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The Result of [Digital Design Competiton] by Nikkei Architecture was announced. This competition is the Final event of Archidemo.

This was epoch-making design competition of Virtual-Worlds, by large amount of money prize (about 20,000 dollars in all) and famous cross-field jury member. Winners was elected from 55 application ideas.

The result of competition was published in the Website of Nikkei Business Publications and Nikkei Architecture magazine. All articles are only Japanese, but, the automatic translation version can be seen here.

• Winners (Picasa web album)
• Article translated automatically (page1)
• Article translated automatically (page2)

Competition Theme:

Life Media Museum in 21st century

Jury Member:

• Ryue Nishizawa
  (Architect, Associate professor of Yokohama National University)
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi
  (Game Producer, CCO of Q ENTERTAINMENT Inc.)
• Mitsuo Iso
  (Animation Director, Scenario writer)
• Hidenori Watanave
  (CEO of Photon, Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Yoshihisa Yamamoto
  (Executive editor of Nikkei Architecture)

Winners:

Grand Prix

Integrated proposal section (Prize 1,000,000 yen)

• [THE MUSEUM OF THE GLOBE]
  Iwami Kawamura|Ichiro Furse + Tsutomu Teramoto|TERRA Zehetbauer (Atelier Ten)

Single facilities section(Prize 500,000 yen)

• [SKY+]
  Naomi Kuratani (Osaka Seikei University)

Click here for the full article with a complete list of winners and more images.