Photo courtesy Tom Arban.

Photo courtesy Adrian Searle.

Photo courtesy Ismael Hautecoeur.

Urban legends: Canada's National Ballet School (top), the Corktown Footbridge (middle), and the Edible Campus project (bottom) won for embodying design success.

A ballet school and university were among the winners of the 2008 National Urban Design Awards. Presented by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), and Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA), the awards recognize projects that blend architecture, urban planning, and landscape design to create livable and sustainable communities.

This year's winners are:
• Conceptual/Theoretical Urban Design Plans–Campus Outremont, Université de Montréal (Montreal, Que.);
• Urban Architecture–Master Planning, Canada's National Ballet School (Toronto, Ont.);
• Civic Design Projects–Corktown Footbridge (Ottawa, Ont.);
• Urban Fragments–Making the Edible Campus (Montreal);
• Special Jury Awards, Sustainable Development–Lower Don Lands (Toronto);
• Special Jury Awards, Small or Medium Community Urban Design Award–University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, Ont.); and
• Student Awards, Individual Thesis–iCITY, PublicSpace v2.0 (Calgary, Alta.).