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Rewarding regional
architectural excellence
Emerging world to be recognised for the outstanding architecture
and design projects shaping the future landscape
A key feature of Cityscape
Dubai 2009 will be the
2009 Cityscape Awards for
Architecture in Emerging
Markets – the most
prestigious awards platform
for the emerging world.
Held once more under the
theme of Design for an
Emerging World, the Awards will recognise and reward excellence in architecture and
design for the emerging regions of the Gulf states, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Indian
Categories:
subcontinent, Australasia (excluding Japan, New Zealand and Australia) and Latin America.
¥ Commercial/Mixed-Use
¥ Community (including religious and public buildings)
These highly-coveted Awards continue to attract submissions from the world’s leading
¥ Leisure
architects representing key emerging markets, as well as developers, consultants, governmental
¥ Residential
authorities, investors and senior professionals involved in the industry. The Awards will be
¥ Tourism, travel and transport
presented on the second night of the conference and exhibition, at a glamorous gala dinner
There will also be four (4) Special Awards:
to be held at the Grand Hyatt Dubai. Entries will be separated into Built Projects (those
Young Architect Award – which seeks to encourage
already completed) and Future Projects (those incomplete or still on the drawing board, as and reward promising local student talent. The
long as planning approval has been confirmed or client is named).
competition is open to students of architecture,
landscape, urban design, interior design or other
design-related programmes in the UAE. The aim of
A distinguished international panel of eminent and internationally-acclaimed judges has once
this prestigious award is to promote excellence in
more been selected to review the hundreds of expected submissions. The judging panel the study of architecture, encourage architectural
will be looking for projects that engage architectural and urban concepts, techniques and
debate in the UAE and to reward student projects
contributions that go beyond the commercial and iconic reality of the current architectural
that make a significant contribution to one or more
of the following:
discourse. And the assured independence of the jury will ensure transparency in the judging
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process delivering winners who will indeed by worthy recipients of these annual Awards.
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Submission requirements
The winners of the three (3) remaining Special
For each project entered, candidates should submit:
Awards will be picked from entries in the other
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