Ideas Competition for the Bering Strait Project Announces Winners

The Bering Strait Project international ideas competition recently announced the winning concepts in the professional and student categories. The Bering Strait Project attempts to span the Bering Strait between Russia and the United States via a bridge or a tunnel which would create an overland connection linking Asia, Africa and Europe with North America and South America.

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These are the jury’s winners:

Professional Category:

1st Prize (USD 55,000):

Diomede Archipelago: TALLER 301 - Julian Restrepo (Colombia), Pablo Forero (Colombia), Manuela Mosquera (Colombia), Susana Somoza (Venezuela), Tomas Jaramillo (Colombia)

2nd Prize (each USD 25,000):

Bering Strait: Rachdi Manal (France), architecture OFF (France)

Bridge the Memory: Jaeik Sim (Republic of Korea), Hyunwook Woo (Republic of Korea), Daekwon Park (Republic of Korea), Jonghyuk Lim (Republic of Korea), Dongjin Lee (Republic of Korea)

Imprinted Time: Jitaek Shim (Republic of Korea), Sung Hoon Chung (Republic of Korea), Seung Youp Lee (Republic of Korea), Seung Hwan Shim (Republic of Korea), Sung Gi Park (Republic of Korea)

3rd Prize (each USD 10,000)

Entanglement: Evelyn Alonso (Spain), Sara Sarmiento (Spain), Manuel Perez (Spain)

Nebula: Marek Rytych (Poland), Krzysztof Kryska (Poland), Malgorzata Piotrowska (Poland), Pasternak Karol (Poland), Radek Tabor (Poland)

Honorable Mention

Connect Five: Jessica Liew (Australia), Clare Kwok (Australia), Zi Yang Boon (Australia), Elissa Loh (Australia), Irene Ng (Australia)

Diomede Plane: zerOgroup [Laurent Troost] (Brazil)

Light of Peace: Jacob Forsberg (Sweden), Helen Hallberg (Sweden)

Suspended Time: Ben Addy (United Kingdom)

Student Category

1st Prize (USD 15,000)

Nature Must Colonize Human: Taegon Kim (Republic of Korea), SeongJae Lee (Republic of Korea), Joohui Son (Republic of Korea)

2nd Prize (each USD 10,000)

Gone with the Wind: Hyunil Oh (Republic of Korea), Jongwon Lee (Republic of Korea), Jaesuk Choi (Republic of Korea), Sangyoon Lee (Republic of Korea)

Rising Land: Jannik Duellmann (Germany), Philipp Lueffe (Germany), Pascal Maas (Germany)

3rd Prize (each USD 5,000)

Invisible Bridge: Hyungi Kim (Republic of Korea), Jihwan Moon (Republic of Korea), Tahn Shin (Republic of Korea), Sungyeol Choi (Republic of Korea), Hanbyul Rhee (Republic of Korea)

Solid Linking: Antoine Denieau (France)

Trans Bering Strait Tunnel & International Peace Park Memorial: Julian Huang (United Kingdom), Vimal Mehta (United Kingdom), James Petty (United States), Hongtao Wei (China)

Honorable Mention

Breakwater: Joohyung Oh (Republic of Korea), Yunsuk Lee (Republic of Korea), Doosan Baek (Republic of Korea)

Invisible Bridge: DeokKi Hong (Republic of Korea), JaeKyu Han (Republic of Korea), WooYoung Park (Republic of Korea), DaeSoon Kim (Republic of Korea), Seok Choo (Republic of Korea)

Moving Island: HeuckJin Jung (Republic of Korea), HwanSuk Choi (Republic of Korea), DaeHyun Kim (Republic of Korea)

Smile!: Piotr Bialobrzeski (Poland), Marcin Kulesza (Poland)

The Heteropia: Sung Jun Bae (Republic of Korea), Hyo Young Park (Republic of Korea), Jae Won Heo (Republic of Korea), Jung Jae Park (Republic of Korea)