Award
Details
Introduction
In association with our sponsors, the Northern Rivers Urban Design
Initiative has pleasure in anouncing the second Northern Rivers Design
Awards. The Awards seek to:
° Foster excellence within the Urban Design industry;
° Recognise
design professionals who contribute positively to our region's built
environment;
° Educate
our community to appreciate and demand quality urban design; and
° Celebrate the
special character of our region.
Categories
 Awards are
given in 3 categories - Commercial, Government/Community
and a new award category of Villages.
Environmental
management and design
firm GeoLINK are offering a complimentary service to those groups
intrerested
in nominating for the new Villages category. GeoLINK can provide advice
regarding entry requirements and assist in the strategic approach to
your
entry. Planning Director Rob van Iersel may be contacted on 02 6687
7666 or rvi@geolink.net.au
Jury
| Mr Christopher
Degenhardt |
The Degenhardt
Company USA. Chair, Australia Award For Design Excellence.
Former President of
leading global design firm EDAW, Inc. |
| Professor John
Hockings |
Head of School of Design and
Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology and
Centre Director, School for Subtropical Designs, Queensland University
of Technology |
| Ms
Marilyn Perkins |
Deputy
Chair, Northern Rivers Regional Development Board |
| Mr Greg Anderson |
CEO,
Mayne Investments |
Judging
Criteria
The general
criteria for prize
assessment are the matters listed below.
1.
Design excellence;
2.
Functional
quality;
3.
Innovative
design or demonstration of a new direction;
4.
Consistent
and complete expression of concept;
5.
Sensitivity
to cultural, historical, physical and natural context;
6.
Environmental
responsibility and sustainability;
7.
Promotion
of bio-diversity and supporting local ecosystems; and
8. Provision of value
for money.
Eligibility
Any organisation
administering a
project which is located in the Northern Rivers Region (see web site map) of
NSW may nominate. The project can be a recent construction work or it
can be
a project, concept or strategy recently approved for implementation.
Closing
Date
August
8th 2005
Award
Allocations
In
each category, Commercial,
Government/Community and Villages the Jury may allocate
the following Awards:
Excellence –
1
Merit –
maximum of 3
The number, if any,
of merit awards
will be determined by the Jury.
Awards
Ceremony
The Mayne investments 2005 Urban Design Awards Ceremony at Byron at
Byron Resort, Broken Head Road Byron Bay, from 5.00 - 7.00pm on
Thursday 18th August. Tickets to the event are $40.00 and includes
drinks canapés. For further information about this special event
telephone 66872378.
Conditions
of
Entry
1.
Projects nominated must be sited in the
Northern Rivers Region of NSW (see web
site map).
2.
Each nomination is to include a
declaration stating the persons involved in the project.
3. The
Award sponsors reserve the right to retain all entries and their images
(indefinitely) and to publish both in hard copy and on-line except
where an entrant requests that such information should not be published.
4.
Residential
project nominations must relate to projects involving 4 or more
dwellings (or suites) and commercial projects involving greater than
500 m2 floor space.
5. If
a “concept” is submitted and that application relates to a
“development”, then the development must have a SEPP 71 Master Plan or
DA approval.
6.
Images
submitted may be used during the Awards Ceremony.
7.
An
entry fee of $140 is to accompany each project Award nomination.
8.
Should a dispute
arise regarding non-judging issues (such as entry
eligibility) the Chair of the North Coast
Division of the Planning
Institute of Australia (or nominees) shall determine the
outcome.
9. The
decision of the Jury is final with respect to all Awards.
Media
Coverage
of Award Recipients
The
Northern Rivers Urban Design Awards consider it advantageous to
entrants and
the Northern Rivers design community in general to publicise our
winners
widely. As such, we have an extensive public relations program that
provides
national and local (Northern Rivers) media coverage of our winners.
2004
winners received extensive profile in Northern Rivers media as well as
such
national publications as Architecture
Australia, Indesign and Urban
Design Forum.
As soon as they are received, entries
will be displayed on the Design Awards web site and will also be sent
to Northern Rivers media. Media may contact
entrants
direct for quotes or alternative photographs. Following the Awards
Ceremony Northern River media will profile
Award Winners as well as the
Ceremony
event in general.
Entry
Documentation and Other Requirements
Each
entry must include an accompanying project summary sheet, supporting
text,
images in digital format (no slides) and a
nomination form. Entries are
to be
submitted on CD as a single unsecured PDF format file. The file must be
a
maximum size of 1.5 mg. No plans, exhibition documents or the like are
to be
submitted other than in digital form. The CD must include the project
summary.
The images and text should be prepared ready for both downloading from
the web
site and for screening at the Awards Ceremony in large screen format.
The
presentation must contain all images with necessary captions and other
relevant
text.
A
project summary is to be included on the form provided. This must
include
background and general information regarding the entry which allows the
Jury to
fully appreciate the detail of the project and its content. The summary
should
not exceed 1,000 words and shall include:
° the project name;
° a brief outline of the scope of the
work, concept or strategy;
° the significance of the project;
° roles
of those involved;
° important special factors which may make this
project unique or unusual;
° application of sustainability principles;
° unusual or interesting facts
appropriate for publicity purposes; and
° the project budget.
Proponent
Statement
All
entries are to have a signed proponent statement supporting the
submission as
part of the “nomination form”.
Nomination
Package
To obtain a
nomination package click here.
Please note some of these documents are in
.pdf format and if you do not already have adobe acrobat you will need
to download it using the link provided below.
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