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The Pineapples celebrate places that thrive, that contribute to urban life, and encourages people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play.

 

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The judges will seek to recognise a positive contribution to urban life. They will assess the user experience of the place, and consider whether the development team has created a place where people thrive.

 

Entries should seek to provide evidence of positive social impact: How does the place / project contribute to the economic, environmental and social wellbeing of its citizens?

 

Multiple Pineapples can be awarded within each category at the judges’ discretion

 

The categories 
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Place of the Year

This Pineapple is for a place that is thriving. It serves its community and neighbours, and is worthy of recognition at this moment in time. It could be a BID, an estate, a district, street or cluster that creates a neighbourhood, large or small. The place can be new or existing. It should include a public space, park or street. Although small works may be ongoing, any major recent construction initiatives should be complete and in-use.

Judges will be looking to recognise a place where people want to live, work, connect, learn or play. They will also be considering whether the place makes a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Submission requirements: The place must incorporate an outdoor space or street, public or private, that the judges can visit during the judging period.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

 

Place in Progress

This Pineapple is looking for a place that has made a promising start on the journey to completion. To be considered a Place in Progress, the project should be part-way through its development cycle with at least one phase completed and in use.

 

The judges will consider how the project seeks to foster community, welcome visitors and attract tenants, and contribute to urban life through initiatives such as early tenancies, green spaces, pop-up retail, meanwhile, community outreach projects, events and clever phasing.

 

A place is a mixed-use development or a cluster of multiple developments that create a neighbourhood, large or small. The place can be wholly new, or a redevelopment. The judges will be considering whether the place makes a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Submission requirements: The place must incorporate an outdoor space or street, public or private, that the judges can visit during the judging period. 

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

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Future Place

The Pineapple for future place seeks to recognise a masterplan, planning application, action plan or design proposal for a place, whether in development or theoretical. If under construction, the first phase should not be complete (see: Place in Progress).

 

A place is a mixed-use development or a cluster of multiple developments that create a neighbourhood, large or small. The place can be wholly new, or a redevelopment.

 

The judges will be looking for a future place that seeks to foster community, welcome visitors and attract tenants, contribute to urban life, and encourage people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play. They will also be considering whether the intervention will make a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 
 
 

 

Creative Retrofit

This award is for the reuse, refurbishment or retrofit of a single building or group of buildings, housing estate or street that is complete and extends the life of the built environment. The judges will be considering the impact of the project on the wider place, and how the initiative makes a positive environmental and social impact.

 

The project must be complete and it must include the reuse of an existing structure, building or product or part of a structure, building or product.

 

Submission requirements: Judges will require access to shortlisted projects during the judging period and evaluate its contribution to the wider place, additionally visiting any outdoor space or street, public or private.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

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International Future Place

The Pineapple for international future place seeks to recognise a masterplan, planning application, action plan or design proposal for a place, whether in development or theoretical for a place anywhere in the world outside the UK. If under construction, the first phase should not be complete.

 

This category is for international projects - places based in the UK should enter Future Place.

 

A place is a mixed-use development or a cluster of multiple developments that create a neighbourhood, large or small. The place can be wholly new, or a redevelopment.

 

The judges will be looking for a future place that seeks to foster community, welcome visitors and attract tenants, contribute to urban life, and encourage people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play.

  

Submission requirements: Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

 

Activation

This Pineapple award is for activations, meanwhiles, installations, initiatives, pop-ups or other happenings that enhance the life of a place. The judges will be looking for an approach that contributes positively to urban life, and encourages people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play. We’ll also want to know how you’ve made a positive environmental and social impact.

 

The project must be complete, ongoing (if an event) or happened.

 

Submission requirements: Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in March 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

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Public Space

This Pineapple is for a landscape or public space project, large or small, either new or reimagined, that makes a positive contribution to the life of a wider place. The judges will be looking for a public space that thrives, contributes to urban life, and encourages people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play. The judges will be looking for initiatives that make a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Submission requirements: The place must incorporate an outdoor space or street, public or private, that the judges can visit during the judging period.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

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Community Engagement

This Pineapple is for meaningful community engagement. The engagement can be digital or in-person.

 

The judges will be considering how the initiative connected meaningfully with stakeholders and citizens, and how their feedback was incorporated into decision making.

 

Submission requirements: Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

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Future Public Realm

The Pineapple for future public realm seeks to recognise an action plan or design proposal for a place, whether in development or theoretical, that creates new or upgrades the spaces between the buildings. It could be a high street renewal project, new public seating, traffic calming measures, or a future upgraded or brand-new public space. The public realm project should not be complete (see Public Realm).

 

The judges will be looking for a public realm that makes a positive contribution to the wider place and contributes to urban life, encouraging people to dwell, live, work, connect, learn or play. They will also be considering whether the intervention will make a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Submission requirements: Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

 

 

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Infrastructure

This Pineapple is for infrastructure including stations, bridges, cycleways, pedestrianisation, new public transport initiatives, LTNs or low emission zones, or other projects which contribute positively to the wider place. Projects can be complete or in progress with at least one phase open for use. The judges will be considering whether the infrastructure makes a positive environmental and social impact.

 

The project must be complete.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in March 2023. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2023.

 

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Climate Resilience

Climate resilience recognises an initiative for a place or a project completed or in process that future-proofs against planetary dysregulation, such as biodiversity initiatives, energy projects, drought and flood resilience, air pollution or other mitigations. It could be a major program of retrofit, a sustainable drainage project, a solar installation or district heating project.

 

The judges will be looking at the contribution to the wider place and will seek to champion projects that create resilient places. They will also be considering whether the intervention will make a positive environmental and social impact.

 

Shortlisted places must be presented to the judges at the Festival of Pineapples, a week-long major digital event in April 2024. After which a winner or multiple winners will be selected and awarded at The Pineapples prizegiving Party in May 2024.

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  • Early bird entry deadline: 15 December 2023

  • Final entry deadline: 25 January 2024

  • Festival of Pineapples: 15-19 April 2024

  • Awards party, London: May 2024

     

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