Landscape Design Workshop Honored in 2024 Architecture MasterPrize™
(Los Angeles, CA– July 9, 2025) Landscape Design Workshop is proud to be recognized in the Architecture MasterPrize™ Book of Winners for its Natura Gardens project, designed for Terra Group. Honored in the Residential Landscape category, the award celebrates the community’s innovative balance of sustainable planning, wellness-driven amenities, and lush tropical design.
Natura Gardens reimagines multifamily living in Miami Lakes by embedding nature into daily life. The design highlights walkable green corridors, shaded courtyards, and resort-style amenities that encourage community interaction while promoting ecological resilience. Native and adaptive plantings reduce water use, while integrated open spaces enhance livability and support biodiversity.
“From the very beginning, our vision was to create a community where people feel connected to both nature and one another,” said Erez Bar-Nur, Principal at Landscape Design Workshop. “Being featured in the Architecture MasterPrize™ Book of Winners affirms the value of designing landscapes that enrich everyday life.”
Landscape Design Workshop extends its appreciation to Terra Group and all collaborators who helped bring Natura Gardens to life.
Cover of the 2024 Architecture MasterPrize™ Book of Winners, showcasing global excellence in architecture and design.
About the Project
The 30-acre Natura Gardens community in Miami Lakes integrates 10 acres of restored wetlands, striking a careful balance between modern residential needs and environmental leadership. More than a backdrop, the wetlands are restored as a living landscape—one that captures stormwater, fosters biodiversity, and showcases the seasonal rhythms of South Florida’s ecosystem. The design transforms a sensitive natural resource into an everyday educational and sensory experience for residents.
The restored wetlands also serve as a cultural bridge. To honor the traditions of living in harmony with wetlands, the community incorporates chickees—open-air, thatched-roof shelters built in the style of the Indigenous Seminole Tribe. These structures provide shaded gathering places while rooting the community in the region’s cultural history.
By weaving ecology, culture, and livability into the site plan, Natura Gardens demonstrates how development can serve as a custodian of scarce environmental resources. The result is a residential environment where sustainable design and cultural heritage enrich daily life, offering residents both a retreat into nature and a deeper connection to place.
Natura Gardens by Landscape Design Workshop featured in the 2024 Architecture MasterPrize™ Book of Winners as an award‑winning landscape architecture project.
About Landscape Design Workshop
Recognized for design excellence, Landscape Design Workshop is a Boca Raton–based landscape architecture studio shaping communities across Florida and beyond. The studio works across diverse project types, including mixed-use developments, waterfront destinations, residential communities, and public spaces.
Grounded in the belief that well-designed landscapes can elevate daily life, the studio brings nearly two decades of experience creating walkable streetscapes, native planting strategies, and outdoor environments that foster connection, support wellbeing, and build a strong sense of place.
Team
Landscape Design Workshop is a collaborative studio shaped by a close-knit, multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in landscape architecture and urban design. Working together in a hands-on design environment, the team brings shared ideas, experience, and technical expertise to every project.
Led by founder Erez Bar-Nur, the studio is supported by designers with experience in master planning, multifamily and mixed-use developments, and sustainable site design. Projects are carried seamlessly from concept through construction to ensure cohesive, executed results.
Using native plants, gardens, water features, and shaded gathering spaces, the team focuses on how landscapes are experienced day by day. Collaboration—within the studio and alongside architects, engineers, and other partners—remains central to delivering cohesive outdoor environments.
Located at 621 NW 53rd Street, Suite 125, Boca Raton, Florida, Landscape Design Workshop may be reached by calling 954.772.0724, or by email at info@landscapedesignworkshop.com
