Contest searches for design icons of tomorrow.

The designers of tomorrow's iconic architecture have been invited to follow in the footsteps of previous winners to submit their designs in competition for the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards 2010. The annual awards scheme, which has reached its eighth year, identifies and celebrates good quality architectural design for projects either still on the drawing board or under construction, and is well established as the eentrepiece event for architects during the MIPIM conference and exhibition each March.

Paul Finch, the director of the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards, said, "the Future Project Awards has an excellent track record of identifying projects which subsequently go on to be both realized and critically celebrated. For example, previous winner St Mary's Axe was awarded the Stirling Prize just eighteen months after being celebrated at Future Projects in Cannes.

The call for entries for the 2010 Awards has now been issued, with nominations welcome in the following categories: Big Urban projects, Regeneration and Masterplanning, Tall buildings, Mixed use, Offices, Residential, Retail and leisure. There will also be an additional Sustainability prize awarded to one project entered in any of the above categories, and an Overall Winner award will also be announced from among the prize winners. Neither of these categories can be entered separately.

An international jury, chaired by Paul Finch, will be announced shortly. The Awards will be presented during a special celebratory dinner held in Cannes on 17 March 2010 during the MIPIM market, an event that has become one of the hot ticket evenings of MIPIM week. There will also be a permanent exhibition of all entrants on display on the London Stand, and all winning and commended schemes will be published in the official catalogue which is distributed to all registered MIPIM delegates.

Further details including full entry criteria are available at http://www.mipimarfutureprojects.com/