Boston – The Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) held its 2026 Design Awards event on June 17 at Garage B at The Charles River Speedway in Boston.
The winning projects were recognized for exemplary social, cultural, educational, or environmental significance; outstanding quality, craftsmanship, creativity, or artistry; unique and innovative technologies, techniques, or concepts; and advancement of the public’s awareness and understanding of the field of landscape architecture.
Professional Awards
Analysis & Planning
Honor Awards
Branching Generations: Arboretum San Antonio – Sasaki
Phillips Square Design – Sasaki
Wharf District Council Resiliency Plan – Tighe & Bond | Halvorson Design Studio
Residential Design
Honor Awards
Datum House – Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architecture
Oak Springs Farm – STIMSON (Landscape Architects), Piet Oudolf (Garden Designer), Fritz Read (Architect)
Excellence Award
Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot – Lu — La Studio
General Design
Honor Awards
Coonamessett Gateway to a Living River – STIMSON (Landscape Architects), Inter-Fluve (River and Wetland Restoration), Richmond So (Structural Engineer)
Ken Kelly Park: Performance, Pocket-Sized – Crowley Cottrell Landscape Architecture
Layered Resiliency – OJB Landscape Architecture
Memorial to Enslaved Persons at Baylor University – Sasaki
Somerville Avenue Streetscape Design – Hatch Associates Consultants, Inc
The People’s Park – OJB Landscape Architecture
Excellence Award
Indigenous Knowledges & Design at Tekakapimek – Reed Hilderbrand
Landmark
Landmark Award
Science Park, Montshire Museum of Science – Copley Wolff Design Group
Special Recognition Award
Woodbine: This Garden was a Parking Lot – Lu — La Studio
Student Awards
Undergrad Honor Awards
Recovering Parkville’s Post-Industrial Scar
Liana Rosenblum, Adriana Pinto-Pro, and Delaney Gardner – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tending the Grid
Jess Montgomery and Hannah Young Chung – Northeastern University
Graduate Honor Awards
Atmospheric Springs: The Future of Fog in LA
Nathan Sweitzer – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Phasing Freshwater
Caroline Brodeur – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Reclaimed Edges
Zenith (Zhiming) Zhang – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Rewinding (Coal)ocene
Hanrui (Freya) Fu – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Tortoise and Tarantula: Tales from the Edge
Anne Tong and Junia Yang – Harvard University Graduate School of Design
