape, including the hardscapes. Broad vistas and contemporary elements provided an inspiring edge to the “New American Garden” style.

Read more here… 2021 PPA AWARDS

Congrats to the CHLA team for our recent ASLA awards for our projects Winchester and South Annapolis Yacht Center! Enjoy a few shots from the Gala courtesy of Side A Photograpy.