Urban Land Institute recognizes six new developments with 2023 ULI Global Awards for Excellence

Six outstanding new developments from around the world have been announced as winners of the 2023 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Global Awards for Excellence.

Projects in three regions were selected out of a group of 23 winners from the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1979, the awards recognize new projects in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors that exemplify the Institute's organizational goals of responsible land use and sustainable community development. Jurors representing a cross-section of expertise in the design and development trades evaluated each project's overall excellence, market success, innovation, and sustainability credentials, as their main criterion. 

“This year’s finalists across the three regions included a wide breadth of diversity of building types and sizes, as well as for profit and non-profit, but what ties them all together, beyond design excellence, is their contribution to their community vibrancy and spirit,” the jury's chair, Albert Chan, said in a statement. “Each finalist demonstrated pioneering efforts in land use that are worthy of emulation by other developers, and the global winners exhibited the highest degree of alignment with the award criteria, each in their own creative ways.”

Here are this year's winning developments:

(Cover image) Restoration and Modernization of Mercado do Bolhão, Porto, Portugal. Developer: GO Porto – Gestão e Obras do Porto, EM. Designer: Nuno Valentim, Arquitectura, Lda.

Aurora Bridge Bioswales, Seattle, Washington, United States. Developers: Phase 1: CoU, LLC /HessCallahanGrey Group; HAL Real Estate; Clean Lake Union LLC, Phase 2: CoU, LLC / HessCallahanGrey Group; Spear Street Capital; Clean Lake Union LLC, Phase 3: Clean Lake Union LLC; The Boeing Group; The State of Washington. Designers: Weber Thompson; kpff