2020 WLA Awards
The 2020 WLA Awards received over 230 entries from across the world, including the USA, China, Australia, Singapore, Belgium, India, Thailand, Malaysia, the Netherlands and many more. The jury found it encouraging that the entries in the 2020 WLA Awards addressed challenges the profession is facing across a wide range of scales and provided solutions that are relevant, adaptive, and resilient.
2020 WLA Awards Jury
Claire Martin – Associate Director – OCULUS
Daniel Woodroffe – Principal – dwg.
Deborah Nagan – Director – Uncommon Land
Jack Qian – Founder & Director – Gossamer 怡境国际
Luc Wallays – Creative Director – OMGEVING
Maria Debije Counts – Knowledge Manager, Landscape Architecture – Perkins and Will
Michelle Delk – Partner / Discipline Director – Snøhetta
Tao Zhang – Principal – Sasaki
2020 WLA Awards Winners
Built – Large Design
Award of Excellence
Yongqing Fang Alleyways: an Urban Transformation | Lab D+H
Image credit: Arch-Exist
Merit Awards
Yangpu Riverfront South Section Phase II | DA Landscape & Original Design Studio
Nanchang Red Earth Park | SHUISHI
Built – Small Design
Award of Excellence
Public toilets in Zuzhai village | Atelier cn°S & South China University of Technology
Image Credit: WU Siming
Merit Award
Cycling through the Trees | Toerisme Limburg & BuroLandschap
The Folds | Atelier Scale
Built – Residential Landscape Design
Award of Excellence
YONGWEI·SHANYUE Residence
TOPO Design Group / Chongqing Donehome Landscape Architecture Planning Design Co.,Ltd
Photography: RIYE Photography
Merit Awards
Highlands Retreat | Design Workshop
Towers Road Residence | Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Conceptual – Analysis and Planning
Re-imagining the Garden City | C.F. Møller Architects | Image Credit: Wyrd Tree
Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan St. Louis | Stoss
Victoria Park Vision | Lat27 and Brisbane City Council
Conceptual – Design
Award of Excellence
Environmental Regeneration Planning of the west slope of Xi’an Bai Lu Yuan | SHUISHI
Image Credit: SHUISHI
World Landscape Architecture – Editor’s Award
Cloud of Hometown Landscape Design | gad · line+ studio
Photography credits: zystudio, Xiaowen Jin
Student Award – Analysis & Planning
Award of Excellence
The Constructive Destruction | Shaine Wong – University of Toronto; Fadi Masoud – Thesis Advisor
Student Award – Design
Award of Excellence
Dissolving Boundaries | Siwen Xie, Xiuzheng Li, Xin Zhong – Harvard University GSD
Merit Award
Water is Life | Huijing Chen, Wenting Yang – University of British Columbia
Honourable Mention
Right to Remain | Tina Yun Ting Tsai – Harvard University GSD
Images shown above are the Award of Excellence winner for each category. Refer to the Photography/Image credits as noted in each category.
2020 WLA Awards Shortlist
Built – Large Design
Berkeley Way West | Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture
Cloud of Hometown Landscape Design | gad · line+ studio
Hongshan Lake Civil Park | L&A Design
Laurel Oriental | Antao
Nanchang Red Earth Park | SHUISHI
Robinson Tower Singapore | Grant Associates
South Perth Foreshore Australia | Place Laboratory
South Visitor Center Park by Fuxian Lake | AECOM, Beijing
The Edge Park | W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Yangpu Riverfront South Section Phase II | Da Landscape
Yongqing Fang Alleyways: an Urban Transformation | Lab D+H
Zhejiang Perfect Production Factory Landscape Design | gad · line+ studio
Built – Residential
China Tide Mansion Rubik’s cube parlor | Beijing Sunshine Landscape CO. LTD
Guanyun Mountain Villas | Rand Design Associates
Highlands Retreat | Design Workshop
Saltwater Coast | Tract
The Taaffe House | dhd damir hurdich design
Towers Road Residence | Taylor Cullity Lethlean
YONGWEI·SHANYUE Residence | TOPO Design Group / Chongqing Donehome Landscape Architecture Planning Design Co.,Ltd
Marin County Modern | Green 17 Design
Built – Small Landscape Design
Berlin IGA Cultivated by Fire | Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Cycling through the Trees | Toerisme Limburg – BuroLandschap
Imagewharf multifunctional city jungle | Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners
LGBT Memorial | Stantec
Lines in the Landscape | RUBOW arkitekter A/S
Minor Paradises Amman | studiolibani × civil architecture
Public toilets in Zuzhai village | Atelier cn°S & South China University of Technology
The Folds | Atelier Scale
Conceptual – Analysis & Planning
Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan St. Louis | Stoss
Panda Land Masterplan | HASSELL
Re-imagening the Garden City | C.F. Møller Architects
Toyota Woven City | BIG Bjarke Ingels Group
Victoria Park Vision | Lat27 and Brisbane City Council
Conceptual – Design
Big Shelf | Chanon Wangkachonkait and Jaehong Chung
Columniation – Sculptural Space | Nomad Studio
Landscapes of metabolism | topio7
Point Nepean National Park Masterplan |
Taylor Cullity Lethlean
Rambling Road at The Treetop of Western Slopes of Bailuyuan | SHUISHI
Return of the Hill | Atelier Scale
Tomine Regional Park (The Park as a landscape of life) | CONSORCIO TOMINEJOS
Typhoonproof East Dike Shenzhen | KCAP Architects&Planners + Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners
Student – Analysis & Planning
A Wet-Dry Relationship: When the living wetland and urbanites are reconciled | Nissa Phloimontri – Chulalongkorn University
DREAM SPACE: ECO-UNIT Mode Evolution Strategy Based on Guiyu’s “Urban Minerals” Demonstration Base | Yubing Yang, Yunshuang Wang, Jianan Deng – Beijing Forestry University
Interpretation of Vernacular Landscape | Ying Dong – Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Chengfan Liang – Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University; XiaoWei He – Beijing Forestry University;
Oasis swaying with wind | Wang Kai, Yan Haojun, Pu Ye, Li Na – Beijing Forestry University
Ram Nagar Econursery and Wetland Park | Gaelle Gourmelon – University of Virginia
The Constructive Destruction | Shaine Wong – University of Toronto
The Ladder of Awakening | Ce Sun, Zhanchen Gao, Yueyang Wu Zhejiang University; Chaoyin Xu – Nanjing University of Science and Technology;
WHO WIN: Indonesia mine restoration plan | Yuxuan Cai – Wuhan Polytechnic University; Bowen Dong, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology; Weiyang Tang – Tianjin University Urban and Rural planning; Yixin Jia – Zhejiang A&F University;
Student – Design
An Invisible Buffer for Ossining – The Introduction to a Resilient Multi-layer Riverfront | Lingyi Xu – Cornell University
Death As Life | Yuxuan Cai – Wuhan Polytechnic University
Defiant Gardens | Sarvin Khosravi – University of Toronto
Disappearing Garden | Yuchen Luo, Ziqian Huang, Xin Zhu, Yinan Zhao, Chenhong He, Heli Zhong – South China University of Technology
Dissolving Boundaries | Siwen Xie, Xiuzheng Li, Xin Zhong – Harvard University GSD
Right to Remain | Tina Yun Ting Tsai – Harvard University GSD
Sponge cell a unit of the campus green infrastructure | Kangfu Zhuo, Hao Zhang – Peking University
Symbiosis with opposite | Minzhi Lin – Huaqiao University
Theatre of Phenomena | Sara Ingignoli, Giorgia Lentini, Eleonora Santoro – Polytechnic University of Milan
Water is Life | Huijing Chen, Wenting Yang – University of British Columbia