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Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ 2025 Professional General Design Award of Excellence. A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City. Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. Turenscape / Turenscape

Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ has announced its 2025 Professional Awards. Thirty-five Professional Award winners showcase innovation and represent the highest level of achievement in the landscape architecture profession. All winners and their locations are listed below.

Jury panels representing a broad cross-section of the profession, from the public and private sectors, and academia, select winners each year and are listed below. The 35 winners were chosen out of 463 entries.

The Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ / International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Global Impact Award is presented to a project in the Analysis and Planning category. The award is given to a work of landscape architecture that demonstrates excellence in addressing climate impacts through transformative action and scalable solutions, and adherence to Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ¡¯s and IFLA¡¯s climate action commitments. The 2025 award goes to?Testing Ground: Adapting Fairways to Resilient Barrier Isle Ecosystems on Jekyll Island in Georgia by Design Workshop and their client, Jekyll Island Authority. From defunct golf course to resilient coastal ecosystem, this project sets a national precedent for adaptive reuse.

The Professional Awards jury also selects a Landmark Award each year for a distinguished landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago that retains its original design integrity and contributes many benefits to the surrounding community. This year¡¯s Landmark Award celebrates Restoring the Glory, the Restoration of Forest Park, St. Louis by HOK and their client, Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis. This project led a major restoration of St. Louis¡¯ 1,370-acre Forest Park in 2000, revitalizing historic landmarks, modernizing amenities, and reintroducing natural systems to renew the park as one of America¡¯s most celebrated urban spaces.

¡°These projects demonstrate that what is good for nature is good for people,¡± said Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ President Kona Gray, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, PLA. ¡°Each project paired a high degree of difficulty with technical expertise and seamless design¡ªcongrats to all the winners."

"The extraordinary vision and expertise of landscape architecture is on full display with these award-winning projects,¡± said Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ CEO Torey Carter-Conneen. ¡°Underneath the serene designs beats the heart of biodiversity, carbon capture and the health and well-being of our communities."

Award recipients and their clients will be honored in person at the awards presentation ceremony at the in New Orleans, October 10-13. Media are invited to attend; please email press@asla.org for credentials. For more information, visit .

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Award Categories

General Design

Award of Excellence
???A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City
Nanchang, China
Turenscape?

Honor Award
The Beach at Elliott Bay
Seattle, Washington?
SurfaceDesign, Inc.?

Honor Award
Guitou Wetland Park: Reclaiming Public Space for the Rural Forgotten
Shaoguan City, China?
YXDesigners?

Honor Award
The Ellen DeGeneres Campus for the Dian Fossey Fund
Kinigi, Rwanda?
MASS Design Group + TEN x TEN?

Honor Award
More than Human: A Land Bridge for Cultural and Wildlife Connections
San Antonio, Texas
STIMSON?

Honor Award
The Shepherd Arts Park: Community, Art, Play
Detroit, Michigan
OSD ¨C Office of Strategy & Design?

Honor Award
A Walk in the Woods: Re-Wilding, Experimentation and Pedagogy at UMass
Amherst, Massachusetts
STIMSON? ?

Honor Award
Waterloo Park: Reclaiming Public Space in the Center of Austin
Austin, Texas
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.?

Honor Award
Mill 19: A Catalytic Postindustrial Landscape
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
TEN x TEN + D.I.R.T. Studio?

Urban Design

Honor Award
Jiaxing Station Park
Zhejiang, China
Z'scape + MAD?

Honor Award
Shanghai Underpass Hubs: Bridging Divides, Building Community
Shanghai, China
FISH DESIGN?

Honor Award
China Basin Park: A Dynamic Urban Connector
San Francisco, California
SCAPE?

Honor Award
Generosity of Place: Water Street Tampa¡¯s Continuous Canopy
Tampa, Florida
Reed Hilderbrand LLC?

Honor Award
??Turning Gray into Green: Meishe River Greenway and Fengxiang Park?
Haikou City, China
Turenscape?

Honor Award
UNIT.City: Transforming an Industrial Zone into an Innovation District
Kyiv, Ukraine
KOTSIUBA?

Residential Design

Award of Excellence
And the Wild Comes Right up to the Door
Princeton, Massachusetts
STIMSON?

Honor Award
The Little Project: Unlocking the Potential of an Everyday Urban Lot
St. Paul, Minnesota
Ping Design LLC?

Honor Award?
Huckleberry Perch
Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design?

Honor Award?
Inez Point: Embracing an Old Growth Forest
Whitefish, Montana
Design Workshop, Inc.?

Honor Award
Springy Banks
East Hampton, New York
LaGuardia Design Group?

Honor Award
Sendero Verde
New York, New York
AECOM LAUD NYC?

Honor Award
Norweta
Chicago, Illinois
Site Design Group, Ltd. Honor Award

Analysis & Planning

Award of Excellence?
Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park: A Landscape of Healing and Renewal
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Design Collective with Carmichael Associates?

Honor Award
Somerville Pollinator Action Plan: A Pollinator¡¯s Guide to City Living
Somerville, Massachusetts
Offshoots, Inc.?

Honor Award?
Rural Abundance & Vitality: The Chaobai River Basin
Tianjin Municipality, China
Sasaki Associates, Inc??

Honor Award
Sea2City: Reimagining Reconciliation in Design and Policy
Vancouver, Canada
Mithun + ONE, and PWL Partnership?

Communications

Honor Award
Greening Five Points: Growing a Grassroots Movement in Denver
Denver, Colorado?
Design Workshop + Design Workshop Foundation?

Honor Award
WORKS with Nature: Low-Carbon Adaptation for a Changing World
Boston, Massachusetts
Climate Positive Design?

Honor Award
Playbook for the Pyrocene
SWA Group?

Honor Award
Empty Pedestals
Southwestern U.S.
Kofi Boone, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ & M. Elen Deming, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ?

Research

Honor Award?
Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Time: Adaptive Management for Coastal Salt Marshes
Stone Harbor, New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania Environmental Modeling Lab (EMLab)?

Honor Award
Charles River Floating Wetland Pilot Project: Multi-Year Findings
Boston, Massachusetts
Sasaki Associates, Inc + The Hideo Sasaki Foundation and Dr. McNamara Rome?

Honor Award
LONGQUAN MOUNTAIN Park: Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research
Sichuan, China
ZAP Associates LLC?

Jury: General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design & Landmark Award

Jury Chair: Thomas Balsley, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, SWA/Balsley

Members:

Jury: Analysis & Planning Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ / IFLA Global Impact Award, Research, Communications & Landmark Award

Jury Chair: Diane Fernandez Bibeau, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, City of Boston?

Members:

IFLA Representative: Monica Pallares Trujillo, IFLA America Region?

CELA Representative: Bo Zhang, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Oklahoma State University?

LAF Representative: Signe Nielsen, FË¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, P.C.?