The AIA Chicago Foundation announced Chicago-based firm David Woodhouse Architects as the winner of the international Burnham Memorial Competition. The architectural contest, launched in February 2009, seeks to build a lasting and notable memorial that will inspire and educate the public, and honor the memory and importance of Daniel Burnham and his 1909 Plan of Chicago. The second prize went to Hoerr Schaudt of Chicago, the third prize to Sasaki Associates, Inc. of Boston. Bustler
The AIA Chicago Foundation announced Chicago-based firm David Woodhouse Architects as the winner of the international Burnham Memorial Competition. The architectural contest, launched in February 2009, seeks to build a lasting and notable memorial that will inspire and educate the public, and honor the memory and importance of Daniel Burnham and his 1909 Plan of Chicago. The second prize went to Hoerr Schaudt of Chicago, the third prize to Sasaki Associates, Inc. of Boston. Bustler
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Sasaki's looks pretty nice, from what I can see. That image of the prairie, geometrically rigid in this case, extending into the water with the city to the side is really powerful.
I don't know how they continue to forget/ignore Burnham's partner John Root. The guy was really the genius of the collaboration. Of course, Root was dead at 44 and in the ground almost twenty years by the time the 1909 plan came along.
david is a very nice guy but that is incredibly awful -i would fail it if it was a student project - in fact all of the entries are complete rubbish!
http://www.aiachicago.org/burnham/entries-phase-1.asp#unsolicited
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