WLA Awards shortlist announced

By Damian Holmes WLA

The 2023 World Landscape Architecture Awards celebrate the best in landscape architecture from around the world. These prestigious international awards attract the most innovative and creative design firms and this year was no exception.

This year’s awards showcase the exceptional work of landscape architects who have used their expertise and imagination to transform ordinary landscapes into extraordinary environments that inspire and delight. From large parks to urban streetscapes and private estates to small installations, the projects submitted represent the best in landscape architecture design.

The jurors have reviewed over 250 entries in over nine categories and selected the following shortlist for 2023.

Built Large Shortlist | Columbus US Land Port of Entry – Pland Collaborative | Image Credit: Robert Reck

Built – Large Design

  • Columbus US Land Port of Entry – Pland Collaborative (Formerly MRWM Landscape Architects)

  • A Waterfront Homestead Reborn Restorative Design in the Yangtze Delta Polders – Shanghai Landscape Design and Research Institute Co.,LTD. (SLADI)

  • Fleurs-de-Macadam Plaza – EXP, NIPPAYSAGE, and Castor et pollux

  • From Risk to Resilience Fengpei Canal Flood and Water Low-Intervention Management – ZEHO ECO

  • Houston Arboretum and Nature Center – Design Workshop, Inc. and Reed Hilderbrand

  • Miaojing River: From a Hidden Treasure to Ecological Infrastructure – PLAT Studio

  • Palm Springs Downtown Park – RIOS

  • Parkhill Greens – Creating a Hillside Community Hub – PLAT Studio

  • Pier 26 at Hudson River Park – OLIN

  • Rebirth of coal mining subsidence area from biodiversity-poor area to life paradise – Chongqing University

  • Reviving NAN TOU: A Place Caught in the Pitfall of Gentrification – Lab D+H Shanghai

  • Shenzhen Haoxiang Lake Park Developing Resilient and Regenerated Waterfronts – ZEHO ECO, eLandscript Limited

  • Superbloom at the Tower of London – Grant Associates

  • The Dark Line – MICHELE&MIQUEL ARCHITECTURE&PAYSAGE / dA VISION DESIGN

  • The Fragrance Corridor at the Southern Foot of Huangqi Mountain – DONGDA (Shenzhen) Design Co.

  • Zhongjiang Park in Wuhu City – Shenzhen L&A Design Holding Limited

Built – Large Design Shortlist | The Fragrance Corridor at the Southern Foot of Huangqi Mountain – DONGDA (Shenzhen) Design Co.

Built – Large Design Shortlist | Palm Springs Downtown Park – RIOS

Built – Small Design

  • Postparc Den Haag – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism + KCAP

  • Bamboo Forest Garden Installation Playscape – FLO

  • Boundless Theater of Egret Bay – Beijing Guanzhu Landscape Planning and Design Institute & Kong Xiangwei Studio

  • Forest Path Roques Blanques – Batlleiroig Arquitectura

  • Green roof and Green wall at Valletta Design Cluster – Doric Studio/Living Walls & Tetsuo Kondo Architects

  • This Was Once a Pond: North Meadow on The Rose Kennedy Greenway – ASK+ and Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design LLC

  • Views of light touches – Yanxi Lake Park – Change Landscape

  • Winthrop Family Historical Garden – MKSK

Built – Small Design Shortlist | Postparc Den Haag – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism + KCAP

Built – Small Design Shortlist | Bamboo Forest Garden Installation Playscape – FLO

Built – Commercial Residential Design

  • Baiziwan Community Housing Landscape Design – Earthasia(Shanghai) Co., Ltd

  • From Gutter to Valley: Activating a Neglected Canal as a Community Hub – Lab D+H Shanghai

  • Greentown Liu’an Xiaofeng – Chongqing Jialian Landscape Design Co., Ltd.

  • Oriental One – Gillespies with LANDAU and GM Landscape

  • Pulo Ideal Land West 10 Garden – Horizon & Atmosphere Landscape Co.

  • The Valley Courtyard- Atelier Scale

  • Yin Xiu Residence – Platform Design Group

  • Yuexiu United Investment Knowledge City · Mountain Stream – JTL Studio

Built – Commerical Residential Shortlist | Baiziwan Community Housing Landscape Design – Earthasia(Shanghai) Co., Ltd

Built – Commerical Residential Shortlist | Oriental One – Gillespies with LANDAU and GM Landscape

Built – Private Residential Design

  • Black Fox Ranch: Extending the Legacy of the West to a New Generation – Design Workshop, Inc. and CLB Architects

Built – Private Residential Shortlist | Black Fox Ranch: Extending the Legacy of the West to a New Generation – Design Workshop, Inc. and CLB Architects

Built – Private Residential Shortlist | Private Residential Garden – TCL

  • Old World Charm, Modernized – Arterra Landscape Architects

  • Private Garden Blaricum – Baljon

  • Private Residential Garden – TCL

  • Six Square House – Coen+Partners

  • Tributary House – Design Workshop, Inc. and Robbins Architecture

Built – Urban Design Shortlist | Wuxiang 987 High Line Park – Ningbo Urban Construction Design And Research Institute Co.Ltd

Built – Urban Design

  • Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design

  • Boca de la Mina Promenade – Batlleiroig Arquitectura

  • Wuxiang 987 High Line Park – Ningbo Urban Construction Design And Research Institute Co.Ltd

  • Jinan CBD Park – Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

  • Renovation Plan for Second Grinding Wheel Factory – Lab D+H Shanghai

  • Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood – Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners

Built – Urban Design Shortlist | Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood – Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners

  • Shenzhen Longgang River Blueway – SWA Group, Shenzhen BLY Landscape, Architecture and Planning Design Institute Co., Ltd.; Hassell;

  • Shenzhen Skypark – Crossboundaries

  • Zhengzhou Xichuan River Reconstruction and Ecological Restoration – Horizon & Atmosphere Landscape Co.

Concept – Analysis & Planning

  • Activating the Xuan Paper Culture by Landscape Planning and Design – China Academy of Art/ The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art Co.,Ltd./China Academy of Art Creative Industry Development Co.,Ltd.

  • Antioquia Municipal River Parks – Gobernacion De Antioquia / Juan Pablo Lopez – Sebastian Monsalve Gomez

  • BiodiverCITY_A Matter of Vital Soil! – Joyce van den Berg, CIty of Amsterdam

  • Caño Martín Peña Comprehensive Infrastructure Master Plan – OLIN

  • Photovoltaic Reformation: Dismantling Gas Infrastructure – EDGELand Studio

  • Study on water and soil system ‘Water-based’ – BoschSlabbers landscape architects, Deltares and Sweco

  • Sustainable Mangrove and Coastal Ecosystem Development in Phetchaburi – Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect

  • The Grand Bayway – TLS Landscape Architecture

  • Waxberry Hyperlink: Revitalization of DW Industry, Community & Culture – LANDartitude 景度景观

  • Wakefield Urban Greening Strategy – Gillespies LLP

Concept – Large Design Shortlist | Eiffel Tower Site – Gustafson Porter + Bowman © MIR

Concept – Large Design

  • Emerging Landscapes – Redesign of the surrounding space of the Lykabettus theatre – topio7 architecture & landscape

  • 1881: A Farm Park for a Regenerative Future – Superbloom

  • Chawae Educational Innovation Center (CEIC) – Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect

  • Duincasino Middelkerke – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism

  • Eiffel Tower Site – Gustafson Porter + Bowman

  • Hangzhou Grand Canal Waterfront and Public Realm Plan – SWA Group, Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd

  • IVORIM – CB5, Antea Group

  • Jiading Green Ring Campus – TLS Landscape Architecture

  • Nova Zbrojovka Brno – Brownfield transformation – Baljon landscape architects

  • Shenzhen Universiade i-Park – RIOS

  • The Revival Plan of Dao Dou – Antao

  • Waalkwartier – KCAP

Concept – Large Design Shortlist | 1881: A Farm Park for a Regenerative Future – Superbloom

Concept – Small Design

  • Bernal Heights Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates

  • Huizhi High-tech Mixed-use therapy park – Antao

  • Polar Explorer playground in Murmansk – Art. Lebedev Studio & Chekharda

  • Santa Lucia Preserve Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates

Note: Concept – Small Design category includes Concept-Private Residential due to the insufficient entrants (more than 8 required).

Concept Small Design Shortlist | Bernal Heights Residence – Munden Fry Landscape Associates

Concept – Commercial Residential

  • 11 Belgrave – Gillespies

  • Geestwater Lisse – DELVA Landscape architecture | Urbanism

  • Meadow Fields Village Masterplan Livable Neighborhoods in Yilan’s Rice Fields – PLAT Studio

  • Orchard Farm Kent – EDLA (Eleanor + Donald Landscape Architects Ltd)

Concept – Commercial Residential | 11 Belgrave – Gillespies | Image Credit: ©Quadrum Global