The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) recently announced the recipients of the Awards of Excellence. This year, 13 projects received a national award. These award-winning projects are preeminent examples of Canadian landscape architecture. They illustrate the range of what landscape architects do and how landscape architects are helping to reshape our communities by defining the places where we live, work and play.
A total of 68 submissions were received. The following winners were selected by a national jury of landscape architects.
Category: Large-Scale Landscapes
Walterdale Bridge (Edmonton, AB)
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Category: Medium-Scale Landscapes
Mechanized River Valley Access (Edmonton, AB)
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Aga Khan Garden (Edmonton, AB)
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
West Eau Claire Park (Calgary, AB)
O2 Planning + Design
Category: Small-Scale Landscapes
Bank of Canada Head Office Renewal (Ottawa, ON)
DTAH
Manitoboggan (Winnipeg, MB)
Public City Architecture
Square Dorchester – Réaménagement de la portion Nord (Montréal, QC)
Claude Cormier et Associés
Category: Planning and Analysis
Rain City Strategy: A green rainwater infrastructure and rainwater management initiative (Vancouver, BC)
City of Vancouver
Top of the World Highway Interpretive Plan (Dawson, YT)
NVision Insight Group with Wendy Shearer Cultural Heritage Specialist
The Meadoway (Scarborough, ON)
Perkins and Will
Category: Research
Exterior Living Wall (Dartmouth, NS)
Outside! Planning & Design Studio
Archaeology and Calgary Parks Uncovering Human History (Calgary, AB)
City of Calgary
Category: Communications
Community Wellbeing: A Framework for the Design Professions
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