Originally, set to be announced April 26, the announcement has been pushed to May 2nd. Does anybody have any idea why this would happen? Do winners get notified beforehand?
This presents an opportunity to tell my favorite competition story.
25ish years ago there was a competition to imagine what to do w/ a vacant triangle of land left over between the intersection of 3 streets in lower Manhattan, sponsored by a local but very well known/regarded architectural gallery, with the jury chaired by a minor starchitect. Being a young architect with nothing better to do, I entered the competition, and if i say so myself, my entry was pretty good. A week before the winners were to be announced, a co-worker said that her friend had already seen all of the entries. "How could that be?" I asked. "Her dad is the jury chair." I was told. A few days before the winners were to be announced, the gallery announced that the starchitect was withdrawing from the jury.
Can you guess what happened next?
That's right, the competition was won by.....the starchitect's daughter.
We had a similar thing happen here before. We have a local architectural group similar to the one you're talking about. Inevitably, the architect who chaired it would win at least one award from his group, every year. Now, he was an incredible designer (RIP) but that part was always bullshit. It's like he barely tried to hide it.
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EVOLO 2022 winners announcement postponement
Originally, set to be announced April 26, the announcement has been pushed to May 2nd. Does anybody have any idea why this would happen? Do winners get notified beforehand?
Why? This year's winning proposal will look like any other proposal from the past 10years of the competition.
Yeah, but they'll all be sustainable, this time, and won't be mistaken for a coffee stir stick!
how many of them will be 3D-printed coffee stir sticks?
Announcing competition winners today!? In this economy!?
Psst ... I heard* it was some super ridiculous scandal.
*I just made up.
thank you all, very much, so grateful, much insight.
Happy to oblige! Cheers!
My invoice is in the mail.
This presents an opportunity to tell my favorite competition story.
25ish years ago there was a competition to imagine what to do w/ a vacant triangle of land left over between the intersection of 3 streets in lower Manhattan, sponsored by a local but very well known/regarded architectural gallery, with the jury chaired by a minor starchitect. Being a young architect with nothing better to do, I entered the competition, and if i say so myself, my entry was pretty good. A week before the winners were to be announced, a co-worker said that her friend had already seen all of the entries. "How could that be?" I asked. "Her dad is the jury chair." I was told. A few days before the winners were to be announced, the gallery announced that the starchitect was withdrawing from the jury.
Can you guess what happened next?
That's right, the competition was won by.....the starchitect's daughter.
Damn. That's just . . . . damn.
We had a similar thing happen here before. We have a local architectural group similar to the one you're talking about. Inevitably, the architect who chaired it would win at least one award from his group, every year. Now, he was an incredible designer (RIP) but that part was always bullshit. It's like he barely tried to hide it.
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