Type: Open, international, three-phase
Language: English
Eligibiligy:
The Lead Designer may be an indiidual, a studio or a close collaboration of individuals
The design Team shal be comprised of, as a minimum, representatives of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering and an artist
Registration Fee: unlisted
Awards:
All stage III participants will receive an honorarium of $100,000
Timeline:
13 January 2010 – Pre-submittal Meeting/Site Visit
22 January 2010 – Question and Answer Period Ends
26 January 2010 – Competition Registration Ends
28 January 2010 – Stage I Portfolios Due
1 February 2010 – Evaluation of Portfolios
Jury:
Eight-person jury, to be announced
Design Challenge: For the first time in a half century, the National Park Service is revisiting one of the world’s most iconic monuments – The Gateway Arch – to integrate the magnificent memorial and its grounds with St. Louis, the Mississippi River and Illinois on the other side. They’ve announced a new international design competition, calling on the world’s best designers and architects. The competition starts now.
Now, in the spirit of Saarinen, new inspiration is being sought. A call has been issued in accordance with a new General Management Plan by the National Park Service to better “frame” this American masterpiece. The goals: weave it back into the fabric of the city and the region … rejuvenate connections … welcome and draw people for repeated visits … and re-energize the region for living, working and visiting. As in 1947, this competition aims to invite and extract “the best from the best” to create a model for integrating open space into a city’s urban fabric. All with a construction finish line of October 28, 2015 … the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Arch.
For more information, go to: http://www.cityarchrivercompetition.org/
Sponsors: CityArchRiver 2015 Foundation, National Parks Service