2023 finalists and winners
Congratulations to all the winners and finalists for the LI Awards 2023!
We had over 150 entries this year across 17 categories.
This year’s applicants impressed our judges and we’re delighted to be able to share our #LIAwards2023 finalists and winners below.
Open categories
Landscape Legacy Award
Headline sponsor
🏆 WINNER
Renewable Energy Infrastructure do we need a new aesthetic in the face of climate change?
MVGLA
Marc van Grieken
©Jason Hawkes for LLDC
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
London Legacy Development Corporation
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
©The Research Institute Of Historic Environment Conservation and Regeneration, SCUT
Micro Renovation and Renewal Design of Guangzhou Panxi Restaurant
SCUT
Chief Architect: Qian Guo
School of Architecture, South China University of Technology: Lei Xiao, Shaojie Wang, Kai Huang, Congjie Shen, Jingjuan Liu, Chongxin Zhu, Fangyu Shen
Guangzhou Urban Planning and Design Company Limited.: Weijun Chen, Kun Tang, Huimei Ou, Yidui Lai, Ruiwen Liu, Qi Sun
The Dame Sylvia Crowe International Award
🏆 WINNER
Rijnvliet Edible Neighborhood
Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners
Municipality Utrecht (client), De Zwarte Hond (Urban planning advisor), Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners (landscape, public space), Æ Food Forestry Development (Food forest advisor), Van Wijk Nieuwegein (construction developer), Van Wanrooij developer (developer).
From Gutter to Valley: Activating a Neglected Canal as a Community Hub
Lab D+H Shanghai
Client: Wide Horizons
Landscape Lead Designers: Zhongwei Li， Nan Lin
Landscape Design Team: Jiajun Wang, Wenzhe Jiang, Yijia Zhu, Jie Xu, Xiujuan Li, Yufei Fan, Jingyu Wu, Xiaowen Pan, Qiran Zhang, Yiting Hu
Construction Company： Chengdu Shuren Landscape Engineering Co., LTD
Waterscape Consultant： Sushui Design
Cooperate with the construction drawing： LEDA Landscape
Architects： Zhouyu Design Group Co., Ltd.
Curtain Wall Design： China Construction Shenzhen Decoration Co., Ltd
BIM： Chengdu Yingjie Engineering Technology Co. LTD
Lighting Consultant： HITTON Lighting Consultant
Signage & Wayfinding Consultant： Liangxiang Design
Soft outfit design： Chongqing Kaji Culture & Art Co., Ltd.
Installation Art Design： Chongqing Kaji Culture & Art Co., Ltd.
Waterscape Construction： Sichuan Bolier Light and Shadow Water Show Technology Co., Ltd.
Structural Design： Sichuan Yinhe Construction Engineering Co., Ltd.
Sign Design Engineering： Chengdu Yuanxin Huatong Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd.
Flower Border Construction： Chengdu Huimei Flower Gardening Engineering Co., Ltd.
©Shixian Shen and Rui Li
Return to Nature——Renovation of Hangzhou Children’s Park
China Academy of Art /CAADI
Client: Hangzhou Children’s Park Committee
Design Company:China Academy of Art; The Design Institute of Landscape & Architecture China Academy of Art Co.,Ltd.
Designers: Shixian Shen, Yang He, Fang Fang, Rui Li, Xiaofeng Yang, Yue Yu,Yari Jin, Qinmeng Yu, Zhiqiang Wang
©AECOM
Restoration of Polders through Nature-based Solutions
AECOM
AECOM Design Team: Lian Tao, Sidun Xiong, Xiaodan Liu, Haiyu Tang, Junjun Xu, Yifei Li, Ziwei Ye, Danhua Zhang, Yixin Cheng, Jian Xu
AECOM Architecture Consultant: Thomas Young
AECOM Landscape Consultant: Lee Parks
Architecture Design: GOA
Consultant: gad Shanghai Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Collaborators: ChengBang Design Group Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Greenwind Ecotourism Planning and Design Institue Co., Ltd.
Client: Ningbo Kaitou Bluetown Investment and Development Group Co., Ltd.
Community Co-built Garden of Yuehai Subdistrict in Shenzhen
Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen
Guangyu Yu, Sihan Huang, Yibin Yue, Tian Wu, Huitao Deng, Muyun Chen, Wenhui Xu, Zhuang Gu, Jiajun Song, Zichun Lei, Yizhen Hou, Chunyan Zhao, Yue Wang, Xiang Lan, Zhiqiang Zou, Zhiheng Lu
©GP+B
Site Tour Eiffel
Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Client
City of Paris – Eiffel Tower Team
Design Team
Design Team Lead
Landscape Architecture
GUSTAFSON PORTER + BOWMAN
Architecture
CHARTIER-CORBASSON ARCHITECTS
Heritage Architects
ATELIER MONCHECOURT & CO
Urban Activation
SATHY
Civil Engineering
MA-GEO
Legal & Financial Advisor
ARIANE DIENSTAG SAS
Mobility
DEVILLERS & ASSOCIATES
Structural Engineering
BOLLINGER + GROHMANN
Lighting Design
8’18
Safety & Security
CRONOS
Digital Product Agency
AREA 17
Furniture, Signage & Wayfinding
STUDIO BRICHET ZIEGLER
Architectural Programming
YRIS AMO
MEP & Sustainability
INEX SAS
Acoustics
AVEL
Art, Culture and Event Planning
MANIFESTO
Exhibition Design
dUCKS SCÉNO
Geotechnical Engineering
SEMOFI
Soil Ecology
SOL PAYSAGE
Traffic Analysis
CDVIA
Crowd Modelling
MOVEMENT STRATEGIES
Urbanist & Sociologist
PROF. ALAIN BOURDIN
Quantity Surveyor
VPEAS
Construction Coordination
PLANET MANAGEMENT
BIM Management
BIM SERVICES
Landscape Research and Digital Innovation Award
🏆 WINNER
©Justin Knight
Atlas for a City-Region
Critical Landscapes Design Lab and Gareth Doherty
Atlas for a City-Region: Imagining the Post-Brexit Landscapes of the Irish Northwest
©Adrian McGregor
Biourbanism :: Cities as Nature
McGregor Coxall
McGregor Coxall and Adrian McGregor
A Framework in Evaluating Human-Nature Interaction in A Public Place
OSU
Bo Zhang, Cheryl Mihalko, Yang Song, Xun Zhu, Zhongzhong Zeng, Chongchong Wang, Xinting Cheng, & Xiwei Shen.
How people read post-industrial parks
Beijing Forestry University & L. Design Collaborative
Fang Wei, Yiqing Wu, Qing Li, Changming Yu, Moyang Wang, Ruoshi Zhang, Nicholas Lynch
Excellence in Collaboration, Engagement and Influence
🏆 WINNER
Dementia friendly design
PRP
Dementia friendly landscape and the West Dereham Ward garden
©Paul Upward Photography
Shoreditch Park
LUC & London Borough of Hackney
Shoreditch Park
©Landstory & Regrarians
Stour Valley Park
Landstory
Stour Valley Park
©B|D Landscape Architects
Cardinal Place Co-Design
Cardinal Place Co-Design
Landscape and Parks Management
🏆 WINNER
©LUC
Stanmer Park Management Plan
LUC
Stanmer Park Management and Maintenance Plan
Wakefield Parks Management Plans
Arcadis
Wakefield Parks Management Plans
Professional categories
Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation and Enhancement
🏆 WINNER
©Nick Harrison
Urban GreenUP: The Pollinator Project
reShaped and Flavia Goldsworthy
Urban GreenUP: The Pollinator Project
Shugborough Wood Pasturescape Development Plan
Land Use Consultants
Shugborough Wood Pasturescape Development Plan
©Richard Bloom
Mayfield Park, Manchester
Studio Egret West
Mayfield Park / Studio Egret West
©Bulwick Estates
Harringworth Park Wildlands
Southern Green
Harringworth Wildlands
Excellence in Climate, Environment, and Social Outcomes
🏆 WINNER
©Atkins
Climate Ready Edinburgh
Atkins
Creating a Climate Ready Edinburgh
©Airborne Lens
Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Planning for Net Zero
LUC
A Development Framework for the Hagshaw Energy Cluster – Planning for Net Zero
©Jarrell Goh
Mayfield Park, Manchester
Mayfield Park / Studio Egret West
©Nick Harrison
Urban GreenUP: The Pollinator Project
reShaped and Flavia Goldsworthy
Urban GreenUP: The Pollinator Project
Excellence in Heritage and Culture
🏆 WINNER
St Albans Cathedral Sumpter Yard Revived
J&L Gibbons
St Albans Cathedral Sumpter Yard Revived
Zetland Park Regeneration Project
LUC
Zetland Park Regeneration Project
Excellence in Landscape Design
🏆 WINNER
Mayfield Park, Manchester
Studio Egret West
Mayfield Park / Studio Egret West
©Robin Forster / LDA Design
Strand Aldwych
LDA Design
Strand Aldwych
©Christopher Swan / LDA Design
Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen
LDA Design
Union Terrace Gardens
Excellence in Landscape Planning and Assessment
🏆 WINNER
©Pollard Thomas Edwards & McGregor Coxall
Cherry Hinton North Design Code
McGregor Coxall
Cherry Hinton North Design Code
©LUC
Pembrokeshire Green Infrastructure Assessment
LUC
Pembrokeshire Green Infrastructure Assessment
Nottingham Greenspace Strategy
Arkwood Ltd (formerly Jon Sheaff and Associates)
Nottingham Greenspace Strategy
Otterpool Park Garden Town, Kent
Arcadis
Otterpool Park Garden Town, Kent
Excellence in Masterplanning and Urban Design
🏆 WINNER
Letterkenny 2040
The Paul Hogarth Company
Letterkenny 2040
Orchard Farm Self Build, Kent
COLLECTIVE + EDLA
Orchard Farm Self Build, Kent
Westerhill Regeneration Area Masterplan, Scotland
Arcadis
Westerhill Regeneration Area Masterplan, Scotland
Excellence in Place Regeneration
🏆 WINNER
©Richard Bloom
Mayfield Park, Manchester
Studio Egret West
Mayfield Park / Studio Egret West
©John Sturrock
Claremont Park, Brent Cross Town
Townshend LA, HTA, Erect & RELATED ARGENT
Claremont Park, Brent Cross Town, Townshend Landscape Architects, HTA Design LLP and Erect Architecture
©Christopher Swan
Lochgilphead Front Green
ERZ
erz Ltd
Excellence in Public Health and Wellbeing
🏆 WINNER
©City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Challenging public health inequalities across Bradford District
City of Bradford MDC
Challenging public health inequalities across Bradford District
©Richard Bloom
Mayfield Park, Manchester
Studio Egret West
Mayfield Park / Studio Egret West
©Louise Haywood-Schiefer_Copyright Loveday&Co
Abbey Road Sensory Garden
ReardonSmith Landscape
Abbey Road Sensory Garden – Ed Freeman Landscape Architects LLP & Frogmore / Loveday & Co
East Leeds Orbital Route (ELOR)
Atkins
East Leeds Orbital Route (ELOR)
Excellence in Small Landscape and Garden Design
🏆 WINNER
©ZAC and ZAC
Glenkinchie Distillery
The Paul Hogarth Company
Glenkinchie Distillery
©Jack Hobhouse and B|D Landscape Architects
Living Wetland Theatre
B|D Landscape Architects
Living Wetland Theatre
©rankinfraser
The Bowline
rankinfraser landscape architecture
The Bowline
Wraxall Yard
Hortus Collective
Wraxall Yard
Special category
Building with Nature National Award 2022
🏆 WINNER
Pydar
PRP
Pydar Street
Hatherop Road, Fairford
EDP
Land at Hatherop Road, Fairford
Special category
President Award
🏆 WINNER
©City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Challenging public health inequalities across Bradford District
City of Bradford MDC
Challenging public health inequalities across Bradford District
Student categories
Student Portfolio
🏆 WINNER
The power of nature
Jinming Wei
Estee’s Portfolio 2016-2022
Estee Tsoi
Benjamin Adams
Benjamin Adams
A Landscape Journey
Malgorzata Gudel
Student Dissertation
🏆 WINNER
The Herring Girls
Nyima Murry
©Brett Cole
Cities and Uncertainty
Ben Keene
Bridging a Connection
Ruby Allison
©Loerke, 2020
The Lost Rivers of Mexico City
Paloma Martínez Solares Callejas