Winners of the Dwell Vision Award 2013

2013-11-14T21:10:00-05:00

Dwell Media recently honored the finalists at the Dwell Vision Award 2013 ceremony at the historic Jane's Carousel in DUMBO in Brooklyn, New York. The DVA acknowledges the best of progressive technical and artistic innovation in modern design.

One winner and two finalists were selected out of nearly 300 entries from top architecture firms to emerging designers.

Winner: Harvest Dome 2.0 by Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi - SLO Architecture
Finalist 1: Building with Bed Frames by Bundit Kanisthakhon - Tadpole Studio
Finalist 2: Orongo Station by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Learn more about Harvest Dome 2.0 in this article here on Archinect.

Harvest Dome 2.0 is finally afloat

2013-08-05T17:39:00-04:00

After two years of steadfast trial and inevitable error, Harvest Dome 2.0 was finally docked into the Harlem River at the Inwood Hill Park Inlet in New York during its debut last week.

Created by husband-and-wife team Amanda Schachter and Alexander Levi of SLO Architecture, the first Harvest Dome crashed into Rikers Island where it was later destroyed by NYC's Department of Correction in October 2011. Without losing hope, Schachter and Levi launched a Kickstarter fund we helped promote last year to build Harvest Dome 2.0. And to their success, they raised $7,596 out of their $7,500 minimum goal.

The cactus-like 24-foot-diameter orb was built entirely out of over 400 disposed umbrella skeletons collected around NYC and a ring of 128 two-liter soda bottles to keep it afloat. A bright addition to Harvest Dome 2.0 is the LED lights inserted into each bottle to create a glowing halo that illuminates the river at night.

The dome was built as an artistic representation of NYC'...

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Winners of the Dwell Vision Award 2013

Harvest Dome 2.0 is finally afloat