Xochimilco Ecological Park
Scope of Work:
Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Location:
Xochimilco, México City.
Description: An instance of environmental restoration on a vast scale, the project also addresses challenges of urbanization in one of the most populous cities in the developing world, providing both, open space for recreation and productive land for economic development. Xochimilco, meaning "the place where flowers are grown," is a fragment of a pre Conquest, even pre- Aztec, landscape of artificial garden islands created in the lake that once filled a large area in the Valley of Mexico.
Year:
1993
Awards: Prince of Wales / Green Prize in Urban Design, Harvard University, 1996. Merit Design Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1994. Premio de Honor, III Bienal de Arquitectura Mexicana, 1994. Design Award, The waterfront Center, Washington D.C. | 
