BOGL

The Passage and The Smithy is about how to think and transform small towns, how to connect small patches of common space in a useful, coherent and meaningful public space. The new connection is not just well-structured, robust, and resistant enough for public use, but it also exudes a warm and inviting aura.
The atmosphere is defined by the comfortable shade of local limestone, which is, through a range of different treatments, a complex design layer on its own. The space is flexible, unobtrusive, meticulously designed, and rich in storytelling. The interaction and articulated level of definition between landscape and architecture offer a delicate balance between design determination and the sense of a liberating, usable area for an active urban social life.

The outdoor spaces of Kalvebod Faelled School are an engaging and inviting environment for children. The project develops a design language to handle programme spaces around the building. The ‘intercellular’ concrete pavement encourages running and moving about. A convivial archipelago of different rooms produces a multi-faceted playscape, from prefabricated, manufactured equipment to vegetation and topography as more abstract means of play.

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.

The People’s Park in Odder – Nature, Life & Community Along Odder Å The People’s Park in Odder represents a visionary transformation of a former parking lot into a vibrant, multifunctional urban park at the heart of a typical Danish provincial town. Once characterized by a struggling, lifeless center and a disconnected urban structure, Odder […]

The Courtyard of The Future is a solution on climate changes and Copenhagen’s growing challenges with floods during stormwater surges. The courtyard makes the challenging rainwater an asset for its residents by creating effective and visible rainwater solutions that forms beautiful garden spaces for common use and extrasensory experiences. The courtyard is built of upcycled […]

Remiseparken (The Remisepark) is a green gem hidden in the centre of the housing development Urbanplanen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Between the large buildings, cherry plums, hazel and birch trees grow, and at the staffed playground, the Farm, goats graze. Remiseparken is a wonderful green pocket in Copenhagen, and the goal of BOGL’s renewal project was […]