World Landscape Architecture is pleased to announce that the juries (Professional & Student) have completed their deliberations and selected the winners of the 2026 WLA Awards. The WLA Awards are an annual international awards program that honours the finest work by landscape architects worldwide, recognising innovation, sustainability and transformative spaces.
The juries believed this year’s entries were of high quality, with many innovative projects. Numerous built projects showcased material reuse and addressed social issues while maintaining sustainability and resilience. The conceptual submissions demonstrated thoughtful design, including phased approaches, and the graphics effectively communicated clear designs through diverse techniques.
World Landscape Architecture thanks the juries for their time, professionalism, and ability to judge the merits of all the entries and to determine the winners of the 2026 WLA Awards.
The full list of winners of the Professional and Student Awards can be found on the WLA Awards website.
2026 WLA Awards Professional Jury
Bottom Left to Right – Yuan Songting, Chris Tidswell, Cindy Zerger, Charles A. Birnbaum;
Niels de Bruin
Senior Landscape Architect and Head of Landscape Architecture at Kragh & Berglund.
Kate Larsen
Director at Snøhetta.
Stephanie Lau | 劉婕妤 PLA (US-CA), ASLA
Senior Project Manager at EADG.
Terence Lee
Senior Landscape Architect Associate at DIALOG.
Yuan Songting
Founder, Chairman, and principal designer at DDON.
Chris Tidwell
Director at Arcadia Landscape Architecture.
Cindy Zerger
Urban Design Practice Lead at Toole Design.
Special Juror – Charles A. Birnbaum
President + CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (Bottom Far Right)
2026 WLA Awards Student Jury
Yadan Luo
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture Department, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania and Associate Director, Future Cities Initiative, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania Creative Director, YH LAB.
Dr Anastasia Nikologianni
Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. Director of the Young Landscape Architects and Emerging Professionals IFLA World.
Dr. Maj Plemenitas
Founder of Linkscale and Amphibious Lab. Academic appointments at RMIT LA and UCL Bartlett include Associate Professorship and co-Directorship of the MA/MLA Landscape Architecture programs (UCL).
Professor Stefan Tischer
Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sassari in Sardinia and Aga Khan Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Design GSD at Harvard University (2023-2024), and Landscape Architect.
The 2026 WLA Awards digital (pdf) certificates, including the shortlisted entries, will be issued over the coming week.
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