Double reward at the City’Scape 2024 Awards ceremony

12 July 2024

@Beeldenfabriek

A double reward for LOLA Landscape Architects at the international symposium in Milan, where the winners of the Paysage TOPSCAPE magazine City’Scape Awards 2024 were announced.

City’Scape Award wish to reward and disseminate landscape architecture projects that combine landscape and architecture both with large-scale interventions, involving entire sections of cities and public spaces, and through smaller scale and dimension experiences in which the vegetation is used as a construction material, and not just ornamental, pursuing biodiversity and sustainability objectives.

The more than 242 candidate projects, characterized by a high level of design quality, made the jury’s task extremely difficult, and each decision was made with great care and respect for the work of each participant. We are therefore proud that both ‘Bajeskwartier’ and ‘Etzenrade Castle’ have been rewarded.

LOLA associate and Bajeskwartier project leader, Artur Borejszo attended the ‘City landscape for climate change’ symposium for a presentation and to accept the awards on behalf of the LOLA team.

Category ‘Drosscape, Landscape redevelopment of former industrial areas’

Bajeskwartier Amsterdam (first place)
Masterplan: LOLA Landscape Architects, OMA
Public space: LOLA Landscape Architects

Jury motivation:
“For the creativity and liveliness of the project, which has managed to transform an unused prison complex into a green, stimulating, innovative and sustainable neighbourhood. A place to live, work and learn thanks to the many services that will be created there.”

Bajeskwartier is the transformation of the Bijlmerbajes prison complex into a car-free urban district. LOLA Landscape Architects and OMA were commissioned for the masterplan of the historical 8ha site. Bajeskwartier is becoming a nature-inclusive steppingstone in the ecological structure of Amsterdam.

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Public space Bajeskwartier Amsterdam

Category ‘Interventions on parks and gardens of historical, artistic or landscape interest’

Etzenrade Castle (second place)
Landscape design: LOLA Landscape Architects
Planting: Piet Oudolf

Jury motivation:
“Because historical research has played an essential role in landscape design, where history is carefully evoked and presented to the visitor and where archaeology meets biodiversity.”

Etzenrader Huisken, is a national monumental building with a unique garden that tells the history of South-Limburg (NL). LOLA Landscape Architects and Piet Oudolf created a unique public archaeology garden that made the history of Etzenrade visible via archaeological research.

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Drawing Etzenrade Castle garden

Maximum green publicspace of Bajeskwartier Amsterdam

Garden of Etzenrade Castle and the historic Etzenrader Huisken

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