2023 Professional Awards
of the Potomac Chapter ASLA

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Georgetown Canal Plan:
A Plan for Restoration, Revitalization & Interpretation

James Corner Field Operations

Through restoration, revitalization, and interpretation, the Georgetown Canal Plan seeks to establish the first mile of the C&O Canal National Historic Park as a world-class destination.  

Merit Award in Design-Unbuilt

The Plan builds on key opportunities and challenges identified by the community and stakeholders, designing a safer, more connected, and more accessible canal that highlights local nature and biodiversity.


A conceptual framework that shapes the Plan imagines the canal as “One Continuous Path”. With “Five Gateways” that serve as connection points and improve accessibility; all set within “Eight Landscapes” that organize the canal into zones that are experientially distinct from one another.



Through proposed interventions, including expanded social spaces, new vertical circulation, places to sit and linger, and enhanced native planting, the experience of visiting the canal evolves, becoming one that weaves together the site’s layers of history, community, and ecology with the Georgetown today.



Collaborators
Silman
ETM Associates
HR&A Advisors
Dharam Consulting
Quinn Evans

Photo Credit

Photos courtesy of James Corner Field Operations


Congratulations to James Corner Field Operations.

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