The Connection - Fall 2025 - Laurel Hill Newsletter

Cover page titled 'Transforming the Mausoleum of Peace' includes photos of a stone mausoleum exterior, a landscaped garden area, and a decorative structure with a bell.

The mausoleum garden improvements described in an article in 'The Connection' published by Laurel Hill Cemetery.

The Connection - Winter 2024 - Laurel Hill Newsletter

Contributor to the Design Chapter in Shrubs and Hedge by Eva Monheim

Book cover titled "Shrubs & Hedges" by Eva Monheim with a garden scene featuring various colorful shrubs and flowers, and smaller images of different flowering plants at the bottom.

Diagram titled 'Plants for a Winter Garden'

2023 Landscape Design Award of Merit

Holly Scoggins, PPA president, presenting the award to Karen Steenhoudt who represents Land+

Land+ received the Landscape Design Award of Merit for the Chapel and Mausoleum of Peace Gardens at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Holly Scoggins, PPA President, presented the awards to this year’s winning firms at PPA’s National Symposium in Niagara Falls. Karen Steenhoudt represented Land+ at the ceremony.

Award ceremony photo credit: © Claudio Vazquez - Izel Native Plants

2022 Best Restored Shores Award to the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays

Interpretive signage for the living shoreline.

The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays received the Best Restored Shore Award by the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association in 2022. As part of her Capstone project at Temple University, Karen prepared the concept design for this unique project.

2020 Merit Award ,Analysis and Planning Category

Drawing of overall plan for the Woodland at the Delaware Botanic Gardens

Karen received the 2020 Merit Award by the PA-DE American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for her Capstone project “The changing landscape drives public garden programming at the Delaware Botanic Gardens.” at Temple University

Drawing of a wooded coastlin that has been inundated by salt water. As a result it turns into a ghost forest with death tree trunks.

2019 John Collins Drawing Award

In 2019, Karen received the John Collins Drawing Award. Hand drawing was an entirely new skill she had to learn while studying Landscape Architecture at Temple University.

2019 Student Merit Award

Poster with work produced during Karen's studies at Temple University

Karen received the 2019 Student Merit Award by PA-DE American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for her work as a Master’s student in Landscape Architecture at Temple University