About this award
This award celebrates the quality of built landscape design in its purest sense.
It is for permanent or temporary sites below one hectare, that have created a new place or improved an old one and demonstrate excellence in overall design concept, planting, materials and features.
These could be private or public gardens, parks and public realm, frontage or urban greening, commercial or mixed-use. The scheme should be functional, usable, beautiful, and sensitive to its context.
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Turing Locke Hotel, Cambridge by Robert Myers Associates © Sarah Blee
Belfast City Quays Gardens by Gillespies © Gillespies
Judging criteria
In selecting an eventual winner, the judges will focus especially on the degree to which the entry:
- is highly functional and useable
- is thoughtful and sensitive to its context and character
- is beautiful, appealing both visually and to other senses
- is inclusively designed and accessible for all users
- has overcome site challenges in an innovative or creative way
- displays expertise in horticulture with appropriate and beautiful planting designs.
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 must be below 1 hectare
- The project must have been constructed between July 2022 and July 2026
- The work may be a stand-alone project or form part of a larger project