OLIN+OMA, SLA, HASSELL, Agence Ter among shortlisted for 2019 World Landscape Architecture Awards

After attracting submissions from over 175 entrants around the globe, the 2019 World Landscape Architecture Awards competition pool has been narrowed down to a shortlist of 34 projects in five categories. The six-member jury described all the entries as high quality, which made selecting the shortlisted projects a difficult task.

The yearly international WLA Awards competition recognizes outstanding work by landscape architects and to promote the profession on a global scale. Over the years, winners have included Sasaki, Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership, Stoss Landscape Urbanism, MKSK, SLA, dwg., LandLAB + Monk McKenzie, and more.

The 2019 winners in each category will be announced on April 16. Check out the shortlist below. 

Shortlist Category: Built — Large

• Bud and Susie Rogers Garden – Akron, Ohio, USA – OLIN 
• Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park – Bangkok Thailand – Landprocess 
• Darling Harbour Public Realm – Sydney, Australia – HASSELL
• Huangpu River Banks – Shanghai, P.R. China – Agence Ter 
• Jiangyin Greenway Loop | Urban Necklace – Jiangyin, P.R. China – BAU
• Luxelakes Eco City – Chengdu, China – GVL (Gossamer) 
• Park of Boulogne Billancourt – Paris, France – Agence Ter 
• Stadium Park & Chevron Parkland – Perth, Australia – HASSELL 
• SUND Nature Park – Copenhagen Denmark – SLA 
• The Spheres – Seattle, Washington, USA – Site Workshop

Shortlist Category: Built — Small

• Face to Face/ Tête à Tête King Street Parklet – Toronto, Canada – PLANT Architect Inc. 
• Into the Forest – Mantova, Italy – Openfabric 
• Light Sculpture Plaza – Modi’in, Israel – Shlomo Aronson Architects 
• Pridham Hall – Adelaide, Australia – JPE Design Studio & Snøhetta

Shortlist Category: Built — Residential

• DBX Ranch – Aspen, Colorado, USA – Design Workshop 
• Godrej Platinum – Kolkata, India – One Landscape 
• Ink, Residential Cultural Display Pavilion – Xiamen, P.R. China – GVL (Gossamer)
• Wasatch Back Residence – Utah, USA – Design Workshop

Shortlist Category: Student

• Arlington National Cemetery – Amanda Ton – Harvard Graduate School of Design 
• Discover Krakow Remember Plaszow – Caitlin Dawson – University of Edinburgh 
• Martian Scape – Maheshika Ekanayake – University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka 
• Ouzai Coastal Slums – Tara Kanj – American University of Beirut 
• The Drainage Filter for the Everglades – Meikang Li, Qiwei Song, Chaoyi Cui – University of Toronto
• Three Stacks and a Rock-Inheriting Californian Coastal Powerplants – David Koo – University of California, Berkeley
• Urban Refill – Jinyi Yang & Qingyi Li – Wuhan Polytechnic University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology 
• Waters In Peril: Collective Measures For A Dying Lake Winnipeg – Jaysen Ariola – University of Toronto

Shortlist Category: Conceptual

• 11th Street Bridge Park – Washington, DC – OLIN + OMA
• HALO – Ebbsfleet, UK – Bradley Murphy Design 
• Island Moutere – New Zealand – LAND Lab 
• Pershing Square – Los Angeles, California, USA – Agence Ter
• Resilient South City – South San Francisco, United States – HASSELL+ 
• Sanlin Valley Park – Shanghai, P.R. China – TLS landscape architecture
• Shenzhen Bay Avenue – Shenzhen, P.R. China – Morphis + WilkinsonEyre 
• Te Whau Pathway – Auckland, New Zealand – Jasmax + Monk MacKenzie + Stantec

Jury:

• Annacaterina Piras - Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the Alghero School of Architecture, University of Sassari (2011)
• Chris Reed - Founding Director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, and Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture
• Martin Arfalk - Founder and one of two partners of Mandaworks
• Michael Grove - Chair of Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Ecology at Sasaki
• Mohammad Motallebi - Iranian environmental and landscape designer with 14 years of experience who is the IFLA Middle East President
• Dr Rosalea Monacella - Registered Landscape Architect. Faculty member at Harvard University's Landscape Architecture Department