2007 Design Merit Award
Presented by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter.

The Blue Garden provides a serene and striking intersection of learning, life, and reflection. Tucked into the green space between the School of Law, Old Main, and Bush Library, the Blue Garden will be a private and secluded space for reflection, introspection, and peace. The garden's perfect-circle shape, planted with perennial flowers in shades of blue, evokes the continuing circle of life and growth, crossed with paths to symbolize choices made or roads yet to be taken.
The bluestone wall represents an interruption to that circle - by conflict, by loss, or by choices made. The rushing water symbolizes moving through loss, but never moving past it. A lone, majestic oak tree represents the growth of the soul through our learning, loss, and reflection.