German Landscape Architecture Award 2023

We congratulate relais – a member office of Landezine, for winning the main 2023 BDLA Award! Their projects have been in our selection for years now, and six projects by relais are included in our editor’s special selection.
BDLA Award 2023
The winning Lakeside Park and Promenade Überlingen is a fine example of the already excellent portfolio by relais; a powerful conceptual work with efficient social and ecological function, yet simple and modest in appearance.
Besides the main award, the BDLA 2023 Award jury selected nine other projects for typology awards:
Public Space as Centre Category
Marketplace and River Garden, Bad Salzdetfurth
Design: POLA Landschaftsarchitekten
Category Living Environment
Prinz-Eugen-Park, Munich
Design: liebald aufermann landschaftsarchitekten und stadtplaner PartGmbB
Category Use of Plants
Planten un Blomen, Dag-Hammarskjöld-Platz, Hamburg
Design authors:inside: POLA Landschaftsarchitekten
Category Young Landscape Architecture
Brettspiel, Bochum (also LILA 2021 Winner in Schools and Playgrounds)
Design: SOWATORINI Landschaft
Category Landscape and Urban Development
Waller Sand, Bremen
Design: A24 Landschaft Landschaftsarchitektur
Category Historic Sites
Brutalism reloaded. Gustav-Mahler-Treppe, Kassel
Design: LOMA architecture . landscape . urbanism with Riehl Bauermann Partner Landschaftsarchitekten
Category Landscape Architecture in Detail
Hafenumfeld Bad Karlshafen
Design: GTL I Michael Triebswetter Landschaftsarchitekt
Category Green-Blue Infrastructure
Garden Show Eppingen 2022
Design author:inside: PLANORAMA Landschaftsarchitektur
Category Maturity – Projects, 20 years and older
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Duisburg
Design author:inside: Prof. em. o.e. Peter Latz, LATZ PARTNER LandschaftsArchitektur Stadtplanung
The jury comprised a group of experts from the German landscape architecture community: Dr. Matthias Alexander, Deputy Head of Department Feuilleton FAZ, Frankfurt/Main / Prof. Ute Aufmkolk, Landscape Architect, Die Planergruppe, Essen / Jens Henningsen, Landscape Architect, Henningsen Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin, bdla Treasurer / Roberto Kaiser, Landscape Architect, silands Gresz Kaiser Landschaftsarchitekten PartG mbB, Ulm / Prof. Stephan Lenzen, landscape architect, RMP Stephan Lenzen Landschaftsarchitekten, Bonn, bdla president / Carla Lo, landscape architect, Carla Lo Landschaftsarchitektur, Vienna / Heiko Patzer, managing director, smb Seilspielgeräte GmbH Berlin in Hoppegarten / Prof. Jonas Reif, University of Applied Sciences Erfurt / Martin Schmied, Head of Department Environmental Planning and Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau-Roßlau / Martin Schmitz, Landscape Architect, Atelier LOIDL, Berlin
The award ceremony will take place in Berlin on 15 September 2023. More on:
landschaftsarchitektur-heute.de
deutscher-landschaftsarchitektur-preis.de.
Published on May 9, 2023