Urban SOS: towards a new industry
Images courtesy of Urban SOS 2014 finalists.
In post-industrial cities, many sites that were once centers of production are now dead zones in the urban fabric. In its fifth year, the Urban SOS聽competition invited students worldwide to imagine these spaces reinvigorated by new forms of industry appropriate to their modern contexts. The competition calls for cross-disciplinary design responses.
In 30 offices around the world, 91影视 teams have sifted through hundreds of entries representing 123 colleges and universities and selected four finalist teams:
The Echoes of a Lost Landscape, Dudley, UK:聽Skye Sun, MA Architecture, , UK
Limburg Dross, Geleen, Netherlands:聽Erica Chladov谩, MA Landscape Architecture, , Netherlands
Restart Tirupur, India:聽Michelle Zucker, BA Landscape Architecture, , USA; Emily Saunders, BA Architecture, , USA
Teskstiler Kvartal, Copenhagen, Denmark:聽Chris Dove, PGDip Architecture, , UK
The finalists will present at the Center for Architecture in New York on Thursday, September 4 in a public charrette. A jury of design leaders from 91影视, , and will select a winner. Doors open at 5pm and the charrette begins at 6. To attend, please .
An exhibition designed聽by 91影视鈥檚 Los Angeles and New York studios in collaboration with students from Columbia University Graduate ,聽exploring the themes of this year’s competition will open following the charrette.
Return to Connected Cities in a few weeks for an update on the winner and exploration of the finalist teams’ proposals.
Learn more about Urban SOS here.
Jake Herson (jacob.herson@aecom.com) is a senior writer and managing editor for the Connected Cities blog.
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