2018 WLA Awards
BUILT DESIGN – SMALL PROJECT AWARD
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – WINNER
Cycling through Water – Provincie Limburg
MERIT
Night Garden – dwg.
BUILT DESIGN – LARGE PROJECT AWARD
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – WINNER
Klyde Warren Park – OJB Landscape Architecture
MERIT
Scioto Greenways – MKSK
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AWARD
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – WINNER
Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown – Stoss Landscape Urbanism
MERIT
Park Over GA400 -Rogers Partners & Nelson Byrd Woltz
STUDENT AWARD
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE – WINNER
A moving story “National Geo-Monument Park” – Nipun Hettiarachchi (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
MERIT
Restoring the “Urban” Wilderness – Maria Taffuri (University of Edinburgh)
EDITOR’S AWARD
WINNER
Medellín River Parks – Sebastian Monsalve Gomez
Thank you to all the entrants in the 2018 WLA Awards and the jurors including Cheryl Barton, Isabel Zempel, Nadia Amoroso, Peter Chmiel, Simon Morrison.
A digital copy of the 2018 WLA Award Magazine can be purchased through the WLA Shop
2017 WLA Awards
2017 Award Winners include
BUILT DESIGN AWARD
Award of Excellence
Chicago Riverwalk – Phase 2 & 3
Sasaki and Ross Barney Architects
Merit Award
TE ARA I WHITI – Light Path
LandLAB + Monk McKenzie
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AWARD
Award of Excellence
Soul of Norrebro
SLA
Merit Award
The New St. Pete Pier
Rogers Partners, ASDISKY, Ken Smith Workshop
RESEARCH & COMMUNICATION AWARD
Award of Excellence
The Floating Gardens of Tonle Sap
PLACE
Merit Award
Why we love trees
SLA
STUDENT AWARD
Award of Excellence
Is ‘Green’ the right way to environmental degradation? Reviewing issue of shelterbelt plantation die-off in northern China’s marginal landscape
Cathy Doa
Merit Award
Reclamation of Whitesands quarry
Tianyi Jiang
EDITOR’S AWARD (Editor – Damian Holmes)
Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project
Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership
Congratulations to all the winners who will receive their awards in May. The WLA Award winners along with a selection of the finalists will be featured in the next special edition of WLA Magazine.
World Landscape Architect would like to thank all entrants for participating in the inaugural WLA Awards and their support of WLA.
The 2017 WLA Awards Jury included:
Thank you to all the entrants in the 2018 WLA Awards and the jurors including
Martin Barry – Founder & Chairman, reSITE; Co-Founder & CEO, City Crew
Kimberly Garza – Founder, ATLAS Lab
Andrew Grant – Founder & Director, Grant Associates. RDI, CMLI, Hon FRIBA, FRSA.
Jason Ho – Initiator of Mapping Workshop, China and a Founding Director of Urban Informality Lab
Mark Johnson FASLA – Principal, Civitas