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Competition Underwriter
Herb Chambers Companies

Sponsors
Holiday Inn Boston – Somerville
Somerville Chamber of Commerce New Group
Taurus Investment Holdings, LLC
Telecommunications Insight Group

Winning Entries
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The Big Re-Rig Emily Abruzzo Gerald Bodziak Jonathan D. Solomon New York, NY
Brickbottom Artscape Biennial David Choi Designs, David Duhahn Choi, Kishore Varanasi, Frank Li, Shih-Wen Wang, Ananda Kantner Boston, MA
Brickbottom District: Edge as Center NC Office, Nikolay Nedev, Elizabeth Cardona, Peter Nedev, Christina Canton, Mauricio Gonzalez, Gustavo Garcia Miami, FL
Eco Auto-tek Paul Lukez Architecture, Paul Lukez, David Foxe, Tanya Paz, Sam Verrill, Swing Mak Somerville, MA

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Travelling Exhibition
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Wilson Martin Wilson Martin, Tanya Chiranakhon, Antonio Medeiros Somerville, MA
Green Infrastructure and Flex Development John Baran, Josh Price, David Westmoreland Ithaca, NY
Izaskun Chinchilla, Architects Izaskun Chinchilla Madrid, Spain
Building from Brickbottom Jennifer Barrett, Joel Thibert, Bartek Komorowski, Jacob Ritchie Quebec, Canada
Edge as WALL as Center Donald Daugherty Somerville, MA
O Favela Novo: The New Favela Dawid Pol, Emily Southerington Cincinnati, OH
Joseph S. R. Volpe Associates Frank Sleegers, Joseph S. R. Volpe, Michael Lazar, Christopher Scheufler, Jason Newsome Amherst, MA
Onion Square Matthew Frederick, Thomas Manning Cambridge, MA

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Program Synopsis

Given the site’s current potential for development and future light-rail transit connections, coupled with existing physical and economic constraints, the competition asks: what is the future for the BrickBottom District in the contemporary urban context?

Innovative urban visions for the area, along with more specific design interventions, will play a vital role in overcoming the complex hurdles to development in this area, transforming it in bold, optimistic ways that will benefit Somerville and its residents for generations.

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Jury

• Susan Fainstein — Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
• Mikyoung Kim — Principal, Mikyoung Kim Design; Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
• Rodolfo Machado Associate AIA — Principal, Machado and Silvetti Associates; Chair, Department of Urban Planning & Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
• Riki Moss — Artist, Brickbottom Artists Cooperative
• William Rawn FAIA — Principal, William Rawn Associates Architects, Inc
• Adele Naude Santos FAIA — Principal, Santos Prescott & Associates; Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School or Architecture & Planning
• Michael Sorkin — Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio; Director, Graduate Urban Design Program, City College of New York

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Entry Fee

The entry fee for each submission is US $125 for Professionals (such as architects, landscape architects, urban planners & designers, artists), US $50 for interns (enrolled in Intern Development Program) and US $35 for students (enrolled in an accredited academic program). Make checks payable to Boston Society of Architects.

For more information, e-mail Alexandra Lee at alee@architects.org.

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