The 2024 BSLA Design Awards

Triangle Park Urban Forest | Stoss Landscape Urbanism | 2024 BSLA Honor Award

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

  • Reimagining Water Rights

    Tianyuan Yi

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Remaining Grounds

    Isabella Simoes

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Resilient Coastal Living In New Bedford

    Mario DeLuca

    Amber Rachele

    Viktor Schneider

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Riverside Park

    Alexis Mazzatta

    Amy McAllister

    Michael Rahtz

    Valentina Riera

    Northeastern University

HONOR awards

  • Bun na Spéire ('The Horizon')

    Rachaya Wattanasirichaigoon

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

  • Common Energies

    Pedro Brito

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

EXCELLENCE award

  • Landscape Respiration, Infrastructure Ventilation

    Lara Prebble

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Category: Communications

MERIT award

  • Pollinate Now

    Landscape Interactions

HONOR award

  • The Community First Toolkit (CFT)

    Grayscale Collaborative

    Urban Institute

    Harvard Graduate School of Design

    Decimal Studios, website designer

    High Line Network (program of Friends of the High Line), client

Category: Analysis & Planning

MERIT award

  • Hamilton College Landscape Master Plan

    STIMSON

HONOR award

  • Huangshi Bay Coastal Park Master Plan

    Sasaki

EXCELLENCE award

  • Resilient Together: El Punto

    SCAPE Landscape Architecture

Category: Residential Design

MERIT awards

  • Empressa - An Enterprising Home

    Deborah Myers Landscape Architecture

  • Katama Bay

    STIMSON

  • The Lookout

    Gregory Lombardi Design

HONOR award

  • Pamet Bend

    Leblanc Jones Landscape Architects

Category: General Design

MERIT awards

  • Bristol County Agricultural High School

    Halvorson | Tighe & Bond Studio

  • Fort Sewall: Balanced Histories

    Crowley Cottrell, LLC

    Town of Marblehead

    McGinley Kalsow & Associates, Inc

  • Generosity of Place: Water Street Tampa

    Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture

  • Harvard University Science & Engineering Complex

    STIMSON

  • Relinking the East Boston Waterfront

    Copley Wolff

HONOR awards

  • Boston City Hall Plaza

    Sasaki

  • The Ramble: A Children's Garden

    Ryan Associates Landscape Architecture and Planning

    W Gary Smith Design

  • Triangle Park Urban Forest

    Stoss Landscape Urbanism

    Nitsch Engineering

Jury Special Recognition

Special Recognition Award for Outstanding Social Impact

  • Olmsted Now Committee of Neighborhoods

    Grayscale Collaborative

    DS4SI

    Emerald Necklace Conservancy

    Friends of Fairsted Olmsted National Historic Site

    Committee of Neighborhoods

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.

Landscape Respiration, Infrastructure Ventilation | Lara Prebble | 2024 BSLA Excellence Award

The BSLA Design Awards are published in BSLA’s annual publication, Fieldbook