We are honored to announce that six OLIN projects have earned awards from the Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects! These winning works span numerous categories, including General Design, Analysis and Planning, Research, and Communications. The winning projects are:
11th Street Bridge Park: Merit Award in Analysis & Planning
The 11th Street Bridge Park is envisioned as a new place of exchange in Washington D.C., an iconic civic place over the Anacostia River that repurposes aged infrastructure while uniting two historically separated communities, promoting social connectivity, environmental stewardship, and economic revitalization. The planning strategy proposes a multi-functional landscape that promotes the health of the Anacostia River and its adjacent communities while acting as a model both nationally and globally for equitable development. Learn more.
Land Management @ Scale: Honor Award in Research
Landscape architecture practice focuses largely on dense urban centers, passing over the 97% of the American landscape where small towns and vast expanses of forests, shrubland, and agriculture predominate. Land Management @Scale posits that many of our goals around decarbonization, climate, justice, and jobs require understanding and proactively working across urban-to-rural transects, advocating for strategic land protection, and holistically addressing ecological, cultural, and economic pressures and needs. Learn more.
Los Angeles River Master Plan Update: Merit Award in Communications
Nearly one million people live within one mile of the LA River. Famous for its concrete-lined channel and maligned as single-purpose infrastructure dividing communities, the river is reimagined in the LA River Master Plan Update as an integral part of daily life that addresses the interconnected needs of people, water, and the environment. Communicating and enacting this shift required innovative, multilingual, multi-generational, and hyper-local outreach to long-overlooked communities along the river. Learn more.
National Veterans Memorial and Museum: Merit Award in General Design
The National Veterans Memorial and Museum is a catalyst for the transformation, offering the city a new, iconic civic space that tells the story of veterans' service from across the nation. The project combines building and landscape in one gesture—expanding the visitors' experience to include natural healing capacity through improved air qualities while beckoning veterans and their families to explore its meadow, woodland, and garden plantings that expand views back to the city. Learn more.
Pier 26 at Hudson River Park: Honor Award in General Design
Pier 26 in Hudson River Park is an immersive journey through transitions—from upland to lowland, from land to water—and across a diverse milieu of human experiences. The design of Pier 26 is intuitive for users, making it easy for anyone to find a comfortable or relaxing place to read or an energizing place to pick up a game within the courts, at all times of day, and through all seasons of the year. Learn more.
U.S. Embassy, London: Honor Award in General Design
The landscape design for the new, accessible United States Embassy in London creates a welcoming experience for the public, chancery visitors, and dignitaries as they walk along the generous civic plaza upon their arrival. The embassy site serves as a working landscape incorporating a range of sustainable systems, including landscape-based stormwater strategies, native and adapted plantings for increased biodiversity, landscape support for security and mechanical systems, and resilient design that anticipates future flood levels long-term. Learn more.