We are delighted to announce that we have been named “2025 Landscape and Urban Design Firm of the Year” by the prestigious Architecture MasterPrize!

The Architecture MasterPrize is a trusted global awards platform celebrating excellence in architecture, interior design, landscape design, and architectural product design. This award, which evaluates firms on Design Excellence, Innovation & Contribution, and Expertise, recognizes our ongoing commitment to designing and realizing resilient landscapes, healthy cities, and sustainable water strategies.

Drawing on three decades of international experience and thorough research with inventiveness and craftmanship, we provide creative solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges. We look forward to advancing this mission further in the coming year!

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Begbroke Innovation District Masterplan is the Popular Choice’s winner for Architizer A+ Awards in the “Unbuilt Masterplan” category! Our ambitious project – in collaboration with a team led by Hawkins\Brown – aims to develop the area around Oxford University’s existing Begbroke Science Park into a world-leading innovation district.

This recognition highlights the crucial role of landscape, which will serve as a unifying element of the development, combining urban vibrancy and innovative spirit with the qualities of rural living, fostering a spontaneous communal life. The outline masterplan sets the direction for the development of a unique sustainable “21st century Oxfordshire village” that is well-embedded into its context, while also providing an exceptional environment to live, work, learn and play.

We’re proud to share that the Begbroke Innovation District has received further recognition! Following the Architizer Popular’s Choice Award for Unbuilt Masterplan, the project has now also been honoured with the Planning Award for Design Excellence.

This is a fantastic outcome and a testament to the collective effort and close collaboration between our team and collaborators: Oxford University Development, Hawkins\Brown, RCKa, OOZE Architects & Urbanists, Turner & Townsend MurrayTwohig, Kevin Murray Associates.

We’re beyond proud to announce that we’ve been awarded as Best Landscape Design Firm, and two of our projects have been chosen as Landscape Designs of the Year 2024 by the LOOP Design Awards!

The former deportation station of Bobigny was recognized in the Heritage Design category, while Catharijnesingel has won in Parks & Open Space.

Our work stood out among over 500 incredible entries from 54 countries across all continents, and we are honoured to be recognized on such a global scale.

This achievement reflects the passion, creativity, and dedication of our entire team, pushing forward our vision to design meaningful places.

Exciting news! We won the “Best Landscape Design Firm” Popular Choice Award in A+Awards.

This achievement celebrates our commitment to pushing the boundaries of landscape design and creating meaningful places that inspire, engage, and enhance the environment. A big thank you for voting for us and for supporting our vision!

Normaalschool in Lier wins the “Most inspiring city centre project of 2024” in the category of “Building and Activity”! Organised by Platform Binnenstadsmanagement, the award celebrates projects that raise the bar for the development of city centres.

The Normaalschool in Lier, an urban school complex closed in 2012, is now being redeveloped and transformed into a vibrant public inner area with new residential and work forms, with a goal of creating a new learning network.

We are happy to share that our entry for the city of Utrecht is winner of the Dutch edition of the European Green Cities Award!
A win made all the more wonderful by the second place for Hengelo, based on our design of the redevelopment of the city centre.

Following our continuous and productive collaboration with both municipalities, greenery and water are returning to the city centres.

In recent decades, Utrecht has made a structural choice to reduce motorised traffic and transform the freed-up space into parks and places for recreation, further improving the quality of life. Our selected projects Catharijnesingel, Oosterspoorbaan Park and Croeselaan embody that development. Catharijnesingel was spotlighted in this respect: here we brought nature into the heart of the city, forming a green link between the old and the new city.

Hengelo has celebrated delivery of the renewed Marktplein, following transformation of several other central streets. The introduction of diverse planting and water management solutions is shaping the public space where people now love to spend time.

We are grateful for this acknowledgement and cannot wait to continue our work on attractive green public spaces that improve slow mobility routes and create resilient structures adapting urban environments to climate change!

The Former Deportation Station Bobigny has been nominated for the 2023 edition of France’s prestigious ‘Équerre d’argent’ architecture prize. The project is one of five selected contenders within the // public spaces and landscape // category.
The memorial has been inaugurated this year, 80 years after the first deportation convoy left the station of Bobigny for the camps.

The award winners will be announced on November 20th in Paris.

The refurbishment of the city centre of Hengelo is still underway, but has already won various awards, including the Most Inspiring Inner City Project of the Netherlands.

No less than 18 different municipalities took part in the election organised by Platform Binnenstadsmanagement in recent months. Together with Veenendaal, Hengelo was chosen as the winner. During the Day for the City Centre 2023, Hengelo received the prize for the theme of ‘cooperation’ in its own city.

The jury appreciates the guts the municipality of Hengelo has shown to admit previous mistakes in the development of the city’s layout and to open up the entire process. Everyone, including residents, young people, entrepreneurs and schools, was allowed to help build a new design for the Market Square. The design has been completely adapted to a square full of greenery, trees and meeting places. The city centre of Hengelo succeeded in converting previous negative noises into an active participation process in which everyone could provide their input.

The jury is also very positive about the decisive approach of the municipality in this project. The process of redesigning the Marktplein is a source of inspiration for every city centre in the Netherlands.

The jury has declared our project, park and bank of Catharijnesingel south, the winner of the Rietveld Prize 2022. This means that it has been rated as the best project in the field of architecture and urban planning in Utrecht over the past two years.

The jury values the project as an “exemplary project that fits in with the softening and slowing down of the city centre, in which stone and traffic make way for water, biodiversity and accommodation”.

The project was chosen from a pre-selection of five projects. It was the only landscape-scale project from the selection and only the second project of this type to win the award since its introduction more than 30 years ago.