ELA AWARD

About ELA Award

The ELA International Landscape Awards were initiated by ARCHINA, an authoritative industry media platform in China. The Awards Committee adheres to the principles of fairness, impartiality, and transparency, upholding professional media perspectives while balancing media dissemination. The awards aim to establish a globally recognized brand with sustainable influence—rooted in China yet embracing the world.

Through industry exchange activities, ELA uses awards as a vehicle to share our philosophy on human settlements and landscape design across broader horizons, contributing to elevating standards and excellence throughout the industry.

Rooted in ELA’s platform for intellectual exchange, we launched the ELA International Landscape Awards to explore industry trends from a media perspective. This initiative provides outstanding landscape designers with a stage to express ideas, exchange insights, and advance together.

Under the urgent global context of addressing climate change, China’s "dual carbon" strategy is driving the landscape industry to transition from traditional aesthetics to systematic ecological engineering. The central government’s model support for urban renewal (launched in 2024) is accelerating green infrastructure upgrades, requiring landscape design to balance carbon sequestration with community resilience. We aim to collaborate with industry pioneers to explore "how landscape design can make new contributions to carbon reduction, authentically address human habitat needs, and continuously create works of sustainable value."This backdrop highlights the practical significance of the award’s "Technology, Ecology, and Humanity" theme, with its evaluation outcomes poised to provide replicable models for sustainable development in the industry.

In recent years, with the change of climate and environment, and responding to the national "dual-carbon" policy and the global future trend of low-carbon environmental protection, the adoption of more innovative "green" design techniques is becoming the goal of the design industry exploration. ELA is expecting more low-carbon sustainable landscape construction projects, combining the latest domestic and foreign design concepts, leading the market trend, exploring various innovative practices carried out with low-carbon concept, showing the people-centered exploration results to build a low-carbon landscape with healthy people.

The new ‌"Best Humanistic Landscape Award"‌ category has been established to recognize landscape forms ‌created or transformed by humanity within natural environments‌ that carry specific cultural values. These landscapes are shaped ‌either through technological interventions or entirely new designs‌, encompassing both ‌utilitarian-oriented projects‌ and ‌artistically conceived landscapes‌ .

We've added a new category， "The best technology landscape award".  Achieving the wonderful harmony of the hi-tech elements and natural or artificial landscape, ELA is committed to break the traditional "static aesthetic" mode, and to realize the interaction between people and space by diversifying new media art form and digital technology. ELA is also adhering to the concept of "environmental protection, energy saving, health living” to develop high quality landscape projects which seek for the harmonious symbiosis between human and nature by high-tech solutions.

The single award will continue to add the "Best Cultural Tourism Landscape Award" to encourage the integration of natural foundations and cultural creativity, emphasizing the transmission of cultural values through environmental reconstruction and theme design.

Landscape projects which completed before Apr.1 2022 or at least into the construction stage .

Brief description of the project design , 800-1500 words, in word or ppt form.

Photo/video/ GIF, HD original image, quantity: 15-30 .(base original picture, project scene picture, construction process photo, effect picture, related drawing and company logo picture.

Please send the above materials to the Organizing Committee email：archina@gentmon.com with the subject of " Company name+2025ELA".

Registration fee is RMB2500 per project

Cost instruction：

· All-media platform coverage (10% off for ARCHINA Enterprise Members)

· All shortlisted projects can be displayed on AECHINA website and ELA website

· If the project does not win the final evaluation, it will get the compensation service for three additional other projects displayed on the double official website.

Apply for more than three projects (including three) to enjoy 10% discount

Apply for more than 5 projects (including 5) to enjoy a single project discount to RMB2000.

Landscape Design Firms:
AECOM, SWA Group, Sasaki Associates, Guangzhou S.P.I Design, L&A Design, GVL Gossamer Landscape Design, ASPECT Studios, Z+T Studio, JTL (Chongqing), EADG, EDSA, ADAO Design, UP+S, SPStudio, ATLAS Planning & Design, Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl, ATLAS Landscape, LANDO Design, QIDI Design, ECOLAND, ACA Maken Landscape, Shanghai Weima Landscape, BLVD, Lihe Landscape, Wheatfield Landscape, Lacime Landscape, SONGYA Landscape, SED Newscape Design, Weimei Landscape, C.S.C Landscape, Chengdu Scape Design, DDON Planning & Design, Hangzhou MOD Design, FLO Landscape Design

Architecture/Engineering Firms & Institutions:
SJ Surbana Jurong, LWK + PARTNERS, THAD (Tsinghua University Architectural Design & Research Institute), Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design & Research (SIADR), CSCIID Southwest (Shenzhen) Design Consulting Co., Ltd., Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects, Shanghai Shuishi Architectural Planning & Design, AUBE Conception, JZFZ Design, goa (Elephant Design), gad (Greentown Architectural Design), Tongyuan Design Group