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"Wynwood Greenhouse" gets 1st place in DawnTown’s Wynwood Gateway Park Competition in Miami

2014-09-30T17:21:00-04:00

Our friends at DawnTown continue to uphold innovative ideas in the Miami architecture scene with their Wynwood Gateway Park Competition. Just recently, the winners were announced for the international competition, which challenged participants to design a 14,000-sq.ft urban park and garden to be realized at the Wynwood Gateway Complex near Downtown Miami. The competition garnered over 238 submissions from interdisciplinary teams from over 20 countries.

Three winning teams were selected under anonymity by the jury:

1ST PLACE (US$10,000): "Wynwood Greenhouse" by artist Jim Drain, landscape architect Roberto Rovira, and architect Nick Gelpi
2ND PLACE ($5,000): “Graffito Green” by Meyer + Silberberg Land Architects from Berkeley, California
3RD PLACE ($2,500): “Wynwood Commons” by Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu/SO-IL from Brooklyn, New York

Wynwood Greenhouse will be constructed and implemented as part of the second phase for the Wynwood Gateway Complex development, which will be built as a dynamic entryway for the Wynwood neighborhood.

Find out more on Bustler.

Previous DawnTown competitions.

Winners of the 2014 DawnTown Alternative Mobilities competition

2014-06-10T18:42:00-04:00

Miami is one of several U.S. cities promoting the value of better city infrastructure and the existence of alternative modes of transportation, as emphasized in the Miami DDA Masterplan. In collaboration with the initiative, local non-profit group DawnTown hosted the Alternative Mobilities competition, which asked designers to create a new meeting space in Downtown Miami's Central Business District for people using these alternative transit strategies.

At the end of the competition, three winners were selected:

1st place: "The Catalyst" by Studio GeKo - Bastian Gerner, Pola Rebecca Koch (Arhus, Denmark)

2nd place: "Mobile Miami" by Jeff Jasinski and Matt Dureiko (Kent State University, Cleveland, Ohio)

3rd place: "MoPAD" by Michael Barker (New York City)

Check out videos of each winning submission below.

Finalists for DawnTown’s 2nd Design/Build Competition

2014-02-08T02:25:00-05:00

Fifteen finalists in DawnTown's second annual Design/Build Competition still have a chance to design the next temporary installation at HistoryMiami in Downtown Miami's Cultural Center.

In phase one of the competition, the jury received over 100 portfolio submissions from around the world -- although mostly from the U.S. Teams submitted works that conveyed their design philosophies.

The finalists have received the competition program and schedule.

The finalists are:

Dimitri Damiel Kim - Xmanifold ADRL, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA
Diogo Aguiar, Joao Jesus & Teresa Otto - LIKE Architects, Porto, Portugal
Emily Abruzzo & Gerald Brodziak - Abruzzo Bodziak Architects, Brooklyn, NY
Meg Jackson, Michael Gonzales & Damian Artiega - MMD Design, Houston, TX
Nils Rainer Schultz & Hans Feyerabend - Berlin, Germany; Miami, FL
Stewart Hicks & Allison Newmeyer - Design With Company, Chicago, IL
Katie MacDonald & Kyle Schumann - After Architecture, New York, NY
Wendy W Fok, Evelyn Tilney & Jenny Chow - atel...

DawnTown Announces Landmark Miami Competition Winners

2013-05-09T18:08:00-04:00

Three winners and one honorable mention have been announced in DawnTown Miami's 2013 ideas competition entitled Landmark Miami. This year’s theme focused on how cities are instantly identified by the individual structures within them. [...] architects and designers were tasked with creating an iconic architectural piece that contributes to the image of Miami.

DawnTown Design/Build Competition Winner on View in Miami

2013-04-15T19:44:00-04:00

If you're in Miami these days, make sure to visit the exhibit of Up-Downtown, the winning entry of DawnTown’s inaugural Design/Build competition [...]. Up-Downtown, the successful collaboration between Jacob Brillhart (Miami, FL) and Manuel Clavel-Rojo (Murcia, Spain), interactively presents the rapid rise of downtown Miami over an extended period of time.

DawnTown Miami Unveils Winner of its First Design/Build Competition

2013-01-21T17:28:00-05:00

DawnTown, well known for its annual design ideas competitions for Miami, has announced the winner of its inaugural Design/Build competition. Over 110 submissions competed to design a low cost, temporary installation on the topic of Evolution in Miami. From a narrowed-down list of 16, the jury finally selected the international collaboration between Manuel Clavel-Rojo (Murcia, Spain) and Jacob Brillhart (Miami, Florida) as the winners.

Recap of DawnTown Miami | The First Four Years of Ideas

2011-11-28T18:11:20-05:00

DawnTown Miami | The First Four Years of Ideas, the exhibition on the eponymous annual architectural design competition for Downtown Miami, ended last week. Over the past four years, DawnTown Miami has challenged architects, urban designers, and artists, to propose their visions for neglected spaces in Florida's largest city [...]. The First Four Years of Ideas took a look back at the very best works produced from these competitions.

DawnTown Miami Exhibition Opens Next Week

2011-10-31T14:34:45-04:00

If you happen to be in Miami, Florida this November, make sure to check out the upcoming exhibition DawnTown Miami | The First Four Years of Ideas which will open on November 9th, 2011 at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The opening and reception begins at 6:30pm at the Irvin Korach Gallery, and marks the first retrospective ever produced by DawnTown.

Find images of the winning DawnTown Miami projects from the previous four years in the image gallery below.

Winners of the 2011 DawnTown Miami Floating Stage Competition

2011-05-04T13:25:00-04:00

Five winners have just been announced at the 2011 edition of DawnTown Miami. The annual architecture ideas competition seeks to bring creative, innovative, and inspiring new solutions to Downtown Miami and to the City of Miami at large.

Now in its fourth year, DawnTown partnered with a local historic preservation group to help bring prominence to an early piece of Miami's modern architecture period. The competition invited designers to envision a complimenting structure to the Miami Marine Stadium, aiming to make it a great event space once again -- paired with a new Floating Stage.