Entries are now open for the 2024 Australian Urban Design Awards, the annual program established in 1996 to celebrate exceptional homegrown urban design projects.
Created by former prime minister Paul Keating’s Urban Design Taskforce, the awards have highlighted the critical role of good urban design for more than 25 years. The scope of the awards is wide-ranging, attracting entries for not only built projects, but also initiatives and publications that make significant social contributions to cities and towns.
There are four awards categories, including: Built Projects – City and Regional Scale, recognizing completed built projects at a town, suburb, city or region scale; Built Projects – Local and Neighbourhood Scale, acknowledging completed built projects at a site, local or neighbourhood echelon; Leadership, Advocacy and Research – City and Regional Scale, celebrating proposed projects and ideas that could facilitate, guide or promote urban design excellence at a national, state, territory, regional or city scale; and Leadership, Advocacy and Research – Local and Neighbourhood Scale, applauding proposed projects and concepts that could facilitate, guide or promote urban design excellence at a site, local or neighbourhood level.
Cox Architecture, Six Degrees Architects, Architectus, Oculus Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Aspect Studios, and SBLA Studio were among the winners of the most recent awards, last presented in 2022.
Entries will be accepted until Friday 2 February 2024. Submissions can be made via the Urban Design Awards website. Awards and commendations will be revealed at a presentation at Canberra’s Parliament House on 18 March 2024.
The Australian Urban Design Awards are co-convened by the Planning Institute of Australia, the Australian Institute of Architects and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, and supported by principal partner Bondor Metecno.
