LDA-Design with Hargreaves Associates, Arup and Atkins, the design team behind the Olympic Park, won the president’s award while the Olympic Delivery Authority scooped the Peter Youngman Award for outstanding contribution to landscape architecture.
Both awards recognised not only the special nature of the Olympic Park project but the extraordinary achievement it represented, said president Sue Illman.
"It is rare a project can attract so many superlatives and such a consensus on achievements, whilst also providing practical lessons in restoration, sustainability, regeneration and the art of the possible.
"In selecting this project for the President’s Award I salute the skill, determination and commitment of the project team in delivering the Olympic Park that inspired us all, and made the country proud."
The ODA was awarded its prize as a celebration of the "leadership, innovation, skill and dedication shown by all members of the profession involved in the planning, design and creation of the Olympic Park"
Illman said: "The Award recognises the role the project has played as the most significant demonstration of the value and importance of investment in landscape at the heart of high quality public open space.
The winners:
President’s Award
LDA Design with Hargreaves Associates, Arup and Atkins
Peter Youngman Award
The Olympic Delivery Authority
Design Under 1ha
Winner: Brockhole Jetty, Lake District by Planit-ie
Highly Commended: Next Wave (Phase 1), Bexhill-on-Sea by HTA Landscape Design
Highly Commended: Brunswick Cemetery Gardens, Bristol by New Leaf Studio
Commended: Arundel Square, London Borough of Islington by Remapp
Design 1-5ha
Winner: Potters Fields Park, London by Gross.Max
Highly Commended: Fordham Park and Walpole Road Underpass, London by The Landscape Partnership
Highly Commended: Cathedral Square, Peterborough by LDA Design
Highly Commended: Three Mills Green, London by Churchman Landscape Architects
Design Over 5ha
Winner: Coworth Park, Dorchester Collection, Berkshire by Macfarlane Wilder
Strategic Landscape Planning
Winner: Temporary Greenspace Study by OPEN (Optimised Environments Limited)
Heritage and Conservation
Winner: Restoration of Clifton Park, Rotherham by LDA Design
Highly Commended: Ouseburn Parks, Newcastle upon Tyne by Southern Green Ltd
Highly Commended: Bushey Rose Garden, Herefordshire by Land Use Consultants
Neighbourhood Planning
Winner: Kilmahew/St Peter’s, Cardross by erz.
Highly Commended: Woodberry Wetlands, London by Allen Scott Landscape Architects
Highly Commended: The Gatherings, Bakewell Town Centre Public Realm Framework by
Maxim Urban Design
Urban Design and Masterplanning
Winner: Queenborough & Rushenden Masterplan, Isle of Sheppey, Kent by Rummey Design
Highly Commended: Stoneywood Estate Development Framework and Masterplan, Aberdeen by OPEN (optimised Environments)
Highly Commended: Belfast Streets Ahead Masterplan by AECOM Design + Planning
Highly Commended: Meridian Water, Enfield by LDA Design
Communications and Presentation
Highly Commended: The Garden of the Beasts, Hampton Court Palace by Davies White and Room60
Highly Commended: Cairngorm National Park Entry Points, Scotland by Ian White Associates Landscape Architects
Landscape Policy & Research
Highly Commended: Forestry Commission Scotland Practice Guide, Conserving and managing trees and woodlands in Scotland’s designed landscapes by Peter McGowan, Peter McGowan Associates
Student Portfolio
Winner: Amy Kirk, MA Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Student Dissertation
Highly Commended: Helen Hoyle, MA Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield: The use of cutting and irrigation to delay the flowering of native wildflower meadows
Highly Commended: Roisin O’Riordan, MA Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield: Petrorhagia saxifrage germination response to masonry block substrates for use in living walls
