‘Excellence in Design’, Art Commission of the City of New York for Bronx River House and adjacent site work by Kiss + Cathcart Architects, landscape design by Starr Whitehouse, July 2008.

‘Project Merit Award’ and ‘Urban Design Honor Award’, New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for Hudson RISE to Zakrewski & Hyde Architects with Starr Whitehouse, April 2008.

‘Merit Award for Planning, Analysis, Research and Communication’, New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for the Times Square Bowtie Streetscape Project., December 2007.

‘Excellence on the Waterfront’, Waterfront Center Top Honor Award for the Battery Bosque, 2006

‘Honor Award for Landscape Architectural Design’, New York Chapter of the ASLA for the Battery Bosque, 2006

‘Merit Award for Landscape Architectural Design’, New York Chapter of the ASLA for the Front Street Courtyards, 2006

LAURA STARR AWARDS

ASLA NY Chapter Honor Award

ASLA Merit Award for Design

The Waterfront Center’s Excellence on the Water Award

Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Parks Council Philip N. Winslow Award for Restoration of the Harlem Meer and Perimeter Landscape, 1995

Victorian Society Award

New York City Landmarks Preservation Award for Restoration of the Harlem Meer and Perimeter Landscape, 1995

LAURA STARR PUBLICATIONS/SPEAKING

“Waterfront and Open Space needs for Lower Manhattan after the Attacks of 9/11”, RDOT, 2001

“Central Park as and Example of Public/Private Partnerships”, Friends of Lincoln and Grant Parks, Chicago, 2000

“The Future of Historic Central Park,” Plenary speaker, International Sonsbeek Symposium, Arnhem, the Netherlands, 1999

“Turning the Circle: Help Design Frederick Douglass Circle: An Exhibition of the Community Process”, Landscape Architecture Magazine, November, 1995 “By Design”, Metropolis, November, 1996

“Laura Starr Rebuilding the City”, Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 1995

“Meer Beauty”, New York Magazine, December 19-26, 1994

“Projects- Treffpunkt Central Park”, ÜberMorgen, Summer 1994

“Cavorting”, The New Yorker, September 6, 1992

STEPHEN WHITEHOUSE AWARDS

‘Excellence on the Waterfront”, Waterfront Center Annual Award for East River Esplanade Park, 1995

STEPHEN WHITEHOUSE PUBLICATIONS/SPEAKING

“The Built Form of Long Island Cities”, Regional Plan Association, Long Island Mayor’s Institute, June 2006

Somerset Charette, Regional Plan Association, April 2006