Five developments in Europe have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Awards for Excellence EMEA competition, ULI said on Tuesday. This year's competition also included the announcement of two special award winners.
Five developments in Europe have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Awards for Excellence EMEA competition, ULI said on Tuesday. This year's competition also included the announcement of two special award winners.
The awards, which are widely regarded as the land use industry's most prestigious recognition programme, were announced during an Awards for Excellence ceremony hosted in London on Tuesday by ULI EMEA, which serves nearly 2,600 members across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India.
The winners (owners and/or developers in brackets) are:
1. Akaretler Row Houses/W Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey (Akaretler Turizm Yatirimlari)
2. Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland (Radora Developments Ltd.)
3. Hilton Tower, Manchester, UK (the Beetham Organization)
4. Leoben Judicial Complex, Leoben, Austria (BIG-Services, Immobilienmanagementgesellschaft des Bundes mbH)
5. Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark (Hoepfner and Danish Oil Company)
The Special Award winners are (owners and/or developers in brackets):
1. American University in Cairo New Campus, Cairo, Egypt (AUC)
2. Liverpool One, Liverpool, UK (Grosvenor)
The awards recognize the full development process of a project, not just its architecture or design. The criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial success.
The competition is part of the Institute's Awards for Excellence programme, established in 1979, which is based on ULI's guiding principle that achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognized and rewarded.
More information about ULI's Awards for Excellence programme is available at www.uli.org/awardsandcompetitions.
