River and Stream Restoration News:

The Headwaters at Tryon Creek project, a 2.7 acre mixed-use residential development near the headwaters of the Tryon Creek watershed in southwest Portland, was recently honored with an Oregon American Society of Landscape Architects Design Award for conserving and celebrating water through artistic design.

Inter-Fluve served as a consultant and design engineer for the stream channel of the Tryon Creek Daylighting project, providing stream corridor design and construction oversight in collaboration with GreenWorks and six other architecture firms and contractors. The design collaboration provides “innovative approaches by transforming neglected urban sites to functioning landscape ecosystems” (GreenWorks). The project integrates “the buildings, parking areas, plazas, bridges, pathways and other site elements into a cohesive sustainable site development that takes full advantage of the [stream] daylighting opportunity” (GreenWorks).

Learn more about this award-winning project at GreenWorks’ website and check out the related article featured in the January 2007 issue of Builder News magazine by Andrew Wilch entitled Headwaters at Tryon Creek is Respectful of Neighborhoods and Nature, which highlights the project’s sustainability goals in an urban environment.