Office Profile « Landezine International Landscape Award LILA

Office Profile

Atelier Krejcirikovi

Storch Landschaftsarchitektur

TCL

Form Landscape Architects

Landscape Jardins

MÉTAMORPHOSE

Landworks Studio, Inc.

West 8

Bassinet Turquin Paysage

Gilles Brusset – paysarchitectures

MTD landscape architects / urban designers

CLUSTER landscape and urbanism

Garten Studio

Ballistic Architecture Machine

Landezine team recognizes Berlin based landscape architecture and architecture office Topotek 1 as the winner of the LILA 2020 Office Award. The portfolio of Topotek 1 reflects a unique conceptual approach that is dedicated to solving social issues and practicing landscape architecture as a multilayered and creative cultural discipline. Besides their landscape projects, the editors of Landezine acknowledge their exhibition and book Creative Infidelities, which is a playful yet sober reflection on both their own work and landscape architecture as an open-ended design profession. A quote from Jorge Luis Borges featured in the exhibition perfectly illustrates Topotek 1’s approach to the notions of identity, honesty, and context in terms of landscape design: "The original is unfaithful to the translation".

LILA Office Award 2020 goes to Topotek 1 for their ability to design layered projects and above all for their refreshing and daring colorfulness in conceptual thinking, which the Landezine team would truly wish to see more of in landscape architecture offices around the world.

TOPOTEK 1

L&A Design

BOX Studio

Arcadia Landscape Architecture

Design Land Collaborative Ltd

Michael Vergason Landscape Architects

Moria Architects. Studio MA

Bryum

eLandscript Studio

Surfacedesign

LODEWIJK BALJON landscape architects

SEURA architectes

Batlle i Roig Arquitectura

DS Landscape

Strootman Landschapsarchitecten

LandLAB

Arterra Landscape Architects

Lootusprojekt

Karres en Brands

LOLA Landscape Architects

Churchman Thornhill Finch

Studio Vulkan is a Zürich based landscape architecture practice. They are not bound to finding a formula for their projects, but rather seem to be more interested in re-questioning everything a project might bring: context, ambience and all available tools for solving problems and making an experience. They are not committed to finding a style, although there is a notion of 'relaxed aesthetics' present in most of their projects that is well-anchored in the project narrative.

Toni Areal, for example, is a roof garden, an urban oasis that uses only time to make itself more defined by natural forces, and one in particular - decay. Exposing the beauty of decay, or decay itself, is still a taboo across our profession; oddly enough, in an age when nature is in focus. Similarly, Park Naturmuseum St. Gallen is dealing with 'artificial naturalness'. It aims to question the occurrence of nature in an entirely artificial/urban context. Studio Vulkan seem to enjoy introducing intentional imperfections, knowing that in this way, their works are far more interesting. For Park Naturmuseum they wrote in the project narrative: "In addition to the predominantly native plants, exotic hydrangeas stand for the paradox of the place."

In times, when our profession still produces a monoculture of ideas resulting in sameness, Studio Vulkan is showing the way to keep landscape architecture interesting. Their work provokes an endless curiosity while also featuring a catalogue of solutions to a range of relevant issues.

Studio Vulkan

Straub Thurmayr Landscape Architects

CANOPY

The Landscape Studio

Lab for Planning and Architecture

Francis Landscapes

LaGuardia Design Group

Strelka KB is not a classical design office, but a bridge between Russian society and the global design profession. They stand out due to their role as facilitator, initiator and project driver. They do not claim to be design experts. but help make projects reality through their local expertise, willingness to navigate through the local environment, and a desire to change things. Strelka KB is not defined by a unitary design vision but by a collective of hundreds of young professionals hungry to transform their city and country. In doing so they have managed to affect change to an extent never before seen in the design profession.

Strelka KB

Sweco Belgium NV Urban.Habitat

Counts Studio

LABLAND

PLACE studio

YBM Landscape Architecture Studio

Blasen Landscape Architecture

Lat27

HarrisonStevens

Groundswell Design Group

Mikyoung Kim Design

Munden Fry Landscape Associates

DWY Landscape Architects

Elysian Landscapes

Atelier ROBERTA

Nivå

In Situ – Paysages et Urbanisme

LABLAND

PLACE studio

TROP: terrains + open space

Hocker Design Group

Shlomo Aronson Architects

rankinfraser landscape architecture

WE Design

APRES LA PLUIE

Just Right Design Sdn. Bhd.

Sunlight

McGregor Coxall

ILEX

PLACE Laboratory

Farrer Huxley Associates

Buro Lubbers

Mandaworks

glasser and dagenbach

mavo Landschaften

Savino & Miller Design Studio

H+N+S has through an engineering approach successfully developed large scale thinking about landscape, integrating aspects concerning energy, environment, well-being and aesthetics. They feature a consistent opus of brave interventions in landscape, often with ingenious and innovative solutions. H+N+S is a relevant force in our common task to find and develop new tools for overcoming the challenges concerning landscape today and in the future.

H+N+S Landscape Architects

Agence Ter stood out for their ‘motion and evolution’. Motion, for entering unchartered territories and solving problems from multiple directions, and evolution, for constantly responding to changing demands concerning climate change and social issues. With this approach, Agence Ter designs unique, smart and convivial landscapes.

Agence ter

PLANT Architect

Cadence

UNO PARKS

WAHO Landscape Architects

Members of the jury recognized SLA from Denmark as an office that demonstrates the ability and adaptability to successfully design a wide scope of different tasks. They developed an effective approach to bringing nature into the urban environment, whilst working with its processes in cities, especially dealing with large quantities of water.

SLA

HHDFUN

urbanegestalt

KI STUDIO

Alphabet City

Perkins+Will

!melk

In terms of bridging regenerative infrastructure and public landscapes, the jury also acknowledges SCAPE studio from NYC. SCAPE combines research and practice to conquer cross-scale spatial challenges, whilst blurring the lines between neighbourhoods and habitats.

SCAPE

PLACE

Marti Franch is in his projects not only successfully solving spatial, environmental and physical problems concerning the sites he works on but with very respectful interventions manages to nurture landscape architecture also as a cultural discipline. His landscapes offer educational and experiential richness, often in fragile environments.

EMF designed landscapes are a result of a curious design approach that emphasises the curiosity also in the visitor by leaving landscape features and stories hidden enough to be discovered rather than just put on display. The narrative in Cap de Creus projects awaits the user in suggestion and not in the direct message. This way the user interacts with the meaning, making the experience far more intense and memorable.

La Tancada Salt Fields and Cap de Creus, are blending ecology, natural and cultural memory into harmonious and at the same time very powerful experience. The grounds of Can Framis museum illustrate EMF’s ability to intervene in dense urban fabric. A green, almost forest like ambience in the middle of Barcelona, again with a direct connection to the site’s past and ecological measures for cooling down the site with dense planting.

With Les Echasses project Marti Franch is effectively using natural processes to create a lake for a nature like resort. Instead of just creating a lake the landscape is proposed that first creates natural conditions for a lake to take place as a consequence.

EMF is practicing excellent scientific and technical work, but most importantly also proves well manifested paradigm that visiting landscapes must mean a culturally fulfilling experience. In the times when ecosystems are constantly being challenged by the consequences of human activity preservation and restoration of nature are vital for the wellbeing of all species. Marti Franch is aware that promoting subtle change in order to emphasise overwhelming natural forces and features left ‘as they are’ in nature plays a very important role in establishing a bond between the user and the landscape – people and environment.

EMF – Estudi Marti Franch

B|D landscape architects

gruppe F

Sprunt

Jury members recognized Catherine Mosbach as an outstanding and talented creative force who pushes the profession beyond excellence, revealing hidden layers of designing and also thinking about landscape. The result is a portfolio of unique and strong conceptual works. They remind us that there will always be infinite opportunities to find and express an original personal vocation whilst practicing environmentally and socially responsible work.

mosbach paysagistes

Nyrens

LAL Landscape / Architecture

G&C arquitectos

KAV-BANOF

Boffa Miskell

OMGEVING

HOSPER

TS- Landscape Architecture

BASE

WESTPOL

Bionic

Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl

LSS

STRADIVARIE

RSLA

Felixx is a young office for proactive landscape architecture, founded by Michiel Van Driessche, Deborah Lambert and Marnix Vink. The office designs public spaces, works on urban development plans, engineers landscape transformation strategies, and is involved in spatial research projects.

Felixx

CLOUSTON Associates

ANNABAU

dwg.

KLA

Levitt Bernstein

vora

bauchplan ).(

Archdesant

Enea

Buro Harro

URBIO

Arriola & Fiol

OCULUS

aldayjover

Turf Design Studio

Lab D+H

Hapa Collaborative

Emma Blanc

Atelier Descombes Rampini

Auböck + Kárász

Ateliers 2/3/4/

OFICINAA

TSTR

A24 Landschaft

View Unlimited

ASPECT Studios

BETULA

Isthmus Group

Hansen Partnership

Openfabric

antón & ghiggi

Paul Sangha

COBE

Z+T STUDIO

Groundswell Design Group

Square One

OJB

Studio Roberto Rovira

ONE Landscape

UTOPIA

Wagon landscaping

JILA

Studio 3LHD

OKRA

Bureau B+B

friends, sponsors, media partners

Info

LILA - Landezine International Landscape Award is organized by Landezine Media LLC
Legal address: Malgajeva 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
+386 40 81 40 04
lila (at) landezine.com
Full Contact

© Landezine 2009-2016. All rights reserved. All photos, plans and renders of projects on Landezine are property of a photographer or landscape architects mentioned within a specific project presentation.

Developer: proxima.si

Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook