Kilkenny wins top prize at Excellence in Placemaking awards

The awards recognise projects ‘that promote health and wellbeing, offering ‘connectivity, permeability and accessibility’ for all while also promoting the best in architecture and design’

Abbey Quarter Riverside Garden and Skate Park in Kilkenny, winner of the Best Public/Private Sector Project in Leinster

Commercial property specialists CBRE and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) last week held a virtual event to announce the winners of this year’s ULI Excellence in Placemaking awards.

The awards were established a number of years ago to reward organisations and communities throughout Ireland that make genuine efforts to improve their local communities through the initiation of placemaking projects that add to the public realm and make these places better places in which to “live, ...