26 June 2018: We are thrilled to announce LILA – Landezine International Landscape Award 2018 winners! Landezine team congratulates to all recognized practices and thanks the jury members and to all participating offices at LILA 2018. LILA 2018 award ceremony will take place within Landezine LIVE, at HafenCity University in Hamburg on Saturday, 13 October.

LILA 2018 Office of the Year Winner is mosbach paysagistes

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.

LILA 2018 Winner in Public Landscapes is Renaturation of the river Aire, Geneva

The project answers questions related to reintroducing nature into artificial landscape and dealing with landscape in rural-urban fringes. It reactivates the old river channel for visitors, masterfully combining new modest elements and simple structures into a powerful experience. The most poetic element is the grid of sand – a platform for the river – a natural force that expresses itself through decomposition. Designed as a ruin, the project is the process; full of play between the grid and the river, man and nature. Renaturalisation is not brought in by force; it occurs. One can imagine the river entering the grid for the first time, like an animal released from captivity, figuring out which way to go and where to settle. The power of this work lies in its honesty, taking us to a much deeper thinking about the relation between man and nature in the age of the Anthropocene.

LILA 2018 Winner in Private Gardens is Lake Marion Private Retreat

Jury members acknowledged this garden as an outstanding way of bringing residents to nature, due to its simplicity and the way it allows for exploration. An ordinary site was curated and transformed by Coen+Partners into a dramatic landscape comprising various ambiences with a unique character. The jury noticed the presentation of the project, focusing away from the house into the garden as the place of dwelling and coexisting with the site.

LILA 2018 Public Choice Office of the Year is The Landscape Studio by The Landscape Studio

The Landscape Studio is a landscape architecture and design firm based between Nairobi in Kenya and Barcelona, Spain. The studio was founded in 2013 and has already created solutions for a diverse portfolio of projects around East Africa and more recently in Europe; planning and design of academic and residential, corporate, institutional and mixed-use, parks, […]

LILA 2018 Public Choice Award for Private Gardens is Forested House by Shma Company Limited

Urbanisation has been a major global trend since 1950s and UN’s statistic predicts that 66% of world population will be urban by 2050. City as a product of capitalism has to perform to mainly sustain the economy which results in a typical compact hi-density living coupled with well-connected transportation system. This model might works well […]

LILA 2018 Public Choice Award for Products is Wide by Escofet 1886

Designer: Ton Riera i Ubía_Malabar estudi The objective behind the Wide concept is to create a contemporary lamp that is technologically and formally different from standard products, and principally, that of a clear interpretation of its morphology: A frame that holds the lamp with two lengths adapted to different installed LED technology powers. The wide […]