July 2026 High-Profile Focus: Awards 27
BSLA Announces 2026 Design Award Winners
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
• 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
Science Park, Montshire Museum of Science / Photo by Chris Rucinski www. high-profile. com