Seventeen landscaping projects from around the world have been shortlisted for the inaugural FutureScape Global Awards taking place next month.

Entries from various countries including the United States of America, India, Brazil, Saudia Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and numerous European nations have been selected across the five award categories.

Some of the world’s leading firms have put forward commercial and residential landscapes that demonstrate outstanding contributions to sustainable urban development, creative placemaking, and innovative landscape architecture.

The finalists will present their submissions at FutureScape Global, which is taking place from 28-29 April in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Winners will be determined by a panel of international experts in landscape architecture and urban development, including RHS full garden judge and Landform Consultants’ managing director Mark Gregory, World Urban Parks’ CEO Luis Romahn and Takuhiro Yamada, chairman at the Japan Landscape Contractors Association.

The judging panel will also include Chris Tidswell, president of IFLA’s Asia Pacific Region, and Amer Habibullah, president of the Saudi Society of Landscape Architecture.

The shortlisted entries across the five categories are:

Residential Project Under $500k

• DIANA WIESNER – Landscape Design of the Baptiste House
• Conquest Spaces – Spirit of Partnership Garden
• Antonio Piquera Landscape Design – Camojan Garden

Residential Project Over $500k

• ICON – Saadiyat Grove
• FGMF Arquitetos – Walkway House
• LJ-Group – Cardinal Court
• ONE landscape design Ltd (一林景观设计) – ZIVA Retirement Community
• Matthew Wilson MSGD MCIHort – Graylings

Commercial Project

• The Vero Studio Landscape Architecture
• TRIPTYQUE – Villa M
• Greenwood-Hill Landscape Studio – Angel Central
• Cracknell – ROSHN Front
• Studio Loci

Cityscapes

• Jacobs – Al Jada Central Park
• Martha Schwartz Partners – Under-I Park
• One Works – Masar Boulevard
• LJ-Group – Oriente Green Campus

Conceptual Project

• Omrania – King Salman Park
• MASK architects – BAOBAB Luxury Safari Resort 
• LJ-Group – Podgorica
• Martha Schwartz Partners – King Khalid International Airport