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    She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award

    Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."
    by Neda Ulaby Oct 14, 2021 3 minutes

    Landscape architecture has never quite gotten the adulation of capital-A architecture, but perhaps a new prize can help change that — especially since it's being given to an innovative designer who's been respectfully referred to as "the toxic beauty queen of brownfield remediation."

    The inaugural winner of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize is Julie Bargmann, and founder of. The award, announced today by , is intended to confer the status of the Pritzker Architecture

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