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
Honor Award
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
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
CONCEPT–ANALYSIS & PLANNING
Award of Excellence
BiodiverCITY_A Matter of Vital Soil! – Joyce van den Berg and City of Amsterdam
Merit Award
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 AwardCONCEPT–SMALL DESIGN
Award of Excellence
Polar Explorer playground – Art. Lebedev Studio & Chekharda
Merit Award
Huizhi High-tech Mixed-use therapy park – Antao
Honor Award
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.
250,000 € Prize / HOUSE OF THE FUTURE 2024/25
Register by Wed, Apr 30, 2025
Submit by Mon, Jun 2, 2025
The Buildner UNBUILT Award 2025 / 100,000€ Prize
Register by Thu, Mar 6, 2025
Submit by Thu, Nov 20, 2025
2025 Lyceum Fellowship - A Community for the Future of Food
Register/Submit by Thu, May 22, 2025
Peja Culture Pavilion
Register by Wed, Dec 11, 2024
Submit by Tue, Jan 28, 2025
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