Essex landscape architect wins awards

ESSEX >> The Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has presented two Honor Awards to Anne Penniman Associates LLC Landscape Architects, of Essex.

The Landscape Planning and Analysis Honor Award was presented for A New Park for Madison in Madison and a Landscape Architectural Residential Design Honor Award was presented for A Rowers Landing in Lyme.

A New Park for Madison was a coastal town park adjacent to the lower reach of the Hammonasset River and Hammonasset State Park. The Master Plan converts a 42-acre abandoned coastal airport site into a town park with passive and active recreation, including 20.6 acres protected by a conservation easement. The landscape architect, as the lead consultant, worked closely with the volunteer Town Committee, an ecologist and an architect to develop a Habitat Restoration Plan and a final Master Plan.

This lakeside residential site at Rowers Landing includes the design for a safe access path from a rowers storage barn to a nearby landing at the lakes edge. A 7-foot high grade change along the steep path is negotiated with monolithic granite ramped steps broad enough to manage the beam of the scull. Curving granite retaining walls step down the hillside in rhythm with the treads. A new, locally quarried granite terrace creates a transition to the landing.

Penniman, a Yale College graduate, earned a masters degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia and has a landscape architecture firm in Essex.

University of Virginia graduate Tracey Miller, an associate of the firm, was the project manager for the project A New Park for Madison.

Rutgers University graduate April Maly, also an associate of the firm, was the project manager for the project A Rowers Landing.

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Essex landscape architect wins awards