Last week, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced its 2025 Student Awards. Winners showcase innovation and represent the highest level of achievement among the future of the profession. All project winners and their schools are listed below.

Jury panels representing a broad cross-section of the profession, from the public and private sectors, and academia, select winners each year and are listed below. The 34 winners were chosen out of 502 entries.

“What an incredible display of talent,” said ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen. “I’m so proud of the talent and advocacy at the heart of these projects because they reflect a deep commitment to tackle the thorny issues communities face.

Award recipients will be honored in person at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans, LA, on Saturday, October 11.

Award Categories

General Design

Award of Excellence
Opaque Ground: Reimagining Human-Soil Relations in the Lower
Don University of Toronto

Honor Award
Working with Beaver Engineers: First Step in Restoring Eco-Corridors Beijing Forestry University
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and University of California, Berkeley

Honor Award
From Ruins to Roots: Healing through Unity, Growing for the Future
University of Pennsylvania

Honor Award
From River to Seabed: Vertical Solutions for Sea Barren Ground
Kyung Hee University

Honor Award
Riverfront Stitch: Mending Cleveland’s Industrial Valley
Kent State University

Honor Award
Seeding the Shoreline: A Living Armature for Pengambengan’s Future
Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology and Sichuan Agricultural University

Honor Award
Reclaimed Edges: Uncovering History, Designing Resilient Futures
Harvard University

Honor Award
After the Ashes
University of Oregon

Honor Award
Soundscapes as Ecology: Designing for Natural Rhythms
Ohio State University

Residential Design

Award of Excellence
Monsoon Memory: Khmer Hydro-Traditionalism for Community Resilience
Soochow University

Urban Design

Award of Excellence
Kipuka Wai” Weaving Ahupua’a Wisdom for the Hawaiian Goby’s Voyage
Soochow University

Honor Award
Mitigating Seoul’s Half-Basement Floods: Green Justice in Action
Soochow University

Honor Award
Lugar de Encontro/ Landscape of Encounters
University of Pennsylvania

Honor Award
The Oasis Effect: Reclaiming Tunis’s Indigenous Water Systems
Harvard University
Student Collaboration

Award of Excellence
Re-Wetting Grossbeeren
Harvard University

Honor Award
THE URBAN FARM EXPANSION: Design by the Community for the Community   
University of Oregon

Honor Award
TREES ALIVE! Techniques, Details, Traditions
Illinois Institute of Technology and The University of Tokyo

Analysis & Planning

Award of Excellence
Stabilizing Thawing Ground: Meltwater Management in Utqiagvik, Alaska
University of Virginia

Honor Award
Reweaving the Water Networks: Casarabe Wisdom for the Llanos de Mojos
Southwest Jiaotong University, Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Sichuan Agricultural University

Honor Award
Auwai Revived: Integrated Ecological Strategies from Mountains to Sea
Beijing Forestry University and Fujian University of Technology

Honor Award
Beyond the Channel: Reconnecting a Resilient Arroyo Seco
California State Polytechnic University at Pomona

Honor Award
Heart of the Great Lakes
Hefei University of Technology, Chongqing Jiaotong University, and Soochow University

Honor Award
Power Lines and Beating Hearts: The Body Electric in the Energy Future
Harvard University

Honor Award
Floods & Beasts: Adaptation Strategies for Sundarbans Border Communities
Shanghai University, Beijing Forestry University, and Chongqing University

Honor Award
The Haunt of Mobile: Reconnecting Down the Bay
Auburn University

Communications

Award of Excellence
Stewards of Pyrran: A Game of Fire, Care, and Cooperation
University of California, Davis

Honor Award
Shifting Terrains: Glacial Debris and Flow
University of Virginia

Honor Award
SOLARPUNK: Recovering the Lost Art of Landscape
University of British Columbia

Honor Award
Way to the Park
Macau University of Science and Technology

Research

Award of Excellence
HAIL: Healthy Aging through Intergenerational Living
Texas A&M University

Honor Award
Overlooked Carbon Contributions of Urban Green Spaces
Beijing Forestry University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Honor Award
Reimagining Residential Landscapes in the Pacific Palisades
Purdue University

Student Community Service

Award of Excellence
Stimulating the Senses, A Calming Retreat in a Skilled Nursing Setting
University of Washington

Honor Award
Nasi Ulam Forest Garden as a Living Lab
National University of Singapore
The 2025 Student Awards Juries

The 2025 Student Awards Juries

Jury 1: General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design & Student Collaboration

Chair Jury 1: Lauren Stimson, ASLA, STIMSON

Members:

Diana Budds, Fast Company, Architect’s Paper.
Nathaniel Cormier, ASLA, RIOS
Swati Khimesra, ASLA, Surface 678
John Leys, Sherwood Design Engineers
Nancy Monteith, ASLA, City of Salt Lake City
Ebru Ӧzer, FASLA, Florida International University
Janet Rosenberg, FASLA, Janet Rosenberg & Studio
Brett Weidl, ASLA, MKSK

Jury 2: Analysis & Planning, Research, Communications, & Student Community Service

Chair Jury 2: Haley Blakeman, FASLA, Moffat and Nichol

Members:

Kewiji Asakura, FASLA, Asakura Robinson – Houston
Nina Chase, ASLA, Merritt Chase
Gonzalo Cruz, ASLA, AECOM
David Goldberg, ASLA, Penn State University
Michael Tunte, ASLA, City of Aspen
Claire Weisz, Hon ASLA, FAIA, WXY
Marcel Wilson, ASLA, Bionic