Awards of Excellence

For the first time in 2012, the ULI Global Awards for Excellence will honor development projects from across the globe in a single competition, rather than separate winners by region. The international competition will be overseen by a jury composed of ULI members from around the world who are recognized leaders in their field.

In its 34th year, the ULI Awards program is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. The awards recognize the full development process of a project—construction, economic viability, marketing, and management—as well as design.

Finalists and winners are celebrated at awards ceremonies held in conjunction with the ULI Spring Council Forum. Each winner receives a jewel-quality, 12-inch (30 cm) polished stainless steel cube, engraved with the jury’s official statement about the winning project. Further recognition of winners includes profiles of them in a lavishly illustrated book distributed worldwide, as well as press releases and announcements in Urban Land magazine and on ULI's website. 

Past Winners

LOCAL WINNERS AND FINALISTS

One of the top Finalists of the 2011 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition

Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(Developer: Artscape; Architect: du Toit Architects)

Artscape Wychwood Barns reclaims one of Toronto’s oldest surviving car barns,with space for 13 non-profit organizations, 15 artist studios, 26 live/work spaces, and a fully-functional greenhouse. The self-sustaining, 60,000-square-foot facility brings together the arts, urban agriculture, and affordable housing without the use of any ongoing subsidies.

One of the top Finalists of the 2009 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition

The Shops at Waterloo Town Square, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

(First Gulf Development Corporation)

The Shops at Waterloo Town Square has turned a 1960s-era enclosed mall
"inside-out"—a new, storefront-lined street bifurcates the two-block site and
two mixed-use buildings replace the existing shopping center, returning
vibrancy to downtown Waterloo.


One of the top 10 Winner of the 2008 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition

Photo- Tom Arban

Canada’s National Ballet School/Radio City, Toronto, Canada (Context Development, Inc.) In a creative partnership among Canada's National Ballet School, the city, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and a local developer multiple easements, transfers of development rights, and complex ownership structures have allowed the rehabilitation and re-use of heritage buildings; construction of new residential, academic, and performance facilities for one of the premier ballet schools in the world; public urban spaces; and 414 residential units in 18 townhouses and two residential towers of 25 and 30 stories.

One of the top Finalists of the 2006 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition

Port Credit Village, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (FRAM Building Group; Slokker Canada) The replacement of an abandoned industrial site with a 26-acre sustainable development, comprising 410 mixed-income residential units and a small town center along the Lake Ontario waterfront.