LDA Design takes the top prize at 2014 Landscape Institute Awards
The Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon is the winner of the President's Award at this year's LI Awards, announced on Thursday 27 November.
The project will be the world's first man-made tidal lagoon, producing significant amounts of renewable energy and also providing a major sports, tourism and leisure destination. Designed by LDA Design, construction of the project is due to start next year.
Noel Farrer, president of the LI, said, 'LDA Design has acted in a way that we all need to follow. The landscape architects have truly led from the front. In their role as client advisor they have briefed the architects and engineers on what they need to do. This is truly landscape coming out into the open. LDA Design is a truly deserving winner of the President’s Award for 2014.'
The project also won the Strategic Landscape Planning category.
The other category winners were as follows.
Adding Value through Landscape
Winner: Maida Hill Market, London by Gillespies
Highly commended: Columbia Grange School Discovery Park, Sunderland by Sunderland City Council Design Services
Highly commended: Landscape Strategy team at Hampshire County Council.
Maida Hill Place. Photo: Kate Beard
Communications and Presentation
Winner: South Pennines Watershed Landscape Project: communications and interpretations strategy by Pennine Prospects
South Pennines Watershed Landscape Project. Photo: Steve Morgan/ Pennine Prospects
Design Small Scale Public
Winner: Tumbling Bay playground, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park, London by LUC
Highly commended: Liverpool Central Library by Austin-Smith: Lord
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Tumbling Bay playground. Photo: LUC
Design Medium Scale Public
Winner: Eastside City Park, Birmingham by Patel Taylor
Highly commended: Lon Gwyrfai, Multi Use Path, Snowdonia National Park by Harrison Design Development
Highly commended: City Park, Bradford by Gillespies
Eastside City Park, Birmingham. Photo: Peter Cook
Design Large Scale Public
Highly commended: Burgess Park Regeneration Project, London by LDA Design
Highly commended: Wandle Park, London by Croydon Council
Burgess Park, London. Photo: Southwark Council
Design Medium Scale Private
Highly commended: Battersea Power Station pavilion and pop-up park by LDA Design
Highly commended: London South Bank University public realm by b:d landscape architects
London South Bank University. Photo: b:d Landscape Architects
Design Small Scale Private
Highly commended: Vermilion, Rathbone Market, London by Churchman Landscape Architects
Rathbone Market. Photo: Tim Crocker
Heritage and Conservation
Highly commended: The restoration of Brockwell Park, London by LUC
Brockwell Park. Photo: LUC
Landscape Policy and Research
Winner: A Comprehensive Street Tree Management Plan for Hong Kong by Urbis
Highly commended: State of UK Public Parks 2014 by Peter Neal in partnership with Community First Partnership
Highly commended: Environmental Stewardship & Historic Parkland by Cookson & Tickner
Highly commended: Landscape Impacts of Environmental Stewardship by LUC
Hong Kong's Street Tree Management Plan. Photo: Urbis
Neighbourhood Planning
Winner: Church Street and Paddington Green infrastructure and public-realm plan, London by Grant Associates
Church Street and Paddington Green. Image: Grant Associates
Strategic Landscape Planning
Winner: Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon by LDA Desgin
Highly commended: Seascape assessment for the South Marine Plan areas, south coast by LUC
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon. Image: LDA
Student Dissertation
Winner: 'A New Ethical Design Process' by Jacqueline Jobbins, Writtle College
Highly commended; ‘Addressing open space pressures in urban centres: Assessing and planning for the recreational use of historic English urban cemeteries’ by David Hammett, University of Edinburgh
Highly commended: ‘Minami-sanriku Disaster Resilient Planning’ by Vanessa Powell, University of Gloucestershire
Highly commended: 'Memory-sensitive landscape architecture' Lauri Mikkola
Image from Jacqueline Jobbins' dissertation
Student Portfolio
Winner: Paloma Stott, University of Edinburgh
Highly commended: Freddie Egan, University of Edinburgh
Image from Paloma Stott's portfolio
Urban Design and Masterplanning
Highly commended: Canal Park Design Guide and Implementation Plan, London by J&L Gibbons with muf architecture/art, East, Meadowcroft Griffin for the London Legacy Development Corporation
Highly commended: Masterplan for East Village, Calgary, Alberta, Canada by Broadway Malyan
Masterplan for East Village, Calgary. Image: Broadway Malyan
College of Felllows Award
Winner: Adapting to Climate Change: Launching the debate in the Lower Ouse Valley by LDA Design
Front cover image from the Lower Ouse Valley report
Full list of winning and commended projects, with links to detailed project information
