2023 World Landscape Architecture Award winners announced

The 2023 winners of the World Landscape Architecture Awards have been announced featuring some of the world’s top landscape design firms working in various parts of the world. The competition seeks to give recognition to “high-quality” projects from “those who have used their expertise and imagination to transform ordinary landscapes into extraordinary projects.”

Jurors Mike Wood, Anne Cawrse, Jennifer Cooper, Mohan Rao, Kate Tooke, and Gerwin des Vries selected winners from a field of more than 250 projects in nine categories, along with Merit and Honour Awards in eight of them.

The shortlist for the 2023 edition can be viewed here. Scroll down to see the full list of this year’s WLA winners.

BUILT – LARGE DESIGN   

Pier 26 at Hudson River Park – OLIN 

Award of Excellence

• Houston Arboretum and Nature Center - Design Workshop, Inc. and Reed Hilderbrand
• The Dark Linke – Mmichele&Miquel Architecture & Paysage/da Vision Design

Honor Award

• Reviving NAN TOU: A Place Caught in the Pitfall of Gentrification – Lab D+H Shanghai
• Palm Springs Downtown Park – RIOS

BUILT – SMALL DESIGN 

Award of Excellence

This Was Once a Pond: North Meadow on The Rose Kennedy Greenway – ASK+ and Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design LLC

Merit Award

Forest Path Roques Blanques – Batlleiroig Arquitectura

Honor Award 

• Winthrop Family Historical Garden – MKSK
• Bamboo Forest Garden Installation Playscape – FLO

BUILT – COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

Award of Excellence

From Gutter to Valley: Activating a Neglected Canal as a Community Hub – Lab D+H Shanghai

Merit Award

The Valley Courtyard - Atelier Scale Baiziwan Community Housing Landscape Design - Earthasia (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

BUILT – PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

Award of Excellence

Private Garden Blaricum – Baljon landscape architects

Merit Award

Six Square House – Coen+Partners

Honor Award

Black Fox Ranch: Extending the Legacy of the West to a New Generation – Design Workshop, Inc. and CLB Architects

BUILT–URBAN DESIGN

Award of Excellence 

Renovation Plan for Second Grinding Wheel Factory – Lab D+H Shanghai

Merit Award 

Boca de la Mina Promenade – Batlleiroig Arquitectura 

Honor Award 

• Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design
• Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood – Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners

CONCEPT–ANALYSIS & PLANNING 

Award of Excellence 

BiodiverCITY_A Matter of Vital Soil! – Joyce van den Berg and City of Amsterdam

Merit Award 

• The Grand Bayway – TLS Landscape Architecture
• Antioquia Municipal River Parks – Gobernacion De Antioquia / Juan Pablo Lopez – Sebastian Monsalve Gomez 

Honor Award 

Waxberry Hyperlink: Revitalization of DW Industry, Community & Culture – LANDartitude 景度景观

CONCEPT–LARGE DESIGN

Award of Excellence

1881: A Farm Park for a Regenerative Future – Superbloom 

Merit Award

Nova Zbrojovka Brno – Brownfield transformation – Baljon landscape architects

Honor Award

• Jiading Green Ring Campus – TLS Landscape Architecture
• Duincasino Middelkerke – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism

CONCEPT–SMALL DESIGN

Award of Excellence 

Polar Explorer playground – Art. Lebedev Studio & Chekharda

Merit Award 

Huizhi High-tech Mixed-use therapy park – Antao

Honor Award 

• Bernal Heights Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates
• Santa Lucia Preserve Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates

BUILT - SMALL DESIGN

Award of Excellence

Geestwater Lisse – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism

Merit Award

Orchard Farm Kent – EDLA (Eleanor and Donald Landscape Architects) and Collective – Urban Strategies

Honor Award 

Meadow Fields Village Masterplan Livable Neighborhoods in Yilan’s Rice Fields – PLAT Studio

EDITOR'S AWARD

Award of Excellence

A Waterfront Homestead Reborn Restorative Design in the Yangtze Delta Polders – Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design and Research Institute Co., LTD. (SLADI)

Learn more about the 2023 WLA Awards program here.