World Landscape Architecture is proud to announce the shortlist for the WLA Awards. Over the last month the jurors have reviewed all entries in the categories of Built Design, Conceptual Design, Research & Communication and Student Award. The jurors expressed that due to the high quality of the entries it was difficult to select entries for the shortlist in each category.
Some jurors comments about the entries included
“The best of a project type that finds leftover space and puts it to good use at the highest conceptual and craft levels. It solves a problem most cities have.”
“The most comprehensve analysis and proposal regarding the many roles and outcomes for urban streets”
“Simple, elegant, strong. Architecture and landscape seamlessly blend. Contrast and synergy with surrounding, sensitive landscape.”
The following projects have been shortlisted (in no particular order) for the Inaugural WLA Awards.
BUILT DESIGN AWARD CATEGORY
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics | Dirtworks Landscape Architecture
Play landscape BE-MINE | OMGEVING + Carve
TE ARA I WHITI – Light Path | LandLAB + Monk McKenzie
MacKenzie Falls Gorge Trail | Hansen Partnership
Chicago Riverwalk | Sasaki
Trottier Observatory and Science Courtyard | PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc.
Ovoo Hill Park | Yuhui Song & Wenna Feng
Penguin Plus Viewing Area | Tract Consultants
Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project | Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership
Green Wendel Wyatt Federal Building | PLACE
Underpass Park | PFS Studio
Monash University, Caulfield Campus Green | TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean)
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AWARD CATEGORY
Royal Neighbour | Adept/Mandaworks
Forest City Master Plan | Sasaki
The Soul of NØRREBRO | SLA
The New St. Pete Pier | Rogers Partners & Ken Smith Workshop
Suzhou Creek Urban Renewal | Sasaki
Buckhead Park Over GA400 | Rogers Partners & Nelson Byrd Woltz
Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest | HASSELL
Cloud Park | Stoss
RESEARCH & COMMUNICATION AWARD
Great City Parks | Alan Tate
OKC Memorial Marathon Model | OU College of Architecture
Why we love trees | SLA
The Floating Gardens of Tonle Sap | PLACE
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Sustainability | Joshua Zeunert
STUDENT
Who Grows There? | Jonathan Fillmore
Reclamation of Whitesands quarry | Tianyi Jiang
Tyre’s Interactive Waterfront | Loubna Sasso
Is ‘Green’ the right way to environmental degradation? Reviewing issue of shelterbelt plantation die-off in northern China’s marginal landscape | Cathy Doa
Paradise Out of Ruins | Wang Sizhe Zhu Xinyu Tan Jiefang Zhao Liang
Urban Riskscape | Guglielmo Ricciardi
Augmented City | Zhuocheng Gu & Sheng Xu
An Outdoor Learning Environment for children | Matluba Khan
Into the Underworld: The Architecture of Databases | Chirag Jindal
42NYC | Hang Su
Resilient Future: The Cultural Riverfront Edge in the New Capital, Amaravathi, Inandhra Pradesh, India | Priyanka Malik
The jurors are now reviewing the shortlisted entries with the winners to be announced in mid- April.