The 2026 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
Undergrad HONOR awards
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Recovering Parkville's Post-Industrial Scar
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Tending the Grid
Northeastern University
Graduate HONOR awards
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Atmospheric Springs: The Future of Fog in LA
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Phasing Freshwater
Caroline Brodeur
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Reclaimed Edges
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Rewinding (Coal)ocene
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Tortoise and Tarantula: Tales from the Edge
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Category: Landmark
LANDMARK award
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Science Park, Montshire Museum of Science
Copley Wolff Design Group
Category: Analysis & Planning
HONOR awards
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Branching Generations: Arboretum San Antonio
Sasaki
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Phillips Square Design
Sasaki
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Wharf District Council Resiliency Plan
Tighe & Bond
Category: Residential Design
HONOR awards
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Datum House
Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture
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Oak Springs Farm
STIMSON
EXCELLENCE award
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Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot
Lu — La Studio
Category: General Design
HONOR awards
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COONAMESSETT Gateway to a Living River
STIMSON
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Ken Kelly Park: Performance, Pocket-Sized
Crowley Cottrell Landscape Architecture
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Layered Resiliency
OJB Landscape Architecture
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Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University
Sasaki
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Somerville Avenue Streetscape Design
Hatch Associates
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The People’s Park
OJB Landscape Architecture
EXCELLENCE awards
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Indigenous Knowledges & Design at Tekakapimek
Reed Hilderbrand
Jury Special Recognitions
Special Recognition Awards
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Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot
Special Recognition Award for “ ”
Lu — La Studio
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