OKRA has been awarded as Best Landscape Design Firm, and two projects have been chosen as Landscape Designs of the Year 2024 by the LOOP Design Awards!

The former deportation station of Bobigny was recognized in the Heritage Design category, while Catharijnesingel has won in Parks & Open Space. The projects stood out among over 500 incredible entries from 54 countries across all continents, and it is an honour to be recognized on such a global scale.

“This achievement reflects the passion, creativity, and dedication of our entire team, pushing forward our vision to design meaningful places.”

Discover the winning projects:

Memory in the city – Former deportation station Bobigny

In Bobigny, the landscape has been given a role as a narrator and curator of the history of the place. The complex layered history is depicted in a layered way similarly to what one would find in a memorial park and thus takes the visitor by the hand into the past.

A climate-adaptive backbone for the centre of Utrecht – Catharijnesingel

In the 20th century, Catharijnesingel became Catharijnebaan: an unattractive urban highway dominated by asphalt and concrete. When offered the chance to revert that development, we took the opportunity to push the idea further to its full potential. As the water returned to the historic Canal area, it brought along a new natural park route right into one of the busiest areas in the Netherlands. The result was an urban landscape that was fully connected to the past, the present and the future.