YUMA COURTHOUSE PLAZA
YUMA, AZ
2011

As the landscape architecture consultant on an invited GSA Design Excellence competition for a new courthouse, GV designed a public plaza that echoes the atmosphere of the surrounding desert and consumes only a third of the water required to maintain a lawn. Seating elements act as security barriers, together with a system of swales, runnels and microbasins that carry rainwater directly to the plants.

American Institute of Architects, Western Mountain Region, Citation Award

architect: Westlake Reed Leskosky (Jonathan Kurtz)