The 2023 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.
STUDENT AWARDS
MERIT awards
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Creating Community Vision for Indian Orchard
Rebecca Bagdigian-Boone
Li-Ting Hsu
Remington Pontes
Muskaan Handa
Abby Derick
Jake Harlow
Suzanne Warner
Frank Sleegers, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Distributive Ecologies
Erin Voss
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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"Natural-based" Landscapes
Huyen Nguyen
The Boston Architectural College
HONOR awards
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Discovery Forest
Abigail Derick
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Farming Concrete: Oyster Quarry
Austin Sun
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Category: Research
EXCELLENCE award
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Mycofiltration for Stormwater Management
Offshoots, Inc.
Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)
Goode Landscape Studio
Steven Handel
Colin Chadderton
Category: Analysis & Planning
MERIT awards
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Delaware State University Campus Master Plan
Perkins&Will
Delaware State University
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Mangrove Museum and Mountain to Bay Ecological Corridor
Landworks Studio, Inc.
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Wentworth Institute of Technology
Perkins&Will
Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Tufts University Community Housing (CoHo)
Crowely Cottrell, LLC
LDa Architecture and Interiors
Samiotes Consulting
Tufts University
Trident
HONOR awards
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Changchun Middle Mountain Landscape
Sasaki
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The Franklin Park Action Plan
Reed Hilderbrand
Agency Landscape + Planning
MASS Design Group
Category: Residential Design
MERIT award
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Nonquitt Retreat
Gregory Lombardi Design
HONOR awards
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A New Angle
Dan Gordon Landscape Architects
LDa Architects
R.P. Marzilli & Co.
Custom Quality Pools
KKB Builders
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Herrick Woods
Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC
Gardenform Landscape Construction
EXCELLENCE award
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For the Girls
Lu-La Studio
Category: General Design
MERIT awards
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Hackley School Center for Health and Wellness
STIMSON
Architectural Resources Cambridge
McLaren Engineering Group
Pine & Swallow Environmental
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MIT Hayden Library and Lipchitz Courtyard
STIMSON
Kennedy & Violich Architecture
Buro Happold
Pine & Swallow Environmental
Aqueous Consultants
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North Meadow on The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
ASK+
Unknown Studio,
Tetra Tech, Inc.
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The Bay: "One Park for All" in Sarasota
Agency Landscape + Planning
Client: The Bay Park Conservancy
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Thomson Place Plaza
Halvorson | Tighe & Bond Studio
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UMass Amherst Campus Core Revitalization
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arcadis
Shepley Bullfinch
Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects
Hoyle Tanner
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Unity Park
G2 Collaborative LLC
Lena Park Community Development Corporation
Cambridge Landscape
EXCELLENCE award
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The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
MASS Design Group
TEN x TEN
Jury Special Recognitions
Significant Value to Landscape Architecture
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Massachusetts Healthy Soils Action Plan
Regenerative Design Group
Linnean Solutions
NOFA Massachusetts
Perennial Solutions
Division of Conservation Services, EOEEA
Comprehensive Community Impact
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China Trail Garden at the Acton Arboretum
LANDD International LLC
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.