This award category recognizes outstanding achievements by architects and non-architects in promoting architecture. The award may be given to a firm or individual architect, elected officials, journalists, educators, an organization, or group of individuals.

Eligibility
Any person in the world may be nominated for his or her achievements in promoting excellence in architecture and design within the region, as defined above. Those nominated need not be residing in the region. The winner will be selected by the Master Jury.

Individual may not nominate themselves.

This award will recognise outstanding achievement and excellence in design as selected by the professionals attending the Architecture+ Awards exhibition preceding the Awards ceremony. Voters must be registered architects and designers only.

Watch this space for details on how to cast your vote online!

Students from Schools of Architecture are invited to demonstrate their ability to avoid replication and their capacity to inject a new meaning into the basic formulation of tradition. Students may submit individually or as a team.

• All participating schools of architecture are requested carefully to evaluate its students, using criteria set forth in this programme document and submit only one entry for each of the following categories:
• Final year undergraduate students enrolled on BA/ BSC in Architecture or BArch Programs
• Final Year Post Graduate students in March 2006 (or equivalent) Programs

All entries submitted must be accompanied by the following supporting texts:

• Instructor/ Dean’s statement – 500 words outlining the reason for the student’s nomination
• Student’s statement – 500-750 words describing the most important concepts/ features of the submission

This award intends to recognize innovation in shaping environments for children. Projects need to address the issue of learning and how the physical environment supports and enhances children performance. Submissions many range from small learning spaces to nurseries, and elementary schools, and or children museums. Issues that pertain to new classroom typologies, indoor-outdoor relationships; colour, lighting, and noise need to be highlighted in a manner that illustrate how these physical elements foster learning. Aspects that relate to how the designed environment may be utilized as a teaching tool are also crucial.

This award is for projects that recognise the role of women in shaping the future of the built environment. Projects should be of social and/or cultural nature and designed by women while the majority of the building users are expected to be women. Projects may range from micro scale such as a Kitchen space to macro scale such as a public space in an urban sitting. Submissions should highlight the role of Gender in the use of space and how the designed environment supports, enhance, and celebrate women activities.

This award is for projects of a civic or public nature that have enhanced the quality of the built environment for the general community. These projects may not be buildings themselves, but must, as elements of urban design, be built work and may consist of courtyards, spaces between other buildings, plazas, fountains etc, and special and significant efforts of a civic nature by an architect.

This Award recognises landscape designs of individual projects that enhance the built form that it compliments. These projects must fall within the boundary line of the building plot and may be of a public/ commercial/ or residential nature.

This category can be applied to any built project or conservation-planning project that involves conservation, or adaptive reuse of a heritage structure.

Projects within this category must be residential in nature. Appropriate projects would include residential colleges, multiple dwelling units, and public housing and retirement villages

dmg world media, organisers of The Office Exhibition, are proud to recognise outstanding achievement at the much anticipated Architecture Plus Awards and as Patron to The Office Environment Category, we look forward to honouring the winner during the ceremony.

The Office Exhibition is the Gulf region’s premier event for the design and management of the office environment. Featuring exclusive product launches, cutting edge developments and innovative design from world renowned providers of office furniture, office interiors, office technology and services.  Don’t miss this inspiring event being held at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre, from 3rd – 5th June 2007.

www.theofficeexhibition.com

Projects eligible for this category will be those providing generally leased or occupied spaces built primarily for office use. These buildings should have been designed strictly for business purposes, for either owner/client occupation or occupation by others on purely business considerations. Examples may include an office building for government, municipal or private/public company accommodation. Larger mixed use projects must demonstrate at least 90 percent office space to be eligible for this Award.