The winner will be honored as part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial.
By Joe Adler
Eight projects spanning four continents have been selected as 2025 finalists for the prestigious Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Architecture Prize.
The contenders include PWP Landscape Architecture’s design for Glenstone—the museum and sculpture park with integrated walking paths, native meadows, and restored woodlands outside Washington, D.C., as well as SLA’s climate-adapted community space, Grønningen-Bispeparken, in Copenhagen.
The prize will be awarded as part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial, a global gathering of landscape architects and experts held every two years. The prize, which will be presented during the five-day symposium, November 17–21, will award the winner €15,000 (about $17,000). According to the biennial’s organizers, the prize “aims to award authors of built landscape architecture projects that represent the best professional practices worldwide.”
Grønningen-Bispeparken, a climate-adapted community park designed by SLA in Copenhagen, is one of eight finalists for the Rosa Barba prize. Photo by Mikkel Eye.
This year’s finalists include Urban Balcony, Phase II of Yannan Park in Xi’an, China, designed by Turenscape, with a 50-meter-wide urban balcony serving as a “communal living room”; Waterscape Park in Tushemisht, Albania, designed by PROAP, which transforms an environmentally degraded park on an ex-prime minister’s former estate into a vibrant public space; and the Parco della Pace, an urban regeneration initiative designed by EMF Landscape Architects and PAN Associati to turn the land of the former airport in Vicenza, Italy, into an “ecological machine.”
Among the other contenders are an eco-historical cycling and hiking route called the Dark Line—designed by Michèle Orliac and Miquel Batlle, and dA VISION DESIGN—along a pair of railway tunnels connecting two areas in Taiwan; Bridgefoot Street Park in Dublin, by DFLA, in which construction waste was transformed into a new topography and green space; and the Corredor Integral del Piedemonte, an ecological restoration in the San Fernando neighborhood of Cali, Colombia, by Edward Conde Serna Architects.
Z+T Studio won the previous Rosa Barba prize in 2023 for the Tangshan Quarry Park in Nanjing, China.
Joe Adler is the Senior Editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine.
Featured photo by Gareth Byrne.
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