Awarded! Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Award 2024

Awarded

The Bund Deutscher Landschaftsarchitekt:innen, Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e.V., announced the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Award 2024 on May 02, 2023.
The premiere was celebrated in April 2022, the project "Neue Ufer Überlingen", relais Landschaftsarchitekten Heck Mommsen PartGmbH, Berlin, was awarded the first prize.

The patronage of the prize is
the Ministry of Regional Development and Housing Baden-Württemberg, Minister Nicole Razavi, MdL.

Direct to the competition

Mailänder Platz Stuttgart, © Du Peina

The competition is prompted by the rapidly increasing demands that cities and municipalities in Baden-Württemberg are facing in dealing with the increasingly scarce resource "landscape" as a result of growth and redensification, contemporary living, working and mobility concepts, and the necessary protection of species and resources in the course of climate change. In this work and development field the Profession of the Landschaftsarchitekt:innen supplies important and valuable contributions for a lasting and futureable handling of our landscape.
further information and the application portal are immediately available. The submission deadline is 23.06.2023, 24.00 clock.

The competition recognizes creatively designed open spaces and landscapes as well as comparable projects in Baden-Württemberg, which are based on a recognizably innovative and sustainable planning approach. The bdla Baden-Württemberg invites the young generation of planners to participate in this competition in order to promote and stage their professional ideals and visions.

The aim of the competition is to,

to make the field of work and the expertise of landscape architects known as valuable and trend-setting partners in professional circles and to the interested public,
to emphasize the special responsibility of landscape architects for the environment, the social, ecological and sustainable quality of open spaces and their integration into urban development,
to recognize the promotion of building culture and design quality by qualified landscape architects in their cooperation with planners from other disciplines,
to award exemplary and innovative solutions
to strengthen the courage to experiment and the willingness to practice new forms of cooperation on site,
to promote projects of "Young Landscape Architecture".

Eligible are projects that were built and completed in Baden-Württemberg in the period between 01.01.2017 and the announcement of the award.
Nominated projects must be open to the public or with the permission of the builder to enter and photograph for inspection and documentation.
The submission of conceptual plans, projects that have not been implemented structurally, as well as project studies, student research projects, bachelor's and master's theses is excluded.
A maximum of five projects and a maximum of one project per category can be submitted.

In addition to the Baden-Württemberg Landscape Architecture Prize 2024 (main prize), awards will also be presented in the following categories:

Urban Development, Green-Blue Infrastructure and Monument Protection.
Rural areas and tourism
Commercial, residential and working environment
Health, education, leisure, play and sports
Landscape planning, landscape development and environmental planning
Plant use, green roofs and facades

Eligible to participate are

Landscape architects from Germany and abroad,
Persons with a degree in landscape architecture, open space and landscape planning,
Persons with a degree as before from member companies of the Association of Garden, Landscape and Sports Ground Construction,
members of other disciplines, as far as they are members of the bdla, and
working groups with the participation of the aforementioned
Building owners are invited to submit projects together with those entitled to participate as mentioned above.

Further information on the procedure, deadlines and online registration can be found at