The winners of this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition have been announced as a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their vision for the redevelopment of a land parcel in downtown Seattle addressed concerns about equity, housing affordability, access to neighborhood services, sustainability, and connectivity to surrounding communities as related by planning officials from King County.
Their project titled ‘Meander’ was selected as the $50,000 winner and joined by three other $10,000 prize winners from Georgia Tech, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Maryland, College Park.
"Meander was selected due to their unique circulation concept, mid-rise building massing and all-in approach to mass timber construction. While mass timber is still in its early stages, the team was well-versed and researched on the subject matter, presenting an aspirational, yet achievable, project," jury chair Jeff Baxter stated.
"The jury also agreed with Meander’s choices regarding buildings to adaptively reuse or demolish and their residential unit mix of 1, 2, and 3 bedrooms. Integrated into the switchback circulation path were pocket parks designed to capture stormwater. The project proposed a 99-year land lease with King County, a reasonable phasing plan, and a strong financial case for implementation."
A further look at the winners and finalists can be found here.
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2 Comments
Jeffersonian orthogonal street grid in this winning design signals more Enlightenment patriarchy, colonialism, white supremacy totally ignoring the past 40 years of Postmodern, Critical Theory, Woke ideology, DEI cultural zeit. What gives ? Interesting that the winning team is from Georgia, a state noted for its un-wokeness and intersting that Seattle's own University of Washington Architecture students (waaay woke) can't prevail in a competition for ideas for their own city
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