The Mississauga Urban Design Awards are back. Apply now!

The City of Mississauga is calling for innovative and impactful urban design projects to be considered for the 2025 Mississauga Urban Design Awards.

This year’s theme, “Reflections and Visions”, celebrates the accomplishments of the city’s past, while also looking ahead to the exciting opportunities for growth and transformation that will shape the future. The City invites architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers and developers to submit projects that demonstrate excellence in Urban Design.

Application submissions are now open until April 18, 2025.

Apply now if you’ve completed a development project (including small scape projects)

The benefits of submitting a project include:

• Recognition for design excellence by the City as well as industry peers.
• Design award nominations are excellent additions to project portfolios and marketing materials.
• Winners are awarded a fee waiver to the prestigious 2025 National Urban Design Awards, a Canada-wide celebration of the best in contemporary urban design.
• Winners are nationally and internationally recognized as standing shoulder to shoulder with the best in contemporary urban design.

Eligibility of projects

All submissions must be:

• Received by the deadline of April 18, 2025.
• Located within Mississauga.
• Completed when the submission is received.

Note: Interior design projects, plans and proposals as well as previously nominated projects are not eligible.

Award criteria

Urban design has the power to enhance communities, creating spaces that are not only functional but also innovative, sustainable, and inclusive.

Awards are reviewed for excellence across several criteria, including citywide significance, community significance, living green, innovation, context, execution and healthy by design. Winners are selected by a jury of members from the professional design community as well as representatives from City Council.

How to submit

Projects submitted for the 2025 Mississauga Urban Design Awards need to include:

• Exterior photos of your project (minimum of five).
• Brief project description.
• Names and email addresses of key project contributors.
• Signed consent form from the project owner for the jury to visit the project site.

You can learn more about the 2025 Mississauga Urban Design Awards including highlights of previous winners and examples of previous submissions by visiting the city’s website.

What’s next

A jury will be selected and announced in 2025. The jury is comprised of subject matter experts and those who have a strong passion for good urban design.

The Mississauga Urban Design Awards also includes a People’s Choice Award, which is given to the project that receives the most public support through online voting.

Voting for the People’s Choice Awards will begin in June 2025. All nominated projects are considered for this award. Winners of the 2025 Mississauga Urban Design Awards will be announced in the fall 2025.

For more information on the awards including detailed descriptions of the categories, visit the city’s website to stay up-to-date.

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