About the Competition

Big ideas. Bold visions. The enduring legacy of Gerald D. Hines.

The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in its tenth year, is an urban design and development challenge for graduate students. The Hines Competition challenges multidisciplinary student teams to devise a comprehensive development program for a real, large-scale site. Student teams comprising at least three disciplines have two weeks to develop solutions that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. Please visit the competition archives to view previous submissions and view the documentary video to learn more about the competition format.  ULI will announce this year’s competition site on January 17, 2012, which is the day the competition officially gets underway.

This is an ideas competition; there is no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to the site. The winning team will receive $50,000 and the finalist teams $10,000 each.

The Competition Web Site

This Web site is dedicated to the urban design competition. It will be continually updated as the competition progresses. Changes to the Web site will be indicated on the Update History page. All questions should be directed to udcompetition@uli.org.