2025 AWARDS
LANDSCAPE MIDDLE EAST
2025 PROJECT AWARD CATEGORIES
The Landscape Middle East Awards 2025 proudly introduces a refined and elevated structure for its Project Awards, celebrating excellence across the region’s most impactful, creative, and sustainable landscape initiatives. From conceptual student visions to completed ecological restorations, these awards showcase the breadth and depth of landscape architecture’s role in shaping resilient, inclusive, and beautiful environments.
Each award category is carefully defined with tailored judging criteria and entry questions, allowing projects to be evaluated fairly and thoughtfully by our international jury panel. This next-level development of the awards structure ensures that submissions not only highlight built outcomes but also reflect the thinking, values, and strategies behind them.
This approach encourages clear, meaningful storytelling while offering flexibility in how projects are presented. Whether under construction, digitally led, community driven, or nature focused—this is your platform to showcase landscapes that lead with purpose and vision.
How To Enter
1.
Select you award category
2.
Download the award entry form
3.
Complete all 5 questions
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Submit your entry form and your project presentation to support@landscape-awards.com
ENTRIES CLOSE
10 September
2025
Project Award Categories
1. Climate-Resilient & Regenerative Landscapes
Celebrating landscapes that actively address climate change, this award honors projects implementing climate adaptation, regenerative ecology, and nature-based solutions. Entries should demonstrate tangible strategies to mitigate heat, manage water, increase biodiversity, and contribute to climate resilience in the urban and natural environment.
Open For: Projects in design, or construction, or have been completed.
2. Community Impact, Engagement & Inclusivity
This award recognises landscape projects that prioritise community participation, equity, and social cohesion. We welcome entries that have been co-created with local communities, deliver accessible and inclusive environments, and create shared spaces that encourage dialogue, connection, and cultural exchange.
Open For: Projects in construction or have been completed.
3. Cultural Heritage & Living Landscapes
Honouring the preservation and celebration of cultural identity, this award highlights projects that integrate heritage values and vernacular traditions into contemporary landscapes. Projects should tell the stories of their places, while making cultural spaces inclusive, accessible, and sustainable for future generations.
Open For: Projects in design, or construction, or have been completed.
4. Smart, Digital & Responsive Landscapes
This category celebrates the application of technology across the landscape design process and built outcome. From advanced modelling tools and data-driven design to smart irrigation systems and interactive public spaces, entries should demonstrate how digital integration enhances design intelligence, improves performance, and enriches the human experience. Projects may include technologies used during design development, construction, or embedded into the final landscape.
Open For: Projects in construction or have been completed.
5. Landscape Art, Legacy, and Play
Recognizing artistic, playful, and recreational landscapes, this award includes public art installations, landscape art, playgrounds, waterscapes, and imaginative outdoor spaces. Projects should celebrate creativity while ensuring accessibility, safety, sustainability, and meaningful community engagement through design.
Open For: Projects that have been completed.
6. Resource Efficiency & Circular Systems
Focusing on the sustainable use of resources, this category rewards projects that adopt circular design principles, minimise waste, and prioritise material and water efficiency. Entries should showcase innovative solutions for conserving natural resources and reducing environmental impact.
Open For: Projects in design, or construction, or have been completed.
7. Next-Gen Vision: Student Awards
Open to university students, this category invites conceptual designs that tackle future challenges in landscape architecture. Students are encouraged to propose visionary, sustainable, and inclusive landscapes that inspire new thinking and push the boundaries of the profession.
Open For: Concept Design
8. Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration
This award recognizes projects that enhance biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and improve ecological connectivity. Entries should demonstrate strategies for creating or rehabilitating habitats, supporting wildlife, and strengthening the environmental resilience of landscapes.
Open For: Projects in design, or construction, or have been completed.
9. Future Landscapes: Vision in Progress (Unbuilt)
For projects currently unbuilt, in design, tender, or under construction, this award celebrates landscapes that may still be in development but already spark bold ideas. Whether reimagining community spaces, rewilding urban zones, or piloting new technologies, these works in progress champion creativity, sustainability, and inclusive design—offering a glimpse into the landscapes of tomorrow.
Open For: Projects in design, or construction, not yet completed
Key Dates To Remember
Award Entry 15th Apr - 10th Sep
Awards Entry
Closes
10th Sep
Short List
Announced
25th Oct
Landscape Middle
East Awards
17th Nov
Congratulations
to our 2024 short-list finalists
We look forward to seeing your entries this year
Un-Bulit Project
AE7 - Development Of Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary
IDOM - Centre of Excellence for AlUsayla Nursery, Research and Visitor Centre
desert INK - YAS Bay Beach
Pace - The Renovation of Souk Al Mubarakiya
100architects - Wavy Emirate Masterplan
The Vero Studio - Red Sea Marine Life Institute
Urban Design
Alnaimi Landscape - Abdallatif Alfozan Street
Cracknell - Roshn Front
Dar Al Omran Engineering Consultants - King Salman District
King Abdulaziz University - Jeddah Urban Wadi Prak
Omrania - King Salman Park, Loop and Streetscapes
Parks and Recreation
Cracknell - Dubai Creek Harbour Park
desert INK - Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion
Omrania - King Salman Park – Water Treatment Complex
Scapeworks - Wild at School: Crafting Play Spaces for Sustainable Natural Learning
Sites International - New Aswan Nile Waterfront Development
studiolibani - Ministry of Culture JAX Public Garden - Diriyah
Landscape Art & Landmark Legacy
Abu Dhabi Municipality - The Running Horses Lighting Project
Arup - Oman Pavilion
Dar Al-Handasah - Doha Expo 2023
Faisal Waheed Erbie - Al Bait Square
Pace - Rooftop Landscape - The Avenues Riyadh
Red Sea Global - Shura Island, The Red Sea Destination
Zaid AL Hussain - Zaid AL Hussain Nursery
Regeneration & Master Planning
Cracknell - Wadi Hanifah, Diriyah
Gensler - Turkana County Spatial Plan, Kenya
Pace - Shuwaikh Waterfront
Sites International - Al Azhar Park
studiolibani - JAX DISTRICT DIRIYAH -LANDSCAPE STRATEGIES
Wael Al-Masri Planners and Architects - WMPA - Heart of Sharjah Master Plan
Student Design
Hussain Ramadan Alhamed - Pixel Mania
Faisal Waheed Erbie - The Sea Loop Adventure Park
C.Mouannes, L. el Kaissi, C. Moujaes - Healing Tripoli: Unity Through Shared Spaces
Rahaf Hamad Aladwan - Gheras غراس
Hamzah Ghassan Mousa - Al-Asfar National Park
Nour Ibrahim Al-Kheder - Manufacturing Equilibrium