30.000 euros for the best 'new urban neighbourhood' in Europe

The Brussels based Rotthier Foundation is will award a prize of 30,000 euros to the best new urban neighbourhood in Europe. The European prize promotes excellence in the designing and building of new urban neighbourhoods. It aims at enhancing the European model of the mixed-use urban neighbourhood. The deadline for submitting your 'best new urban neighbourhood' is 30 April 2007.

In order to qualify as a ‘new’ urban neighbourhood, it must be built in the last 25 years. Participation in the award scheme is open to architects, engineers, urbanists, municipalities, public and private associations, public and private agencies, by proposing their Best Urban Neighbourhood. By awarding the prize, the organisers want to encourage the creation of new mixed-use urban neighbourhoods based upon the principles of sustainable development and the EU Green Paper for the Urban Environment.

Submission forms should be related to:

- new urban neighbourhoods
- renaissance and renewal of existing urban neighbourhoods
- combination of new construction and restoration in operation of Urban Renaissance

In order to be eligible, proposed interventions should:

- organically fit within the traditional urban morphology of the city
- present an architecture that improves and enriches the regional character

In occasion of the official ceremony of the 2008 edition, a series of events and publications will be presented such as:

- an international exhibition of Architecture and Urbanism at the Foundation for the Architecture in Brussels. The exhibition will be later presented in Bologna at the A Vision of Europe Triennale V, and in several European cities in 2009

- the publication of the Atlas of the European Urban Neighbourhood, including the most comprehensive collection of historical and contemporary urban neighbourhoods in Europe
the opening of a web-site dedicated to the Urban Neighbourhood

- an international jury will select the Best New Urban Neighbourhood in Europe. The awarded neighbourhoods will receive the prize during a ceremony including the donation to the city of a commemorative bronze plate to be applied at the entrance of the neighbourhood.

Trefwoorden

urban renaissance

Philippe Rotthier Foundation for the Architecture

Type Prijsvraag

Doelgroep architects, engineers, urbanists, municipalities, public and private associations, public and private agencies.

Meer informatie A Vision of Europe

Prijs 30.000 euro

Prijsuitreiking 1 januari

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