Great Places Awards

Great Places Award 2010 Submission Rules

Places: Design Observer and EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis Magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards for Place Design, Planning and Research. The deadline for entries for the 2010 Great Places Awards is February 10, 2010. This document serves as the official submission rules.
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2009 Award: Great Places Recognize Seven Projects for Design, Research, Planning Excellence

Seven exemplary projects in architecture, planning, landscape architecture, and urban design have been named winners of the 2009 Great Places Awards, EDRA, Places Journal, and Metropolis Magazine have announced.

Design Awards (for completed projects that demonstrate excellence as human environments) were given to:

The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Oslo, Norway. SnÃ¸hetta (Project Architects: Craig Dykers, Tarald Lundevall, Kjetil Traedal Thorsen)
Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA. Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects (Rick Sundberg, Principal in Charge; Stephen Yamada-Heidner, Project Manager)

Planning Awards (for projects that make proposals for the future design, use, or management of a place) were given to:

Vision 2030: West Dallas Gateway, Strategic Framework Initiative. Univ. of Texas, Dallas Urban Laboratory, Dean J. Almy, Director
Guangming Sustainable Park, Shenzen, China.CJ Lim, Studio 8 Architects
Resuscitating the Fez River: Procedures to Create New Public Space in the Medina of Fez.Takako Tajima, Aziza Chaouni, Bureau E.A.S.T.

A Research Award (for projects that investigate the relationship between design and human behavior, culture or experience) were given to:

Design for Health: University of Minnesota, Cornell University, University of Colorado. Phase 1 core team: Dr. Ann Forsyth, Dr. Kevin Krizek, Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback, Amanda Johnson, Aly Pennucci, Michael Huber.

The Book Award (for a recently published book advancing the critical understanding of place and the design of exceptional environments) was given to:

Daring to Look: Dorothea Langeâs Photographs and Reports from the Field, by Anne Whiston Spirn; published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press.

2008 Award: Seven honored with Places designation

The 11th annual EDRA/Places Awards in cooperation with Metropolis magazine were awarded Thursday, May 29 in Veracruz, Mexico. The 2008 winners are:
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2007 Award: Six honored as Places Winners

Winners of the 2007 EDRA/Places Awards are:
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The Great Places Awards are co-sponsored with PLACES Journal in cooperation with Metropolis magazine. The awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. Now in its 13th year, the program is distinguished by its interdisciplinary focus, its concern for human factors in the design of the built environment, and its commitment to promoting links between design research and practice.

Entries represent the full breadth of environmental design and related social science activity, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, interior design, public art, lighting design, graphic design, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology and geography.

Great Place Design Awards recognize completed projects that demonstrate excellence as human environments. Great Place Planning Awards recognize projects that make proposals for the future design, use or management of a place. Great Place Research Awards recognize projects that investigate the relationship between design and human behavior, culture or experience. The Great Place Book Awards acknowledge recently published books that advance critical understanding of place and help foster the design of excellent environments.