2021 Professional Awards

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 addressed the site and issues with sensitivity and created designs that the landscape architecture profession should be proud of.

2021 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

2021 Professional Awards Winners

Built – Large Design
Award of Excellence 
Valley Forest – Change Studio
Image: Ning Wang & holi

Merit Awards 
Wuhan OCT Wetland Park – L&A Design
Xuhui Runway Park – Sasaki

Honourable Mention
Silver Oak Winery – Munden Fry Landscape Associates

Built – Small Design
Award of Excellence 
Foot of Lonsdale – Hapa Collaborative 
Image: Dave Shea

Merit Award
Mellemrummet – BOGL

Honourable Mention
Floating Clouds Art Garden – Change Studio
Pocket Park on Xinhua Road, Shanghai – SHUISHI

Built – Residential Landscape Design
Award of Excellence 
Andesite Ridge Retreat – Design Workshop, Inc 
Photo Credit: Brandon Huttenlocher/Design Workshop, Inc.

Merit Awards 
Pengbu Central Commons — Hangzhou Nature for Residential Landscapes – PLAT Studio
Return of the Hill – Atelier Scale

Honourable Mention
Demonstration Area of SUNAC Nanshan Shanxiao Villas in Chongqing – WTD GROUP
Yango Tanyue MOMA Mansion – GVL Design Group

Built – Urban Design 
Award of Excellence 
Fish Lane Town Square – RPS
Photography: Scott Burrows

Merit Award
Forest and Sports Park Shenzhen – LOLA Landscape Architects, TALLER, Land+Civilization Compositions

Honourable Mention
Midtown District – Design Workshop
Guangzhou Ecological Belt Master Plan and Implementation – Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute

Conceptual – Analysis and Planning 
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 Mention
Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago – PEG office of landscape + architecture
Fontana Urban Greening Master Plan – Design Workshop

Conceptual – Design 
Award of Excellence 
Towards A Healthy City By Foot – Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners

Merit Award
Back Down to Earth – Gillespies & Hilary Barber

Honourable Mention
McGill College Avenue – civiliti + Mandaworks and SNC Lavalin
Wuhan Yangtze Riverfront Park – Sasaki

World Landscape Architecture – Editor’s Award 
Alpine Garden: Preserve Indigenous Culture and Native Plants – Z’scape
Image Credit: Yan Zheng

Honorable Mention
The Remise Park – BOGL

2021 Professional Awards Shortlist

Built – Large Design
A Wondrous Return – Design Workshop, Inc. and Reed Hilderbrand
Alpine Garden: Preserve Indigenous Culture and Native Plants – Z’scape
Renewed Orchestra Unites Shanghai’s Past and Present: A Novel Urban Micro-renewal in Blackstone Music Park – Lab D+H
Brooklyn Basin Township Commons – EinwillerKuehl
Designing Implementing and Managing Improvements to the National Mall – HOK
Fangding Village Cultural Center – A&N Shangyuan Landscape Design
Lanzhou CRRC Time Park – BJF Design
Levy Park – OJB Landscape Architecture
Silver Oak Winery – Munden Fry Landscape Associates
The Remise Park – BOGL
Valley Forest – Change Studio
Wuhan OCT Wetland Park – L&A Design
Xuhui Runway Park – Sasaki

Built – Residential
70 Rainey Sky Garden – Design Workshop, Inc.
Andesite Ridge Retreat – Design Workshop, Inc
Demonstration Area of SUNAC Nanshan Shanxiao Villas in Chongqing – WTD GROUP
Farm to Table – Arterra Landscape Architects
Forest Pavilion – Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited and TK STUDIO CO. LTD
Jin Wellbeing County – Shma
Nantong Chengyuan – Bluetown Z.S.D.
Pengbu Central Commons — Hangzhou Nature for Residential Landscapes – PLAT Studio
Return of the Hill – Atelier Scale
Shaoxing Manyuan – Bluetown Z.S.D.
Yango Tanyue MOMA Mansion – GVL Design Group

Built – Small Landscape Design
Cloud Garden Courtyard – A&N Shangyuan Landscape Design
Commercial Bay Sky Terrace + Laneways –  LandLAB
Floating Clouds Art Garden – Change Studio
Foot of Lonsdale – Hapa Collaborative
Mellemrummet – BOGL
Pocket Park on Xinhua Road, Shanghai – SHUISHI
Yunxi Tianyue Galaxy Art Center – SHUISHI

Built – Urban
Fish Lane Town Square – RPS
Forest and Sports Park Shenzhen – LOLA Landscape Architects, Land and Civilization Compositions and Taller architects
Guangzhou Ecological Belt Master Plan and Implementation – Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute
Mangrove Nature Reserve Futian Shenzhen – Shenzhen Wenke Landscape Corp
Midtown District – Design Workshop

Conceptual – Analysis & Planning
Blankenburg Süden – Circular City – Felixx + Cityförster
Edible Wadden Coast – Flux landscape architecture
Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago – PEG office of landscape + architecture
Fishnet Island – GVL Gossamer
Fontana Urban Greening Master Plan – Design Workshop
 Living With Wetlands –  China City Development Academy
Mexico City’s Medium Scale Hydric District Tacubaya – ORU – Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana
Moakley Park Resilience Plan – Stoss Landscape Urbanism

Conceptual – Design
B.GRIMM smart village – Arsomsilp Community and Environmental Architect Company
Back Down to Earth – Gillespies & Hilary Barber
24 Seasons Park – Hassell
Forest of abundance – Newarch Landscape
Huanglong Mountain Quarry Park – SHUISHI
McGill College Avenue – civiliti + Mandaworks and SNC Lavalin
Ningbo Lion Mountain – PLAT Studio
Park Laagraven – Flux landscape architecture
Towards a healthy city by foot – Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners
Wuhan Yangtze Riverfront Park – Sasaki