The Dallas, Texas-based Trinity River Corridor project, for which WRT led the preparation of detailed design guidelines, was given a 2009 Honor Award from the Waterfront Center. The center, founded in 1981, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of waterfronts. The award was presented at the organization's 27th annual Excellence on the Waterfront conference on October 23rd.

"The Trinity River project is the largest and most complex landscape project WRT has worked on," said Ignacio Bunster-Ossa, the WRT principal in charge of the assignment. "And it follows our firm's long history of civic space designs that have changed the images of cities, beginning with Baltimore's Inner Harbor. As the largest infrastructure project in Dallas' history, the project integrates improvements in transportation, flood protection, environmental rehabilitation, and recreation into a 2,200-acre urban park that will anchor the transformation of central Dallas into a model of sustainability."

The design guidelines for the project define the corridor's landscape typologies, river and floodplain morphology, recreation programming, access and circulation, security and maintenance, material quality, wayfinding, and adjoining development interface. The inclusion of wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, green walls, rain harvesting ponds, bio-filtration wetland, and the addition into the floodway of more than 10,000 native trees are intended to define the Trinity River corridor as a state-of-the-art showcase of green design.

The guidelines for the Trinity River corridor were also recognized this year by the American Society of Landscape Architects with an Honor Award of Excellence in the Planning and Analysis category.