2013 Melbourne Design Awards - Key Dates

1 May - Entries open
22 July - Rush Entries
1 August - Entries CLOSE
19 August - Judging
27 August - Finalists announced
23 September - Voting closes
23 October - Awards Night
2013 Melbourne Design Awards

Urban Design

Why Enter

Whether you are a design creator or a design commissioner you can make your mark on the Melbourne design scene by entering the Melbourne Design Awards. 


Design Creator 
• Gain recognition for your design achievement
• Increase awareness of your work and gain design public and peer comment 
• Increased exposure to your potential customers and clients 
• Bench mark your work with your peers 
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure 

Design Commissioner 
• Provides a mark of distinction for your product 
• Further evidence of excellence in product development 
• Bench mark your product with those of your peers 
• Increased exposure of your brand / product 
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Description

This award recognises the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages, and is about making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature and the built fabric. 

Consideration will be given to giving form, shape and character to groups of buildings, streets and public spaces, transport systems, services and amenities, whole neighbourhoods and districts, and entire cities, to make urban areas functional, attractive and sustainable.

 

Current entries

Lonsdale Street Redevelopment, Dandenong

Urban Design

Finalist 
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Lonsdale Street is the first key infrastructure project delivered as part of the State Government’s Revitalising Central Dandenong (RCD) Initiative. The RCD Initiative seeks to restore central Dandenong as the capital of Melbourne’s south east bringing new energy and amenity to the heart of this richly diverse urban centre. Central Dandenong has a unique cultural richness, a dynamic produce market, performing arts precinct and distinctive retail sector, yet the economic decline of the city over many years, took its toll on the overall civic character and public realm experience. Lonsdale Street was historically a prosperous retail spine but in recent years had developed into a major arterial route dissecting the retail heart and creating a significant physical and psychological barrier to the city. Lonsdale Street was redesigned as a grand boulevard with a pedestrian focus. Through traffic was concentrated into a central band defined by four rows of trees. Adjacent to the retail frontages, a broad tree lined plaza, shared traffic zones and linear gardens provide a pedestrian realm of generosity and distinction. The design is an example of an interdisciplinary approach to the construction of the city involving expertise across a wide range of disciplines.

 

PlayMo, Drewery Alley, Melbourne CBD

Urban Design

- Winner 
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A shift from 'the' city to 'your' city; A playground for urban dwellers.

 

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