International Urban Project Award 2025

The award recognizes new and outstanding urban and architectural projects that have transformed cities worldwide.

Category Award
Type International, Award, Architects, Single-Stage, Onymous
Genre Architecture, Landscape, Urban
Country Shanghai, China
RegDeadline 1 July 2025 GoogleCal iCal
1 July 2025 (via Online)
Eligibility Architects, urban planners and landscape architects/ Developers can submit projects together with architects.
Target Field Projects should be substantially built but need not be fully completed. They shoule be less than five years. Projects must be first time entries.

Description
The award recognizes new and outstanding urban and architectural projects that have transformed cities worldwide.
It focuses on the interface between architecture and urban space and is dedicated to the impact of buildings, urban design and landscape architecture on the city; how built projects activate public space and the development of urban neighborhoods.

Jury
LI Cundong - Secretary-General of the Architectural Society of China
CAO Jiaming - Vice President of the Architectural Society of China / President of the Architectural Society of Shanghai
ZHANG Li - Dean and Professor at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Magdalene Weiß - Architect and Urban Planner
Peter Cachola Schmal - Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM)
Boris Schade-Bünsow - Editor-in-Chief of Bauwelt magazine

Prize
First Prize: €3,000
Three Special Prizes: €1,000 each

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
The award ceremony: 5/11/2025 during the BAU Congress China in Shanghai

Links
Past winners

Organizer
Bauwelt (Berlin, Germany) and World Architecture Magazine (WA, Tsinghua University Beijing, China) and supported by BAU China and Messe München

Official Website