Awards Archive - Macfarlane

M+A Named Most Sustainable Studio at Pro Landscaper Awards!

November 2025

We’re thrilled to announce that M+A has been awarded Most Sustainable Studio at the Pro Landscaper Sustainability and Biodiversity Awards.

It’s a true honour to be recognised alongside such inspiring landscape professionals, driving forward sustainable and innovative design across the UK.

This award is a testament to our team’s dedication to sustainability, biodiversity, and thoughtful approach to designing with both people and nature in mind.

A heartfelt thank you to the judges, our colleagues, clients, and everyone who supports our mission to make a positive environmental impact.

Here’s to continuing to lead with purpose and innovation in the landscape sector!

TLB – ‘A Great Place To Work Event’

March 2025

This month, we attended the ‘A Great Place to Work’ event – an unforgettable evening hosted by Team London Bridge at the awe-inspiring View from the Shard. With the iconic skyline of London as the backdrop, the event was a celebration of business making a difference in the world of Sustainability, Social Impact, and Safety & Security.

We were honoured to be one amongst 13 businesses to receive an award for our work in ‘Monitoring and Reporting’, highlighted by our recent B Corp accreditation, and for our ongoing dedication to the Decarbonisation Charter and net-zero goals. Additionally, we were recognised for our continued support of volunteering and charitable initiatives within TLB. The energy in the room was palpable, and the shared passion for positive change was truly inspiring. As we look ahead, we’re more motivated than ever to continue our journey of sustainability, social responsibility, and community impact.

Image courtesy of AVR

The Planning Awards 2024

January 2025

Nomination for Best Use of Brownfield Land in Placemaking

Our project for Barratt London, Crown Wharf was shortlisted for The Planning Awards 2024 in the “Best use of Brownfield Land In Placemaking” category, recognising it’s exemplary use of brownfield land to improve the physical, environmental, economic and social attributes of a place.

Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards 2024

January 2025

Shortlisted

At M+A, sustainability is at the core of our mission. This year, we were honoured to see this mission acknowledged at the Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards 2024, where M+A was shortlisted in two categories: Sustainable Landscape Architecture Studio and Commercial Design Project for Holyrood Kiosk in collaboration with Sanchez Benton Architects & Rumi Bose. Being recognised alongside talented studios and inspiring projects in sustainable design made for an incredible evening of reflection and celebration. The awards night offered inspiring conversations and connections with fellow innovators – a powerful reminder of our shared commitment to a greener future.

Pineapple Awards

May 2023

Last night Low Line Commons received yet another honour, this time at the Pineapple Awards where it topped the Future Public Realm category. Up against some very strong competition in a much coveted category, this is nothing short of a fantastic achievement with judges commending the project as a “blueprint for sensitive regeneration”.

Read more about the Low Line Commons initiative we worked on with Studio PDP, Greengage Environmental and Studio 4215 here.

Civic Trust Award Winners!

April 2023

This is our first ever Civic Trust Award (Pro Tem category*) – Europe’s longest-standing built environment awards. Our winning Holyrood Street Kiosk project was commended for showcasing how landscape, green infrastructure and public realm projects can positively contribute towards a greener and more carbon-conscious future.

*The Pro Tem category celebrates temporary projects that make an outstanding contribution to the quality and appearance of the built environment, championing sustainability, accessibility and civic contribution.

Congratulations to the client (Better Bankside; Team London Bridge; Bermondsey Blue; Southwark Council and the funding from the Mayors Good Growth Fund via the GLA) and project team on a fantastic win.

Lowline Commons

March 2023

Overall Winner of the NLA Awards 2021

After our success participating in the London Festival of Architecture events, our RIBA competition-winning scheme, the Low Line Commons project has won 2 New London Architecture Awards! We are honoured that this worthy, sustainable, regeneration strategy, funded by the Mayor’s Good Growth Fund, is now achieving wider industry recognition. At this year’s NLA awards in the Guildhall, City of London, the project won both the Planning category and the overall NLA award across all 14 categories beating over 140 submissions which shows how important an area-wide regeneration strategy is for Southwark in London.

Folkestone Harbour Link

March 2023

Landscape Institute Award – Winner

We are thrilled to announce that Macfarlane + Associates have won the 2019 Landscape Institute Awards for “Enhancing Culture and Heritage” for the unique and extraordinary Folkestone Harbour Link.

The Harbour Link has been a vital component in regenerating Folkestone and has breathed new life into the seafront. The design sensitivity transforms the harbourside heritage setting with memorable and usable public realm in a way that is respectful to their distinct character and past.

Having been closed since 2001, the newly regenerated Harbour Station’s platforms were reopened in Spring 2018 and are now used as the pedestrian route to and from the Harbour Arm. Various art and rail installations can now be found, adding further interest to the Station. Without this regeneration, the Harbour and heritage structures sited there would have continued to deteriorate until they would eventually have been beyond repair.

V&A Museum Dundee

March 2023

Scottish Design Awards: V&A Museum, Dundee

Community Garden Co-Design Project

Winner of the Scottish Design Award for the V&A Museum Dundee – Community Garden Co-design project under the collective of ‘Kennedy Twaddle, Linsey McIntosh and Macfarlane + Associates’ (Category: ‘Place Making/Master Planning: Public Realm/Landscaping’)

Highly Commended Scottish Design Award for the V&A Museum Dundee

Community Garden Co-design project under the collective of ‘Kennedy Twaddle, Linsey McIntosh and Macfarlane + Associates’ (Category: ‘Architecture: Regeneration’)

Nominated for the Grand Prix Scottish Design Award for the V&A Museum Dundee

– Community Garden Co-design project under the collective of ‘Kennedy Twaddle, Linsey McIntosh and Macfarlane + Associates’ (Category : ‘Architecture ‘Grand Prix’ Award’)

Description – an ‘outreach programme’ project for the V&A Museum to engage Dundonian people in the process of design. The project invited a team of co-designers with persons already benefitting from the Dundee Art Angel programme of art therapy for rehabilitating individuals and encouraged those involved to experience the delights of the design process.

Rowan Park Merton

March 2023

The site was chosen as one of the ten Design for Manufacture competition sites. The scheme is the culmination of research, design and innovation to formulate a concept that reflects the high standards of sustainable living today. Rowan Park embodies an environmentally balanced and sustainable design.