This year, the LILA Office Award turns its gaze to the center of the profession — not to its margins nor speculation, but to the persistent, complex work of shaping the shared ground of cities. What does urban life require today? How do we inhabit and imagine togetherness in a world marked by ecological precarity, infrastructural stress, and social fragmentation? And what is the role of the landscape architect in holding space — materially, politically, and aesthetically — for emerging forms of coexistence?

The editors of Landezine recognize BOGL for their steadfast and articulate response to these questions. With offices in Copenhagen and Oslo, the practice has developed a distinct capacity to navigate the layered demands of contemporary public space — not through formal overstatement, but through calibrated attentiveness. Their work moves fluently between scales and typologies: stitching together post-industrial voids, infrastructural seams, and residual urban surfaces into sites of both ecological acceleration and collective intimacy. BOGL’s projects offer spatial sequences of quiet intent — where patchwork becomes structure, reuse becomes narrative, and openess becomes invitation. The studio’s strength lies not in aesthetic signature, but in a practiced ethos of responsiveness: to site, to community, to future conditions.

BOGL demonstrates that restraint and ambition need not be opposites. Their projects reuse materials with precision, embed climate adaptation within the texture of everyday life, and foreground the social without forgetting the multispecies. For their consistent and evolving contribution to a grounded, civic, and future-aware landscape architecture, we are pleased to name BOGL the recipient of the 2025 LILA Office Award.