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ASLA 2025 Student Communications Award of Excellence. Stewards of Pyrran: A Game of Fire, Care, and Cooperation. Melissa Tan, Student ASLA. Faculty Advisor: Emily Schlickman, ASLA. University of California, Davis

ASLA has 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. Media are invited to attend; please email press@asla.org for credentials. For more information, visit www.aslaconference.com.

Members of the media, please contact press@asla.org to request hi-res images.

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 About Time: Adaptive Management for Coastal Salt Marshes

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

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

Jury Chair: Lauren Stimson, ASLA, STIMSON

Members:

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

Jury Chair: Haley Blakeman, FASLA, Moffat and Nichol 

Members: