A team of Master of City Planning and Master of Landscape Architecture students at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design won an Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award from Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design. The award was presented in a virtual event held on February 11, and the students’ design will be featured at the upcoming Design Philadelphia festival and on the Center’s website.

The competition asked students to reimagine the 1300-acre Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery site located along the Schuylkill River in southwest Philadelphia. The winning design by Shaoan Chiu, Junwon Kim, Heejung Shin, and Nuosha Wang is called Farming Nature, Framing Future and envisions the site as the hub for urban farming and a food share system, new transit connections, and outdoor recreation spaces.

“We wanted our project to be not only clear and feasible but also novel at the same time,” said Mr. Chiu.

Founded in 2006 in memory of Philadelphia’s 20th century city planner icon, Edmund N. Bacon (1910-2005), the annual Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards honor both professionals and students whose work epitomize excellence in urban design. The student competition is open to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in any field of study.