The London 2012 Olympic Park has won two awards at the UK’s most prestigious landscape awards ceremony held at the Congress Centre in central London. LDA-Design, Hargreaves Associates, Arup and Atkins, the design team behind the Olympic Park, have been named winner of the 2012 Landscape Institute President’s Award. The Olympic Delivery Authority has been named winner of the 2012 Landscape Institute Peter Youngman Award. Both awards recognize not only the special nature of the Olympic Park project, but also the extraordinary achievement it represents.
Speaking about her choice for the President’s Award, Landscape Institute President Sue Illman said: “It is rare that a project can attract so many superlatives and such a consensus as to its achievements, whilst also providing practical lessons in restoration, sustainability, regeneration and the art of the possible. In selecting this project for the President’s Award I salute the skill, determination and commitment of the project team in delivering the Olympic Park that inspired us all, and made the country proud.?
The Peter Youngman Award, which is awarded to a project or individual that has made an outstanding contribution to landscape architecture, is presented to the Olympic Delivery Authority as a celebration of the leadership, innovation, skill and dedication shown by all members of the profession involved in the planning, design and creation of the Olympic Park. The Award recognizes the role the project has played as the most significant demonstration of the value and importance of investment in landscape at the heart of high quality public open space. It is presented to the Olympic Delivery Authority as the client body responsible for the creation of the Olympic Park.