Check out the winning entry for the City of Dreams Pavilion competition for Governors Island

2017-03-13T18:01:00-04:00

The winner of the seventh annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition has been announced: Cast & Place by Team Aesop (Josh Draper from PrePost/RPI-CASE, Lisa Ramsburg and Powell Draper from Schlaich Bergermann Partner, Edward M. Segal from Hofstra University, and Max Dowd from Cooper Union). Pending government approval and fundraising, the project will be realized on Governors Island and opened to the public this summer.

Each year, FIGMENT, the Emerging New York Architects Committee of the AIA New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York team up to host the competition, which endeavors to promote “sustainability-oriented thinking”. Submitting architects are required to consider such factors as material sourcing and disposal (or reuse).

This year’s winning submission, Cast & Place “reimagines waste as a transformative resource for our New York City future,” states the press release. “Soil dredged from the East River, the material also used in the construction o...

Finalists of The City of Dreams 2013-2014 Pavilion Competition

2013-09-16T18:49:00-04:00

FIGMENT, ENYA, and SEAoNY announced the five finalists for this year's City of Dreams Pavilion Competition. [...] The winning project will be constructed on Governors Island in New York City for the Summer 2014 season.

The finalists are:

ArtCloud by IKAR
Dreamcatcher by ManifoldArchitectureStudio
Governor’s Cup by CDR Studio with Sustainable Engineering Services
MÖBI water tower pavilion by STUDIO V Architecture with FTL Design Engineering Studio and Plaxall
Urban Accordion by afoam

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Check out the winning entry for the City of Dreams Pavilion competition for Governors Island

Finalists of The City of Dreams 2013-2014 Pavilion Competition