Since 2010 the European Garden Award has been granted to almost 100 parks, gardens and organisations across Europe. Most nominations have been made by the international jury but by several externals too. Corona caused a break and thus the next awards will be handed out in June 2021. We decided to use this extra time…
We are happy to announce that two organisations decided to bring a garden and a garden landscape as new partners into the EGHN. The Merian Gärten (image) in Basel are the first garden to join from Switzerland. Merian Gärten won an European Garden Award (2nd Prize) in 2019, in particular for their high-class programme for…
The Awarding Ceremony for the European Garden Award 2021 will be held on 10th September 2021 as a public event at Schloss Dyck.
On 6. September 2019 this year’s winners of the European Garden Award were awarded at Schloss Dyck in Germany. In five categories a total of 13 1st and 2nd Prizes werde handed out to parks, gardens and organisations in Switzerland, Portugal, UK, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Germany and Denmark. Information on all winners can be…
2nd Prize:Fort Saint-Jean (Lyon, France) Fort Saint-Jean perches on an imposing rocky spur on the gorge of the Saône River in Lyon. This 16th century military fortress now hosts the National School of the Public Treasury. The new constructions of Vurpas & Associates integrate smoothly into the fortress, employing the vocabulary of terraces, fortifications and…
2nd Prize:Gellerup Bypark (Denmark) Designed in the typical architectural style of 1960s modernism with un-programed areas between the houses, Gellerup is one of Denmark’s largest social housing estates with many social, cultural and economic challenges. Central to the recent transformation into an attractive part of Aarhus was adding a natural and human scale. It is…
2nd Prize:Mønsted Kalkgruber (Denmark) This limestone mine – the largest in the world – is an important part of the Danish cultural heritage. It has been used for lime mining between 1874 and 1980 and then for storing cheese. In 1997 the Danish Nature Agency acquired the limestone caves of Mønsted and initiated the protection…
1st Prize:Ilha do Pico (Azores/Portugal) Pico Island is one of nine volcanic islands in the Azores Archipelago. Listed by UNESCO, Pico’s landscape is an outstanding example of the adaptation of farming practices to a challenging environment. The island contains spectacular evidence of grape-growing and winemaking, with an imposing pattern of orderly, long, linear walls running…
2. Prize:Arnside & Silverdale AONB (United Kingdom) Designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), Arnside and Silverdale is characterized by a rolling landscape with scattered historic farming patterns and an overlay of mid-19th century coastal and inland villages. Many villas take advantage of the sea views and the River Kent estuary. There was…
1st Prize:Royal Horticultural Society (United Kingdom) Dowmload: Laudation by Prof. Ed Bennis The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804. Its core objective was and is to be the world’s leading gardening charity by inspiring passion and excellence in the science, art and practice of horticulture. The guiding principles are summarized as “inspire”, „involve“, „inform”…
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