Urban Design Awards Program/2009

This biennial urban design awards program, which includes the Willo von Moltke Award for Design Excellence, recognizes and honors excellence in urban design by architects, landscape architects, professional planners and allied professionals.

AWARDS OBJECTIVE
The world is full of sites where memory, commerce, arts, recreation, and transit command a new investment of time and resources to build and rebuild a shared public realm. The focus of this awards program is on projects in which that kind of analysis, together with a profound depth of urban knowledge, has been translated into new public realms.

Throughout our global communities, there are developing new urban forms providing a rich integration of activities, recognizing their contextual settings, creating new infrastructure ideas related to alternative transit opportunities and new spatial expressions creating memorable experiences.
These settings require unique mixtures of public and private uses that sustain 24-hour activities, we invite those projects that create these settings, that reflect an understanding – through careful analyses
of the urban context and an understanding of urban experiences – that shape a new public realm.

ELIGIBILITY
An urban design project anywhere in the US may be submitted by design teams anywhere in the world. The spatial solutions of the submitted project shall be the result of a collaboration including architects, landscape architects, planners, public artists, placemakers, engineers, and allied professionals working in an integrated process with clients and stakeholders such as community groups, government agencies, and the public and private sectors.

Brief (PDF)