Once a year, Munich's leading experts get together to select the best real estate in and around the city. These are the properties with the most compelling architecture, with the highest standards of energy conservation and sustainability, and with the greatest cost-efficiency. Recipients of this award are both the property's developer and architect. To be eligible for consideration, properties or parts thereof have to be available for sale or rental, and have to be less than five years old.


BE URBAN's objective is to improve the quality of the human-built environment, and to foster a public discussion of the merits of our culture of construction. The competition is being staged to raise the public's awareness of what constitutes high-quality architecture. This focus on real estate is unusual. It is based on the effort to provide developers with case studies melding aesthetics and profits into successful entities and showing how they and architects can work together to realize great projects.