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Growing recognition

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As cities get denser, high-rises get taller and even balconies shrivel on planners’ drawing boards, greater value is placed on the availability – and quality – of public parks, gardens and landscaping. The Cultural Landscape Foundation is determined to celebrate this work and recently announced that it will be awarding $100,000 (€90,000) to a lucky recipient as part of a biennial prize; the first gong will be handed out in 2021. The hope is that it will do for landscape architecture what the Pritzker prize does for buildings. Until now that prize has been nameless but it will henceforth be called The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture prize (or, thankfully, just the Oberlander prize).