Task The project Blue Award, Building for an Environment Worth Living in, is an international, biennal competition and awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability in the academic fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. Sustainable development, with its economical, cultural and social dimensions in architecture, regional planning and urbanism, should be equal in significance to the classical problems of technique and function. Matters of Concern The intention is to encourage and foster the topic of sustainability in the academic fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. The initiative aims at building a network of architecture schools, creating an institution for the exchange and integration of innovative and promising solutions developed by faculty and students involved in the topic of sustainability, in areas of teaching as well as research. And to subsequently prepare the planners of tomorrow in implementing these proposed solutions in an ecological and economical context, as well as in a setting concerned with globalization and climate change. These developments will establish and preserve a built environment worth living in, for current and future generations. The unusually large amount of feedback from the first appearance of the competition, BLUE AWARD 09, is a testimony to the high interest and standing of sustainability as topic enjoyed by students and teachers. The submitted projects not only demonstrate an intensive examination of the ecological aspects of building, but also of the social and cultural tasks at hand. Categories All categories of the BLUE AWARD emphasize the efforts in sustainable architecture, particularly in hot and dry climates. Projects located in crisis areas and in areas environmentally threatened will be given special consideration. Category 1 - Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape Development Category 2 - Ecological Building Category 3 - Building in Existing Structures