In a Class of Their Own: ULI Announces 5 Winners for the 2007 Awards
for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition
Winners Announced at the ULI Japan Summer Conference in Tokyo
For more information, contact Marge Fahey at 202/624-7187 or E-mail:
mfahey@uli.org
WASHINGTON (July 12, 2007) — Five outstanding developments have
been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for
Excellence: Asia Pacific competition, widely recognized as the land use
industry’s most prestigious recognition program.
This is the third year of the Awards for Excellence program in the
Asia Pacific region. Five projects in three countries were selected as
winners: one from Australia; two from China; and two from Japan. The
five winners were chosen from a field of 11 finalists.
The competition is part of the Institute’s Awards for
Excellence program, established in 1979, which is based on ULI’s
guiding principle that the achievement of excellence in land use
practice should be recognized and rewarded. ULI’s Awards for
Excellence 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.
Over the years, the Awards for Excellence program have evolved from
the recognition of one development in North America to an international
competition with multiple winners. The ULI Awards for Excellence: Europe
was added in 2004, and in 2005 the ULI Awards for Excellence: Asia
Pacific and the Global Awards. Throughout the program’s history
all types of projects have been recognized for their excellence,
including office, residential, recreational, urban/mixed-use,
industrial/office park, commercial/retail, new community,
rehabilitation, and public projects and programs.
The 2007 Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific winners were selected by
a jury of renowned land use development and design experts: Jury chair
Akio Makiyama, chairman, Forum for Urban Development, Tokyo; Ivana
Benda, vice president/design director, Allied Architects International
(Canada), Shanghai; Nicholas Brooke, chairman, Professional Property
Services Ltd., Hong Kong; Silas Chiow, director of business development,
SOM Asia, Shanghai; Ross Holt, chief executive officer, LandCorp, Perth;
Raj Menda, managing director, RMZ Corp., Bangalore; Yasuhiko Watanabe,
advisor, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd., Tokyo.
Jury Chairman Makiyama announced the Awards for Excellence: Asia
Pacific winners during the ULI Japan Summer Conference in Tokyo July 12.
“The Awards for Excellence program celebrates the creativity,
vision, and best practices in land use,” Makiyama said. “All
of these projects represent the best examples of creative land use and
planning.”
The 2007 winners were selected from a field of 11 finalists. Projects
were evaluated on the basis of financial viability, the resourceful use
of land, design, relevance to contemporary issues, and sensitivity to
the community and environment. Each contributes to a live-work-play
environment and is designed to complement and enhance the greater
community.
The 2007 Awards for Excellence winners (developers in parentheses)
are:
- The Ecovillage at Currumbin (Landmatters Currumbin Valley
Pty Ltd) Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. The Ecovillage at
Currumbin is at once a 110-hectare sustainable development and a
showcase for best practices. The community preserves 80 percent of its
open space for its 144 households and targets self-reliance in water,
energy and food supplies.
- Hong Kong Wetland Park (Architectural Services Department,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government) Hong Kong.
This 61-hectare park is a demonstration site for wetland reclamation and
environmental sustainability. The Wetland Park incorporated indigenous
plants and building materials and the recycling of fabricated products
to elevate it from a passive infrastructure and conservation project to
an active tourism, education, and recreation site for Hong Kong.
- The Landmark Scheme (Hongkong Land) Hong Kong. The
Landmark Scheme propels to the lead an already popular retail center in
central Hong Kong. Now, one hectare of valuable land gathers on one
block luxury retail with offices and a 113-room boutique hotel.
- Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower (Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd)
Tokyo. Mitsui Tower is a 39-story office tower atop a podium
that includes a luxury hotel, restaurants, and a museum that displays
the cultural collection of the Mitsui family. The project was allowed to
exceed its as-of-right FAR by transferring the unused FAR of the
adjacent landmark Mitsui Honkan building.
- Roppongi Hills (Mori Building Co., Ltd), Tokyo. The
largest private sector redevelopment ever undertaken in Japan, Roppongi
Hills has established benchmarks for green space, diversity of land
uses, and seismic infrastructure. Even before its completion in 2003,
the 12-hectare project catalyzed new investment in the Roppongi
neighborhood with 79 hectares of floor area in 13 buildings.
The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) is a nonprofit education and
research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide
leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining
thriving communities worldwide. Established in 1936, the Institute has
more than 37,000 members representing all aspects of land use.
In a Class of Their Own: ULI Announces 12 Finalists for the 2007
Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition
Winners to be Announced at the ULI Japan Summer Conference in
Tokyo
For more information, contact Marge Fahey at 202/624-7187 or E-mail:
mfahey@uli.org
WASHINGTON (May 29, 2007) — Twelve outstanding developments
have been selected as finalists for the Urban Land Institute's (ULI)
Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific competition, widely recognized as
the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.
This is the third year of the Awards for Excellence program in the
Asia Pacific region. Twenty-six projects in six countries were narrowed
to the final twelve: three from Australia; four from China; two from
Japan; two from Singapore; and one from Sri Lanka.
The competition is part of the Institute’s Awards for
Excellence program, established in 1979, which is based on ULI’s
guiding principle that the achievement of excellence in land use
practice should be recognized and rewarded. ULI’s Awards for
Excellence 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.
Over the years, the Awards for Excellence program have evolved from
the recognition of one development in North America to an international
competition with multiple winners. The ULI Awards for Excellence: Europe
was added in 2004, and in 2005 the ULI Awards for Excellence: Asia
Pacific and the Global Awards. Throughout the program’s history
all types of projects have been recognized for their excellence,
including office, residential, recreational, urban/mixed-use,
industrial/office park, commercial/retail, new community,
rehabilitation, and public projects and programs.
The 2007 Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific finalists were selected
by a jury of renowned land use development and design experts: Jury
chair Akio Makiyama, chairman, Forum for Urban Development, Tokyo; Ivana
Benda, vice president/design director, Allied Architects International
(Canada), Shanghai; Nicholas Brooke, chairman, Professional Property
Services Ltd., Hong Kong; Silas Chiow, director of business development,
SOM Asia, Shanghai; Ross Holt, chief executive officer, Landcorp, Perth;
Raj Menda, managing director, RMZ Corp., Bangalore; Yasuhiko Watanabe;
advisor, Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd., Tokyo.
Jury Chairman Makiyama will announce the Awards for Excellence: Asia
Pacific winners during the ULI Japan Summer Conference in Tokyo July 12.
“The Awards for Excellence program celebrates the creativity,
vision, and best practices in land use,” Makiyama said. “All
of these projects represent the best examples of creative land use and
planning.”
The 2007 finalists were selected from 26 entries. Projects were
evaluated on the basis of financial viability, the resourceful use of
land, design, relevance to contemporary issues, and sensitivity to the
community and environment. Each contributes to a live-work-play
environment and is designed to complement and enhance the greater
community.
The 2007 Awards for Excellence finalists (developers in parentheses)
are:
- The Ecovillage at Currumbin (Landmatters Currumbin Valley
Pty Ltd) Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. The Ecovillage at
Currumbin is at once a 110-hectare sustainable development and a
showcase for best practices. The community preserves 80 percent of its
open space for its 144 households and targets self-reliance in water,
energy and food supplies.
- The Landmark Scheme (Hongkong Land) Hong Kong. The
Landmark Scheme propels to the lead an already popular retail center in
central Hong Kong. Now, one hectare of valuable land gathers on one
block luxury retail with offices and a 113-room boutique hotel.
- Roppongi Hills (Mori Building Co., Ltd), Tokyo. The
largest private sector redevelopment ever undertaken in Japan, Roppongi
Hills has established benchmarks for green space, diversity of land
uses, and seismic infrastructure. Even before its completion in 2003,
the 12-hectare project catalyzed new investment in the Roppongi
neighborhood with 79 hectares of floor area in 13 buildings.
- Hong Kong Wetland Park (Architectural Services Department,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government) Hong Kong.
This 61-hectare park is a demonstration site for wetland reclamation and
environmental sustainability. The Wetland Park incorporated indigenous
plants and building materials and the recycling of fabricated products
to elevate it from a passive infrastructure and conservation project to
an active tourism, education, and recreation site for Hong Kong.
- Savannah CondoPark (City Developments Limited)
Singapore. Eighteen 10-storey condominium buildings surround a
4-hectare common open space of pools, gardens, and terraces with a
savannah- based theme. This theme not only provides a back-story, it
provides a green development platform that unites the project’s
648 units.
- Life Hub @Daning (Shanghai Forrester (Zhabei) Development
Ltd (subsidiary of Chongbang Group) Shanghai. Life Hub@ Daning
is a mixed-use development that has revitalised an underserved
neighborhood in Shanghai. It recreates a traditional Chinese commercial
center with modern structures and uses on 5.5 in-town hectares, and
encourages cultural programming and community-based commerce.
- Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower (Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd)
Tokyo. Mitsui Tower is a 39-storey office tower atop a podium
that includes a luxury hotel, restaurants, and a museum that displays
the cultural collection of the Mitsui family. The project was allowed to
exceed its as-of-right FAR by transferring the unused FAR of the
adjacent landmark Mitsui Honkan building.
- The Fifth Garden (Vanke Real Estate Company) Shenzhen,
China. This 11-hectare planned community of 1,000 residential
units with a retail/commercial core departs from the usual
Western-influenced residential development with a contemporary
interpretation of the Chinese vernacular. Its market acceptance has been
proven with 50 percent increases in value during the project’s
first 18 months.
- South Bank Redevelopment Project (South Bank Corporation)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The former site of World Expo
88, South Bank is today a 47-hectare precinct featuring riverside
parkland, cultural, entertainment and educational facilities,
residences, hotels, retail and commercial offices, comprising over
450,000 square metres of floor area and attracting more than 11 million
visitors a year.
- One Raffles Quay (One Raffles Quay Pte Ltd. (consortium of
Cheung Kong Holdings; Hongkong Land; and Keppel Land International)
Singapore. One Raffles Quay is a 124,000 square-metre
speculative Class A office building for IT and financial services
companies in Singapore. The 1.14-hectare site straddles a subway line
and produces cooling energy for itself and 800,000 additional square
metres of space in adjacent buildings.
- Varsity Lakes (Delfin Lend Lease) Gold Coast City,
Queensland, Australia. When built out in the next three years,
Varsity Lake’s 343 hectares will house 3,000 residential units,
employ 4,500 people, and educate 2,500 students in a sustainable
community that takes advantage of its lakeside setting, its proximity to
the ocean, and a subtropical climate.
- Kirinda Project (Colliers International) Kirinda, Sri
Lanka. When the tsunami of December 2004 leveled the fishing
village of Kirinda, Colliers International undertook the village’s
rebuilding by treating the families as clients rather than as recipients
of disaster relief. The demonstration project’s 50 units average
75 square metres, at a cost of 10,000 pounds.
The Urban Land Institute (www.uli.org) is a nonprofit education and
research institute supported by its members. Its mission is to provide
leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining
thriving communities worldwide. Established in 1936, the Institute has
more than 36,000 members representing all aspects of land use.
Application and Selection
Process
- Application
forms, qualified countries, and schedule are available at the
Navigation Bar links (see top of this page).
- Developers and/or members of the development team submit completed
applications to ULI, postmarked no later than 9 February 2007.
- Applications must be accompanied by high-quality images that best
illustrate the special features and merits of the project.
- The Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific jury convenes to review all
submissions and choose ten to fifteen finalists.
- Teams of two or three jury members visit each finalist project.
- Juries reconvene to choose up to five winners.
- Questions? Write awards@uli.org.
Eligibility
Requirements
- All types of development projects and programmes that meet these
eligibility requirements may be entered for a ULI Award.
- The project must be in stabilised operation and must be financially
viable.
- The project must achieve a high standard of excellence in all
areas—design, construction, economics, marketing, and
management.
- The project must demonstrate relevance to the contemporary and
future needs of the community in which it is located.
- The project must be worthy of emulation.
- Programmes and processes—such as growth management strategies
and publicly guided development programs—are eligible if they have
been fully implemented. Instead of meeting the financial viability
requirement, programmes will be considered on the basis of how sound an
investment of public funds they have been and the extent of their
success in transforming communities and neighbourhoods.
- The Awards program is open to all—not just ULI members.
Schedule and Fees
Deadline for entry 9 February 2007
Entry fee
Private sector $500
Public sector $250
Awards presented ULI Japan Summer Conference
July 2007
Tokyo, Japan
Global Awards presented ULI Fall Meeting
23-26 October 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada
Application Dos and
Don’ts
What makes a successful ULI Awards for Excellence application? We
polled members of past ULI Awards juries for their ideas. Here are their
top ten guidelines for completing a successful awards application.
- Read the entry form carefully, paying close attention to the
criteria. The project must be substantially completed and financially
viable or, in the case of the public and special projects/programmes,
must make a significant contribution toward the betterment of its
community. The project also must demonstrate excellence in land
planning, design, and/or amenities that set a high standard within the
community and the industry.
- Decide who will spend focussed attention on completing the
submittal. You may wish to reassemble the team that developed the
project so that team members can help draft responses to the
application. However, the application will be most effective if one
person coordinates and processes all information.
- Make certain that your photographs truly represent the quality of
your development. Submit images that convey special characteristics and
make sure they are very clear in showing exteriors, interiors, and
landscaping. Images of interiors should highlight the unique features of
the project.
- Review the success factors of your development and explain and
document them carefully. Describe target markets, using examples and
hard numbers. Focus on communicating how the project demonstrates
excellence and why it is worthy of special consideration. Clear, factual
information is important.
- After you have completed the application, let your public relations
advisors review it for language, illustrations, and effective
communication of your project. Remember that ULI Awards jurors are human
beings. They will favour an entry that is persuasive and to the
point.
- Do not put applications in binders; clip them together so that
applications can be easily photocopied.
- Do not use more space than is specified in the application
form.
- Finalists will be notified in the month of February and a ULI Awards
jury member will contact them to schedule on-site visits. ULI may
request additional information about the project at that time.
- Don’t forget to label, number, and assign photo credits to all
images.
- Don’t forget to include the appropriate entry fee.
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