The search for Dubai’s most beautiful garden has begun, with a prize fund of AED100,000 ($27,200) for the winning home owners.
In its efforts to encourage people to preserve and care for the beauty of their residential areas by utilising outdoor spaces and planting in front of their homes, Dubai Municipality of offering a top prize of AED50,000 ($13,600)
Beautiful Dubai garden contest
Registration is open until February 28, following which a period will be allocated for the yards to be prepared and applications to be finished.
Following evaluation, winners will be declared in April 2023.
Winners of the contest will get prizes of up to AED 100,000 (AED 50,000 for the first place, AED 30,000 for second, and AED 20,000 for third).
Dubai Municipality has set the following rules for participants:
- The property owner or tenant must be a resident of the Emirate of Dubai
- A no-objection certificate from RTA to cultivate in the area in front of the house must be obtained
- Participants must allow judges to visit and photograph the garden site
- Participants must consent to pictures and videos on being published on social
- Participants must registering for the competition through the Dubai Municipality website.
The application for registrations are available at www.dm.gov.ae.
Dubai Municipality has set certain criteria for evaluating the participants.
The first is related to the aesthetics of the design, so that the plant and non-plant elements are consistent, varied, and of different lengths and colours. There should also be lighting available at night.
The second criterion from the technical side provides for the employment of creative ideas, the use of innovative techniques and unconventional scientific methods, and the provision of a sustainable irrigation system that does not affect service lines and pedestrian traffic.
In order to maintain the aesthetic design in terms of harmony and homogeneity in design lines and type of elements and variety of length and colour of plant and non-plant elements and nightlights, Dubai Municipality has also established assessment standards to examine the applications.
The Municipality will ensure that the technical features that utilise original concepts, innovative tools, cutting-edge technologies, unconventional scientific approaches, as well as a sustainable irrigation system do not interfere with services or pedestrian mobility.
The third factor that the Municipality will consider is the environmental element, which includes preserving environmental sustainability through rational use of water and the use of renewable energy.
This aspect further specifies the effects of vegetarian foods, trees, and cultivating local plants. The fourth criterion emphasises the social aspect of a yard’s appeal for recreation or agriculture.
The competition aims at promoting aesthetics of streets and green areas by encouraging the community to care for front yards, along with boosting the demand for plants from the nurseries and usage of recycled water.
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