Solent Quality Places Design Awards

The Solent Design Awards are all about the encouragement of Quality place-making: schemes that create special places, lift communities, create richer experiences …not just iconic buildings but also the places in-between, the carrier spaces for our daily lives. South Hampshire is a wonderful place to live and the Solent Design Awards will recognise new developments that add to rather than detract from the quality of life it offers; to our experience of the workplace, to our appreciation of the environment we live in.

We encourage applications not only for high quality buildings but also for open space and public realm projects, town centre developments and neighbourhood renewal schemes. Context is everything: we are not looking for isolated (though beautiful) objects in space but rather buildings and projects that enhance the places where they are developed – places that set the stage for more fulfilling experience of life, of work and of play.

As this is the inaugural year of this biennial award scheme, any building or development completed after 1st April 2005 is eligible for entry.

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