Winners of DawnTown Miami 2010 Are Ready to Soar

Three winners as well as three Honorable Mentions have been announced at the 2010 edition of the DawnTown Miami competition. The mission of this annual international architectural ideas competition is to bring creative architecture to Downtown Miami, and to help tell the exciting urban story of Downtown Miami to the world.

The 2010 competition brief invited designers to submit creative ideas for a new seaplane airport on Watson Island off the coast of Miami. The jury included Jean Francois Lejeune, Graduate director, University of Miami School of Architecture; Dennis Scholl, VP/ art +Miami program director at the John S and James L Knight foundation; Charles Kropke, Owner of Chalks International Airways; Erick Goldemberg, Principal, MONAD Studio and FIU Architecture Professor; Javier Betancourt, Deputy Director of the Miami Downtown Development Authority; and Francisco Garcia Iglesias, Director of Planning for the City of Miami.

These are the winning projects:

1st Place: THE MIAMI GLADES
Team: CA Landscape,  Trevor Curtis + Sylvia Kim (Seoul, South Korea)

 

2nd Place: AMPHIBIAN
Team: Stantec, Vicky Chan, Alex Zulas, Liange Otero Colon (New York City, NY, USA)

 

3rd Place: THE MIAMI LOOP
Team: Gerd Wetzel + Martin Plock (Basel, Switzerlan)

See the boards of the three Honorable Mentions in the image gallery below: