Hangzhou Steelworks Park, designed by TLS and Jiakun Architects, set the stage for an extraordinary musical experience as the renowned Strawberry Music Festival took place on June 17-18. Over 5,000 music lovers gathered at the post-industrial park’s great lawn area, with the furnaces serving as a stunning backdrop. The festival showcased an eclectic mix of genres and featured both emerging talent and established acts, captivating the audience from start to finish. The transformation of the park into a vibrant musical oasis highlighted the park’s landscape splendor. As the sun set, the crowd da ..read more

TLS is excited to receive two World Landscape awards today! A Merit award went to Grand Bayway, a coastal resilience / sea level rise solution for a large area of San Francisco Bay, part of the recent Resilient by Design competition. An Honor Award went to Jiading Green Ring in China, a proposal for 70 sq. km of peripheral land surrounds the city of Jiading in Shanghai – proposing a major new environmental field research campus to preserve agricultural and ecological resources. Over 250 projects were submitted to the WLA Awards this year. This awards program encompasses a very diverse range of ..read more

TLS is excited to announce that three projects were honored during the 2023 American Society of Landscape Architects Northern California (ASLA NCC) Design Awards. Both Richmond Bayway and The Grand Bayway received Merit Award in Analysis and Planning. Baiyangdian Waterfront Park was awarded the DESIGN: PARKS, RECREATION, TRAILS, OPEN SPACE Merit Award which recognizes the project’s outstanding professional accomplishments.   Read more information about each project: Baiyangdian Waterfront Park The Grand Bayway Richmond Bayway   ..read more

TLS‘s Baiyangdian Waterfront Park won 2 awards at the 17th Annual IDA(International Design Awards). It is awarded the Silver Award in the Landscape category, and the Bronze Award in the Landmark, memorials, and public space category. Read More… This is the first significant open space component of the Xiong-an New City competition and the first realization of the 24 solar terms ideas structuring the open space thinking. The Xiong-an Competition was won in 2018 by TLS and SOM. Read More… The International Design Awards (IDA) exists to recognize, celebrate and promote exceptional design visionar ..read more

On November 15, 2022 Executive Director of the Houston Endowment, Ann Stern convened a discussion panel, associated with the building opening, to share stories and insights from the design and construction process and how the new facility is helping advance the Foundation’s goals . Tom Leader was honored to join Ann Stern, Kevin Daly, of KDA Architects, Carlos Jimenez, Architect and Rice University Architecture Professor, and Alison Weaver, Director of the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice.   ..read more

Jiawen Chen’s work Korea 50: Korea Remade is on view at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in the Designing Peace exhibition through September 2023. Korea 50: Korea Remade Korea Remade explores alternative futures for a reunified Korean Peninsula through landscape design by providing social, economic, and cultural opportunities for Korean citizens. The Korea 50 Tourism Project is aimed to fund and support the long-term and expensive landmine clearance in this exclusive post-war condition. In the trip, you will find the unique geology and ecology of DMZ, the war remnants, and the memories of the K ..read more

TLS was honored to be invited to participate in the “2022 Shanghai New City Design Exhibition”, which was held at the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall on October 12th. This exhibition was open to the public and introduced Shanghai’s new city strategy. TLS presented a graphic introduction and a planning model of the “Green Ring Campus”, a green ring design for Jiading New City. The exhibition included both public participation and academic forums. With the theme of “Design Empowerment, City of the Future,” the exhibition focused on the future spatial development strategy of Shanghai’s fi ..read more

Tom Leader was honored to serve on an illustrious jury for this major international competition. The project is for a new cultural, athletic, and TOD architectural program and the re-imagining of the People’s Square – the current and future “living room for the city”. The seven teams were quite diverse – from a local team to European based firms. The schemes were highly developed and well-reasoned. They were also quite diverse from strong, large scale planning considerations to an original and provocative roof proposal by Kengo Kuma, the final winner. We offer congratulations to him and his fi ..read more

This year’s 20th annual student urban design competition was a redevelopment plan for an Oakland, California site. The competition asked students for proposals to create a vibrant mixed-use, mixed-income area next to I-880 in downtown Oakland. The challenge brief asked the students to address equity, housing affordability, access to neighborhood services, sustainability, and connectivity to surrounding communities.   There were 93 entries and a jury of 15 leading ULI members selected the four teams that advanced to the final round of the competition. Tom Leader was a member of the jury fo ..read more

UVA School of Architecture presents the AUC Inaugural Workshops on February 18-19, 2022 a set of workshops launches the research platform Asian Urbanism Collaborative (AUC) through engaged debate on three thematic areas that are identified as crucial for thinking about the future city, and the role the Asian City may play in our understanding and shaping of it: Geopolitics, Culture, and Ecology.   The goal of AUC is to establish a collaborative scholarly community, and to reassess the significance of Asia’s urbanization in the context of European and American experiences in urbanization ..read more