October 5, 2026 Awards
Exciting update! We’ve completed the preliminary design for Park de Vosse & Cerespark in Hillegom. Our shared vision is on its way to becoming reality, thanks to the Municipality of Hillegom for their stimulating assignment focused on “experiencing the senses”.
The design features an ever-changing sensory route that transitions between zones of hearing, scent, sight, touch, and taste. Carefully selected plants, materials and programme enhance the sensory experience of each area. To some, even a sixth sense may be experienced…
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!
We are honoured to have been selected as one of three design teams for Stage 2 of the Request for Proposal for the North-South Corridor (NSC) Master Plan in Singapore together with a multidisciplinary team led by CPG Consultants (a subsidiary of CPG Corporation).
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.
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We are excited to see another step in realisation of the Marina Park masterplan with the construction of Marina Promenade moving forward in Cork, Ireland!
Supporting Cork’s ambitions for active movement, we are introducing an important slow traffic route along the river Lee. The new car-free shared pathway for pedestrians and bicycles is running through the beautiful double tree-row of mature existing trees.
Marina promenade provides a unique attraction for Cork city and serves to integrate the Marina Park, the Passage Railway Greenway and the new developments of Blackrock Village and Docklands.
Along the promenade, a sequence of balconies, designed as a paving extension of the promenade, are placed in between the bigger plazas, providing space for rest and open views toward the River Lee.
This promenade has existed since mid-18th century, used as a tracking wall to guide ships up the River Lee to Cork Harbour, but later was taken over by car traffic. The new design provides a safe, attractive and enjoyable experience and encourages a flow of people to explore the riverside and the park alongside it.
Previously we already completed the nearby part of Marina Park, and we are looking forward to continuing to work on the rest of the area, creating a new high quality inclusive park for people and nature.
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.
On June 18, exactly 80 years after the first convoy departed for Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former station of Bobigny was officially opened. As the sole surviving French deportation station from World War II, it has been transformed into a memorial park over the past years, following the winning design by a team led by OKRA landscape architects in 2016.
Bobigny is the only deportation station in France that was preserved after the second world war. During the rest of the 20th century, the site was dominated by a scrap dealer who used most of the area. When the municipality was able to take over the area at the beginning of this century, plans were made to restore it as a memorial site. In collaboration with involved committees and foundations, a design competition was held, won by the team of OKRA. They collaborated with AAPP Architectes, AEU Ecologists, OTCE engineers, and 8’18 Lighting designers for the design.
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A new memorial park revealing the history of the Deportation of Jews from France. The former deportation station of Bobigny has been transformed from an abandoned scrap yard to a scenological memorial site.
