First Prize: Re-Envisioning Lives

Team: Menghan Yu, Yangyi Li, Xinyi Zhang

This provocative and ambitious project reimagines the correctional facility not as a “jailscraper” looming over Chinatown, but as an urban living room—integrated, reparative, and ecologically responsive. Through distributed, smaller-scale interventions and an emphasis on transparency, access, and biodiversity, the proposal dismantles the architecture of intimidation in favor of a typology rooted in care and coexistence. At the urban scale, the project returns public space to the community, creating generous, flexible grounds for shared civic life and local expression. This is a radical inversion of carceral logic—one that proposes landscape not as boundary, but as bridge. The jury reckognizes the team’s courage to imagine a radically different jail situation and the interactive landscape that enables it.

Second Prize: Unveiling the Ruins: Reinterpreting History to Create a New Story

Team: Lucas de la Fuente Suárez, Vincent Nahuel Mariano De Gasperi, Aleix Aymerich

This project reclaims a forgotten military landscape not as a static monument, but as a dynamic terrain of discovery, memory, and play. Through careful attention to buried materialities and ecological processes, the design invites users to engage with layers of contested history—reinterpreting ruins as participatory infrastructure rather than relics of decay. The proposal’s phased, community-driven strategy blurs the line between archaeology and landscape practice, transforming excavation into collective meaning-making. Its inventive reuse of rubble and remnant elements into social and biodiversity nodes reflects a rare blend of poetic sensibility and pragmatic design. The jury recognizes mature design attitude that takes on a difficult task of transforming a bleak tragedy of the past into a poetic playground for the future.

Third Prize: Remnants

Team: Lenka Rajmont, Aphra Das Gupta, Henry Westphal-Reed

This project offers a raw, materially-grounded vision for reclaiming Greenwich Peninsula’s overlooked industrial shoreline, transforming scattered remnants into a vibrant culture of reuse. By centering design around found objects, gabion construction, and studios for upcycling, the proposal cultivates a community-led practice of making and learning—without erasing the site's industrial DNA. The interplay between "granules," "habitation," and "bioscene" becomes a conceptual and physical framework that acknowledges coexistence, and ecological repair. Rather than sanitizing or overwriting the site, the design accepts its entanglements, inviting participation through hands-on engagement and shared attitudes of care. Bricktopia is less a finished place than a process—celebrating the strange, gritty in-between of urban transformation. The jury recognizes the team’s outstanding ability to articulate the complexity of socially and environmentally productive processes into a flexible landscape.

University Prize: University of Porto

Team: João Francisco Moura Ferreirinha, Sofia Miranda Marçal, Carolina Pinho Gonçalves, Pedro Meleiro de Magalhães, Margarida Rocha de Sousa, Luís Castro, Margarida Baptista, Ana Tavares, Rúben Pinto, Diogo Lopes, Margarida Madureira, Márcia Lopes, Beatriz Magalhães, Luís Barbosa

The jury conducted a distinct evaluation specifically for universities that submitted three or more student projects completed within the academic curriculum. Based on this assessment, the University of Porto was awarded the University Prize. The Department of Landscape Architecture submitted three studio projects, all developed under the guidance of Professors Paulo Farinha Marques and José Miguel Lameiras. These projects focused on a stream corridor in Matosinhos, Porto, where students proposed a series of interventions that addressed both ecological restoration and public space activation. Their designs integrated green infrastructure strategies with carefully articulated bridge structures to enhance spatial connectivity and promote community engagement along the waterway.