2018 WLA Awards

In late 2017, WLA called for submissions to the annual World Landscape Architecture Awards. Entries came from all over the world, and once again, they were of a high quality and addressed many themes, particularly climate change and creating places for people, after the jury shortlisted entries in March, 2018.

2018 WLA Awards Jury

Cheryl Barton, FASLA, FAAR | Founder and Director of Office of Cheryl Barton 
Isabel Zempel, ASLA | Principal at Sasaki 
Nadia Amoroso, PhD, ASLA | faculty member at the University of Guelph, Department of Landscape, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development.
Peter Chmiel CMLI, | Director of Grant Associates 
Simon Morrison MSILA, is Director of ICN DESIGN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 

2018 WLA Awards Winners

Built – Large Design
Award of Excellence 
Klyde Warren Park | OJB Landscape Architecture
Photography: © Thomas McConnell

Merit Awards 
Scioto Greenways | MKSK

Built – Small Design
Award of Excellence 
Cycling through Water | Provincie Limburg 
Photography: supplied by Toerisme Limburg VZW

Merit Award
Night Garden | dwg.

Conceptual – Design
Award of Excellence
Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown | Stoss Landscape Urbanism | Image Credit: Stoss Landscape Urbanism

Merit Award
Park Over GA400 | Rogers Partners & Nelson Byrd Woltz

World Landscape Architecture – Editor’s Award

Medellín River Parks | Sebastian Monsalve Gomez & Juan David Hoyos Taborda
Image: courtesy of Sebastian Monsalve Gomez & Juan David Hoyos Taborda

Student Award
Award of Excellence
A moving story “National Geo-Monument Park” | Nipun Hettiarachchi (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

Merit Award
Restoring the “Urban” Wilderness | Maria Taffuri (University of Edinburgh)

Images shown above are the Award of Excellence winners for each category. Refer to the Photography/Image credits as noted in each category.

2018 WLA Awards Shortlist

Built – Large Design
Inspired by the Land – Arterra Landscape Architects
Scioto Greenways – MKSK
Klyde Warren Park – OJB Landscape Architecture
Levy Park – OJB Landscape Architecture
Nørreport Station – COBE and Gottlieb Paludan Architects
Medellín River Parks – Sebastian Monsalve Gomez

Built – Small Landscape Design
Cycling through Water – Provincie Limburg
The Pershing – dwg.
Night Garden – dwg.
The Galleria Courtyard at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital – MKSK

Conceptual – Design
Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown – Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Pittsburgh Uptown EcoInnovation District – Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Canada Science and Technology Museum Park Master Plan – O2 Planning + Design Inc.
Keppel Marina East Desalination Plant – Tierra Design
Park Over GA400 -Rogers Partners & Nelson Byrd Woltz

World Landscape Architecture – Editor’s Award
Medellín River Parks – Sebastian Monsalve Gomez
 Night Garden – dwg.
Scioto Greenways – MKSK
Seasonal Flooded Landscape & Resilient Community – Panithan Kasinphila
Coastal Resilience Solutions for East Boston and Charlestown – Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Heartbeat @ Bedok – ONG&ONG
Elizabeth Quay – TCL
Nanjing Hexi Urban Ecology Park – AECOM

Student
Restoring the “Urban” Wilderness – Maria Taffuri (University of Edinburgh)
Agro-Pelago (Foodscapes for the Future) – Jaclyn Kaloczi (University of British Columbia)
A moving story “National Geo-Monument Park” – Nipun Hettiarachchi (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
The Wetlines  – Mariam Bazzi (American University of Beirut)
Vital Landscape Infrastructure 2060 – Gandong Cai (Harvard GSD)