2017 WLA Awards

World Landscape Architecture opened the call for entries in late 2016 for the inaugural WLA Awards, with entries being received from all over the world in early 2017. The standard of entries was so high that the judging had to be extended to shortlist the final entries.

It is with great excitement that World Landscape Architecture can announce that the jury of the WLA Awards has submitted their judging sheets, and we have collated the results to determine the winners in each category.

2017 WLA Awards Jury

Martin Barry | Founder & Chairman, reSITE; Co-Founder & CEO, City Crew
Kimberly Garza | Founder, ATLAS Lab
Andrew Grant | Founder & Director, Grant Associates. RDI, CMLI, Hon FRIBA, FRSA.
Jason Ho | Initiator of Mapping Workshop, China and Founder of Urban Informality Lab
Mark Johnson FASLA | Principal, Civitas

2017 WLA Awards Winners

Built Design
Award of Excellence
Chicago Riverwalk – Phase 2 & 3 | Sasaki and Ross Barney Architects
Photography: ©Christian Philips

Merit Awards
TE ARA I WHITI – Light Path | LandLAB + Monk McKenzie

Conceptual Design
Award of Excellence
Soul of Norrebro | SLA | Image Credit: ©SLA / Beauty and the Bit

Merit Award
The New St. Pete Pier | Rogers Partners, ASDISKY, Ken Smith Workshop

Research & Communication
Award of Excellence
The Floating Gardens of Tonle Sap
PLACE

Merit Award
Why we love trees | SLA

World Landscape Architecture – Editor’s Award

Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project | Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership | Photography: Simon Wood

Student Award
Award of Excellence
Is ‘Green’ the right way to environmental degradation? Reviewing issue of shelterbelt plantation die-off in northern China’s marginal landscape | Cathy Doa

Merit Award
Reclamation of Whitesands quarry | Tianyi Jiang

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

2017 WLA Awards Shortlist

Built Design Award
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics | Dirtworks Landscape Architecture
Play landscape BE-MINE | OMGEVING + Carve
TE ARA I WHITI – Light Path | LandLAB + Monk McKenzie
MacKenzie Falls Gorge Trail | Hansen Partnership
Chicago Riverwalk | Sasaki
Trottier Observatory and Science Courtyard | PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc.
Ovoo Hill Park | Yuhui Song & Wenna Feng
Penguin Plus Viewing Area | Tract Consultants
Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project | Turf Design Studio & Environmental Partnership
Green Wendel Wyatt Federal Building | PLACE
Underpass Park | PFS Studio
Monash University, Caulfield Campus Green | TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean)

Student Design Award
Who Grows There? | Jonathan Fillmore
Reclamation of Whitesands quarry | Tianyi Jiang
Tyre’s Interactive Waterfront | Loubna Sasso
Is ‘Green’ the right way to environmental degradation? Reviewing issue of shelterbelt plantation die-off in northern China’s marginal landscape | Cathy Doa
Paradise Out of Ruins | Wang Sizhe Zhu Xinyu Tan Jiefang Zhao Liang
Urban Riskscape | Guglielmo Ricciardi
Augmented City | Zhuocheng Gu & Sheng Xu
An Outdoor Learning Environment for children | Matluba Khan
Into the Underworld: The Architecture of Databases | Chirag Jindal
42NYC | Hang Su
Resilient Future: The Cultural Riverfront Edge in the New Capital, Amaravathi, Inandhra Pradesh, India | Priyanka Malik