LEAF Awards - Call for Entries Now Open!

This year’s Emirates Glass LEAF Awards entry categories have been announced. This prestigious event, once again sponsored by Emirates Glass, will take place on 10 September 2010. Following the success of last year’s event which took place in Berlin, the 2010 LEAF Awards, now in their seventh year, move to London, where it will attract entries from around the world.

The awards are open to inpiduals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture. Previous winners have included Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Zaha Hadid, David Copperfield, SOM, Steven Holl and Terry Farrell.

The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Categories are:

∙ Mixed Use Building of the Year – recognising projects that combine both residential and commercial functions

∙ Residential Building of the Year – recognising that residential buildings can be very different this award is pided into multiple level building and single storey building

∙ Commercial Building of the Year

∙ Public Building of the Year

∙ International Interior Design Award – either new build or refurbishment

∙ Master Planning and Landscaping

∙ Young Architect

∙ Best Sustainable Development

∙ Best Structural Design of the Year

∙ And the LEAF Award for the overall winner

Winners will be judged by a panel of distinguished experts from the architectural sector and announced at the gala dinner at a five-star hotel in London. All entries will remain confidential to the judges until the official Awards presentation takes place. All shortlisted candidates will receive extensive coverage on www.designbuild-network.com. All winning entries will be published in The LEAF Review.

Suzanne Ellingham, LEAF Awards Manager commented: “The Emirates Glass LEAF Awards honour the architects designing buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community. Once again we expect keen competition with hundreds of entries from both world famous architects and those currently little known with projects covering the whole spectrum of building.” Suzanne Ellingham on the category Young Architect: “This is such a brilliant opportunity for young architects to have their work recognised at an international level and benefit from the exposure generated by the LEAF Awards.”

Entries are now open for projects to be submitted. Closing date for entries is 1 July 2010.

For more information please visit www.leaf-awards.com or contact Suzanne Ellingham on + 44 (0) 207 915 9933.

About the LEAF Awards

The LEAF Awards honour the architects designing the buildings and solutions that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural community.

The awards are open to all inpiduals and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture. This year there has been a distinction made between projects that have been built and those that are still in design.