Green Spaces Design Competition 2011

[Chris Hale]

Greetings All – this is a great opportunity for landscape architects…

 

Registration is now open for the James River Green Building Council’s (Central Virginia’s chapter of the USGBC) annual ‘Green Spaces’ design competition. It is open to students and professionals nation wide and internationally who may work as design teams or independently. An jury of esteemed design professionals has been assembled and a forum with panel discussion of the entries will be held in Richmond, Virginia on 5/19/2011. Registration closes 3/25/11. A cash prize will be offered.

 

Please visit the JRGBC competition website or the Facebook page for more information: 

http://jrgbc.org/events/green-spaces-competition/ 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/James-River-Green-Building-Council/173003247820

 

CHALLENGE

The recognizably industrial Manchester Richmond

neighborhood is currently experiencing a shift towards

mixed-use development with apartments, condominiums, art

galleries, boutique industries, offices and restaurants.

This year’s Green Spaces competition will look

specifically at “Old Manchester” challenging participants

to use sustainable design principles in creating a

GREEN GATEWAY to Richmond. Proposed solutions and

strategies will address the unique cultural, economic

and environmental opportunities specific to Richmond’s

Manchester neighborhood and the City of Richmond beyond.

This year’s competition challenge is part one of a twopart

/ two-year competition. As Green Spaces 2011 focuses

on “Old Manchester”, Green Spaces 2012 will focus on

issues facing Mayo Island and the 14th Street Bridge.

As in years past, there will be a K-12 youth design

competition parallel in time frame to the Green Spaces

2011/ 2012 competitions, focused on the same sites with

modified challenges.

 

SITE

Both residents and visitors cross over the James River

daily. Traveling by bus, car, scooter, bicycle or

foot; they use Interstate 95 or one of the other four

major thoroughfares that enter downtown Richmond from

the Manchester side of the James River. This year’s

competition boundary follows the 28-block section of “Old

Manchester” that is created by the James River Floodwall,

Hull Street/Route 360, Commerce Road, Maury Street and

Interstate 95. As a Green Gateway can be interpreted at a

variety of scales; entrants have their choice of site or

sites, block, street, corridor, intersection, or building

within the identified boundary of “Old Manchester”.

 

 

 

 

[Thomas J. Johnson]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up!

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