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Just weeks ahead of the 2025 ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture, the American Society of Landscape Architects has revealed the winners of its 2025 Professional Awards. Representing the highest level of achievement in the landscape architecture profession, the 2025 awardees—35 in total spanning several distinct categories, pulled from 463 entries—will be recognized at a presentation ceremony during the upcoming conference, which will take place this year in New Orleans from October 10–13. The winning projects were assessed by a pair of jury panels, each assigned to different categories. Chaired by Thomas Balsley, co-founder and principal of New York–based SWA/Balsley, the seven-member jury that reviewed projects in the General Design, Residential Design, and Urban Design categories included RECORD senior editor Matt Hickman, who will be on the ground in New Orleans next month for the conference.
ASLA 2025 Professional General Design Honor Award winner Mill 19: A Catalytic Postindustrial Landscape, Pittsburgh, by Ten x Ten and D.I.R.T. Studio. Photo © Gaffer Photography
“These projects demonstrate that what is good for nature is good for people,” said ASLA president Kona Gray in a statement. “Each project paired a high degree of difficulty with technical expertise and seamless design.”
Numerous firms and individual projects honored in this year’s award program have appeared recently in RECORD. The 2025 ASLA / International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Global Impact Award recipient, Testing Ground: Adapting Fairways to Resilient Barrier Isle Ecosystems on Jekyll Island, Georgia, is a golf course-to-coastal restoration project led by multi-studio landscape and planning firm Design Workshop, whose Cherry Creek Garden (a 2024 awardee) is one of three regenerative residential landscapes featured in the September issue of RECORD. In addition to the Global Impact Award, Design Workshop was also recognized for projects in other award categories including Residential Design.
ASLA 2025 Professional General Design Honor Award winner More than Human: A Land Bridge for Cultural and Wildlife Connections, San Antonio, by Stimson. Images courtesy Stimson and Phil Hardberger Park Conservancy
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ASLA 2025 Professional General Design Honor Award winner China Basin Park: A Dynamic Urban Connector, San Francisco, by SCAPE. Photo © SCAPE/Ty Cole
In the Urban Design category, two Honor Award–winning projects appearing in RECORD are SCAPE’s China Basin Park in San Francisco and Water Street Tampa by Reed Hilderbrand. In the General Design category, Turenscape, whose visionary founder Kongjian Yu was featured as a RECORD Newsmaker in August 2024, received a coveted Award of Excellence for its Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City.
ASLA 2025 Professional General Design Award of Excellence winner A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City, China, by Turenscape. Photo © Turenscape.
ASLA 2025 Professional Urban Design Honor Award winner Generosity of Place: Water Street Tampa’s Continuous Canopy by Reed Hilderbrand. Photo © Sahar Coston-Hardy
A RECORD-featured project to receive an Honor Award in the General Design category is Detroit’s Shepherd Arts Park by OSD – Office of Strategy & Design. Joining OSD and Turenscape in this category are truly varied—they range from wildlife-accommodating land bridges to a Rwandan center of gorilla conservation—projects by firms including MASS Design Group with Ten x Ten, Stimson, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, and SurfaceDesign, who, like Design Workshop, was also featured for a different project in this month’s special CE section on regenerative residential landscapes. (LaGuardia Design Group, an Honor Award winner in the Residential Category for its Springy Banks in East Hampton, New York, was also featured in the section for a previously awarded project on Long Island).)
ASLA 2025 Professional Residential Design Honor Award winners And the Wild Comes Right Up to the Door, Princeton, Massachusetts, by Stimson (1) and Springy Banks, East Hampton, New York, by LaGuardia Design Group (2). Photos © Greta Rybus (1) and Anthony Crisafulli (2)
Both jury panels convened to select the winner of the 2025 Landmark Award, which recognizes a single project completed between 15 and 20 years ago that “retains its original design integrity and contributes many benefits to the surrounding community.” This year’s honor went to Restoring the Glory, the Restoration of Forest Park, by HOK for clients Forest Park Forever and the City of St. Louis. As described by the ASLA, the ambitious project, completed in 2000, involved a restoration of St. Louis’ historic 1,370-acre Forest Park, “revitalizing historic landmarks, modernizing amenities, and reintroducing natural systems to renew the park as one of America’s most celebrated urban spaces.”
ASLA 2025 Professional Awards Landmark Award winner Restoring the Glory, the Restoration of Forest Park, St. Louis, by HOK. Photo courtesy Forest Park Forever
A full list of all 35 2025 ASLA Professional Awards recipients, including in other categories such as Research and Analysis & Planning, can be found here. RECORD hopes to see you in New Orleans next month!
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