Brochstein Pavilion earns Merit Award for landscape architecture

Brochstein Pavilion earns Merit Award for landscape architecture

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Rice’s Brochstein Pavilion has again earned recognition for its aesthetics. The Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has chosen the pavilion for a 2009 Merit Award, which honors outstanding work by Texas landscape architects.

	The Texas Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has given the Brochstein Pavilion a 2009 Merit Award, which honors outstanding work by Texas landscape architects.

Designed to be a campus gathering place, the pavilion has an exterior as inviting as its interior. It features seating areas shaded by slender allee elms, black concrete fountains cascading water onto beds of flat river rocks, clusters of horsetail reeds surrounding the pavilion terrace, decomposed granite walkways and a large, open grassy area canopied by live oaks. James Burnett was the landscape architect for the project. The Rice project manager was Larry Vossler.

The pavilion, which opened in April 2008, has also been recognized with a Best of 2008 Award from Texas Construction magazine and appeared on the cover of the January/February issue of Texas Architect, published by the Texas Society of Architects. Brochstein Pavilion is featured in the March issue of Architectural Record and earned a favorable review in issue No. 76 of Cite magazine, a publication of the Rice Design Alliance. A review of the pavilion by Stephen Fox, adjunct lecturer of architecture at Rice, appears on the Cite blog, offcite.org.

The award will be presented at the ASLA state conference in April in Austin.

To take a virtual tour of Brochstein Pavilion and other campus destinations, visit http://www.rice.edu/virtualtours/ and click on “This is Rice: Our Campus.”