Winners of NETWORK RESET: Rethinking the Chicago Emerald Necklace

MAS Studio and the Chicago Architectural Club announced the results of NETWORK RESET, a single-stage international competition that seeks to provide ideas and actions that can reactivate the Boulevard System of Chicago and rethink its potential role in the city.

The jury included Jeffrey Sriver, CREATE Program Director, Chicago Department of Transportation; Paul Preissner, Partner, PAUL PREISSNER ARCHITECTS LTD; Peter J. Kindel, Director of Urban Design, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP; Peter L. Osler, Director, Program of Landscape Architecture, IIT; Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Architectural Historian and Author; Sarah Dunn, Principal, UrbanLab; and Timothy Brown, President, Chicago Architectural Club. The judges picked three winning projects, as well as five honorable mentions.

FIRST PRIZE: Chicago Constellation
Kees Lokman, Fadi Masoud and Conor O’Shea

 

SECOND PRIZE: (in)voluntary prisoners of climate change
Julie Larsen (Aptum), Roger Hubeli (Aptum) in collaboration with Gale Fulton
Student contributors: Danny Duong, Rossitza Kotelova, Jasmine Lee, Alvaro Luna, Brian Vesely and Wallo Villacorta

 

THIRD PRIZE: The Ring Line
Timothy Bacheller, Charlotte Page and Christopher Phillips

See also the five honorable mentions in the image gallery below. Images courtesy of MAS Studio.