In 2021, the World Landscape Architecture Awards were split into the Professional, and Student Awards, with over 400 high-quality entries received. The juries had a tough time scoring and finalising the winners for this year. The submissions for the 2021 WLA Professional Award came from firms, designers including a diverse range of projects. The jury felt that the quality was high, and many of the projects were addressed the site and issues with sensitivity and create designs that the landscape architecture profession should be proud of.
Congratulations to the winners, thank you to all entrants in this years awards. We will publishing the winners on WLA in the future. The winners for the 2021 WLA Professional Awards are as follows:
Built – Large
Award of Excellence
Valley Forest – Change Studio
Merit Awards
Wuhan OCT Wetland Park – L&A Design
Honourable Mentions
Silver Oak Winery – Munden Fry Landscape Associates
Built – Residential
Award of Excellence
Andesite Ridge Retreat – Design Workshop, Inc
Merit Awards
Pengbu Central Commons — Hangzhou Nature for Residential Landscapes – PLAT Studio
Return of the Hill – Atelier Scale
Honourable Mentions
Demonstration Area of SUNAC Nanshan Shanxiao Villas in Chongqing – WTD GROUP
Yango Tanyue MOMA Mansion – GVL Design Group
Built – Small
Award of Excellence
Foot of Lonsdale – Hapa Collaborative
Merit Award
Mellemrummet – BOGL
Honourable Mentions
Floating Clouds Art Garden – Change Studio
Pocket Park on Xinhua Road, Shanghai – SHUISHI
Built – Urban
Award of Excellence
Fish Lane Town Square – RPS
Merit Awards
Forest and Sports Park Shenzhen – LOLA Landscape Architects, TALLER, Land+Civilization Compositions
Midtown District – Design Workshop
Honourable Mention
Guangzhou Ecological Belt Master Plan and Implementation – Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute
Concept – Analysis & Planning
Award of Excellence
Mexico City’s Medium Scale Hydric District Tacubaya – ORU – Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana
Merit Awards
Edible Wadden Coast – Flux landscape architecture
Blankenburg Süden – Circular City – Felixx + Cityförster
Honourable Mentions
Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago – PEG office of landscape + architecture
Fontana Urban Greening Master Plan – Design Workshop
Concept – Design
Award of Excellence
Towards A Healthy City By Foot – Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners
Merit Award
Back Down to Earth – Gillespies & Hilary Barber
Honourable Mentions
McGill College Avenue – civiliti + Mandaworks and SNC Lavalin
Wuhan Yangtze Riverfront Park – Sasaki
Editor’s Award
Alpine Garden: Preserve Indigenous Culture and Native Plants – Z’scape
Honourable Mention
The Remise Park – BOGL
Professional Jury
WLA would like to thank the 2021 WLA Professional Awards jury for their professionalism, commitment and time in participating in the WLA Professional Awards jury.
Christopher Fannin ASLA
Senior Principal, Managing Director
InSite – A division of KEO International Consultants
Claire Agre, PLA, ASLA
Principal and Cofounder of Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design.
Martin Koenig, CMLI
Associate Director of Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP)
Monika Nair, CMLI(Design)UK
Practice Head, Landscape, Urban Design & Planning
Atkins India
Simon David
Founder & Creative Director of OSD Outside
Judging Process
The jury was able to award Awards of Excellence, Merit Awards and Honourable Mentions. The juries did not award all the available awards in each category. Their scoring and awarding were based on the number of entries and quality of the entries shortlisted. Jurors recused (didn’t provide a score) themselves if they had a conflict of interest. In this instance, an average score from the other jurors was used to calculate the total score.
The above list is the final awards list. There will be no further award issued.
