Rising Tides Competition Awards Six Winners

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) just announced the winners of its Rising Tides competition. Six winners will share a total prize of $25,000. The selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many different promising solutions were offered.

Juror Walter Hood said it best when he stated, “San Francisco Bay is not the place for a single idea. Taken as a whole, the six winning entries begin to tell a story about adaptation to sea level rise.”

The Rising Tides initiative, a first-of-its-kind international design idea competition aimed at generating innovative solutions that deal with adapting shoreline areas to sea level rise. The competition is a response to scientific estimates that global warming may raise water levels in the San Francisco Bay over four feet by the end of the century.

1. Winner - $4,166. prize:
Wright Huaiche Yang + J. Lee Stickles
San Francisco, California

2. Winner - $4,166. prize:
Derek James Hoeferlin, Architect (co-lead, design + production)
Ian Caine (co-lead, design + production)
Michael Heller (research assistant)
St. Louis, Missouri

3. Winner - $4,166. prize:
Thom Faulders
Faulders Studio
Project Team: Thom Faulders, Jang Hyung Lee, Sean McGuire, Devin Rutz
Berkeley, California

4. Winner - $4,166. prize:
DESIGN CONCEPT: SOM
Craig Hartman
DESIGN TEAM: Mark Schwettmann, Leo Chow, Geoffrey Brunn, Alex Cruz, Ross Findly
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING CONCEPT: SOM (Mark Sarkisian, Eric Long, David Shook)
MARINE ENGINEERING CONCEPT: MOFFATT & NICHOL MARINE ENGINEERING (Dilip Trivedi, Richard Dornhelm)
GRAPHIC DESIGN: SOM (Lonny Israel, Alexander Ng)
San Francisco, California

5. Winner - $4,166. prize:
Liz Ranieri + Byron Kuth, Kuth Ranieri Architects
Project Team: Byron Kuth, FAIA & LEED AP, Elizabeth Ranieri, AIA & LEED AP, Steve Const, LEED AP, Gretta Tritch, Matt Hutchinson, Mark Stacy, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
San Francisco, California

6. Winner - $4,166. prize
Yumi Lee + Yeon Tae Kim
LANDplus Design
San Francisco, California

Images: Rising Tides competition/BCDC