Sponsor: Royal Parks Foundation, Tiffany & Co. Foundation
Type: Open, international, two phase
Location: London
Language: English
Fee:
Professionals - £50
Students - £15
Eligibility:
The competition is open internationally to entries from all fields. Entries are welcomed from all design disciplines eg: architects, engineers, product designers, and artists. Inter-discipline team-working is encouraged where necessary to ensure that all aspects of the fountain are fit for purpose.
Timetable:
14 June 2010 – Brief available
16 August 2010 – Deadline for questions
26 August 2010 – Response to questions
22 September 2010 – Stage One submission deadline
Week of 27 September 2010 – Assessment of designs and Stage Two invitations
Week of 18 October 2010 – Stage To presentation/interview
Final week of October 2010 – Announcement of result
Awards:
Each of the teams invited to proceed to the second stage of the competition will receive an equal share of an honorarium of £3,000 plus vat, with a maximum of three teams to be invited.
The winner’s honorarium represents an advance on any professional fees post-competition.
Jury:
The Jury Panel (which may be subject to change) is expected to comprise 8 members, yet to be announced. Michael Freeman, Trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation and founder of Argent Group, will chair the panel.
Design Challenge:
The RIBA is delighted to announce the launch of an international open design competition for the design of a new drinking fountain that can then be installed throughout the Royal Parks in London.
The Royal Parks in London are among the greatest public spaces in the world. However, several of the showpiece water features and many of the public drinking fountains in the Royal Parks - some of them generations old - now need to be refurbished or replaced; and there is a need for new additional public drinking fountains to provide visitors with an attractive, sustainable alternative to bringing vast numbers of plastic water bottles into the Parks and disposing of them in the Parks.
The Tiffany & Co. Foundation has very generously agreed a gift to the Royal Parks, through the Royal Parks Foundation (USA), of more than $1million (£825,000) to restore the much loved Italian Gardens water feature in Kensington Gardens; to create a new landmark water feature in St. James’s Park; and to restore a number of existing public drinking fountains in the Parks.
Part of the donation is to be used to design a new low-cost, attractive model drinking fountain to be installed in a number of locations in the Parks (and then, it is hoped, it will be adopted internationally in other public spaces around the world).
The objective of this competition is to find the design – and the designer – for this new model drinking fountain.
Submission Requirements:
1. 1 x A2 lightweight board, to outline the design proposal by whatever type or types of 2-dimensional graphics the entrant chooses (eg: drawings, sketches, photo-montages, computer-generated images etc)
2. A written statement on a maximum of 4 single-sided A4 pages to describe the concept (maximum 2,000 words). This should also address the financial viability of the proposals and their ability to be delivered within the Prototype and Roll-Out Budgets
3. The completed declaration form, placed in a sealed envelope marked “declaration of authorship”
4. A CD containing an electronic copy of the design board (PDF format) and design statement (Word format). The PDF of the design board should be <1Mb in size. The CD should also contain publicity images (up to three) for use in the printed and electronic media. These should be submitted in JPEG format with low (72dpi) and high (300dpi) resolution versions of each image. The publicity images should be representative of the design ideas proposed and be readily identifiable as such.
Architectural models will NOT be accepted, however photographs of models used to develop the proposals may be included on the design board.
For more information, go to: http://www.royalparksfoundation.org/fountains/competition.cfm
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Type: Open, international, two phase
Location: London
Language: English
Fee:
Professionals - £50
Students - £15
Eligibility:
The competition is open internationally to entries from all fields. Entries are welcomed from all design disciplines eg: architects, engineers, product designers, and artists. Inter-discipline team-working is encouraged where necessary to ensure that all aspects of the fountain are fit for purpose.
Timetable:
14 June 2010 – Brief available
16 August 2010 – Deadline for questions
26 August 2010 – Response to questions
22 September 2010 – Stage One submission deadline
Week of 27 September 2010 – Assessment of designs and Stage Two invitations
Week of 18 October 2010 – Stage To presentation/interview
Final week of October 2010 – Announcement of result
Awards:
Each of the teams invited to proceed to the second stage of the competition will receive an equal share of an honorarium of £3,000 plus vat, with a maximum of three teams to be invited.
The winner’s honorarium represents an advance on any professional fees post-competition.
Jury:
The Jury Panel (which may be subject to change) is expected to comprise 8 members, yet to be announced. Michael Freeman, Trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation and founder of Argent Group, will chair the panel.
Design Challenge:
The RIBA is delighted to announce the launch of an international open design competition for the design of a new drinking fountain that can then be installed throughout the Royal Parks in London.
The Royal Parks in London are among the greatest public spaces in the world. However, several of the showpiece water features and many of the public drinking fountains in the Royal Parks - some of them generations old - now need to be refurbished or replaced; and there is a need for new additional public drinking fountains to provide visitors with an attractive, sustainable alternative to bringing vast numbers of plastic water bottles into the Parks and disposing of them in the Parks.
The Tiffany & Co. Foundation has very generously agreed a gift to the Royal Parks, through the Royal Parks Foundation (USA), of more than $1million (£825,000) to restore the much loved Italian Gardens water feature in Kensington Gardens; to create a new landmark water feature in St. James’s Park; and to restore a number of existing public drinking fountains in the Parks.
Part of the donation is to be used to design a new low-cost, attractive model drinking fountain to be installed in a number of locations in the Parks (and then, it is hoped, it will be adopted internationally in other public spaces around the world).
The objective of this competition is to find the design – and the designer – for this new model drinking fountain.
Submission Requirements:
1. 1 x A2 lightweight board, to outline the design proposal by whatever type or types of 2-dimensional graphics the entrant chooses (eg: drawings, sketches, photo-montages, computer-generated images etc)
2. A written statement on a maximum of 4 single-sided A4 pages to describe the concept (maximum 2,000 words). This should also address the financial viability of the proposals and their ability to be delivered within the Prototype and Roll-Out Budgets
3. The completed declaration form, placed in a sealed envelope marked “declaration of authorship”
4. A CD containing an electronic copy of the design board (PDF format) and design statement (Word format). The PDF of the design board should be <1Mb in size. The CD should also contain publicity images (up to three) for use in the printed and electronic media. These should be submitted in JPEG format with low (72dpi) and high (300dpi) resolution versions of each image. The publicity images should be representative of the design ideas proposed and be readily identifiable as such.
Architectural models will NOT be accepted, however photographs of models used to develop the proposals may be included on the design board.
For more information, go to: http://www.royalparksfoundation.org/fountains/competition.cfm
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