Hangzhou Grand Canal Steelworks Park wins top global landscape architecture award

The World Landscape Architecture Awards announced their annual winners on June 11, with the Hangzhou Grand Canal Steelworks Park emerging as a standout, earning the prestigious Award of Excellence in the large-scale landscape project design category.

The WLA Awards are the most influential global accolades in the field, recognizing outstanding and innovative contributions. The jury praised the park for its creative and adaptive reuse of industrial relics from the Hangzhou Steelworks Factory, transforming them into a vibrant urban park that blends nature with community enjoyment.

The park has fostered the integration of culture, technology, creativity, entertainment, and arts through a variety of events and operational practices, such as music festivals, setting a new path for the adaptation of industrial heritage and making it a globally influential destination for cultural and tourism development.