Excellence in Heritage & Culture Award

LI Awards – Professional Category

About this award

This award celebrates landscape projects that make a special contribution to the enhancement of heritage and culture. This may be a landscape scheme which emphasises the enhancement of natural or built heritage; or it may be a plan, assessment, or strategy focussed on heritage, restoration, or conservation. The award recognises how the project celebrates the past, functions well for the present, and looks to the future to ensure long-term success.

This award is open to different types of landscape works, including (but not necessarily limited to):

  • Assessment or research
  • Planning document
  • New process or intervention
  • Design: concept/outline
  • Design: detailed/technical
  • Design implementation
  • Management strategy

Entries have now closed

Greenwich Park Revealed by The Royal Parks © Chris O’Donovan
Plant, Basingstoke by Grant Associates © Andy Stagg

Judging criteria

In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:

  • demonstrates a comprehensive understanding and analysis of historical and cultural context which has informed proposals
  • has evidence of engagement throughout the process and outcomes providing a range of benefits to local communities
  • has interpretation of heritage landscape and features in final scheme
  • has sensitive integration of contemporary measures and materials to address climate emergency, with particular attention to the carbon footprint of the construction process and procurement of materials
  • relies upon thorough and robust analysis

Limitations

This award is open to individual Chartered, Fellow, or Academic members of the Landscape Institute, or an office, department, or section headed by a Chartered member of the LI.

To enter this Award:

  • The work may be of any scale
  • Part of the awarded activity must have taken place between July 2022 and July 2026
  • The work may be a stand-alone project or form part of a larger project
  • The work must have secured approval or funding (make sure you provide these details in the submission form)
Royal Docks Corridor by London Borough of Newham © David Madden Photography