LOGO (Courtesy of Blue Award 2012)

The Blue Award is a biennial, international student competition and awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability in the academic fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. The economical, cultural and social dimensions of sustainable development should be equal in significance to the classical problems of technique and function.

The competition is an open invitation to future-oriented and sustainable solutions.  How will our built environment present itself in the coming years?  Not a one-dimensional approach leads to results, but rather a comprehensive view of the tasks at hand is necessary in order to provide solutions and protect an environment worth experiencing.

The Blue Award 2012 is making its second appearance as an anonymous, international, single-phase competition, and is intended for students of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. 163 projects from 86 faculties and architecture schools spread across 49 countries were submitted for the first edition, Blue Award 09.

The Blue Award 2012 will be handed out in three categories.

The Blue Award 2012 will particularly emphasize and support architectural efforts in hot and dry climates.  Projects located in crisis areas and in areas environmentally threatened will be given special consideration.  This, however, forms no grounds for exclusion or discrimination of projects that deal with other topics in sustainability.

Participants can submit projects in the following three categories:

Category 1 - Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development

Category 2 - Ecological Building

Category 3 - Building in Existing Structures

International Jury

In February 2012, a jury of international experts (including honorary chair Sir Michael Hopkins) will take place on April 26, 2012 at the Vienna University of Technology.

For more information: Blue Award 2012