Annual Awards: Waterfront Projects
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Waterfront Project Entry Guidelines
NOTE: We recommend entrants go on the Center’s website and take a look at previous winners found on the awards page as well as the interactive database.
There are nine project types so that undertakings of a like nature are initially judged against each other. Projects may be from any time period, current or historic; submittals of classic projects like the San Antonio Riverwalk are encouraged. If new work, the project must be substantially built. The examples given below are meant to be suggestive only and do not restrict entries to the listed types of projects.
Artistic/Cultural/Educational: Fountains, concert facilities, public art or aquariums/nature centers, for instance.
Elements: Examples might include special features such as signage, furniture,
railings, lighting, paving, kiosks and lifeguard lookouts.
Environmental Protection/Enhancement: Examples might include a wetland
restoration project, nature center, wildlife area or bioengineering project.
Historic and Maritime Preservation/Adaptive Reuse: Emphasizing
distinctive waterfront structures, e.g., lighthouses, piers, ferries and barges.
Also historic vessels, warehouse conversions.
Industrial/Working
Waterfront: New facilities, plus efforts to enhance traditional marine
occupations such as commercial fishing, ports, power plants and other heavy
industry.
Mixed-use and/or Commercial Use: This category for
multi-faceted projects or individual businesses.
Park/Walkway/Recreational: Where a park, open space, trail or recreational
facility (e.g., fishing pier or marina) is the predominant use.
Public Works: Pedestrian and vehicular bridges, water pollution control,
breakwater installation and shoreline protection.
Residential/Resort:
Condominiums, hotels, new communities. Note the requirement of public
accessibility to the water in such projects.
Waterfront Project Requirements
You may submit either by copying everything onto a thumb drive or a
CD OR you can submit using a standard,three ring binder as described below. If
you chose to submit a thumb drive or a CD, the Center will print out the entry
form and the two page narrative for the jury. You are free to send any
supplemental materials.
Whichever method you choose
we need:
• A completed entry form. Both an entrant AND a co-entrant
required, with their signatures, with one entrant being the project sponsor
(government agency, private developer), the other a planning/design/engineering
firm. Send signatures separately if necessary.
• A PowerPoint
presentation of 20 images. Multiple pictures can appear on one image. The quality,
clarity and informational content of your images is critical as the initial
screening of projects will be made from the PowerPoint. The first image should
contain a short description that briefly explains the project. Within the 20
images, try to show your project in use, in varied seasons, and from different
vantage points. Include a view of the site from the water if possible. Site
plan, location map or other geographic description are useful for the jury.
“Before” shots are also helpful, dramatizing the pre-existing conditions. Keep
things simple. No videotapes please. Call the Center if you need to send
35 mm slides.
• Project summary of no more than two pages, letter-sized,
double-spaced. This narrative should address directly the stated judging
criteria and describe how the project fulfills each of them. Additional
descriptive material may be included. Provide financial data if possible (i.e.,
project cost, public/private contributions).
• In addition 20 color
digital images submitted on a disc as 300dpi TIFF. Photo credits MUST be
included. These images are used in the awards booklet describing the winners.
Entry fee, by check payable to The Waterfront
Center in US dollars. VISA, MasterCard and American Express are accepted. The
fee for all entries is $200.00. Additional entries from the same
organization/office are $100.00.
A private project (one in which
neither the entrant nor co-entrant is a government organization) MUST have an
endorsement letter from an appropriate public official, such as mayor, council
member or municipal department head, to demonstrate that it has general
community acceptance.
Deadline: Entries must be Postmarked by July 15,
2020. Overseas entries should use an express mail service to insure timely
delivery.
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