The New York chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-NY) has announced its 2019 Design Award recipients, highlighting exemplary landscape projects from New York–based firms.
The projects span a wide breadth, from the ever-popular industrial waterfront regeneration schemes, to mixed-use commercial developments, to residential suburban landscapes. This year, one Award of Excellence, 14 Honor awards, and 17 Merit awards were handed out. All of the winners will be fêted at an awards ceremony held at the Center for Architecture in lower Manhattan on April 11. Following that, all of the winning projects will be put on display in the Center through April as part of World Landscape Architecture Month.
2019 Award of Excellence
James Corner Field Operations (JCFO)
Domino Park
Brooklyn, New York

The revitalization of the 160-year-old industrial Williamsburg waterfront by JCFO deftly weaves the site’s history together with the park’s programming while simultaneously protecting it from future floods. The shoreline of the SHoP-master planned Domino Sugar Factory development is intended to draw in the greater community while serving as an amenity space for the adjacent residential and office towers.
The park utilizes remnant pieces of the sugar refinery to line its Artifact Walk, including screw conveyors, signs, four 36-foot-tall syrup tanks, and 21 of the refinery’s original columns. A line of repurposed gantry cranes forms the basis of an elevated walkway and the roof of chef Danny Meyer’s Tacocina stand. By greening the coast and breaking up the hardscape that lined the esplanade previously, JCFO has also provided Williamsburg with another line of defense from natural disasters.
Honor Awards
CIVITAS + W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Julian B Lane River Center and Park
Dirtworks Landscape Architecture
Resilient Dunescape

Future Green Studio
Sections of the Anthropocene
LaGuardia Design Group
Bridgehampton Sculpture Garden
HIP Landscape Architecture
The Art of Collaboration: Bringing Landscape Architecture into the Classroom
Studio Hollander Design Landscape Architects
Dune House
Hollander Design Landscape Architects
Topping Farm
Renee Byers Landscape Architect
Hillside Haven
SCAPE
First Avenue Water Plaza
SCAPE
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
Jungles Studio, in collaboration with SiteWorks Landscape Architecture
The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice

SWA/Balsley + WEISS/MANFREDI
Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park Phase II
SWA/Balsley
Naftzger Park
Terrain NYC Landscape Architecture
No Name Inlet at Greenpoint
Merit Awards
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
Islais Hyper-Creek
Doyle Herman Design Associates
Ecological Connection
Future Green Studio
Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture
Campos Plaza, NYCHA Housing Complex
Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture
Stuart’s Garden
LaGuardia Design Group
A River Runs Through It
Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects
Freeman Plaza
NYC Parks
Playground 52
RAFT Landscape Architecture
Queens Boulevard Urban Design Plan
Renee Byers Landscape Architect
Village Sanctuary
Sawyer|Berson
Residences in Bridgehampton
Sawyer|Berson
Residence on Sagg Pond
SCAPE
Madison Avenue Plaza

Steven Yavanian Landscape Architecture
Dumbo Courtyard
Terrain NYC Landscape Architecture
Newswalk Entry Garden
Terrain Work
Broadway Bouquet
W Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Chouteau Greenway – The Valley Beeline