The Landscape Institute is pleased to announce the shortlist of finalists for the annual Landscape Institute Awards 2018. The projects showcase the breadth of exceptional work of the many different types of landscape professionals, including landscape designers, managers, planners and researchers and in particular the power landscape has to impact on people’s lives.
Over 160 entries were received from around the world and winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on Thursday 22 November at The Brewery in London, at an event recognising and celebrating excellence, innovation and creativity by practitioners working in both the natural and built-environments. New York Times best-selling author and journalist Florence Williams will be the keynote speaker and the awards will be compered by broadcast journalist and BBC London radio contributor, Ebs Akintade. This event aims to highlight the innovative work by the landscape profession across the UK and internationally.
Dan Cook, CEO of the Landscape Institute, said: “The Landscape Institute’s Awards are designed to really push the boundaries of landscape design, and bring together professionals from the entire sector to collaborate and inspire. They demonstrate what is unique about the profession, which at its heart is focussed in creating and managing places that benefit people, place and nature. Interestingly one of the common themes this year across many entries is the importance placed on community engagement and is symbolic of the values held by the next generation of the profession.”
Adam White, President of the Landscape Institute said: “We have had an impressive number of entries this year, of an incredibly high calibre, totalling 163 applications. The shortlisted projects range from small but creative UK projects, to impressively innovative international designs. With 21 different categories in the Awards, there is obviously great diversity in the approaches demonstrated and as a landscape design professional myself, it is hugely satisfying to see the contrasts in the design, planning and management across the 36 projects that have made it to this year’s shortlist and I wish them all of the finalists the very best of luck at the Awards ceremony.”
Mathew Haslam, Managing Director of Hardscape, headline sponsor of the Awards, comments: “We’re proud to show our continued support for the Landscape Institute as the headline sponsor of this year’s awards event. We’re really looking forward to the awards ceremony, which promises to be a great event, allowing us all to take a step back and celebrate some of the most outstanding work the industry has delivered over the past year.”
Shortlist of finalists
Mill Lane and De Montfort University Public Realm
AECOM
The new design of the main pedestrian spine running through De Montfort University in Leicester promotes walking and cycling, and the rain gardens support ecology and managing water.
Neighbourhood Planning Support Services: Heritage and Character Assessment
AECOM
Since 2015, AECOM have provided a national programme of technical support to groups engaged in preparing neighbourhood plans. This project draws specifically on the delivery of over 50 Heritage and Character Assessments, which apply the best of local landscape planning practice.
Quarry Garden in Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden
Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute
Inspired by the concept of “Taoyuan” (an ideal paradigm of East Asian natural landscape), the quarry creates a series of attractions, re-establishing the connection between human beings and natural wasteland which is integrated with the adjacent botanical garden.
Connecting Burton and the Trent Washlands: A New Vision
Black and Veatch Ltd
Combining Ecosystems Services Valuations, and more traditional heritage and landscape techniques, including hand-drawn visualisations, to connect Burton to the Trent Washlands in Staffordshire.
Seething Lane Gardens, Ten Trinity Square
Capita Lovejoy
Facilitating the reuse of the listed Ten Trinity Square in London, which was at risk due to inoccupancy, a pocket park was created that balances the needs of people, environment, heritage and townscape.
Northstowe Phase 2 Healthy Living and Youth & Play Strategy
Chris Blandford Associates
Delivered in three phases, Northstowe in Cambridgeshire will eventually provide 10,000 new homes for around 25,000 people and provides guidance on how to embed healthy living and play into the design of green infrastructure.
South Gardens, Elephant Park
Churchman Landscape Architects
This design provides a case study of the residential landscape as an urban sanctuary in London, which places the community, wellness and ecology at its hear, with communal courtyards and the incorporation of green roofs.
Residential Regeneration at Poole Park Road, Barne Barton, Plymouth
Clifton Emery Design
Plans are underway to transform the site of the largest naval estate in the UK, introducing a mixture of flats, houses and community spaces that create sustainable and vibrant places to live.
Rice Garden in Shanghai, China
Department of Landscape Architecture, Tongji University
This temporary agricultural garden is constructed on the same rice field every year while maintaining the land’s productivity. The design changes annually, making it an ongoing experience, which if monitored each season, could help to better understand the interaction of people with different open spaces.
The Block
desert INK/Desert Group
The Block provides a great example of how site-found waste materials can be successfully used to create both character and function within a public landscape in Dubai.
Gunnersbury Park ‘Parks for People’ Project
Ealing Council
A practical hands-on approach and strong community outreach has restored the 18th century park’s listed structures and tree lines in West London.
Wangjing SOHO Parks: Creating a New Green Urban Hub
Ecoland Planning and Design Corporate
This park is a backyard oasis in which people can interact with each other and with nature, making it a pinnacle destination for local workers and residents in the booming Wangjing district of Beijing.
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
erz
This project provides accessible, therapeutic spaces throughout the campus and combines landscape and architecture to provide social and health benefits through access to high-quality landscape in Scotland’s capital city.
Maritime Streets
Farrer Huxley Associates
Barrow in Furness has a rich industrial heritage, but the decline in traditional industry has resulted in a degraded landscape around Maritime Streets. The brief was to improve the public realm, creating a landscape that would that kick-start economic and social growth.
The Piece Hall Transformation Project
Gillespies LLP
Built in 1779, the Grade I listed Piece Hall in Halifax, in Yorkshire, is the sole survivor of the great 18th century northern cloth halls. The transformation project was undertaken as a sensitive restoration and re-use of the courtyard, after it escaped demolition by a single vote in 1972.
Forest of Imagination
Grant Associates
A temporary annual transformation of a public space in Bath made from borrowed, found or recycled materials as a way of highlighting the importance of sustainability.
Bushey New Cemetery
J & L Gibbons
The design aimed to alter the perception of the building cluster by seamlessly integrating new prayer halls, a mortuary, parking and burial space into the London landscape.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Parks and Open Spaces Strategy and Corporate Natural Capital Accounts
Jon Sheaff and Associates
Aiming to develop a new parks and open spaces strategy for this London borough, the project recognised the significant challenges faced by the council and the opportunities presented by good-quality parks in delivering positive outcomes for communities and for the borough as a whole.
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Sustainability
Joshua Zeunert
The book uses before, during and after imagery to communicate the temporal aspects of landscape architecture sustainability and the importance of process and time.
Thamesmead
Land Management Services
Over the next 20 to 30 years, it is anticipated that Thamesmead Estate in East London will be transformed, with a commitment by Peabody to invest an estimated £1bn in housing, green spaces, waterways and promoting economic prosperity.
Brompton Cemetery Conservation Project
LDA Design
The four-year, £6.2m ‘Parks for People’ restoration project has revealed hidden architectural gems, revitalising Benjamin Baud’s and J.C. Loudon’s original garden cemetery design in West London.
Aberfeldy Phases 1 and 2
Levitt Bernstein
Providing more than 1,000 affordable new homes set around new green spaces and using pedestrian and cycle strategies to break down the barriers of the A13 and A12 highways in Tower Hamlets, London.
Eastfields
Levitt Bernstein
The concept in Mitcham in Surrey has been to turn the existing estate ‘inside out’, reallocating green space and reducing the current feeling of isolation expressed by residents.
The Restoration of Cassiobury Park
LUC
This park was the last surviving portion of the great country seat of the Earls of Essex. The project aimed to restore and reveal the lost character and features of this 380-year-old designed landscape, while also revitalising the ‘People’s Park’.
Landscape Sensitivity and Green Infrastructure Study for Leicester and Leicestershire
LUC
This project links landscape sensitivity and green infrastructure studies to provide weighty and robust evidence to allow the county and local planning authorities to be proactive rather than reactive in accommodating future development.
Beech Gardens and The High Walk, Barbican Estate
Nigel Dunnett Studio
By completely replanting the podium level at Beech Gardens and the High Walk in the Barbican Estate, this project aimed to create an exemplar of sustainable climate-adapted urban landscape planting.
The Dunbar Battery
Rankinfraser Landscape Architecture
Undertaking the regeneration of the battery, on Scotland’s south east coast, along with the creation of a new public gathering space to promote education and public art, while also conserving a listed building.
Bluegreen Liverpool
reShaped
Bluegreen built interventions to engage people through their own curiosity, creating talking points and inspiring action. Connections were developed during design workshops and walks, involving over 400 members of the public.
Exmoor’s Ambition
Rural Focus
Pre-empting the impact of Brexit on the future for food, farming and the environment, the project’s focus lies in incentivising all the public benefits of the countryside such as healthy food and soils, flourishing nature and enterprising businesses.
Environmental Improvement Project at Kranji Marshes
Stephen Caffyn Landscape Design
Promoting awareness of biodiversity through nature experiences, interpretive signage, environmental sculptural elements, this site is now home to more than 170 species of birds, including nationally-threatened species such as the grey-headed fish eagle in Singapore.
Learning Forest, Singapore Botanic Gardens
Stephen Caffyn Landscape Design
An educational rainforest experience in the heart of the city with canopy walkways, wetland boardwalks and stepping stones.
Met Office Science Park
Stride Treglown
In this Devonshire project the planting provides a habitat for wildlife using a planting palette of native grasses and willow, with a focus on pollinating insects and a symbiosis with planting.
Le Jardin Secret, Marrakech
Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd
This project divides the garden into two contrasting spaces, each representing a different version of heaven. One strictly follows garden-making principles in the Islamic tradition while the Exotic Garden has a contemporary character, with species drawn from Mediterranean regions.
Shadwell Estate
Turkington Martin
Creating a sense of identity for the whole London estate and to improve access to green space, by developing a ‘garden’ for the residents and providing a series of formal and informal social spaces.
Wandle Vistas
Untitled Practice and Fiona Fyfe Associates
Celebrating the under-represented qualities of London’s Wandle Valley, from downland to delta and offering community-inspired legacy, including the training of local volunteers.
St Helen’s Moorish-Stitch: A Garden on Behalf of McArthurglen Designer Outlet York
Urban Wilderness
A garden for the Bloom! Festival in York, which celebrated 250 years of the Ancient Society of York Florists. The planting was inspired by the North York Moors with a modular ‘stitch’ pattern, referencing fashion design.
The Landscape Institute’s 2018 Awards take pace that The Brewery in London on Thursday 22 November 2018. For tickets, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk.
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About The Landscape Institute
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The Landscape Institute’s Awards 2018
Around 50 people from diverse backgrounds, different countries, from many different professional specialisms are involved in judging these awards. They are from within and outside the profession and each year we make sure we select new judges who have not participated before. Every single winner is judged objectively and site visits take place for certain categories, making our awards fair and genuine for all entrants.
Professional categories include:
- Adding Value Through Landscape / Environmental Improvement Award
- Design for a Small Scale Development Award
- Design for a Medium Scale Development Award
- Design for a Large Scale Development Award
- Design for a Temporary Landscape Project Award
- Communications and Presentation Award
- Heritage and Conservation Award
- Science, Management and Stewardship Award
- Landscape Policy and Research Award
- Local Landscape Planning Award
- Strategic Landscape Planning Award
- Urban Design and Masterplanning Award
- Strategic ecology, horticulture and planting design
Open categories include:
- Dame Sylvia Crowe Award for Outstanding International Contribution to People, Place and Nature
In addition to the shortlist in the categories listed above, the following will be announced at the awards ceremony on 22 November:
Student categories:
- Student Dissertation Award
- Student Portfolio Award
Special Awards:
- Client of the Year Award
- New Landscape Professional of the Year Award
- Volunteer of the Year Award
Special Accolades include:
- Fellow’s Award
- President’s Award
The Landscape Institute’s #chooselandscape campaign
One of the most pressing challenges for the landscape profession is a skills shortage at a time when the sector is growing steadily. In order to help inspire more people into the profession the Landscape Institute is providing support and leadership with a new campaign – #chooselandscape – which is going to be instrumental in promoting the different routes into the profession, providing a cohesive approach to ensure a diverse and healthy workforce for the future.
About Hardscape
Established in 1994, Hardscape is the UK’s premier landscaping material supplier with a mission to inspire and create visionary urban spaces. Taking a collaborative approach, Hardscape sources the highest quality materials from across the world ethically and sustainably. The company is recognised as a global leader in the field of Business and Human Rights, and its work is used to demonstrate best practice in the National Action Plans issued by the government in both the UK and Ireland. Hardscape is also registered on the Modern Slavery Registrar and has graduated to achiever ranking in the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).
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