Parachute Pavilion Winner Announced
At 1pm EST today, the Coney Island Development Association and the Van Alen Institute announces the winner of the Parachute Pavilion, an open ideas competition for a year-round structure at the base of the famous Parachute Jump. Having registered but not completed the competition, I'm especially eager to see the winning design. I'll post some images and information on the winning entry once it becomes available.
And the winner is...the team of Kevin Carmody, Andrew Groarke, Chris Hardie and Lewis Kinneir, of London, chosen from more than 850 entries from 46 countries. According to Van Alen's press release, "The winning design team receives $10,000 and the opportunity to work with Van Alen Institute to develop a program and a publication that demonstrate the role of powerful design in improving the City...Second prize of $5,000 was awarded to Ramon Knoester and Eckart Graeve of Brooklyn and the Netherlands, and the $3,000 third prize went to Roman Torres, Patrick Stinger, Mayva Marshall and Adam Montalbano of Philadelphia. There were nine Honorable Mentions representing entries from London, Paris, Copenhagen, Athens and the Netherlands, as well as the United States."
Views of the winning entry:
Update 05.27: All the entries can be viewed right here.
Big F*#^%in deal! Of ocurse I am reacting to the two images, but I can't see why this should be a winner (Unless no one else entered)
ReplyDeleteI'll admit I like, but mainly due to the fact it features two elements that would have been present in our competition entry (had we actually submitted).
ReplyDelete1. Making the boardwalk level transparent and raising a solid mass above that also acts as cover. Given the site and its constraints, doing this creates more boardwalk within the building and gives some visual and perhaps physical continuity to the pedestrian movement across the site. You'd probably need to see the site to know exactly what I mean (the boardwalk makes an L around the site), so you'll have to trust me.
2. Opening up part of the roof to frame the Parachute Jump. While we were thinking of a circular or elliptical opening that tapered as it reached towards the sky, the general idea of framing this rather appealing object is the same.
Is the winning team the same team that won last years Burnham Prize in Chicago?
ReplyDeletePerhaps lil'g should upload images of their scheme?