Our team, led by Studio Andrew Todd, has been shortlisted for the second phase of the Reinventer la Seine project innovation with a scheme for a mixed-use wooden building overlooking Notre Dame and the Jardin des Plantes on the banks of the Seine in central Paris. December 2016

The American Society of Landscape Architects – Rhode Island recognized LIRIO with three awards at the biannual awards ceremony. City Walk Providence received the Honor Award for Planning and Analysis. Kiruna (Sweden) City Hall Square (above) received the Honor Award for “On the Boards.” Ron Henderson’s book, The Gardens of Suzhou, received the Special Recognition Award which is reserved for “a single project that recognizes outstanding professional accomplishment and stands alone from the other entries in its attributions.”

Ron Henderson has been appointed Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).

The Field’s Point Wastewater Treatment Facility, which includes L+A’s Landfill Garden, received  the Award from the Construction Management Association of America’s New England Chapter for Infrastructure Projects less than $75 million. October 2014

CITY WALK has been adopted into the Providence Comprehensive Plan, Providence Tomorrow; the 195 Commission Developer’s Toolkit; and the City’s new outline for an urban future, Sustainable Providence.

L+A in collaboration with Schwartz/Silver Architects, Solomon+Bauer+Giambastiani Architects, and Roll Barresi Graphic Design have been selected for the Newport (RI) Art Museum Campus Plan

ASLA-RI Merit Award

Honor Award, RI-ASLA

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Publication grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust

The Memorial de l’abolition de l’esclavage (Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery) in Nantes (France) has been awarded Honorable Mention in the annual European Prize for Urban Public Space. L+A was collaborating landscape architect with the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and the architect Julian Bonder, designers of the riverfront memorial and promenade.

Ron Henderson was nominated by the ASLA Rhode Island Chapter and elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows. Elevation to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors a landscape architect may receive. The designation of Fellow is conferred upon individuals in recognition of exceptional accomplishments over a sustained period of time. October 2012

Ron Henderson was elected to membership of the International House of Japan – a private, non-profit organization incorporated with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and other private institution and individuals in 1952 for the purpose of promoting cultural exchange and intellectual cooperation between the peoples of Japan and those of other countries. It is a working international community engaged directly in a variety of programs that embody the free exchange and interaction of ideas and that strive to foster a climate favorable to international cooperation. October 2012

Award for Public Policy and Planning, Grow Smart Rhode Island

Citation of Merit, Healthcare Design (with CannonDesign)

A Silver Award for Design was awarded by Rhode Island Monthly to Kite Architects and the Narragansett Bay Commission Operations Center at Field’s Point which includes L+A’s Landfill Garden.

The work of ten international offices, including L+A, MVRDV, UN Studio, NADAA, and others, will be included in the show, unMADE IN CHINA, which runs from April 20 – June 20 at Ide@s Gallery, Shanghai.

Merit Award for Design, RIASLA

Merit Award for Unbuilt Project, AIA-RI
with Kite Architects

Special Recognition Award, RIASLA. Report link here