The 2022 BSLA Design Awards
On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, we are pleased to announce this year’s Design Award Winners.
Congratulations!
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About the BSLA Design Awards Program
Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) seeks to recognize excellence in the diverse practices of landscape architecture. Projects should demonstrate excellence and reflect the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environment.
The jury determines that awarded projects merit recognition in one or more of the following areas:
• Exemplary social, cultural, educational, or environmental significance
• Outstanding quality, craftsmanship, creativity, or artistry
• Unique and innovative technologies, techniques, or concepts
• Advancement of the public’s awareness and perception of the field of landscape architecture
Awards may be granted in LANDMARK, PROFESSIONAL, and STUDENT categories, for residential design, general design, analysis & planning, communication, and research projects. Student and Professional awards will be recognized at the levels of Excellence, Honor, and Merit. New last year, the jury may also give Special Recognitions.
Landscape architects and students based in the BSLA Chapter area — Massachusetts and Maine — are eligible to submit, as well as projects sited within Massachusetts and Maine regardless of where the design office is located.
The process includes a two-stage, blind peer review. No identifying information about the designer is allowed.
And the winners are…
STUDENT AWARDS
Merit Awards
Cohabitation
Riley Nystrom, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Redline Plaza on the Greenway
Justin Hailey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Honor Award
No Parking Any Time
Suzanne Warner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Excellence Award
Eelgrass Aqua-Pelago
Liwei Shen, Harvard Graduate School of Design
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Honor Awards
Category: Communications
Atlas for a City Region
Critical Landscapes Design Lab
Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
Jack Ahern, FASLA, Landscape Architect
Category: Analysis & Planning
Merit Awards
Albina Vision Community Investment Plan
El Dorado and Agency Landscape + Planning
Confronting Racism and Disinvestment in North Baton Rouge Greenwood Park Master Plan
Sasaki
Touch the Water Promenade
Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Tree Preservation Planning: Mary Ellen McCormack
Copley Wolff Design Group
Honor Awards
The Ellinikon Metropolitan Park and Coastal Front
Sasaki
UVA Ivy Corridor District
DumontJanks, LLC
Category: Residential Design
Merit Awards
Chestnut Hillside
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design
Reimagined Remnant: New Life for an Old Farm
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design
The Rough Middle
LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects
Honor Awards
Ledge Perch
LeBlanc Jones Landscape Architects
Pill Hill Garden
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design
The Rowdy of the Meadow: A Living Collection
Reed Hilderbrand
Wellesley Alternative: There Goes the Neighborhood
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design
Excellence Award
Suburban Jungle: A New Landscape Paradigm
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design
The banner photograph at the top of the page is a detail of this project.
Category: General Design
Merit Awards
165 Capitol Avenue
Landworks Studio, Inc.
Fan Pier Park
Richard Burck Associates
MIT 4 Roof Terraces
Landworks Studio, Inc.
MIT/Kendall Open Space
Hargreaves Jones
Mount Auburn Hospital Healing Garden
IBI Placemaking
Parks and People Headquarters Auchentoroly Terrace
STIMSON
Seaport Parklets
Kyle Zick Landscape Architecture
Warren Street Sculpture Garden
Offshoots, Inc.
Honor Awards
Blackstone Heritage Corridor Visitor Center
Landworks Studio, Inc.
The Christian Science Plaza Restoration and Repair
IBI Placemaking
Green and Blue: A Restored Meadow Destination
OJB Landscape Architecture
Hood Bike Park: Pollution Purging Plants
Offshoots, Inc.
MIT’s North Corridor: The Campus Way
Reed Hilderbrand
Open to All: Shaping Connections on the Waterfront
Reed Hilderbrand
The Overlook, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Weiss/Manfredi and Wolf Landscape Architecture
Restoring a Blackland Prairie
OJB Landscape Architecture
Somerville Public Library West Branch
G2 Collaborative
Jury Special Recognitions
recognizing
Simplicity and Stewardship
Bobbie’s Meadow at the Eric Carle Museum
Mantle Landscape Architecture and Klopfer Martin Design Group
recognizing
Raising Awareness on the Interconnected Relationship between Public Health and the Public Realm
The Topography of Wellness
Sara Jensen Carr
The Landmark Award
Wharf District Park
Copley Wolff Design Group
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.