2026 ASLA-NY Honor Award for American Museum of Natural History's Theodore Roosevelt Park

The American Society of Landscape Architects, New York (ASLA-NY), the New York City chapter of the national professional organization representing landscape architects, today announced the recipients of the Chapter’s 2026 Design Awards. Juried by an interdisciplinary jury from around the country, this year’s winning entries were selected based on quality of design and execution, climate and sustainability, and impact to the profession. Out of 80 submissions, the jury selected one (1) Award of Excellence, eight (8) Honor, thirteen (13) Merit award winners, and new this year, one (1) Emerging Firm Award.

Reed Hilderbrand’s Theodore Roosevelt Park at the American Museum of Natural History is reimagined in conversation with the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. Selected for an Honor Award in General Design, the park’s new design centers it as a powerful neighborhood amenity for daily life on the Upper West Side. Striving for fit with its history and context, the design is carefully calibrated to reinforce connectivity, retain its mature canopy of trees, and better serve the community. This hard-working landscape embraces the 19th century principles of American landscape architecture that are now synonymous with New York’s public spaces, translating a familiar vocabulary to enable the park to serve a twenty-first-century city.