DawnTown ’08 - Waterworks

DawnTown 2008: Waterworks invites designers, students, architects, landscape architects, and artists worldwide to generate innovative design proposals for a project that will contribute to the 21st century vision for Downtown Miami. Entrants are directed to redesign an existing infrastructure element at the edge of waterfront Bicentennial Park and the renovated Biscayne Blvd in Downtown Miami, and transform it into a public icon of the new Downtown.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Open, Single-Stage
Genre Landscape, Redevelopment, Urban
Country Miami, Florida
RegDeadline 7 November 2008 GoogleCal iCal
21 November 2008 GoogleCal
Eligibility All

Jury
Terry Riley, Director, Miami Art Museum
Alex Wall, Professor of Urban Design, University of Karlsruhe
Loretta Cockrum, CEO, Foram Group
Cathy Leff, Director, The Wolfsonian-FIU
Raymond Jungles, Landscape Architect

Prize
First prize: USD 8,000
Second prize: USD 4,000
Third prize: USD 2,000

Entry Fee
None

Entries
Maximum of two 24 inch by 36 inch images

Submission Address
DawnTown 2008: Waterworks
c/o Andrew Frey
1 SE 3rd Ave, 25th Floor
Miami, FL 33131

Timetable
Questions deadline: October 17, 2008
Answers emailed to registrants: October 24, 2008
Jury results announced during Art Basel Miami Beach: December 5, 2008

Organizer
University of Miami, Florida International University, and Miami Dade College schools of architecture, the Miami Mayor's Office, the Miami Downtown Development Authority, and the Miami Art Museum

Official Website
http://www.dawntown.org/