Swiss/American practice APTUM has shared with us MI’RAJ, its design entry to the Central Mosque of Prishtina architecture competition whose jury recently failed to agree on a clear first prize winner (previously on Bustler).
APTUM partner and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, Julie Larsen, suggests: "Since the competition couldn't pick a winner, maybe there should be a second vote online with the better designs because the jury clearly got it wrong from what we are seeing."
— bustler.net
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LOVE IT!
Is this really any better ?
I tend to agree however that the Jury missed the ball on this entirely ! if they wanted the Hagia Sophia, they should have just hired an Architect, give him/her the program and let him know that's what they are looking for! Why a competition and wasting of so many people's time? I think overall this was a poorly managed competition ! Asking for physical boards, a model, booklets etc..and then picking a bad Hagia Sophia as a co-winner ! who does that?
now, how are they going to decide between two diametrically different solutions?
They need to be looking at how Sidney managed their competition with the Green Square Library, asking for A-3 size Digital PDF entries..even though the picked the only underground solution whilst they had cleraly mentioned that no major excavation should be done, at least they didn't waste people's time with asking for Full Physical boards, model, booklets etc..!
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