Awards
2026
AIA-GA: Honor Award – Built
Spelman College Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts
Atlanta Urban Design Commission: Award of Excellence – New Construction
Spelman College Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts
ASLA NY: Merit Award – General Design
Disney New York HQ
ASLA NY: Honor Award – General Design
Gowanus Lowlands
MASterworks Awards – Best Environmental Innovation
Gowanus Lowlands
ASLA-NCC: Award of Excellence – Analysis and Planning
UC Berkeley Landscape Climate Adaptation Plan
AIANY: Merit Award - Commercial Design
Disney New York Headquarters
2025
ASLA Landscape Architecture Firm Award
AIA-NY: Honor Award – Urban Design
Tom Lee Park
ACEC NY: Diamond Award – Water Resources
Living Breakwaters
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Pratt East Hall Plaza
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – Residential Design
Malt Drive Park
ASIC: Excellence in Irrigation – Merit Award
China Basin Park
ASLA-NCC: Honor Award – General Design
China Basin Park
AIA National: Regional & Urban Design Award
Tom Lee Park
ULI Americas Awards for Excellence
Tom Lee Park
NYC Public Design Commission Award
Bush Terminal – Pier 6
LCASLA Honor Award – Analysis and Planning
Bruce Beach Interpretive Signage
LCASLA Honor Award – Analysis and Planning
Resilient Jacksonville
ASLA FL: Honor Award – Planning and Analysis
Resilient Jacksonville
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Urban Design
China Basin Park
World Architecture Festival: Urban Design
Te Ara Tukutuku
World Urban Parks: Large Urban Park Award for North America
Tom Lee Park
2024
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Residential Design
Hudson Valley Guest House and Grounds
2024 Coastal Stewardship Award from the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
2023 Coastal Master Plan
Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA): Excellence Award – Analysis & Planning
Resilient Together: El Punto
ASLA-Potomac: Honor Award – General Design
Neal Place Park
AIA National: Architecture Award
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – General Design
Tom Lee Park
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Communications
2023 Coastal Master Plan
ASCE San Francisco Section Awards: Outstanding Parks and Recreation Project
China Basin Park
LC-ASLA: Merit Award – General Design: Unbuilt Work
Brookley by the Bay
LC-ASLA: Honor Award – Communications
2023 Coastal Master Plan
PDC Awards: Excellence in Public Design
Gowanus CSO Tank Facility & Salt Lot
APA National Planning Awards: Resilience and Sustainability Award
Resilient Jacksonville
2023
ASLA-SERC: Merit Award – General Design
Town Branch Commons
ASLA-KY: Honor Award – Constructed Work
Town Branch Commons
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Town Branch Commons
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – Community Impact
Alafia
AIA-NYS: Honor Award – Urban Design & Planning
Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan
TIME 100 Most Influential People, Kate Orff
OBEL Award
Living Breakwaters
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
Chattahoochee RiverLands
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Urban Design
Town Branch Commons
LC-ASLA: Honor Award – General Design: Built
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
LC-ASLA: Merit Award – General Design: Built
Tom Lee Park
ASLA-GA: Honor Award – General Design
Town Branch Commons
ASLA-GA: Excellence Award – Analysis & Planning
Chattahoochee RiverLands
ASLA-TX: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
Airline Highway Park
2022
AIA-NY: Merit Award – Urban Design
Alafia
LC-ASLA: Merit Award – General Design: Unbuilt Work
Airline Highway Park
LC-ASLA: Merit Award – Analysis & Planning
McCoys Creek Recreation and Restoration Plan
LC-ASLA: Honor Award – Communications
Our Future Coast
AIA-NY & ASLA-NY Transportation & Infrastructure Awards: Honor Award – Planning
Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Merit Award – Urban Design & Master Plan
Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Master Plan
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Environmental Excellence Award
Town Branch Commons
ASLA-NJ: Merit Award – Landscape Architectural Planning & Analysis
Resilient New Jersey: Raritan River and Bay Communities
ASLA-NJ: Merit Award – Landscape Architectural Communications
“Designing Landscapes for Insects and People,” Gena Wirth, Steven Handel
2021
AIA Tri-State: Silver Medal – Regional & Urban Design
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
SARA National: Design Award of Merit – Urban Design
Alafia
SARA-NY: Merit Award – Urban Design
Alafia
Fast Company: Innovation by Design Award Finalist – Spaces & Places
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
AIA-NYS: Merit Award – Institutional
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
ASLA-SoCal: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
Hayward Regional Shoreline Adaptation Master Plan
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications
Chattahoochee RiverLands
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications
Our Future Coast
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
ASLA-FL: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
McCoys Creek Recreation and Restoration Plan
ASLA-KY: Merit Award – Analysis & Planning
Chattahoochee RiverLands
Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA): Merit Award – Analysis & Planning
Climate Ready Dorchester
NYCxDesign: Greater Good Award – Social & Environmental Impact
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
2020
The Architect’s Newspaper: Urbanist of the Year Award, Kate Orff
APA-GA: Outstanding Planning Document
Chattahoochee RiverLands
American Web Design Award
Our Future Coast
NYC Public Design Commission (PDC): Award for Excellence in Design
Red Hook Library
Georgia Water Coalition: Clean 13 Award
Chattahoochee RiverLands
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Midtown Center Plaza
2019
National Design Award, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honor Award – Unbuilt (Cultural)
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honorable Mention – Landscape Public
First Avenue Water Plaza
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honorable Mention – Unbuilt (Landscape)
Tom Lee Park
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honorable Mention – Unbuilt (Urban Design)
Pensacola Waterfront Framework Plan
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Analysis & Planning
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – General Design
First Avenue Water Plaza
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Madison Avenue Plaza
2018
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honor Award – Representation (Analog)
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
AIA California Council: Merit Award – Urban Design
Public Sediment for Alameda Creek
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications
Gowanus Lowlands
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – General Design
Hall of Science Discovery Terrace
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
New York-Presbyterian & Columbia University Medical Campus Joint Master Plan
Architect Magazine: Progressive Architecture Award
Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center
ACEC-NJ: Engineering Excellence Awards, Grand Honor Award
Hudson River RBD
2017
MacArthur Fellow, Kate Orff
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Communications
Toward an Urban Ecology
SARA National: Design Award of Excellence
Glen Oaks Branch Library
NYC Public Design Commission (PDC): Award for Excellence in Design
Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center
AIA-NY: Design Award – Best in Competition
Vagelos Education Center
2016
The Chicago Athenaeum: Good Green Design Award
Battery Park City Community Center Terrace
The Architect’s Newspaper: Best of Design, Honorable Mention – Temporary Installation
Town Branch Water Walk
ASLA-NY: Merit Award – General Design
Blake Hobbs Play-Za
APA-KY: Special Merit Award for Outstanding Use of Technology – Civic Engagement
Town Branch Water Walk
Urban Land Institute (ULI): Award for Excellence in Development
Harlem RBI Dream Charter School Roofscape
NYC Public Design Commission (PDC): Award for Excellence in Design
Snug Harbor Music Hall
SARA National: Design Award of Excellence
The Hudson Riverport
SARA-NY: Merit Award – Urban Design
The Hudson Riverport
2015
American Academy of Arts & Letters: National Planning Achievement Award – Environmental Planning
Living Breakwaters
ACEC-NY: Engineering Excellence Awards, Grand Honor Award
Living Breakwaters
ASLA-NY: Design Award
Cove Co-Habitat
ASLA-NY: Design Award
Glen Oaks Branch Library
ASLA-NJ: Design Award – Site Design
DMAVA Park
AIA-NY: Honor Award – Urban Design
Beijing Horticultural Expo 2016 Landscape Master Plan
APA: National Achievement Award for Environmental Planning
Living Breakwaters
2014
Buckminster Fuller Challenge: Winner
Living Breakwaters
Rebuild by Design Competition, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD): Winner
Living Breakwaters
ASLA-NY: Design Award – Collaborative Design
NYC SIRR Coastal Protection Plan
ASLA-NY: Design Award – Unbuilt
Deconstructed Salt Marsh
Built by Women NYC (BxW NYC): Winner
103rd Street Community Garden
The Chicago Athenaeum: American Architecture Award
Glen Oaks Branch Library
AIA National: Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) Design Award
PAVE Academy Playscape
Learning by Design Magazine: Citation of Excellence
Abraham Joshua Heschel School Play Roof
AIA-NY: Bronze Award of Honor
Abraham Joshua Heschel School Play Roof
2013
American Architects: Building of the Year
Glen Oaks Branch Library
National Academy of Design: National Academician, Kate Orff
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Communications
Petrochemical America
AIA National: Honor Award
Cornell University Milstein Hall
AIA Houston: Design Award
Blaffer Art Museum
2012
The Architectural League of New York: Emerging Voices Award, Kate Orff
Zumtobel Group: Awards for Sustainability & Humanity in the Built Environment, Honor Award – Research
ASLA-NY: Design Award – Collaborative Design
103rd Street Community Garden
ASLA-NY: Design Award – Planning, Analysis, Research & Communications
Confluence: Portal to the Point
2008
ASLA Professional Awards: Honor Award – Communications
Bird-Safe Building Guidelines
2007
NYC-DDC: Design Excellence Award
Glen Oaks Branch Library
ASLA-NY: Honor Award – Analysis, Planning, Research & Communications
Bird-Safe Building Guidelines
The Chicago Athenaeum: American Architecture Award
Coney Island Aquarium Perimeter Vision
2006
City of New York Commission on Art: Award of Excellence
Glen Oaks Branch Library
AIA-NY: Merit Award
Glen Oaks Branch Library