If you've been following the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition, Stage One attracted an astounding 1,715 entries from 77 countries. However, only six of those entries made it as finalists to proceed to Stage Two, which will begin in the early months of 2015. With that said, we know many of you that participated in the competition want to share what you submitted. — bustler.net
Unless you happened to look through all 1,715 submissions (did you really, though), wouldn't you want to see more of the designs that your fellow participants around the world had in mind?
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As more entries are uploaded, we will continuously highlight the ones that pique our interest. (On that note, we would honestly love to learn more about the submission used as the cover image here.)
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I love this idea! I'm interested in hearing about designers' thought processes behind their submissions!
Idaho Potato designers – PLEASE reveal yourself!
Just some friendly advice; Do not call people who took this competition seriously losers.
Here was what I believe the process was:
1. Create site restrictions so confining that the buildable envelope was extremely small.
2. Add a complex program so that the design was impacted inside and out.
3. Require 2 exterior perspectives so that compliance with the objective parameters could be checked visually very quickly.
Even though there were 1715 submissions, compliance checks with the objective parameters were so simple jack simple I believe, most could be eliminated in 1/2 a day. You do not think so? The design was not supposed to block views from the park. If you hit a fly ball you do not get to run around the bases. Just that simple.
From this small pool of submissions, apply other criteria to create a short list of submissions.
A fair process which the jury shit canned because I believe all they are interested in is getting this through the city.
Then they issue a bullshit statement of high principles and hire a turd polisher to spruce these puppies up into something acceptable(there is not enough turtle wax in Walmart).
So what was I thinking when I was doing my design? That's obvious, underestimating what I believe to be the fundamental dishonesty and cynicism of the jury of course.
Who are the Idaho Potato designers? I do not know, but at least they did not want to subject some of the greatest works of art the human race has ever produced to a 7th grade science experiment and were not so fucking lazy as to not do a fucking original design.
Just a guess, but I am thinking that the jury is as toxic and popular as a feline cooler fart about now.
To my fellow competitors:
PLEASE DO NOT LET THE GUGGENHEIM GET ANY MORE FREE PUBLICITY FROM YOUR HARD WORK. THEY JUST CALLED YOU LOSERS. DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT AND POST YOUR WORK. THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO MANUFACTURE CONTROVERSY. VOTE WTH YOUR SILENCE. BELIEVE ME THEY WILL HEAR YOU. FUCK THEM.
just my 2 cents
Lye_Nerd, I think Bustler used the word losers, not the Gugg, and it was intended jokingly, yes?
I don't know what you were thinking when you were doing your proposal, it's not obvious. Did you submit one? And what was your concept? I'm serious, I'm curious. it woudl be fun for architects to talk to one another about our ideas, that's all.
Donna, that's exactly right. Bustler's crafted cover pic uses (or does it...?) the word "losers" completely tongue-in-cheek. The call's intention is to celebrate and highlight some of the 1,709 proposals that were not among the jury-selected 6 finalists but nonetheless worth a closer look.
was "losers" in pic crossed out before Lye__Nerd____Sky__Nerd's comment?
Nam: Yes, from the very beginning. It was specifically designed like that by Bustler.
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