The 2023 World Landscape Architecture Awards celebrate the best in landscape architecture worldwide. These prestigious international awards attract the most innovative and creative design firms; This year’s awards were no exception, with high-quality entries from those who have used their expertise and imagination to transform ordinary landscapes into extraordinary projects. The experienced jury had difficulty reviewing the shortlisted entries to finalise the 2023 WLA Awards winners list.
Professional Jury
WLA was honoured to have the following experienced jurors on the 2023 Professional WLA Awards.
Anna Cawrse, ASLA | Principal, Denver Office Co-Director | Sasaki
Jennifer Cooper, RLA | Landscape Architecture Bureau Manager | San Francisco Public Works
Mohan Rao | Partner and Principal Designer | INDÉ
Kate Tooke, ASLA, PLA | Principal, Landscape Architect | Agency Landscape + Planning
Gerwin de Vries | Landscape architect and Owner | Flux landscape architecture
Mike Wood, FLI | Director, Landscape Architecture | Arup
The jurors have reviewed over 250 entries in nine categories and selected the following 2023 WLA Awards Winners:
Built – Large Design
Award of Excellence
Pier 26 at Hudson River Park – OLIN
Merit Award
Houston Arboretum and Nature Center – Design Workshop, Inc and Reed Hilderbrand
The Dark Line – MICHELE&MIQUEL ARCHITECTURE&PAYSAGE / dA VISION DESIGN
Honour Award
Reviving NAN TOU: A Place Caught in the Pitfall of Gentrification – Lab D+H Shanghai
Palm Springs Downtown Park – RIOS
Built – Small Design
Award of Excellence
This Was Once a Pond: North Meadow on The Rose Kennedy Greenway – ASK+ and Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design LLC
Merit Award
Forest Path Roques Blanques – Batlleiroig Arquitectura
Honour Award
Winthrop Family Historical Garden – MKSK
Bamboo Forest Garden Installation Playscape – FLO
Built – Commerical Residential Design
Award of Excellence
From Gutter to Valley: Activating a Neglected Canal as a Community Hub – Lab D+H Shanghai
Merit Award
The Valley Courtyard- Atelier Scale
Baiziwan Community Housing Landscape Design – Earthasia(Shanghai) Co., Ltd
Honour Award
Yin Xiu Residence – Platform Design Group
Built – Private Residential Design
Award of Excellence
Private Garden Blaricum – Baljon landscape architects
Merit Award
Six Square House – Coen+Partners
Honour Award
Built – Urban Design
Award of Excellence
Renovation Plan for Second Grinding Wheel Factory – Lab D+H Shanghai
Merit Award
Boca de la Mina Promenade – Batlleiroig Arquitectura
Honour Award
Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design
Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood – Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners
Concept – Analysis & Planning
Award of Excellence
BiodiverCITY_A Matter of Vital Soil! – Joyce van den Berg and City of Amsterdam
Merit Award
The Grand Bayway – TLS Landscape Architecture
Honour Award
Waxberry Hyperlink: Revitalization of DW Industry, Community & Culture – LANDartitude 景度景观
Caño Martín Peña Comprehensive Infrastructure Master Plan – OLIN
Concept – Large Design
Award of Excellence
1881: A Farm Park for a Regenerative Future – Superbloom
Merit Award
Nova Zbrojovka Brno – Brownfield transformation – Baljon landscape architects
Honour Award
Jiading Green Ring Campus – TLS Landscape Architecture
Duincasino Middelkerke – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism
Concept – Small Design
Award of Excellence
Polar Explorer playground – Art. Lebedev Studio & Chekharda
Merit Award
Huizhi High-tech Mixed-use therapy park – Antao
Honour Award
Bernal Heights Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates
Santa Lucia Preserve Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates
Concept – Commercial Residential
Award of Excellence
Geestwater Lisse – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism
Merit Award
Orchard Farm Kent – EDLA (Eleanor and Donald Landscape Architects) and Collective – Urban Strategies
Honour Award
Meadow Fields Village Masterplan Livable Neighborhoods in Yilan’s Rice Fields – PLAT Studio
Editors’ Award
Award of Excellence
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2023 WLA Professional Awards and those shortlisted. We thank everyone who entered the awards and look forward to seeing your entries in next year’s awards.
The jury decided not to award all Merit and Honour Awards in each category for the 2023 WLA Awards. These are the final results, and no further awards will be issued.