Winners in each category will receive a framed certificate recognising their achievements, and potential benefits from publicity about the event.
Opportunity exists for the winning designs to be exhibited at Bayside City Council centres and on Council’s website to increase public awareness and reinforce the value vested by our community and the Council in quality design.
To be eligible for nomination all entries must:
Bayside City Council encourages good quality design that is responsive to the urban context, the natural environment and the Local community.
While design ‘excellence’ deserves celebration, in the domestic arena at least, it can be seen as elitist and out of reach to many. Consistent with its ‘whole of community’ charter, Bayside Council’s awards are intended to have a broader focus, which also accounts for community values, aspirations and contributions to the public realm.
Criteria such as responsiveness to neighbourhood character, streetscape quality, local identity, heritage, public places and the natural environment are therefore of central importance.
Other considerations may include the durability and value offered by nominated developments, and the exemplary effect they might have on their settings and on the public imagination.
Emerging considerations that may also be factored into judgements include sustainability, use of alternative and/or renewable energy, and creative use of ideas, materials and technology.
The judging panel will be guided by these general principles in making awards, but has the discretion to give them different ‘weight’ and/or to use additional criteria as it sees fit.
After receipt of nominations, there will be a two-stage process. Initially shortlists of three or more nominations in each category will be made.
Council will notify owners and designers of the nominations to be further considered in the award process. The judging panel will inspect all short-listed nominations (from the street scape only) and recommend to Council the winners of awards in each category.
Council will inspect the properties recommended by the Judging Panel from the streetscape. Awards will not necessarily be made in all categories, if there are insufficient nominations, or if the standard of nominations is not considered to be of a high enough quality.
Council’s decision will be final. No correspondence will be entered into regarding the short-listing of nominations, the recommendations of the panel, or the awards made by Council.
Awards will be made to the designers of the winning developments at a ceremony to be held in October 2009.