Grant Associates scoops seven awards across its UK and Singapore studios
Landscape architecture practice, Grant Associates, is celebrating this month after scooping a total of seven major international awards across its two studios in the UK and Singapore. This marks an unparalleled milestone for Grant Associates, with three ceremonies taking place on the same night across three time zones.
The practice won five awards at the Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards (SLAA), including Gold awards for two Singapore projects – Grand Hyatt Hotel and The Reef at King’s Dock – and Silver awards for Elementum & the Rail Corridor, and the Sino-Singapore Friendship Park at Tianjin Eco City in China. The Reef at King’s Dock also won the Outstanding Award in the Residential (Built) category at the International Federation of Landscape Architects Asia-Pacific region (IFLA APR) Landscape Architecture & Luminary Awards 2025.
Meanwhile, the UK studio of Grant Associates has picked up a prestigious Landscape Institute Award for its work on Appleby Blue Almshouses, London.
Leading the way for sustainable landscape in Singapore
The Reef at King’s Dock, completed in 2024, reimagines urban living at the water’s edge. The design integrates Singapore’s first floating residential recreation deck, a pioneering Green Dock Wall, and a series of elevated hammocks that immerse residents in the rhythms of the marine environment. These innovations stem from deep research and multidisciplinary collaboration aimed at restoring coastal ecologies while transforming the experience of luxury waterfront living.
Grand Hyatt Singapore reopened in 2024 following a two-year renovation, with an extensively reimagined landscape. Grant Associates’ redesign replaced former hardscape areas with lush biodiverse planting, creating a sequence of shaded courtyards, garden terraces and water-cooled outdoor rooms now central to the hotel’s refreshed identity.
Elementum is a purpose-built work-live-play research and office space, located at the intersection of Singapore’s Rail Corridor and the city’s One-north district. Grant Associates’ landscape design, with lively plazas and lush roof terraces, ensures the building is fully immersed and seamlessly integrated with the Buona Vista Node. Elementum, a work-live-play campus at the convergence of the Rail Corridor and one-north district, features landscapes that weave the building seamlessly into the Buona Vista Node. Lively plazas, porous ground-level gardens, and verdant roof terraces reinforce this site as a social and ecological connector within Singapore’s expanding nature-based urban network.
In China’s Tianjin Eco-City, the Sino-Singapore Friendship Park showcases an integrative landscape that transforms a former saline and degraded site into a thriving green space. Combining cultural narratives, ecological restoration, and contemporary public amenities, the park demonstrates how degraded land can be reshaped into an accessible, biodiverse destination for people and wildlife.
Stefaan Lambreghts, Associate Director at Grant Associates in Singapore, says: “We were delighted to see so many of our projects celebrated at SLAA 2025, in addition to the IFLA-APR Award for The Reef at King's Dock. It demonstrates the diversity of the work we do and the creative thinking that is applied to every project we have the pleasure of working on. To our clients and collaborators, a heartfelt thank you for your continued support, commitment and passion in delivering inspiring work that redefines how people interact with the world around them.”
Luscious gardens offering tranquillity and relaxation
Appleby Blue is a social-housing project of 57 almshouses designed to enrich the lives of elderly people. Grant Associates worked collaboratively to create a landscape that prioritises community, wellbeing and ecology. Shared gardens, a central courtyard and planted roof top terraces provide space for residents to meet, connect and enjoy nature, helping to nurture a strong sense of belonging. The project was recently honoured with the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK’s highest architectural accolade.
These awards are a wonderful recognition of the creativity, dedication, and collaborative spirit that define our work at Grant Associates. Each project represents a unique partnership with clients, architects, engineers, ecologists, and local communities. Together we’ve created landscapes that connect people with nature in meaningful and enduring ways. From Singapore to London to Tianjin, these award-winning projects show the global reach of landscape architecture in tackling today’s most pressing challenges — climate resilience, biodiversity loss, and human wellbeing. I’m incredibly proud of our team and collaborators whose imagination and commitment continue to demonstrate how design with nature at its heart can transform places and enrich lives.
