The Landscape Institute announced the winners of its annual awards at the Bloomsbury Big Top in London on Thursday (27 November), with the winning schemes including the world’s first tidal lagoon at Swansea Bay.

Landscape architect LDA Design won the prestigious President’s Award, chosen by new President Noel Farrer, for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon, a project that harnesses tidal power to generate renewable electricity.

Other schemes honoured included Birmingham’s Eastside City Park, designed by Patel Taylor to fulfill a part of Birmingham City Council’s Big City Plan, which scooped an award for public space design; Maida Hill Market, by landscape architects Gillespies, which provides a valuable area of open space to north London’s Harrow Road community; South Pennines Watershed Landscape Project by South Pennines Local Nature Partnership, a project which engages local communities with the landscape; and, from Urbis, A Comprehensive Street Tree Management Plan for Hong Kong, which helps the city to get the most in environmental, social and economic returns from its trees.

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There is more about landscaping to start the New Year in the next issue of Natural Stone Specialist magazine.