Awards | PWP Landscape Architecture

2020

/ Architizer

Quzhou Sports Campus Wins Architizer A+ Award

A collaboration between MAD Architects and PWP, Quzhou Sports Campus was selected by the jury for the Architizer A+ Award in the category: Sport & Recreation- Unbuilt.

2020

/ Singapore Tatler

Jewel Changi Airport wins Singapore Tatler's Design Project of the Year Award

"Pop culture and myth served as the muses for the indoor waterfall and rainforest- think Avatar and the Hanging Gardens of Babaylon- as Safdie wanted a large green space that people would want to return to. The dome required careful design to accomodate the existing skytrain tracks and stay below the air traffic control tower's radar. The entire attraction doesn't just add a stunning dimension to Changi Airport's existing architecture; it also plays into Singapore's global status as a Garden City."

2020

/ AIA

Glenstone wins AIA Architecture Award

PWP's collaboration with Thomas Phifer and Partners, Glenstone Museum, won a 2020 AIA Architecture Award. The jury commented, "The Glenstone Museum is a virtuoso display of design and detail, and a poetic integration of art, architecture and landscape."

"This major expansion of the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD, dramatically increases exhibition space for its collection of post-World War II art from around the world. The centerpiece, a 204,000-square-foot building called the Pavilions, is ringed by a dramatically renovated landscape boasting 6,000 new trees and 55 native species, helps advance the museum’s mission of presenting contemporary art in a captivating setting.

Overall, the project increased the museum’s exhibitions space by 50,000 square feet and more than doubled the area of restored woodlands, meadows, and streams. The landscape design was driven by a strategic master plan that increased the accessible land by more than 130 acres and provided a new public entrance, two free-standing cafes, and a center that highlights the sustainable practices deployed at the museum."

To read more about this award, click here. To read more about Glenstone, click here.

2020

Glenstone wins AIA NY Best in Competition Design Award

Glenstone wins AIA NY Best in Competition Design Award.

PWP and Thomas Phifer and Partners won the Best in Competition Award from AIA NY. "Visitors leave their cars in parking groves and are greeted at the Arrival Hall, where they are introduced to Glenstone and oriented for their visit. Their short walk to the museum on accessible paths proceeds over a timber bridge and into an expansive meadow, where one of the outdoor sculptures is visible in the distance. As the path curves, visitors glimpse the new building through a wooded verge of honey locusts, oaks and tulip trees, until they emerge with a full view of the museum entrance. From the entrance, visitors take steps or an elevator down to the lower level where the galleries surround an open water court richly planted with water lilies, irises and rushes, creating a dynamic landscape that changes throughout the seasons Natural lighting is fundamental to the design of the museum. Most rooms have large clerestories or laylights that provide balanced natural light from above. One outdoor sculpture gallery is open to the sky. The play of light and shadow varies throughout the day; and as the seasons change, the light fluctuates, revealing subtle qualities in the artworks providing a more natural, nuanced experience. The new landscape design integrates walking paths, bridges and restored meadows and woodlands. More than 6,000 trees of 55 native species have been planted across the grounds, bringing the total installed at Glenstone to 8,000. Approximately 33 acres of existing pastureland have been developed into sustainable meadows with a range of indigenous flora."

For more information about Glenstone, click here.

2019

/ American Society of Landscape Architects

Glenstone wins ASLA Honor Award

"In this private museum in Potomac, Maryland, set amid 230 acres of rolling hills, streams, meadows, and woodland paths, the landscape architect has integrated the natural environment, architecture, and works of art into a seamless sensory and intellectual experience. Though large in scale, the project’s power comes from its restraint and its contemplative character. This is a museum site where the natural world is in the foreground, creating a visitor experience that extends beyond art and architecture. Glenstone is an impeccably composed landscape, with its beautiful interior Water Court and two miles of walking paths, trails, and bridges that pass through a dynamic landscape of 8,000 trees and indigenous plants, all punctuated by world-class art."- 2019 Awards Jury

2019

/ American Society of Landscape Architects

Barangaroo Reserve wins ASLA Honor Award

"Barangaroo Reserve is a stunning revival of Sydney Harbor’s historic headland that rebuilds a long-lost connection to the pre-colonial past while creating an active, naturalistic, environmentally sensitive civic space, serving both people and animals, on the land and in the water. The design of the headland includes a dramatic foreshore of 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated directly from the site, an elegant and dramatic way of bringing back a landform important to the original Aboriginal culture and a major element in the project’s compliance with One Planet Living principles. Pathways, lawns, an underground public space, and complex plantings of native trees and shrubs, turn what was once a degraded industrial site into model of civic space, cultural sensitivity, and sustainability."- 2019 Awards Jury

2019

/ Paysage Italy

Jewel Changi Airport wins ECOtechGREEN Award in Green Technology and Green Infrastructure

PWP's Jewel Changi Airport was selected by Paysage Italy for the GREEN TECHNOLOGY AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Award at the ECOtechGREEN AWARDS 2019. From the jury, "for the happy union of an infrastructure with a unique and engaging experience, in which the project components get along with nature, culture, education and recreation, with the aim of providing an uplifiting experience. A new community-centered airport."

2017

/ L.A. Business Council

Colorado Esplanade wins 2017 L.A. Business Council Architecture Awards

Santa Monica's Colorado Esplanade, designed by leading landscape architecture practice Peter Walker & Partners (PWP), is among the projects recently honored by the Los Angeles Business Council with a 2017 Architectural Award. Since 1970, the Los Angeles Architectural Awards has honored projects that embrace innovative design principles and reshape our vibrant urban landscape.

With this project, Colorado Avenue has transformed from a back alley into Santa Monica’s active front door. Active with pedestrians at all times of day, the 3-block development along the Esplanade has been stimulated, encouraging a new bike center as well as new hotels and cafés which are now open or under construction. The project makes use of municipal recycled urban runoff to irrigate the plants, and the identifiable integration of different modes of travel works to create a sustainable and provocative urban design element that is able to grow and evolve into the future.

Congratulations to all of our winners who embody the extraordinary spirit of creativity and collaboration that makes Los Angeles a world-class city.

Learn more about the Colorado Esplanade

2017

Colorado Esplanade wins a 2017 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design

Now in its 23rd year, The American Architecture Awards is a distinguished design awards program that honors new and cutting-edge design in the United States. This annual program, organized by both The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies also promotes American architecture and design to a public audience in the U.S. and abroad.

This year, the Museum received a record number of projects for new buildings, landscape architecture, and urban planning from the most important firms practicing in the U.S. and globally.

From a short list of 380 projects, the 2017 Jury for Awards was held in Athens, Greece, and 79 projects were selected by a distinguished group of Greek architects and educators.

PWP Landscape Architecture is thrilled to receive an American Architecture Award on behalf of our full consultant team for Colorado Esplanade in Santa Monica, California.

A full list of winning projects for 2017 is attached and can be viewed at our Museum's website at www.chi-athenaeum.org or at www.americanarchitectureawards.com.

More info on the Colorado Esplanade project page...

2017

SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture for General Design Merit Award for The University of Texas at Dallas Campus Landscape Enhancement

The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) announced that PWP Landscape Architecture has received a SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture for General Design Merit Award for The University of Texas at Dallas Campus Landscape Enhancement.

Winning entries appear on SCUP’s website and in an online booklet publication of the awards. In addition, members of the jury will present a concurrent session on Monday, July 10 at SCUP–52, the Annual International Conference in Washington, DC July 8-12, 2017. They will discuss observations from this year’s submittals, what was “excellent,” best practices and the challenges that lie ahead for higher education.

2016

/ AIA DC

AIA DC Excellence Award in Urban Design/Master Planning Awarded to Constitution Gardens

AIA DC Excellence Award in Urban Design/Master Planning awarded to Constitution Gardens

PWP and Rogers Partners won the AIA DC Excellence Award in Urban Design/Master Planning for Constitution Gardens in the National Mall.

2016

/ 9 International Biennial of Landscape Architecture

Barangaroo Reserve named a Finalist for the "Rosa Barba" International Landscape Prize

Barangaroo Reserve Named a Finalist for the "Rosa Barba" International Landscape Prize

The Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, by Fundacioacute; Banc de Sabadell, forms part of the International Landscape Biennial of Barcelona, that will take place in Barcelona, on the next 29th,30th September and 1st October. After closing the submission of landscape projects and planning created around the world since 2011 to 2016, the International Jury has selected 10 finalists.

Read more about Barangaroo Reserve

2016

/ MIPIM ASIA

Jewel Changi Airport wins Best Futura Project from MIPIM

Jewel Changi Airport wins Best Futura Project from MIPIM

Jewel is an integrated project at the Singapore Airport that creates a multi-sensory experience of nature within a climate-controlled glass dome. An eight-acre garden over interior retail space integrates unexpected features that will attract adventurers of all ages. Gardens terrace down nearly 30 meters to a central gathering space with informal amphitheater seating. Restaurants and cafes as well as an event plaza can all be accessed from within the garden. Visitors can experience a light and water show at the center of the building, where water and captured rain fall from the roof becoming a projection screen.

2015

/ World Architecture News

Barangaroo Reserve wins WAN 2015 Waterfront Award

PWP Landscape Architecture are crowned the winner for Barangaroo Reserve

from World Architecture News:

We’re excited to announce the winner of the WAN Waterfront 2015 Award is PWP Landscape Architecture for their impressive Barangaroo Reserve project – Congratulations!

The winner was selected from six shortlisted projects that were chosen by our experienced jury panel. On board to judge this award was: Bryan Avery MBE, Principal of Avery Associates Architects, Maarten Buijs, Project Manager and Landscape Architect of West8 urban design & landscape architecture bv, Niels de Bruin, Landscape Architect and Partner of White Arkitekter, and Vishnu Anishetty, Lead Designer of Atkins. They were all in agreement that the winning scheme had a rich outcome and deserved to be championed as this year’s winner of the WAN Waterfront 2015 Award. Keep reading at WorldArchitectureNews.com...

PWP Landscape Architecture are crowned the winner for Barangaroo Reserve

from World Architecture News:

We’re excited to announce the winner of the WAN Waterfront 2015 Award is PWP Landscape Architecture for their impressive Barangaroo Reserve project – Congratulations!

The winner was selected from six shortlisted projects that were chosen by our experienced jury panel. On board to judge this award was: Bryan Avery MBE, Principal of Avery Associates Architects, Maarten Buijs, Project Manager and Landscape Architect of West8 urban design & landscape architecture bv, Niels de Bruin, Landscape Architect and Partner of White Arkitekter, and Vishnu Anishetty, Lead Designer of Atkins. They were all in agreement that the winning scheme had a rich outcome and deserved to be championed as this year’s winner of the WAN Waterfront 2015 Award. Keep reading at WorldArchitectureNews.com...

2015

/ Architizer

Barangaroo Reserve Awarded The Architizer A+ Jury Award

Barangaroo Reserve Awarded The Architizer A+ Jury Award

Named after an influential Aboriginal woman of colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is the most important reinvention of Sydney's historic center for decades. The precinct is a globally significant, 22-hectare, AUD$6+ billion waterfront renewal project that redefines the western edge of Sydney Harbor.

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2015

Barangaroo Reserve Awarded The Banksia Foundation's Sustainability in Design Build Award

Barangaroo Reserve Awarded The Banksia Foundation's Sustainability in Design Build Award

Barangaroo Reserve is Sydney’s newest and most spectacular public space. The sprawling six-hectare headland park is set amongst naturalistic bushland and features a spectacular sandstone foreshore, designed the mimic the original 1836 headland.The opening of the park in August 2015 represents the return of the site to the people of NSW for the first time in more than 100 years. The end result is a magnificent public space that accurately references the site’s original form and rich Indigenous history.

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2015

Newport Beach Civic Center and Park named The Architectural Engineering Project of the Year by The American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County

Newport Beach Civic Center and Park named The Architectural Engineering Project of the Year by The American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County

Newport Beach Civic Center and Park was named the Architectural Engineering Project of the Year by The American Society of Civil Engineers, Orange County, California Branch.

2015

Barangaroo Reserve Wins Australian Institute of Landscape Architects New South Wales President's Award

Barangaroo Reserve Wins Australian Institute of Landscape Architects New South Wales President's Award

The 2015 President’s Award goes to a group of landscape architects who have worked together across the divide of different nationality, state government, private sector and contractor to produce a new place in the heart of Sydney. A place where the people of Sydney, NSW, Australia or the world can marvel at the city; experience the ecology; play, relax, climb, cycle; learn about the past landscape; and see at first hand the amazing contribution that landscape architects can make.

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2015

/ AIA Pennsylvania Chapter

AIA Pennsylvania Chapter Citation Award given to Newport Beach Civic Center and Park

AIA Pennsylvania Chapter Citation Award given to Newport Beach Civic Center and Park

The Pennsylvania Chapter of AIA awarded Newport Beach Civic Center and Park the Citation Award.

2015

Barangaroo Reserve Wins Australia's Infrastructure Project of the Year

Australia's Infrastructure Project of the Year was awarded to Barangaroo Reserve, a redeveloped parkland and new landmark for Sydney.

In choosing the parkland, the Judging Panel made a strong statement that projects need to be more than just bricks and mortar, they need to offer social and cultural improvements. Barangaroo Reserve was successfully able to achieve this and in the process set itself apart from a strong field of candidates.

The $250 million project cleverly integrates land use that improves community amenity with efficient and cost effective infrastructure. The reserve includes tidal rock pools created from sandstone excavated from Barangaroo and a massive new cultural centre, known as the Cutaway, built inside the headland.

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2014

/ Building Stone Institute

Peter Walker wins 2014 Bybee Prize

2014 Bybee Prize Recipient

Peter Walker, FASLA

In honor of the late James Daniel Bybee, this award is presented by BSI to an individual for a body of work executed over time and distinguished by outstanding design and use of natural stone. Recipients include Malcolm Holzman, FAIA; M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA; Cesar Pelli, FAIA; Lawrence Halprin, FASLA; Henry N. Cobb, FAIA; Laurie D. Olin, RLA, FASLA; and Robert Frasca, FAIA and now, Peter Walker, FASLA.

2013

/ ASLA

PWP Wins ASLA Honor Award for Novartis Headquarters

The new Novartis Campus transformed a 51-acre site beside the Rhine River from an industrial landscape flanked with old train tracks into a modern and largely pedestrian research and administrative campus filled with outdoor parks, greens, and large-scale art.

2012

/ Urban Land Institute

Peter Walker is the 2012 Laureate of the ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development

World renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture in Berkeley, Calif., has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the prize, which is the institute’s highest honor. Walker will be honored during ULI’s annual fall meeting October 16-19 in Denver.

2012

/ American Society of Landscape Architects

Peter Walker is the 2012 ASLA Design Medal Recipient

Peter Walker, FASLA, will receive the ASLA Design Medal in recognition of exceptional design work over a sustained period of at least ten years. Walker’s fascination with materials and experimental use of water, landform, and plant materials have produced some of the most provocative projects in the profession.

2012

/ American Society of Landscape Architects

ASLA Announces Honor Award for National 9/11 Memorial

Located in Lower Manhattan, this 8-acre site resides in one of the most densely populated urban neighborhoods and business centers in the world. On many levels, the project was intensely complex, with multiple constituents influencing the design from local and state politicians, family members of the victims, a multi-headed client framework, outside design critics, and the general public.

2012

/ CNBC

ASLA Announces 2012 Honors Oberlander earns the ASLA Medal, PWP Landscape Architecture wins the Firm Award

ASLA Design Medal: Peter Walker, FASLA Peter Walker, FASLA, will receive the ASLA Design Medal in recognition of exceptional design work over a sustained period of at least ten years.

The Firm Award: PWP Landscape Architecture will receive the Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest award ASLA may bestow upon a landscape architecture firm in recognition of distinguished work that influences the profession.

2012

/ American Society of Landscape Architects

ASLA 2012 Landscape Architecture Firm Award

2012 Landscape Architecture Firm Award Recipient goes to PWP Landscape Architecture.

2012

/ Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Downtown Dinner 2012

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum architecture and engineering team wins a Liberty Award at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Downtown Dinaner 2012