In November 2015, LI members, landscape professionals, clients and others gathered together for the annual LI Awards ceremony. During one of the biggest social events in the landscape industry, we celebrated with the following winners:
President’s Award
Winner: Brentford High Street ‘Making the connection’ by Kinnear Landscape Architects
Adding Value through Landscape
- Winner: Vauxhall Promenade of Curiosities by Erect Architecture and J & L Gibbons
- Highly Commended: Services to Schools, Oakridge Infants School by Hampshire County Council
- Manchester Garden City by BDP
Communications and Presentation
- Winner: ‘Cities Alive: rethinking green infrastructure‘ by Arup
- Highly Commended: A Record of Lancaster by BCA Landscape & Smiling Wolf
- Ballymena Public Realm Consultation by The Paul Hogarth Company
Design for a Small Scale Development
- Winner: Derbyshire Street Pocket Park, London by Greysmith Associates
- Highly Commended: Millshott Close, Hammersmith Riverside by Groundwork London
- Macaulay Walk, Clapham by Churchman Landscape Architects
- Arcadia Nursery, Edinburgh by erz
Design for a Medium Scale Development
Winner: Littlehaven Promenade by OOBE
Highly Commended: John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes Building by LUC
Design for a Large Scale Development
Winner: South Park Plaza at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park by James Corner Field Operations and LDA Design
Highly Commended: Bristol Harbourside Masterplan by Grant Associates
Design for a Temporary Landscape
- Winner: Urban Physic Garden by Wayward
- Highly Commended: ‘Roof East‘, by Stratford Groundwork London
- UK Pavilion, Milan Expo 2015 by BDP and Wolfgang Buttress
Science, Management and Stewardship
Winner: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park management plan 2014-2019 by Land Management Services
Heritage and Conservation
Winner: Walpole Park, London by J & L Gibbons
Highly Commended: The Restoration of The Level, Brighton by LUC
Landscape Policy and Research
- Winner: Second Edition of book ‘Great City Parks’ (2015) by Alan Tate FLI / Dr Marcella Eaton
- Highly Commended: PhD Thesis: ‘The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Whose Values, Whose Benefits? A case study exploring the role of cultural values in ethnic minority under-representation in UK Parks’ by Dr Bridget Snaith, Shape / University of East London
- ‘The Visual Impact Provision: Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment of Existing Electricity Infrastructure in Nationally Protected Landscapes in England and Wales‘ by Gillespies, LUC
Local Landscape Planning
- Winner: ‘Bring your Brolly Day’, Southhill Solar, Charlbury by Clews Landscape Architecture
- Highly Commended: ‘Wind Turbines and Pylons: Guidance on the Application Separation Distances from Residential Properties‘ by Gillespies, LUC
- Highly Commended: Monmouthshire Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Guidance by Chris Blandford Associates
Strategic Landscape Planning
Winner: Isle of Anglesey, Gwynedd and Snowdonia National Park Landscape Sensitivity and Capacity Study by Gillespies
Highly Commended: CIVI: Cumulative Impacts of Vertical Infrastructure by WYG
Student Dissertation
- Winner: Public Participation in Landscape Architecture: The Rationale and the Reality
Stuart Malcolm, University of Edinburgh - Highly Commended: Winter Participatory Landscape: Designing Bulgarian Ski Resort in time of Climate Change by Yuhei Nakajima, Writtle College
- An investigation into the invisible landscape of memory and experience and its potential applications to landscape site analysis and design development by Melanie Clemmey, University of Gloucestershire
Student Portfolio
Winner: Fraser Halliday, Edinburgh College of Art
Highly Commended: Rachel Brown, Edinburgh College of Art
Urban Design and Masterplanning
- Winner: Brentford High Street ‘Making the connection’ by Kinnear Landscape Architects
- Highly Commended: Middlehaven Development Framework: A new park as the catalyst for regeneration by Urban Initiatives Studio Ltd
- Vauxhall Promenade of Curiosities by Erect Architecture and J & L Gibbons
- Avon River Precinct, Christchurch, New Zealand by BDP
Client of the Year
Winner: The Land Trust
