Louisville Children's Museum Competition

Designing a Louisville Children’s Museum, Revitalizing a Downtown Edge, , is an in-ternational ideas competition sponsored by the local chapters of the Construction Specifica-tions Institute (CSI) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Description
Designing a Louisville Children’s Museum, Revitalizing a Downtown Edge, , is an in-ternational ideas competition sponsored by the local chapters of the Construction Specifica-tions Institute (CSI) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Lousiville is one of the fewcities of its size without a museum dedicated specifically to children between the ages of 2-13,and this museum is to be considered as a model to fill that vacuum.
The choice of this site for the competition is intended to address the following issues:
- Located next to the city’s main public library, the museum could draw on the large numbersof children accompanied by their parents visiting the library.
- Until now, most of the development and investment in the city has been concentrated in thedowntown area bordering the Ohio River. More recently, the City of Louisville has begun to tar-get the area at the edge of the downtown core for revitalization, starting with Broadway, andextending south to Old Louisville. Although the area does include some important institutions,such as Spalding University, Bridgehaven Mental Health Services, numerous churches and hous-ing for the elderly, it lacks in density and urban activity. By implementing a strong program atthe edge, with the Children’s Museum as an iconic arrival factor, and the addition of importantdesign elements across Second Street to fill two gaps now used as parking lots, this projectcould be an important building block for neighborhood revitalization, over and beyond the tar-geted site. Bringing more traffic to the site should eventually result in more retail and commer-cial amenities.

Jury
Expert Jury:
Sylvia Smith, FAIA, Senior Partner, FxFowle Architects, New York Office
Michael Speaks, AIA, Dean, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Susan Szenasy, Editor, METROPOLIS magazine, New York
Carol Drucker, Principal, Drucker Zajdel Structural Engineers, Inc., Naperville, Illinois
Leigh Breslau, AIA, Trahan Architects, Chicago Studio
Marc L’Italien, FAIA, Principal, EHDD, San Francisco
Alternates:
Kevin Fennell, AIA, GBBN, Louisville, KY
Brian Court, AIA, The Miller Hull Partnership, Seattl
Technical Jury:
Lawrence Timperman, AIA, Michell Timperman Ritz Architects, New Albany, Indiana
Brian Koetter, AIA, Stengel-Hill Architecture, Louisville, Kentucky
Randall Reifsnider, CSI, AIA, Conspectus, Inc., Louisville Office

Prize
First Prize: $6,000
Second Prize: $3,000
Third Prize: $1,000
Honorable Mentions (3)

Entry Fee
Professionals $75
Student teams $60 (Teams are allowed only one submission per fee)
Individual students $30

Entries
Two 40” x 30” boards and a digital file containing images

Timetable
Jury session/Announcement of winners 18 February 2014

Organizer
The local chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA)and the Construction Specification Institute (CSI)

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