a+ design group are delighted to be recognized as the Gold Winner in the Urban Design Category at the 2018 Sydney Design Awards. This award celebrates creativity and innovation in the process of designing and shaping cities, towns, and villages, highlighting upon making connections between people and places, movement and urban form, nature, and the built fabric of our environment.

Taking a page out of Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic ‘Blade Runner’, a+ de-sign group has been engaged by Mulpha Norwest as “Futurist thinkers” with a view to conceive a new way of life, where technological and environmental advancements have freed us from our everyday constraints — imagining life in a city where anything is possible.

Driven with the desire to believe in a place where the impossible be-comes possible, the team delved deeply into what ultimately lies ahead for us all. From housing to transport, clothing to communication, the environment, social interaction, built form, materials, and the basis of physics as we understand them today; Our beliefs were challenged with a view of how they will influence the way we live.

The Mulpha Future City looks towards the future to inform the present, inspired by the possibility of a city where we work, live and play, connecting us physically, spiritually, and emotionally, free from constraint – where imagination rules and possibilities are infinite. The brief competition eliminated the technical boundaries and limitations of the present so we could freely explore possibilities and opportunities of the future. We would like to thank Mulpha Norwest for this opportunity which allowed us to get creative.