LOLA Landscape Architects studies and designs spatial transitions of LOst LAndscapes. With thoughtful ideas and targeted interventions, LOLA aims to design sublime places that are beautiful, surprising, and thriving. Adding unique and memorable experiences is key to all of their projects.

LOLA was founded in 2006 by landscape architects Eric-Jan Pleijster, Cees van der Veeken, and Peter Veenstra. A team of over 40 people works in the office, ranging from landscape architects to architects and urban designers. As designers with an integrated approach to projects, LOLA continuously partners with other offices and institutions with specific knowledge and experience. LOLA is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and has a second office in Shenzhen, China. LOLA operates worldwide for governments, provinces, municipalities, non-governmental organizations, and project developers.

LOLA believes in a combination of continuous research, experimentation, and design. They apply an optimistic and conceptual approach to landscapes in transition and have a fascination for new spatial phenomena, whether in the city center, at city edges, or in the countryside. LOLA matches knowledge of landscapes and large-scale ecosystems with contemporary ideas about people, space, and nature.

LOLA designs public spaces such as parks and squares, works on redevelopment plans in the city and countryside, and develops landscape transformation strategies and spatial research. LOLA’s projects have been built and/or published around the world. For LOLA’s body of work, they received awards such as the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects and the TOPOS Landscape Award. LOLA projects are rewarded with awards, such as WAF China Awards for both Excellent Design and Best Landscape, WLA Honour Award, Roof of the year and the AAPME Award of Excellence.

Published on September 4, 2023