Recognitions 2023

Monday 27 March 2023: We are thrilled to announce the Streetlife Design Competition Prizes! We thank the jury, and all participants and we congratulate the recognized teams!

Watch the entire award ceremony with presentations of submissions.

See the recognized proposals below.

2023 Project Prizes

First Prize

Belgium / Brussels // Team:

Rebirth: A Food's Tale successfully combines urban food production with social inclusiveness and, more broadly, issues of environment and public space. It achieves many goals seemingly intertwined on an aesthetically confident site plan. The team envisions a different future on a small scale, sugges… Read more

Second Prize

Portugal / Porto // Team:

The Golden Connection deals with stitching together a highly fragmented campus space in Porto. Besides connecting the spaces into a new functional whole, the team took the assignment further and introduced a notion of verticality of the landscape. The brass-textured skywalk, in playful relation with… Read more

Third Prize

Italy / Rome // Team:

Resurfacing is a poetic intervention that deals with the potential for the design with natural processes hidden below the asphalt surface. It uncovers the underlying strata and focuses on various levels of found effervescence. The jury recognized the depth of the analysis and the imaginative use of… Read more
2023 Special Mentions
The Netherlands / The Hague // Team:

Gas station network plays an important role in nowadays urban structure. They were designed to be reachable rapidly by car, and form a complete network with a certain distance in between. You can see them anywhere throughout the country: At the side…

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United Kingdom / London // Team:

As Londoners, we’ve always wondered where tourists go after visiting Tower Bridge. Crossing the river to south London can be confusing for someone who doesn’t know the Borough and/or Bermondsey area. Apart from the historic Borough Market, the rich l…

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Ireland / Dublin // Team:

Tall multi-story buildings can feel like oppressing towers that can evoke unplesent emotions such as confusion, fear and disorientation but non the less more and more people are moving into cities and such development is essencial to facilitatate the…

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2023 Other finalists
Germany / Berlin // Team:

Alexanderplatz doesn ́t function as an urban public space as we imagine it. It lacks quality of stay and possibilities to rest. The traditional image of a stony and dense Mediterranean square doesn’t translate well in places like this because t…

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The Netherlands / Utrecht // Team:

The ruin of the historic brick factory ‘De Liesbosch’ reminds the visitor of the large-scale brick production from the 17th century. Utrecht was an important city for trade because of its central location in the Netherlands and its location along the…

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USA / Brooklyn // Team:

The civic center of downtown Brooklyn is located at the crossroads of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Just south of this cluster of courthouses, administrative buildings, and formal plazas lies Brooklyn Heights, a designated historic district kno…

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United Kingdom // Team:

The lost site is a publicly accessible water meadow in northwest Monmouth, West of river Monnow. The site is located in a high-risk flood zone as shown in the section and plan. The Fields are significantly lower than the rest of Monmouth’s urban fabr…

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Ukraine / Kharkiv // Team:

The reconstruction of Ukraine will be one of the major societal challenges for the upcoming decades. At the same time as it’s difficult to think and talk about, considering the war still is going on, it also important to show the world that we and ou…

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Czech Republic / Brno // Team:

Lost fragment of wild nature in the heart of vibrant city center captivated us with its uniqueness and peculiar atmosphere. The majority of visitors perceives this obscure jungle from the outside, they do not enter, except for a couple of unhoused pe…

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