The 2026 BSLA Design Awards
Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot | Lu — La Studio | 2026 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
Liana Rosenblum, Adriana Pinto-Pro, and Delaney Gardner
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Tending the Grid
Jess Montgomery and Hannah Young Chung
Northeastern University
Graduate HONOR awards
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Atmospheric Springs: The Future of Fog in LA
Nathan Sweitzer
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
Zenith (Zhiming) Zhang
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Rewinding (Coal)ocene
Hanrui (Freya) Fu
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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Tortoise and Tarantula: Tales from the Edge
Anne Tong and Junia Yang
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
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 | Halvorson Design Studio
Category: Residential Design
HONOR awards
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Datum House
Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture
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Oak Springs Farm
STIMSON (Landscape Architects)
Piet Oudolf (Garden Designer)
Fritz Read (Architect)
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 (Landscape Architects)
Inter-Fluve (River and Wetland Restoration)
Richmond So (Structural Engineer)
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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 Consultants, Inc
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The People’s Park
OJB Landscape Architecture
EXCELLENCE awards
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Indigenous Knowledges & Design at Tekakapimek
Reed Hilderbrand
Category: Landmark
LANDMARK award
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Science Park, Montshire Museum of Science
Copley Wolff Design Group
Jury Special Recognitions
Special Recognition Award
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Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot
Special Recognition Award for “Revealing the Power of Small Places to Spark Community, Restore Ecology, and Create Everyday Wonder.”
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.
Indigenous Knowledges & Design at Tekakapimek | Reed Hilderbrand | 2026 BSLA Excellence Award