The Landscape Institute recently announced the winners of the 2025 LI Awards. With over 200 entries across 17 categories, this year’s Awards showcase growth, ambition, and innovation within the sector. A panel of more than 70 judges scrutinised the submissions. Their thorough evaluation guarantees that each shortlisted project upholds the highest standards of professional excellence.
The winners this year highlight the diverse scope of contemporary landscape practice and include exceptional student work. Collectively, these projects underscore the vital role of landscape in tackling urgent societal issues across the UK and beyond. They demonstrate how landscape projects are responding to the climate emergency, advancing nature recovery, promoting public health and wellbeing, and aiding the development of quality housing, infrastructure, protected landscapes, and public spaces.es.
The following is the LI Awards winners 2025 in full:
Landscape and Parks Management Awards
A Landscape Vision for Bedgebury – The Environment Partnership (TEP) Ltd
Excellence in Masterplanning and Urban Design
AELTC Wimbledon Park Project – LUC
Excellence in Public Health and Wellbeing
Appleby Blue Almshouse – Grant Associates
Dame Sylvia Crowe International Award for Small to Medium Scale Projects (up to 10ha)
Aranya Stream Park – Z’scape
Dame Sylvia Crowe International Award for Large Scale Projects (10ha and above)
Jiaxing Station Park – Z’scape
Excellence in Climate, Environment, and Social Outcomes
Beckenham Place Park East – BDP
Excellence in Place Regeneration
Bradford Transforming Cities Fund – City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Excellence in Collaboration, Engagement & Influence
Down Lane Park – Levitt Bernstein and Haringey Council
Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Enhancement
Eden Dock – HTA Design
Excellence in Landscape Planning and Assessment
Good Practice Guidance Planning for Dark Skies – Gweithgor Awyr Dywyll Cymru / Dark Skies Working Group Wales
Excellence in Heritage and Culture
Greenwich Park Revealed – The Royal Parks
Student Dissertation
Living with the Wild: Navigating the Human-Leopard Dynamics in Mumbai – Aditi Nair, The Bartlett, UCL
Landscape Legacy
Reviving NAN TOU: A Place Caught in the Pitfall of Gentrification – Lab D+H SH
Landscape Research and Digital Innovation Award
Seeking Resilience and Equity in Transforming Cultural Landscapes – South China Agricultural University
Student Portfolio
Tides of Heritage: A Journey through the Scilly Landscape – Aditi Nair, The Bartlett, UCL
Excellence in Small Landscape and Garden Design
Turing Locke Hotel, Cambridge – Robert Myers Associates
Excellence in Landscape Design
Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum – J&L Gibbons
President’s Award
Good Practice Guidance Planning for Dark Skies – Gweithgor Awyr Dywyll Cymru / Dark Skies Working Group Wales
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