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Transforming Seattle's 520 Floating Bridge
Result
First Place
South Park Food Bridge
David Dahl and Nicole Lew
Second Place
Spirit Pavilion
Jon Gentry and Aimee O'Carroll
Third Place
Sea Quilt
Rikako Wakabayashi and Sen Ando
Overview
This competition seeks design proposals which either utilize the bridge in its current state or take the bridge apart and reuse its pontoons at a new site on Lake Washington, Lake Union or in the Puget Sound in Washington State.
| Category | Idea Competition / Open to Students / Competition Result |
| Type | International, Idea, Open, Single-Stage, Anonymous |
| Genre | Bridge |
| Country | Seattle, United States |
| RegDeadline | 10 August 2012 (See "Entry Fee" below) GoogleCal iCal |
| 15 August 2012 (via Online) GoogleCal | |
| Eligibility | Professionals and students of the international design and art communities over the age of 18 |
Description
The Transforming Seattle’s 520 Floating Bridge 2012 International Design Ideas Competition is challenging the design and art communities to envision new, innovative reuse strategies. The 520 bridge will be decommissioned in 2014 due to high maintenance costs, damage, and the need for additional lanes. The Washington State Department of Transportation is requiring of the new bridge’s design-build team that it be reused or recycled in a sustainable fashion; current trends for the reuse of pontoons have been floating docks, breakwaters and piers, but what else could be done with such a feat of engineering?
Jury
Robert E. Hull (FAIA, Architect - Founding Partner and Lead Designer of Miller|Hull Partnership, LLP) Ev Ruffcorn (FAIA, Architect - Design Principal at NBBJ )
Shannon Nichol (PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, Landscape Architect - Director of Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ellen Sollod (Environmental Artist and Designer - Principal at Sollod Studio)
Mark Hinshaw (FAIA, FAICP Urban Designer - Principal and Director of Urban Design at LMN Architects
Moderator - Peter Steinbrueck (Architect and Design Strategist - Steinbrueck Urban Strategies LLC)
Prize
First Place: $3,000
Second Place: $1,500
Third Place: $500
Best Student Entry: $500
5 Honorable Mentions: $100 each
Entry Fee
Early Registration: $40 - June 5 to July 4, 2012
Regular Registration: $100 - July 5 to August 10, 2012
Entries
A 32” x 40” board
Timetable
Awards Announced at Seattle Design Festival and on Website: September 21, 2012
http://www.rethinkreuse.org/competition.html
Public Exhibition in AIA Seattle Gallery, Virtual Exhibition Launched: Sept. 18 - Oct. 26, 2012
Organizer
RETHINK REUSE
Official Website
http://www.rethinkreuse.org/competition.html