Competition: welcoming booth for the green abyss
Open anonymous competition for
The Harbor Park Pavilion, Rose Kennedy Greenway. From
boston.com:
The hope is to open the pavilion by 2007, which would make it the first building to be completed on the Greenway. Healy and others hope it can establish a standard for several other pavilions being planned along the Greenway. The building will contain a reception desk, a computer kiosk for travel information, and a bookstore/cafe that will open to the outdoors in good weather.
The rules of the competition call for a one-story building no taller than 18 feet, and for ''green" building practices. It also states, ''Submissions should address how the surrounding landscape might orient visitors to Harbor Islands" -- another fairly challenging requirement.
The winner will receive a $10,000 prize. Second and third place will be worth $3,000 and $2,000, respectively. Prize money is being donated by the LEF Foundation. It's anticipated that the winning team, besides its prize, will sign a contract to develop its design into a finished building.
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The competition is being sponsored by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which controls the land, and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance, a coalition of 13 interest groups, including the National Park Service. The Boston Society of Architects is serving as adviser, and Boston's city planners are very much involved. The competition jury is a 10-person group of designers, government officials, and representatives of private advocacy groups. I would guess that the jury, given its makeup, will tend to favor a progressive kind of architecture. The estimated budget is $3 million, not bad for a 2,500-square-foot structure.
* Ray, 3/29/2005 11:02:00 AM
