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