Toronto Urban Design Awards

Entries are now open!

The City of Toronto is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Toronto Urban Design Awards, marking the program’s 35th anniversary. Held biennially, the awards recognize excellence in urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, highlighting projects that contribute to a vibrant, sustainable, and inclusive cityscape.

This year’s awards introduce an exciting new category: Public Art. Acknowledging the vital role public art plays in enhancing the public realm, this category celebrates works that animate and enrich Toronto’s built environment.

The categories for 2025 include Elements, Private Buildings in Context, Public Buildings in Context, Small Open Spaces, Large Places and/or Neighbourhood Designs, Visions and Master Plans, and Student Projects. Additionally, a new category, Public Art, has been introduced for 2025. Eligible submissions should demonstrate alignment with the City’s Official Plan and support key priorities such as equity, affordability, resilience, accessibility, heritage preservation, and environmental sustainability.

“The Toronto Urban Design Awards are an opportunity to celebrate outstanding architecture and design, a beautiful public realm and thoughtful and joyful public art, all of which are essential elements of a vibrant, dynamic, and successful city. As Toronto continues to grow and evolve, championing good city-building is important to ensure our neighbourhoods are great places to live, work and play. Toronto has much to celebrate and we’re looking forward to receiving submissions during this milestone year for the awards ceremony.”
– Jason Thorne, Chief Planner & Executive Director, City Planning, City of Toronto

Designers, developers, project owners, community groups, and students are encouraged to submit their projects by noon on Monday, April 14. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in September celebrating Toronto’s outstanding contributions to urban design.

For full program details, including submission criteria and entry guidelines, visit: www.toronto.ca/tuda.