The 2025 BSLA Design Awards
Huckleberry Perch | Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC | 2025 BSLA Excellence Award
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, we are pleased to announce this year’s Design Award Winners.
STUDENT AWARDS
HONOR awards
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Envision Resilience
Qijia Chen, Garrett Craig-Lucas, Willa DeBoom, Shan He, Sakiko Isomichi, Tianzhen Jia, Alexandra Kupi, Jein Park, Kati Wiese
Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Erasing The Line
Christopher Lucas Dobbin
Harvard Graduate School of Design
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The Inner Coast
Caroline Brodeur
Harvard Graduate School of Design
EXCELLENCE award
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Folding Both Sides
Molly Youjing Zhang
Harvard Graduate School of Design
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Category: Research
HONOR award
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Charles River Floating Wetland Pilot Project
Sasaki
Hideo Sasaki Foundation
Charles River Conservancy
Dr. McNamara Rome/Northeastern University
Category: Analysis & Planning
HONOR awards
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A Legacy Renewed
OJB Landscape Architecture
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Bowdoin College: Historic Wild
STIMSON
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Riverfront Recapture Future Park
Hargreaves Jones
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Rural Abundance & Vitality: The Chaobai River
Sasaki
Category: Residential Design
HONOR awards
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Aquidneck Island Residence
STIMSON
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Sebago Lake Hillside Garden
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC
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Two Meadows
Kathryn Herman Design
EXCELLENCE award
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Huckleberry Perch
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC
Category: General Design
HONOR awards
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Halibut Point State Park
Crowley Cottrell Landscape Architecture
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Healey Schoolyard
Warner Larson, now IMEG
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The Speedway
Klopfer Martin Design Group
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Winchendon Community Park
Ground Inc.
EXCELLENCE awards
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Living Downtown (Again)
Ground Inc.
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More Than Human
STIMSON
Jury Special Recognitions
Special Recognition Awards
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Copicut: The Big Woods
Special Recognition Award for “Creating Magic and Discovery Through Modest Means”
Lu – La Studio
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Somerville Pollinator Action Plan
Special Recognition Award for “Innovative Balance Between Thorough Analysis and User-Friendly Action"
Offshoots Inc, with Dr. Nick Dorian and Conditioning Leaders, for the City of Somerville
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The Man Who Loved Trees
Special Recognition Award for “Recovering and Sharing the Work of Frank A. Waugh for New Audiences”
Annaliese Bischoff
Congratulations
THANK YOU to all of the individuals and firms who participated in this process, everyone who entered projects, recognized & not; the Design Awards jurors and chairs for volunteering time & insight; the full design and planning and engineering and construction and maintenance and ownership teams of these award-winning projects and of so many more unsung landscapes that shape our daily lives and improve the health of our homes, our communities, and our planet. It takes an extraordinary constellation of individuals working over time to make extraordinary landscape architecture. Thank you.
Bowdoin College: Historic Wild | STIMSON | 2025 BSLA Honor Award