THE ULI EUROPEAN STUDENT URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION

THE SECOND ANNUAL ULI EUROPEAN STUDENT URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION WILL BE HELD IN THE AUTUMN OF 2008. PLEASE CHECK THIS WEB SITE OR SEND AN E-MAIL TO UDEUROCOMPETITION@ULI.ORG WITH AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST IN ORDER TO RECEIVE FUTURE E-MAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

About the ULI European Student Urban Design Competition
With sponsorship from ECE, Grosvenor, and Hines

The second annual ULI European Student Urban Design Competition is a graduate-level competition that is intended to provide an interdisciplinary learning experience for real estate and design students in Europe. Self-formed student teams are asked to provide an urban design and a financial feasibility strategy for a large-scale real life site that ULI has identified somewhere in Europe. Through the formation of multidisciplinary teams, the program encourages cooperation and teamwork among future real estate professionals and the many allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology, law, and others.

The site will be a large-scale urban regeneration site in London, chosen because it presents complex challenges, needing practicable, innovative solutions that reflect responsible land use. The solutions incorporate design, planning, market potential and feasibility, and development strategies. The submission to the competition will be presentation drawings, tables, schedules, and text.

The competition, which is an outgrowth of the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition in North America, is an ideas competition; there is no guarantee or expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to any site. The winning team receives €35,000 and the finalist teams receive €7,000 each.

Student teams are invited to be formed at all European universities (including Turkey and Russia). Teams must consist of five members, with each student responsible for a “function” from the following disciplines: architect, landscape architect, urban planner or geographer, and financial expert. The team can determine which functions are assigned; however, at least one team member must serve as the financial expert and must be enrolled in a business or real estate degree program. Students can search for potential teammates through the Facebook group ULI has set up (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4798393151).

The entire competition will be conducted in English.

The Competition Web Site
This Web site is dedicated to the European student urban design competition. It will be continually updated and supplemented as the competition progresses. Changes to the Web site will be indicated on the Update History page. Competitors and the public should direct all questions in writing to udeurocompetition@uli.org. ULI is working with D+K consultants in Hamburg, Germany, who are functioning as competition managers.

To our North American visitors, please go to udcompetition.uli.org to find out more about the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition.