November 21, 2025
The City of Edmonton celebrated the best of urban design at the Edmonton Urban Design Awards gala on November 20. In all, 23 projects were honoured in nine categories, including a People’s Choice Award winner selected by Edmonton voters.
The award winners vary from open spaces, streetscapes and heritage projects to future plans and housing opportunities.
“The Edmonton Urban Design Awards showcase the best of Edmonton’s design community,” said Mayor Andrew Knack. “Artists, architects, landscape architects, planners and students are accomplishing remarkable things, and these awards highlight not only their talents, but their understanding of how to make architecture and public spaces inviting for Edmontonians.”
Urban design and architectural excellence play a critical role in enhancing the quality of life in cities like Edmonton. They give our city presence and a unique vision of what our city is and what it can become.
“These awards not only celebrate the spectacular achievements of our design community, but also reinforce Edmonton’s commitment to building a vibrant, livable city where urban design excellence is a fundamental part of our future,” said Kim Petrin, Deputy City Manager for Urban Planning and Economy. “The City of Edmonton is proud to host Edmonton Urban Design Awards.”
The 20th anniversary of the Edmonton Urban Design Awards featured 51 submissions. The winners were chosen by an international jury from Canada and the United States. The jury had the option of choosing multiple winners in a category.
Winners in five of the categories are eligible to be submitted for honours from the National Urban Design Awards hosted by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Canadian Institute of Planners, as well as recognition from the National Trust.
The Edmonton Urban Design Awards were created in 2005 to recognize individuals, organizations, firms and projects that have contributed to urban design and the city’s quality of life. The awards are held every two years.
The winners in each category are:
Climate Resilience Award of Excellence
Northeast River Valley Park - Public City Architecture
Climate Resilience Award of Merit
Klondike Park Redevelopment - groundcubed
Civic Design Award of Excellence (1)
Calder Corner Store Public Realm - Green Space Alliance with WSP
Civic Design Award of Excellence (2)
105 Avenue (Columbia Ave) Streetscape - AECOM
Civic Design Award of Merit
Centennial Plaza Rehabilitation - MBAC with PFS Studio
Heritage Projects Award of Merit
Fort Edmonton Park - DIALOG with Clark Builders and PCL
Housing Innovation Award of Excellence (1)
The Stacks - Thomas Perl
Housing Innovation Award of Excellence (2)
E4c - Dub Architects
Housing Innovation Award of Merit (1)
Point Access Block Guide - Dub Architects
Housing Innovation Award of Merit (2)
Inglewood Lofts - Dub Architects
Housing Innovation Honourable Mention
Lauderdale Terrace - DIALOG (formerly RPK Architects)
Urban Architecture Award of Excellence (1)
Station Park- HSEA Architecture
Urban Architecture Award of Excellence (2)
Roundhouse Park at Station Lands - DIALOG with ECOM, ISL and Ledger
Urban Architecture Award of Merit (1)
Coronation Park Sports & Rec. Centre
HCMA Architecture + Design and Dub Architects (Joint Venture) with FaulknerBrowns
Urban Architecture Award of Merit (2)
Jasper Place Bowl - Dub Architects
Urban Design Plans Award of Excellence
Touch the Water Promenade
Dub Architects with Stoss Urbanism and ISL
Urban Design Plans Award of Merit
Okîsikow (Angel) Way - Al-Terra with Thurber
Urban Fragments Award of Excellence (1)
A Mischief of Could-Be(S) and UGO - Edmonton Arts Council and Red Knot Studio
Urban Fragments Award of Excellence (2)
Lulu Lane - HCMA Architecture + Design with Jamelle Davis, Macha Abdallah and Bashir Mohamed
Urban Fragments Award of Merit
Parallax - Next Architecture with Entuitive Corporation
Student Projects Award of Excellence
Winter City Urbanism: A Winter-First Reimagining of Warehouse Park - Danielle Soneff
Student Projects Award of Merit
Established Neighbourhoods Revitalization Master Plan
Neil Roy Choudhury, Gabriella Dunn, Shirley Le-Huynh and August Milan
People’s Choice Award
Polykar Edmonton - Farmor Architecture
