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| A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles SCIFI at SCI-Arc & The Architect's Newspaper |
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Open |
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13/03/2009 |
Submission Deadline: |
13/03/2009 |
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All |
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US $25 Students, $50 Professionals |
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| Awards: | To be announced |
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Jury: |
Aspet Davidian, Neil Denari, Cecilia V. Estolano, Roland Genick, Gail Goldberg, Thom Mayne and Eric Owen Moss |
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| The passage in November 2008 of Measure R, a half cent sales tax in Los Angeles County, will provide as much as $40 billion for local transitrelated projects over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has pledged to make the largest investment since the 1950s in the country's crumbling infrastructure. But in addition to extensive new funding, there must also be a more innovative and integrated vision for these plans: this means a radical rethinking of the relationships between transit systems, public space and development of the city as whole. It’s time to use technological innovations and design skill to create transport that increases efficiency, safety, and comfort, while preserving and enhancing the public realm, meeting green building goals and dramatically improving our cities and our neighborhoods. In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI [Future Initiatives] program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc] and The Architect's Newspaper are sponsoring an open ideas competition for architects, engineers, urban planners and students to propose new ideas for LA County’s transit infrastructure. Los Angeles, the paradigmatic 20th century 'freeway city,' provides an ideal context for an examination of the relationship between existing infrastructures [streets, overpasses, culverts, right of ways, power lines, and disused rail lines] and new urban systems. For too long, the design of infrastructure in Los Angeles has remained a technical problem. This competition will seek urban transit solutions that move beyond the outmoded divisions between transportation and urban design. Competitors will be encouraged to work in multidisciplinary teams within the parameters of LA County Ballot Measure R. Their entries will focus on specific rail extension projects and also take a look at larger-scale, interrelated transit planning challenges. Competition Web Site : http://www.sciarc.edu/images/pdf/New-Infrastructure.pdf Competition Email : [email protected] |
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