Mine the Gap, 2010 Chicago Prize Competition

Chicago Architectural Club
The market is exhausted, and our cities are left with scars.
What to do when the old forces can no longer drive practice?
How can we fill the hole?

The Chicago Architectural Club is pleased to announce the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan shore that was to have been-and may yet be-the foundation for a singular 150-story condominium tower designed by an internationally-renowned Spanish architect, a tower which was to have become a new icon for the city and region.

What to do with the gap?
Whether or not the project is resuscitated, what else can we do with this strategic and highly-charged site?
Once the motor of real-estate speculation has stalled, what can we use to propel ourselves, and the discipline, forward?

Competition launch: 10/2/2010
Competition deadline: 3/5/2010

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Publicado por: Alberto Gorbatt