Awards
2023
Prestonpans Civic Square:
Scottish Design Award 2023, Regeneration - Gold Award
Scottish Design Award 2023 - The Chairs Award for Architecture
The Bowline:
Civic Trust Award 2023
2022
The Bowline:
Scottish Design Award 2022, Landscape and Public Realm – Winner
Architects Journal Retrofit Awards 2022 - Shortlisted
2021
Strawberry Field. Liverpool:
Welwyn Goldsmith Award for Universal Design
The Dunbar Battery:
5th European Architectural Heritage Award, Finalist
2020
Dundashill:
Scottish Design Awards 2020, Landscape and Public Realm – Winner
2019
The Knab, Lerwick:
Scottish Design Awards 2019, Masterplanning – Winner
AJ Architecture Awards, Masterplan of the Year – Finalist
Kesson Court, Elgin:
Scottish Design Awards 2019, Public Ream/ Landscape – Winner
Western Harbour Masterplan
Landscape Institute Awards 2019, Urban Design and Masterplanning – Finalist
2018
The Dunbar Battery
AJ Retrofit Awards 2018, Listed Building Under £5m – Winner
Landscape Institute Awards 2018, Design for a Small Scale Development – Highly Commended
Scottish Civic Trust, My Place Awards – Commended
Civic Trust Award, Regional Finalist
City of Glasgow College, City Campus
Scottish Design Awards 2018, Public Realm/ Landscaping – Winner
AJ Architecture Awards, Landscape Architecture of the Year – Finalist
RSA Annual Exhibition for Bowling Harbour Viaduct and The Dunbar Battery
We were also landscape architects for the following award winning projects;
City of Glasgow College, City Campus (awards include);
Civic Trust Award
Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre, Edinburgh
Civic Trust Award
2017
The Dunbar Battery
AJ Architecture Awards, Budget Project – Winner
Architectural Review ‘New into Old’ Awards – Shortlisted
Fasque Estate Masterplan
Scottish Design Awards, Future Projects – Winner
City of Glasgow College, Riverside Campus
Scottish Design Awards, Landscape and Public Realm – Shortlisted
We were also landscape architects for the following award winning projects;
Bowling Arches Refurbishment Phases 1 and 2
Scottish Award for Quality in Planning
City of Glasgow College, City Campus (awards include);
RIBA Stirling Prize, Shortlisted
RIBA National Award
RIAS Award
Scottish Design Awards, Public Building Award
City of Glasgow College, Riverside Campus (awards include);
Civic Trust Award
James Gillespies Campus,
RIAS Award
Oriam, Scotland’s Sports Performance Centre, Edinburgh
Scottish Design Awards, Architecture Grand Prix
Scottish Design Awards, Leisure/Culture Building Winner
Fraser Avenue, Inverkeithing,
Saltire Society Housing Design Awards, Commendation for Innovation in Housing
Marr College, Troon,
Project of the Year, 2017 Education Buildings Scotland Awards
2016
Scottish Design Award, Public/ Realm Landscaping for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre
The Landscape Institute Awards, Design for a Small Scale Development, Highly Commended for Maggie’s Lanarkshire
2015
RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlisted for Maggies Centre Lanarkshire
RSA Annual Exhibition for City of Glasgow College – Riverside Campus
2014
Invited to contribute to Scotland + Venice
2013
‘Invited Architect’ – 187th RSA Annual Exhibition
2012
George Square International Design Competition, 3rd prize with JMA
Listed nr.4 in Urban Realm Magazine’s Top UK Landscape Architects 2012
2011
Principle Winner for ‘Hard Landscape £300k – £1.5m’, BALI Awards, Garscube Landscape Link
Principle Winner for ‘Innovation and Technology’, BALI Awards, Garscube Landscape Link
‘Special Mention’ in the RIAS Andrew Doolan Award, Garscube Landscape Link
Shortlisted with Reiach and Hall Architects in Windermere Steamboat Museum Competition
2010
Winner – Gairbraid Avenue Public Realm Invited Competition
‘Gold’ Roses Design Award for Place Making and Landscape, Garscube Landscape Link
Winner – ‘Future Buildings Category’ Scottish Design Awards, Garscube Landscape Link
Shortlisted in Creative Scotland ‘Vital Spark Award’
Commended in the Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning, Speirs Lock Masterplan
2009
Named ‘Landscape Architects of the Year’ by Prospect Magazine
Winner – BURA Waterside Regeneration Awards, Speirs Lock Masterplan
Speirs Lock Masterplan Selected as a Scottish Government Sustainable Communities Initiative Project
Shortlisted in Edegem Town Square Design Competition, Belgium
2008
Shortlisted in Pennine Lancashire Squared International Design Competition
We have also been also been involved in the following award winning projects;
‘The Bridge’ Scottish Water National HQ
Architect; Reiach and Hall Architects
Maggies Cancer Caring Centre Lanarkshire
Architect; Reiach and Hall Architects
Exhibitions
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2023.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2022.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2021.
Scotland +Venice: Contributor to ‘What if ... Scotland’ Venice Biennale 2020
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2020.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburg, 2019.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2018.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2017.
Landscape Institute Awards, The Building Centre, London, 2016.
Rosa Barba Exhibition of the 9th International Landscape Biennale, Barcelona.
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2015
‘A Picture of Health’,The Lighthouse Glasgow and various venues, 2014
RSA Open Architecture, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2014
Rosa Barba Exhibition of the 8th International Landscape Biennale, Barcelona, 2014
RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2013
‘The Architecture of Hope’, V&A London and The Lighthouse, Glasgow, 2011
Scottish Sustainable Communities Exhibition, The Lighthouse Glasgow, 2009
RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, 2009
RSA Spring Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, 2009
RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh, 2008
Journals
Landscape Architecture Korea issue 376 2019.08.
LAF Landscape Architecture Frontiers 037, Volume 7 Issue 1, 2019.02.
A&B Architektura & Biznes, 05/11
‘Paisea Landscape Architecture Review’ nr 16 ‘Scars’ March 2011
Urban Design Journal 114 – Spring 2010 – Speirs Lock Masterplan
‘Paisea Landscape Architecture Review’ nr 12 ‘Low Cost’ March 2010
‘Green Places’ September 2010 – Raploch Green Arena
Prospect Issue 134 Spring 09, Best of Professions
Books
‘From Idea to Site – A guide guide to creating better landscapes’, Claire Thirwell, RIBA 2020
‘Tomorrow Landscape, Paysage Editore, Catalogue of the 9th International Landscape Biennale, 2018
‘A Landscape For You’, Paysage Editore, Catalogue of the 8th International Landscape Biennale, 2016
‘The Architecture of Hope’, Frances Lincoln Ltd Publishers, 2015
‘Urban Spaces’, Braun Publishers, Switzerland, 2013
‘Public Places’, Gestalten, Berlin, 2012
‘1000 tips for Landscape Architects’, Loft Publications, 2011
‘Pennine Lancashire Squared’ by R. Farricker and S. Hodder, Regenerate Pennine Lancashire