Centennial Festival of Riverboats Pavilions Design Competition

We invites architects, designers & artists to participate in the Centennial Festival of Riverboats through the design of a small-scale, temporary and multipurpose pavilion to be used in series throughout the Waterfront.

Description
The Belle of Louisville, the oldest operating steamboat in the United States, will be celebrating a century of service in October, 2014. To celebrate this milestone, the Centennial Festival of Riverboats will take place from October 14-19, 2014 at Louisville’s Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville, attracting an estimated 300,000 visitors from around the world.
The Festival Committee invites architects, designers & artists to participate in the Centennial Festival of Riverboats through the design of a small-scale, temporary and multipurpose pavilion to be used in series throughout the Waterfront. The pavilions will accommodate a variety of activities during the event. Actual uses may include music performance space, seating, bourbon tasting space or areas for vending and exhibitions. Because of its repetition along the event grounds, the winning pavilion will play a major role as a visual and programmatic cue for the festival.

Jury
Rick Bell, Louisville Waterfront Historian
Karen Gillenwater, Curator, Carnegie Center for Art and History New Albany, IN
Augusta Brown Holland, Community Developer
Nat Irvin II, Strickler Chair, University of Louisville College of Business
Representative Joni Jenkins, Kentucky House District 44
Sarah Lyon, Photographer
Kulapat Yantrasast, Founder & Principal, wHY Architecture

Prize
First Prize: $2000 + fabrication/installation of the project)
Second Prize: $1000
Honorable Mention: $500 (awarded at the discretion of the jury)

Entry Fee
$50

Entries
One size E1 (30”x 42”) pdf

Timetable
Public Exhibition of entries KMAC: 2014 May 15th – June 15th
Jury/Announcement of Prizes: June 14th, 2014
Winning entrants will be notified via email.
Centennial Festival of Riverboats: October 15-19, 2014

Organizer
Waterfront Development Corporation

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