HOLLWICHKUSHNER won the advancement in technology award, and Georgia Tech won the design award, but the big conglomerate mentioned above was the overall winner.
did anyone here go to the presentation yesterday? if so, please let me know what you thought about the presentations/projects. it was a rough week completing our entry here, and we haven't seen any coverage involving the competition, so things are very anticlimactic now.
i saw the displays, but not the oral presentations.
while most of them were aesthetically nice, they sort of failed as architectural representations in my opinion. many of them were just fanciful conjecture, lacking any clear connection to the context (atlanta). the models seemed to be generally diagrammatic, but they did not speak for themselves and lacked quickly discernible legends to state the symbolism of the models.
to be more blunt... they were pretty, but i didn't really know what the hell i was looking at. maybe i wouldn't feel this way if i had heard the oral presentations.
i do appreciate the work that went into these projects though. the display space seemed limiting for capturing the essence of an entire city, a tall order like this really requires a full room for a full display of a concept. could you visually sum up the past 100 years of atlanta in a 6' display? why expect to do so for 100 years of atlanta's future? this may be the source of the problems i noted above.
aaandrew is right. It is hard to sum up anything in so limited a space, but is also difficult to envision the future of a city in only a week. That is why many entries were diagrammatic or flashy - the oral presentations and slide show running on screens during the presentations gave a fuller explanation of what was going on. I don't know the format for the next round of competition, but I hope the slide shows are included.
I'm curious to know how the other cities' entries compared to Atlanta's. Ours seemed to either add new development as futuristic, sci-fi constructs above and around the existing city or control new growth by concentrating development in zones or nodes with an emphasis on reintroducing natural systems (especially the watersheds - the drought was mentioned more than once).
City of the Future - Atlanta
Does anybody know who won the city of the future competition in Atlanta?
EDAW/praxis3/BNIM/Metcalf & Eddy
HOLLWICHKUSHNER won the advancement in technology award, and Georgia Tech won the design award, but the big conglomerate mentioned above was the overall winner.
did anyone here go to the presentation yesterday? if so, please let me know what you thought about the presentations/projects. it was a rough week completing our entry here, and we haven't seen any coverage involving the competition, so things are very anticlimactic now.
i saw the displays, but not the oral presentations.
while most of them were aesthetically nice, they sort of failed as architectural representations in my opinion. many of them were just fanciful conjecture, lacking any clear connection to the context (atlanta). the models seemed to be generally diagrammatic, but they did not speak for themselves and lacked quickly discernible legends to state the symbolism of the models.
to be more blunt... they were pretty, but i didn't really know what the hell i was looking at. maybe i wouldn't feel this way if i had heard the oral presentations.
i do appreciate the work that went into these projects though. the display space seemed limiting for capturing the essence of an entire city, a tall order like this really requires a full room for a full display of a concept. could you visually sum up the past 100 years of atlanta in a 6' display? why expect to do so for 100 years of atlanta's future? this may be the source of the problems i noted above.
aaandrew is right. It is hard to sum up anything in so limited a space, but is also difficult to envision the future of a city in only a week. That is why many entries were diagrammatic or flashy - the oral presentations and slide show running on screens during the presentations gave a fuller explanation of what was going on. I don't know the format for the next round of competition, but I hope the slide shows are included.
I'm curious to know how the other cities' entries compared to Atlanta's. Ours seemed to either add new development as futuristic, sci-fi constructs above and around the existing city or control new growth by concentrating development in zones or nodes with an emphasis on reintroducing natural systems (especially the watersheds - the drought was mentioned more than once).
Arn't cities of the future going to be glass domes?
Maybe Logan's Run is a view into the near future?
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