The great outdoors: we unveil the 2015 Landscape Institute Award winners

The Landscape Institute Awards is the UK's annual celebration of design in the outdoors, encouraging the very best in landscape architecture around the country. This year's roster of winners spans parks, urban plazas and green infrastructure; and it has just been unveiled, during a ceremony in central London.
Given out to outstanding designs of all scales that highlight the importance of landscape work and help change the way we relate with green and open air surroundings, these industry gongs are a true hallmark of excellence in the field.
This year's winners include (but are not limited to): Urban Physic Garden by Wayward (Design for a Temporary Landscape), Cities Alive - rethinking green infrastructure by Arup (Communications and Presentation), Vauxhall Promenade of Curiosities by Erect Architecture and J & L Gibbons (Adding Value Through Landscape), Derbyshire Street Pocket Park, London by Greysmith Associates (Design for a Small Scale Development), Walpole Park, London by J & L Gibbons (Heritage and Conservation), South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park by James Corner Field Operations and LDA Design (Design for a Large Scale Development), Littlehaven Promenade by OOBE (Design for a Medium Scale Development) and, last but not least, Brentford High Street 'making the connection' by Kinnear Landscape Architects (Urban Design and Masterplanning and the coveted President's Award).
The student portfolio and dissertation categories have been awarded respectively to Fraser Halliday of the Edinburgh College of Art and Stuart Malcolm of the University of Edinburgh, for their exceptional course work.
The above projects, and even more, will join previous prestigious winners, such as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, in the Landscape Institute's virtual hall of fame.
The UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo won a Highly Commended mention in the Design for a Temporary Landscape category
The pavilion was designed by artist Wolfgang Buttress, engineers Simmonds Studio and architects BDP, and built by contractor Stage One
The Bristol Harbourside masterplan was highly commended in the Design for a Large Scale Development category
Littlehaven Promenade by OOBE was the winner at the Design for a Medium Scale Development category
...while Macauley Walk in London got a High Commendation in the Design for a Small Scale Development category
This is the South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park by James Corner Field Operations and LDA Design...
...which came out on top at the Design for a Large Scale Development category
The Urban Physic Garden by Wayward was also part of the shortlist...
...and went home with an award in the Design for a Temporary Landscape category
Walpole Park in London by J & L Gibbons was the best in the category of Heritage & Conservation
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For more information on the Landscape Institute Awards visit the website
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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