Competition Alert! [Architects, Designers, Planners, Landscape Architects, Engineers]

Hey Quirklusters!

There’s a new competition out there for Architects, Designers, Engineers, Urban Planners, Landscape Archies, etc. –Sounds really amazing and there’s some big bucks to be had for the winner! Check it out below.

Lust on!

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Close the Gap invites architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and students worldwide to broaden the dialogue of alternative solutions for sustainable urban living.

The competition focuses on the Midtown sector of New York City’s East River Greenway – a critical missing link in Manhattan’s alternative transportation infrastructure.

Close the Gap requests urban design solutions that complete the missing link between East 38th and East 60th streets, integrating alternative means of transportation including walking, jogging, biking, etc., as well as leisure and recreation space.

Close the Gap calls for proposals that fundamentally transform how people move through Manhattan. The competition offers a platform for exploring emerging ethics and aesthetics in urban design, as well trans-disciplinary underpinnings that link ecology with architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and urbanism. Close the Gap welcomes submissions that propose diverse, multi-layered, and nuanced understandings reconnecting people with cities, waterfronts, and alternative transportation systems. Entrants are encouraged to craft the fullest possible definition of alternative transportation that offers the potential to flexibly adapt and grow over time.

Eligibility

Individual or group entries worldwide are accepted. No limit on the number of participants per team.

Prize

Top concepts, designs, and images will be selected as finalists by a diverse jury of distinguished academics and professionals.

• First Prize: $3000 cash prize
• Second Prize: $2000 cash prize
• Third Prize: $1000 cash prize
• Special Mention Categories

Winning and top projects will be publicized in a broad media campaign in Fall 2011. An exhibition of competition winners will be shown at the Center for Architecture in NYC, Center Gallery at Fordham University, as well as other venues. A permanent gallery of all projects submitted to the competition will be published on-line. A print publication of winning and top design proposals is anticipated.