Thus, the jury is going to find the "coolest / smartest / worthy / daring" architectural concept among the projects created in the past year. Participation in a competition called Competition Competition 2011 is completely free. All you need to do is upload your work to the "Architizer" database: at least 3 renders, 1 drawing, as well as information about the competition for which the project was made, what is its meaning, and why it deserves fame.
It's no secret that it happens that architectural projects migrate from competition to competition (and even if they are rejected by one customer, they can migrate to another with minimal revision). But contests for the "second attempt" are announced, it would seem, not too often. Interestingly, the organizers (there are two of them - the aforementioned portal and another design project, Relative Space, Relative Space), following their concept of "second attempt", reject those who took first places. On the one hand, this is true, they do not need an additional attempt; on the other hand, if we consider that the jury of other competitions were objective and selected the best, then they have already collected all the “cream” and it will be more difficult to find the most daring among the rest. However, this is a very, very good way to replenish the "Architizer" database.
I must say that this is the second competition in the genre of the second attempt, the first "Architect" was held a year ago, and even then it caused a storm of emotions. Then the winner was the project "Dubai", originally made for a competition announced by the elevator company ThyssenKrupp. Architects (Michael Payn, David Neil, Pierre Sealand, Nicholas Lombardi, Magali Lamureux) proposed a new symbol of Dubai development in the form of a volume inflated with helium and floating in the air, painfully reminiscent of an ordinary multifunctional complex of several buildings on a common platform, only turned upside down and soaring in the sky. On the roof (that is, the upside-down bottom) of this complex of balloons, the authors suggested writing “Dubai” in Arabic, so that it could be seen from planes. Indeed, it turned out to be a very ironic project on a sore subject, worthy of a prize.
This year, the first prize, as before, will amount to $ 1,500, and five more participants will receive honorary prizes in the form of articles on the Architizer portal.
Yu. T.
