Nordrhein-Westfalen

The competition for the German Landscape Architecture Award 2017 has been decided. First prize goes to the Rheinboulevard in Cologne-Deutz, designed by Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin. This was decided by the jury in Berlin on 28 April 2017.

At their meeting in the German Architecture Centre, the eleven judges appointed by the bdla, led by jury chair Ursula Hochrein, lohrer.hochrein, Munich, sifted through the 30 nominated works, awarding the First Prize and prizes in nine categories.

Awards go to:

Category Plant Use - Lohsepark, Hamburg, design author Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten, Zurich/Berlin

Category Green Infrastructure as Strategy - Zu neuen Ufern, Siegen, design author Atelier LOIDL Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin

Category Neighbourhood Development and Living Environment - Roof Garden wagnis 4, Munich, design author Wamsler Rohloff Wirzmüller, FreiRaumArchitekten, Regensburg

Category Participation and Planning - wagnisART - living environment as a participatory process, Munich, design author bauchplan ).(, Munich

Category Nature Conservation and Landscape Experience - Botanischer Volkspark Blankenfelde, Berlin-Pankow, design author Fugmann Janotta Partner Landschaftsarchitekten und Landschaftsplaner bdla, Berlin

Category Sport, Play, Movement - Play_Land - Jugendtreff und Spiellandschaft, Oberhausen-Holten, design author wbp Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH | Christine Wolf, Rebekka Junge, Bochum

Category Climate Adaptation and Sustainability - :terra nova BiosphärenBand, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, design authors bbz landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin, and Ernst Scharf, architect, Berlin

Category Light in Open Space - L.-Fritz-Gruber-Platz, Cologne, designed by scape Landschaftsarchitekten, Düsseldorf

Category Landscape Architecture in Detail - Ottoplatz, Cologne-Deutz, designed by bbzl böhm benfer zahiri landschaften städtebau, Berlin, with ISAPLAN, Leverkusen

The prize, which has been awarded every two years since 1993, honours exemplary projects and their authors. The subject matter is socially and ecologically oriented settlement and landscape development as well as contemporary open space planning. Outstanding planning achievements, including conceptual ones, which demonstrate aesthetically sophisticated, innovative and ecological solutions are honoured. In the current 13th year, for the first time the submission of projects and the determination of nominations took place exclusively online.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Berlin on 29 September 2017. On this occasion, the award-winning and honoured works were presented to the public.

The sponsors of the German Landscape Architecture Award 2017 competition are
Bruns-Pflanzen-Export GmbH

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