Four major projects in Jeddah have picked up top honors in the Cityscape Saudi Arabia Real Estate Awards, for their outstanding contribution to real estate development and investment for both built and future projects in the Kingdom. The awards were presented on Sunday. “Above all we wanted to recognize projects that had innovative and sustainable design, functionality with efficiency and we wanted to reward designs that showed cultural as well as environmental sensitivity,” said Deep Marwaha, exhibition director, Cityscape Saudi Arabia. The awards were split into five categories, Best Waterfront Development - Future; Best Commercial Retail - built; Best Commercial Retail - Future; Residential Project - Future and Best Urban Design & Master Planning Award. The Best Waterfront Development - Future Award was claimed by EMAAR, The Economic City, the master planner and developer of King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC). It was in recognition of their stunning waterfront village Bay La Sun Residential City which is being designed to be a complete social unit with homes, schools, medical facilities, offices, shopping and entertainment all integrated into one community. The Best Residential - Future Award also went to Emaar, The Economic City for the Hawadi district development within King Abdullah Economic City. The 870-hectare community will host the first mid-income development within KAEC and comprises 22,000 dwelling units and the associated religious, educational, health and civic facilities. Other award winning projects included the Al-Ajlan Tower project in Riyadh, the Al-Andalus Mall in Jeddah which was considered the best ‘built' retail development and US architect Davis Brody Bond Aedas for their comprehensive design contributions to the Jeddah redevelopment master plan. __
