Winners of the 2011 DawnTown Miami Floating Stage Competition

Five winners have just been announced at the 2011 edition of DawnTown Miami. The annual architecture ideas competition seeks to bring creative, innovative, and inspiring new solutions to Downtown Miami and to the City of Miami at large.

Now in its fourth year, DawnTown partnered with a local historic preservation group to help bring prominence to an early piece of Miami's modern architecture period. The competition invited designers to envision a complimenting structure to the Miami Marine Stadium, aiming to make it a great event space once again -- paired with a new Floating Stage.

These are the winning projects:

1st Place: MIAMI PEARL
Jiong Wu + Gengxin Ou; Team: Abingo Wu Studio; Lincoln, Nebraska

 

2nd Place: INFLATABLE
Eric Tan + Leon Lai; Team: Pink Cloud.DK.Design Group; Copenhagen, Denmark

 

3rd Place: THE WATERBOX
Igor Reyes; Team: NBWW; Coral Gables, Florida

 

4th Place: MIAMI FLOATING STAGE
Marcin Husarz,Wojciech Motylski, Jan Jerzmanski; Team: biuro architektoniczne SCOLIOSIS; Wroclaw, Poland

 

5th Place: HULL? SAIL? WHIRLWIND?
Chris Carrasquilla + Shamir Panchal; Team: Roco.Co; Toronto, Canada

 

See some more competition entries we found interesting in the image gallery below (or DawnTown's Flickr set for the complete list of entries).