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7 U.S. Firms Recognized in WLA Awards07-15-24 | News

7 U.S. Firms Recognized in WLA Awards

2024 WLA Awards Announced
by Staff

The World Landscape Architecture Professional Awards were announced recently, including this project from Design Workshop, Inc., who received an Award of Excellence for their Private Residential Landscape Built Design of 'Nurturing Nature in the Mile-High City' near Denver, Colorado. (Photo credit: Brandon Huttenlocker/Design Workshop, Inc.)
Lynn Wyatt Square for the Performing Arts - By RIOS (Photo credit: Pavel Bendov)
Printers Hill - By Sasaki (Photo credit: Sasaki)
Mill 19 - By TEN x TEN, MSR Design (Photo credit: Gaffer Photography)
Bridge House - By LaGuardia Design Group (Photo credit: Magda Biernat & Anthony Crisafulli)
Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan - By OLIN (Photo credit: OLIN)
Belle Isle Vision Plan - By Marvel & James River Park System (Photo credit: Marvel)
Peavey Plaza - By Coen+Partners (Photo credit: Coen+Partners)

World Landscape Architect, the international online platform for landscape architecture, recently announced the winners of the 2024 awards cycle, recognizing thirty-three firms and individuals across ten categories out of over 250 entries from over 40 different countries. Eight of these firms are based in the U.S., and together they took home fourteen of the forty awards given.
The winners are listed below, with an asterisk indicating U.S.-based firms.

Awards of Excellence
- *Analysis & Planning: Design Workshop, Inc., The Resilient Campus Historic Ecology and Water Conservation at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
- Commercial/Residential Landscape Design (Built): StudioPOD + Enviroscape, The Ravine Park at Godrej Rivergreens, Maharashtra, India
- Large Landscape Design (Built): TLS Landscape Architecture, Hangshou Grand Canal Steelworks Park, Hangzhou, China
- *Large Landscape Design (Conceptual): Marvel & James River Park System, Belle Isle Vision Plan, Richmond, Virginia
- *Private Residential Landscape Design (Built): Design Workshop Inc., Nuturing Nature in the Mile-High City, Denver, Colorado
- Residential Landscape Design (Conceptual): Flux landscape architecture, Binckhorst The Hague, The Hague, Netherlands
- Small Landscape Design (Built): StudioPOD, One Hive, Lower Parel, Mumbai
- Urban Design (Built): TCL and the City of Melbourne, Transforming Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, Australia
- Urban Design (Conceptual): Proyecto Especial Paisaj?-stico R?-o R?-mac - PEPRR, Rimac River's Special Landscape Project: Metropolitan Green Corridor for Lima's Historic Center, Lima, Peru

Honor Awards
- *Analysis & Planning: Design Workshop Inc., Reclaiming the South Platte - A Blueprint for Restoration + Resilience, Denver, Colorado
- *Analysis & Planning: OLIN, Sepulveda Basin Vision Plan, Los Angeles, California
- Commercial/Residential Landscape Design (Built): veenenbos en bosch landschapsarchitecten + Martijn Al, High Park, Arnhem, Netherlands
- Commercial/Residential Landscape Design (Built): WTD Group, LUXELAKES Gem Harbor Residential, Chengdu, China
- Large Landscape Design (Built): Henning Larsen, Dongguan Central Park Phase 1, Guangdong, China
- Large Landscape Design (Built): SHUISHI, Demonstration Area of Water Environment Improvement and Ecological Construction Project of Muchun Lake and Fanchun Lake, Kunming, China

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- Large Landscape Design (Conceptual): B+H Architects, 3XN, Zhubo Design, Shenzhen Natural History Museum, Shenzhen, China
- *Private Residential Landscape Design (Built): LaGuardia Design Group, Bridge House, Bridgehampton, New York
- *Private Residential Landscape Design (Built): LaGuardia Design Group, Dune Meadow, South Hampton, New York
- Small Landscape Design (Built): FISH DESIGN, Shanghai Super Tube: The Vibrant Rebirth of an Underbridge Community Hub of the City, Shanghai, China
- Urban Design (Built): OKRA landscape architects, Catharijnesingel, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Urban Design (Built): Sasaki Design Consulting, From Wharf 3 to Pearl River Blueway: Julong Bay Open Space Phase 1, Guangzhou, China
- *Urban Design (Conceptual): Sasaki, Post-COVID Adaptive Planning in Wuhan: South Core of Optics Valley, Wuhan, China

Merit Awards:
- Analysis & Planning: Sasaki Design Consulting, A Resilient Working Seafront: Huangshi Bay Coastal Park Master Plan, Shandong Province, China
- *Analysis & Planning: Design Workshop Inc., Seven Greenways: A Cooperative Vision for Water in the Arid West, Aspen, Colorado
- Commercial/Residential Landscape Design (Built): Platform Design Group, Island Life in Antara
- Commercial/Residential Landscape Design (Built): Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners, Jonas Amsterdam, Ijburg, Amsterdam
- *Large Landscape Design (Built): TEN x TEN and MSR Design, Mill 19, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Large Landscape Design (Built): Gillespies, The Park at Elephant Park, London, United Kingdom
- Large Landscape Design (Conceptual): Anjuna Architects, Biosynmedia Healing Park, India
- *Large Landscape Design (Conceptual): Sasaki, Printers Hill, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- *Private Residential Landscape Design (Built): Design Workshop, Inc., High Alpine Modernism - Outcrop Haus, United States
- Private Residential Landscape Design (Built): WKM Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH, Private Residence in the Lower Rhine Area, Europe
- Small Landscape Design (Built): rankinfraser landscape architecture, The Bowline, The Bowling Basin, Scotland
- Small Landscape Design (Built): Landtek Group, Tile Garden, Chaumont Castle, France
- Urban Design (Built): Futurepolis Urban Planning & Architecture Design Inc., Dynamic Boundaries Linking Time and Space: Duke Kunshan University 14-Year Commitment to Ecology, Suzhou, China
- *Urban Design (Built): RIOS, Lynn Wyatt Square for the Performing Arts, Houston, Texas
- Urban Design (Conceptual): North China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., Hengqin "Zero Carbon" Sewage Treatment Park, Zhuhai, China
- Urban Design (Conceptual): Entrop?-a Arquitectura Adaptativa + Land + Nueve Arquitectura, Urban Transformation of the 5th Street in the Center of Cali, Colombia
Special Awards:
- *The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Cultural Landscape Award: Coen+Partners, Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- World Landscape Architecture, Editor's Award: Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Reconnecting City, Nature, and People: Ecological Restoration of Tongjian Lake Park, Zhejiang, China
A list of the projects and their descriptions can be found on the following website:
https://worldlandscapearchitect.com/winners-announced-for-the-2024-wla-professional-awards/?v=3a1ed7090bfa


Other Sources:
https://studiopoddesign.com/portfolio-item/one-hive/
https://www.rankinfraser.com/public-realm/bowling-harbour
http://www.landtekgroup.net/product-detail-1252193.html
https://www.platformdesigngroup.com/portfolio-project-list
https://www.felixx.nl/projects/jonas-amsterdam.html
https://veenenbosenbosch.nl/portfolio_page/high-park-arnhem/
https://landezine.com/bridge-house-by-laguardia-design-group/
https://www.tenxtenstudio.com/mill-19
https://www.gillespies.co.uk/projects/the-park-within-elephant-park
https://www.okra.nl/project/catharijnesingel/
https://www.sasaki.com/projects/huangshi-bay-coastal-park-master-plan/
https://www.fluxlandscape.nl/en/binckhorst-climate-proof-and-biodiverse
https://www.sasaki.com/projects/printers-hill-master-plan/

Filed Under: AWARDS, LANDSCAPE, WLA, LASN
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