The Open City Challenge 2011 Winners Unveiled

source : http://www.michael-jack.com/

Urbanite Baltimore has hosted annual competitions which mostly focus on urban interventions since 2007. While this year Urbanite Project 2012 theme is “Healthy Food Challenge”, the Urbanite Project 2011 unveiled its 2011 “Open City Challenge” competition winner in June last year.

The 2011 Open City Challenge invited participants to address a quality-of-life issues brought about by the construction of the Red Line. The winning proposals, “20 Stations, 20 Questions”, by Michael Jack, a London architect featured user-submitted photographs billboards to conceal the construction site and establish relationship or connections between neighborhoods along the Red Line. Michael has taken home 6,000 USD for his first prize win.

Congratulations!

Winning proposal page

PS.

While we are congratulating Michael Jack for his fabulous winning scheme which is simple, clean, and promising. I would like to suggest checking out another interesting proposal “Seeding the New City” by Lateral Office from Toronto, Canada. Their proposal seek to reconcile common and local aspect along the Red Line. The Lateral Office proposal was innovative, engaging, and architecturally articulated.

Urbanite Project 2012: Healthy Food Challenge