LILA 2019 in Geneva

Jury members in discussion: Georges Descombes and Catherine Mosbach

LILA winners gathered in Sicli Pavilion in Geneva, Switzerland on September 20th to receive the awards. There was a also a discussion between two jury members, Catherine Mosbach and Georges Descombes at the end of the programme. All presentations were recorded on video and will be published within next two weeks on landezine.com/live and our YouTube channel, subscribe to keep in touch. Below is a couple of moments from the event. You can see the LILA winning entries and projects on landezine-award.com. Special thanks to all that made the event possible: Georges Descombes, Alexandre Wissard, Julien Descombes (ADR), Streetlife, LILA 2019 Jury members and winners!

photos: Sandra Pointet, Local 11

: Dietmar Straub and Anna Thurmayr

: Studio Basta

: Wang Yi and Wang Wei, Change Studio

: Maarten van de Voort, West 8

: Mario Suner (Batlle i Roig), with his spouse

: Gert-Jan Wisse, Bureau B+B

: Robin Winogrond, Studio Vulkan

: Erik Courrier and Aimee Kan from Streetlife with Zaš Brezar, Landezine

: Event organizers and patrons, Zaš Brezar, Aljaž Babič, Julien Descombes, Alexandre Wissard and Georges Descombes

: Jury members in discussion: Georges Descombes and Catherine Mosbach

: Studio Basta

: Anna Thurmayr and Georges Descombes

: Change Studio team

: Anna Thurmayr

: Kenny Windels

: Georges Descombes surprised LILA winners with free books on River Aire, LILA 2018 winner

: Gert-Jan Wisse, Bureau B+B with Mario Suner, Batlle i Roig

: Aljaž Babič and Zaš Brezar, Landezine

Some glimpses from the lectures, photo: Landezine

: Anna Thurmayr, Dietmar Straub

: Dietmar Straub

: Kenny Windels, Studio Basta

: Kenny Windels, Studio Basta

: Wang Yi, Change Studio

: Maarten van de Voort, West 8

: Mario Suner, Batlle i Roig

: Gert-Jan Wisse, Bureau B+B

: Erik Courrier, Streetlife

: Robin Winogrond, Studio Vulkan

: Robin Winogrond, Studio Vulkan

Published on September 25, 2019

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Robin Winogrond Landscape Architecture. Urban Design. Office Profile /

Battleiroig is a multidisciplinary firm celebrated for its innovative and sustainable designs that have made a significant impact on the field of landscape architecture both within Spain and Europe. Founded in Barcelona, Spain, by Enric Batlle and Joan Roig in 1981, the firm has gained international recognition for its progressive approach to design. They have been at the forefront of the ‘Catalan wave’ of the nineties, pushed by Oriol Bohigas’ plans for The Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, which made spectacular never seen before projects possible. The ‘wave’ included names such as EMBT, RCR Arquitectes, Arriola & Fiol arquitectes, Manuel Ruisánchez, MICHELE & MIQUEL, Bet Figueras, Beth Gali, Teresa Galí-Izard, later EMF and others. Already in that time, the work of Batlleiroig helped bring contemporary design attitudes from the region into an international focus and also influence.
The editors of Landezine recognize Batlleiroig’s multidisciplinary approach that has been continuously bringing projects that challenge their briefs, find smart answers and materialize in aesthetically convincing creations fit to their time and context. There is an evident omnipresent quality in the design language of their work – a mix of subtle but still joyful play and, at the same time, calm sobriety that often supports witty solutions.
The project for Garraf Landfill, also awarded LILA 2023 in Revisited Projects category, was based on a landscape idea that served as the main guideline for this very technical transformation. The Forest Path cemetery questions the very structure of symbolic particularities of landscape in terms of our relationship to life and death and proposes a shift of the spiritual to the immediate nature. The Scenic Path Along Igualada’s Old Gypsum Mines was awarded LILA 2019 in Public Category for its unique blend of subtle design that explores existing landscape qualities and a new layer of playfulness that gives the project a new frame. In Esplugues de Llobregat’s modification of the General Metropolitan Plan, they questioned how a productive landscape could be made fit for public use in an innovative way.
The editors of Landezine appreciate the office’s fitness to conquer complex problems and come up with solutions that can move visitors rather than entertain them.

Batlleiroig Office Profile /

Bureau B+B has been around for more than 40 years. In The Netherlands it is righteously considered a cradle of successful landscape architects. Despite the vast portfolio and the inseparable heritage of B+B, the editors of Landezine were convinced and impressed by the latest projects that were designed by a team of young designers.
We recognize the work of Bureau B+B, mainly for their ability of combining innovative engineering approaches with context based design. They master a diverse span of attitudes; from being subtle and quiet, to making radical changes, or being playful. B+B’s recent designs reflect all the needed skills for handling complex tasks; from a busy urban train station to residential landscapes fit for the future, to wetlands.
But it is the work that tackles heritage sites that really separates B+B from an already remarkable crowd of Dutch landscape architects. The precision that is found in Tempel and Nieuw Rhodenrijs Estates or the conceptual clarity of the LILA 2019 winning project Objets Trouvés reflects the ability to untangle time-related complexities, to curate and to offer new, meaningful experiences.

Bureau B+B Office Profile /

Updates by Atelier Descombes Rampini or Batlleiroig or Bureau B+B or Change Studio or Mosbach Paysagistes or Robin Winogrond Landscape Architecture. Urban Design. or Studio Basta or Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur or Superpositions or West 8

Office Profile: Robin Winogrond

Battleiroig is a multidisciplinary firm celebrated for its innovative and sustainable designs that have made a significant impact on the field of landscape architecture both within Spain and Europe. Founded in Barcelona, Spain, by Enric Batlle and Joan Roig in 1981, the firm has gained international recognition for its progressive approach to design. They have been at the forefront of the ‘Catalan wave’ of the nineties, pushed by Oriol Bohigas’ plans for The Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, which made spectacular never seen before projects possible. The ‘wave’ included names such as EMBT, RCR Arquitectes, Arriola & Fiol arquitectes, Manuel Ruisánchez, MICHELE & MIQUEL, Bet Figueras, Beth Gali, Teresa Galí-Izard, later EMF and others. Already in that time, the work of Batlleiroig helped bring contemporary design attitudes from the region into an international focus and also influence.
The editors of Landezine recognize Batlleiroig’s multidisciplinary approach that has been continuously bringing projects that challenge their briefs, find smart answers and materialize in aesthetically convincing creations fit to their time and context. There is an evident omnipresent quality in the design language of their work – a mix of subtle but still joyful play and, at the same time, calm sobriety that often supports witty solutions.
The project for Garraf Landfill, also awarded LILA 2023 in Revisited Projects category, was based on a landscape idea that served as the main guideline for this very technical transformation. The Forest Path cemetery questions the very structure of symbolic particularities of landscape in terms of our relationship to life and death and proposes a shift of the spiritual to the immediate nature. The Scenic Path Along Igualada’s Old Gypsum Mines was awarded LILA 2019 in Public Category for its unique blend of subtle design that explores existing landscape qualities and a new layer of playfulness that gives the project a new frame. In Esplugues de Llobregat’s modification of the General Metropolitan Plan, they questioned how a productive landscape could be made fit for public use in an innovative way.
The editors of Landezine appreciate the office’s fitness to conquer complex problems and come up with solutions that can move visitors rather than entertain them.

Office Profile: Batlleiroig

New Team of Directors at Bureau B+B

Projects involving Atelier Descombes Rampini or Batlleiroig or Bureau B+B or Change Studio or Mosbach Paysagistes or Robin Winogrond Landscape Architecture. Urban Design. or Studio Basta or Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur or Superpositions or West 8

Regional Design Fil Bleu Glatt by Studio Vulkan

The Park of Encounters is a complex design that deals with the public use of a once-army base. Built by the Nazi regime in 1937 and taken over by Allied forces after the war, Campbell Barracks later served as NATO HQ for Europe, which closed in the mid-2010s. Decades of army use left a palimpsest of traces that were waiting to be reinterpreted.
The jury recognises how difficult and yet successful it was to redesign this army-charged site with 'respectful lightness' and a 'slight twist of humour' as if the designers wanted to decompress the site and add play in a witty, nearly mischievous way. That is evident, for example, in a stripe of play elements that run through the entrance checkpoint, emphasising its disuse, or colouring and displacing the found artefacts from the 1970s. In a different configuration, stripped of their original use, these artefacts represent the retreat of control, repression and are abstracted into new constellations, provoking new interpretations and ways of interaction.
The jurors appreciated this underlying attitude, also resulting in elegant and much more subtle means of change, for example, mixing and shredding of the existing pavements and using them anew. The material/colour palette is exceptionally well thought-through; it communicates the different layers of the site's palimpsest and connects different parts into a coherent whole.

The Park of Encounters

Boca de la Mina Promenade in Reus by Batlleiroig

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