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Competition:London Organic Skyscraper
United Kingdom Architecture News - Feb 11, 2014 - 19:11 2420 views
The program challenges participants to design or present a fresh concept for an Organic Skyscraper – a skyscraper that ‘grows when required’.
The skyscraper will serve as a Tech City (technology and digital media centered companies) within the area. The design proposal should be one whose topology allows for the possibility to grow as the need for more space becomes necessary in the future to counter today's ever-increasing number of city commercial skyscrapers which are under utilised or sparsely rented out or empty floors. This has sometimes been due to the trend for commissioning and constructing unnecessarily high skyscrapers with low-density use or occupancy in major cities.
The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging, explore and investigate the possibilities for urban skyscrapers that presents the possibility to increase useable space vertically and horizontally as the need arises or even to shrink where there is space or height surplus to requirement for a number of reasons.It should also to maximise the positive impact of such a vertical structures whist minimising the negative.
Total Design Area: Open to participants
Total Plot Size: 3,510 m² (square meters), approximately
ELIGIBILITY:
· Architects
· Graduate Architects
· Architecture Students
· Team (Architects, Graduate Architect, Architecture Students, Engineers, Designers, Urbanist, Landscape Architects)
FEES:
Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:
· Special Registration: $60 US from 06th February 00:00 (GMT) to 20th February 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Early Registration: $80 US from 21st February 00:00 (GMT) to 17th March 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Standard Registration: $100 US from 18th March 00:00 (GMT) to 29th May 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Late Registration: $120 US from 30th May 00:00 (GMT) to 10th June 2014 23:59 (GMT)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
10th June 2014 23:59 (GMT) -Closing Date for Submissions
Total Plot Size: 3,510 m² (square meters), approximately
ELIGIBILITY:
· Architects
· Graduate Architects
· Architecture Students
· Team (Architects, Graduate Architect, Architecture Students, Engineers, Designers, Urbanist, Landscape Architects)
FEES:
Every entrant shall be required to pay an entry fee as follows:
· Special Registration: $60 US from 06th February 00:00 (GMT) to 20th February 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Early Registration: $80 US from 21st February 00:00 (GMT) to 17th March 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Standard Registration: $100 US from 18th March 00:00 (GMT) to 29th May 2014 23:59 (GMT)
· Late Registration: $120 US from 30th May 00:00 (GMT) to 10th June 2014 23:59 (GMT)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
10th June 2014 23:59 (GMT) -Closing Date for Submissions
JURY: TBA
RESULT ANNOUNCEMENT / PUBLICATION:
26th June 2014 -Winners Announcement
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winning project entry will receive prizes totaling US$ 5,000.00 as follows:
1st Prize
- US$ 3,000 (THREE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)
- Publication in SuperSkyScrapers - Volume 1 Book
- Published on the SuperSkyScrapers website and social media platform
- Published on various online magazine, blogs and media platform
2nd Prize
- US$ 1,200 (ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED US DOLLARS)
- Publication in SuperSkyScrapers - Volume 1 Book
- Published on the SuperSkyScrapers website and social media platform
- Published on various online magazine, blogs and media platform
3rd Prize
- US$ 800 (EIGHT HUNDRED US DOLLARS)
- Publication in SuperSkyScrapers - Volume 1 Book
- Published on the SuperSkyScrapers website and social media platform
- Published on various online magazine, blogs and media platform
10 Special Mentions (Subject to Jury Discretion) will also be published on our website, social media and book
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