Head in the Clouds Pavilion by StudioKCA, image (c) 2013 by Tes Rivera

Since Governors Island first opened to the public in 2004, the attention and interest that this new public place has received has increased exponentially. In 2013, over 400,000 people visited the island through its summer season to engage in a variety of arts and cultural programs, as well as to enjoy summertime activities like picnicking and bike riding on the island.

FIGMENT has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion on Governors Island, the City of Dreams Pavilion. The 2015 pavilion will be our fifth City of Dreams Pavilion. In 2010 the Living Pavilion was designed by Ann Ha, Assoc. AIA, and Behrang Behin, Assoc. AIA; In 2011 Bittertang designed Burble Bup; Head in the Clouds by StudioKCA was installed in 2013 and won a Best of Year award from Interior Design Magazine in the installation category. Our most recent pavilion is Governors Cup by CDR Studio, which is installed on Governors Island for the 2014 summer season, and is open to the public every day from June 7 to September 21, 2014.

The City of Dreams Pavilion will be a gathering place for people to meet, learn about the arts programs on the island, enjoy a performance or lecture, and experience the interaction of art and the historic context of Governors Island. Our theme for the pavilion, the City of Dreams, points toward the future. If we imagine a future New York City where anything is possible, what would it look like? In our wildest and most optimistic dreams, what is the future of the city?

The current state of the world is such that both economic and natural resources are extremely limited. A new way of thinking is necessary to solve the problems that the world faces. Inevitably, the result will be a change in the basic practices that have driven the world to its current state. One place to start to activate and energize these changes is within the architecture and design community, where the movement toward sustainable design has only scratched the surface of what is possible and necessary.

The City of Dreams 2015 Pavilion Design Competition will be a two-stage process, in which a jury of leading architects and other industry professionals will review initial submissions and select a number of finalists. These finalists will receive comments and will have the opportunity to revise their proposals. The jury will meet again and select the competition winner in November 2014.

To Submit a Proposal

First, register by August 15, 2014, at http://newyork.figmentproject.org/2015pavilion. The competition entry fees (which will be applied to the costs of building and maintaining the winning entry) are as follows:

• Student entries - $20
• Individual entries - $50
• Group entries (including groups of students) - $80

After you have registered, you will receive a link to download a submission packet with the City of Dreams Pavilion 2015 Design Guide and reference images of Governors Island, previous City of Dreams Pavilion competition winners, and other FIGMENT projects that have been built previously on the island.

Then, submit your City of Dreams Pavilion proposal by 11:59pm ET on September 2, 2014. Our jury will meet and we will notify all finalists by September 30, 2014.

Entries are encouraged from individuals or teams of architects and non-architects of any age or experience level, provided they are prepared to carry out the project. Attribution of the winner and finalists will be given based on the names of the individuals who enter, rather than to any firm with whom they are affiliated.

Jurors

Kathy Creutzburg, Multi-Media Artist/Sculptor

Jason Klimoski, AIA, Co-Founder at STUDIOKCA

Nat Oppenheimer, Executive Vice President at Robert Silman Associates

Eva Perez de Vega, Partner at e+i studio

Alexander Levi, AIA, Principal at SLO Architecture

Lori Zimmer, Writer for Inhabitat

Mentor: Marc Bailly, AIA, Architect at Bailly & Bailly

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