Architecture and Urban Design Awards 2017

VOTE NOW FOR YOUR FAVORITE DESIGN

Voting is now open for the Randwick City Architecture and Urban Design Awards People’s Choice Award. To vote, view the entries and nominate the one that you think showcases the best design. There is one vote per person and voting for the People’s Choice Award is open to any member of the public until Friday 22 September 2017.

Use our survey to vote now.

Entries are also on display at Council’s Customer Service Centre and all three Randwick City libraries.

Official judging is underway for the other award categories, these include:

1. Best House
   

   The category applies to new single detached houses, semi-detached dwellings or dual occupancies.

2. Best Apartment
   Projects comprising new residential flat buildings, multi-dwelling housing/townhouses, attached dwellings/terraces, boarding houses or student accommodation.
   
   
3. Best Alteration and Renovation
   

   Projects relating to alterations and additions for new and existing:
   - single detached houses, semi-detached dwellings or dual occupancies, or
   - residential flat buildings, multi-dwelling housing/townhouses, attached dwellings/terraces, boarding houses or student accommodation.

4. Best Conservation Project
   This comprises projects relating to a heritage conservation area, and/or a heritage listed building or structure under the Randwick LEP or State Heritage Register.

5. Best Urban Project
   This category applies to:
   - projects of a commercial, institutional or public nature, including churches, schools, research centres, office buildings, shopping centres, mixed use buildings, and buildings predominantly for public use, or

   - projects comprising of private and communal open spaces in apartment and mixed use developments, landscaped spaces in commercial and public buildings, streetscape and public domain improvements, parks and public open spaces, and master planning and site design.

6. People’s Choice Award
   This comprises all projects and members of the public select their favourite via open vote.

7. The Hi-Vis Prize
   Randwick City Council’s outdoor staff will vote for their favourite entry.
   
   

Awards for entries in each category will be assessed on their:

• Relationship to the urban and natural environment
• Contribution to contemporary and/or historic settings
• Environmental sustainability
• Excellence in design

All entries will be put on public display including Council’s website to be entered into the People’s Choice Award. A panel of expert judges will assess and shortlist those entries which best meet the award criteria for each category.