Since Governors Island first opened to the public in 2004, the attention and interest that this new public place has received has increased exponentially. In 2014, roughly 500,000 people visited the island through its summer season to engage in a variety of arts and cultural programs, as well as to enjoy summertime activities like picnicking and bike riding on the island.
FIGMENT has teamed with the Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects NY Chapter (AIANY) and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to host a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion on Governors Island, the City of Dreams Pavilion. The 2016 pavilion will be our sixth City of Dreams Pavilion.
The City of Dreams Pavilion will be a gathering place for people to meet, learn about the arts programs on the island, enjoy a performance or lecture, and experience the interaction of art and the historic context of Governors Island. Our theme for the pavilion, the City of Dreams, points toward the future. If we imagine a future New York City where anything is possible, what would it look like? In our wildest and most optimistic dreams, what is the future of the city?
The current state of the world is such that both economic and natural resources are extremely limited. A new way of thinking is necessary to solve the problems that the world faces. Inevitably, the result will be a change in the basic practices that have driven the world to its current state. One place to start to activate and energize these changes is within the architecture and design community, where the movement toward sustainable design has only scratched the surface of what is possible and necessary.
The City of Dreams 2016 Pavilion Design Competition will be a two-stage process, in which a jury of leading architects and other industry professionals will review initial submissions and select a number of finalists. These finalists will receive comments and will have the opportunity to revise their proposals. The jury will meet again and select the competition winner in November 2015.
1. Register by September 20, 2015. The competition entry fees (which will be applied to the costs of building and maintaining the winning entry) are as follows:
• Student entries - $20
• Individual entries - $50
• Group entries - $80
After you have registered, you will receive a link to download a submission packet with the City of Dreams Pavilion 2016 Design Guide and reference images of Governors Island, previous City of Dreams Pavilion competition winners, and other FIGMENT projects that have been built previously on the island.
2. Submit your City of Dreams Pavilion proposal by 11:59pm ET on September 30, 2015.
NOTE: Proposals must follow the Proposal Criteria and Proposal Requirements outlined here. Proposals should be submitted via email to pavilion@figmentproject.org.
3. Our jury will meet and we will notify all finalists by October 15, 2015.
Entries are encouraged from individuals or teams of architects and non-architects of any age or experience level, provided they are prepared to carry out the project. Attribution of the winner and finalists will be given based on the names of the individuals who enter, rather than to any firm with whom they are affiliated.
Please submit your final three-page PDF file by 11:59pm ET on September 30, 2015, to pavilion@figmentproject.org. You can expect to receive an email confirmation of this submission within 48 hours.
2015 - Billion Oyster Pavilion by BanG Studio and Organic Growth by Izaskun Chinchilla Architects. Both 2015 pavilions are now installed on Governors Island for the 2015 summer season, and are open to the public 7 days a week from June 6 to September 25, 2015
2014 - Governors Cup by CDR Studio - AIANY Merit Award in 2015
2013 - Head in the Clouds by StudioKCA - Best of Year award from Interior Design Magazine in the installation category
2011 - Bittertang designed Burble Bup
2010 - Living Pavilion by Ann Ha, Assoc. AIA, and Behrang Behin, Assoc. AIA
Megan Chusid, AIA, Associate Director of Facilities, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Lizzie Hodges, Guy Nordenson and Associates
Ben Jones, Artist
Philip Nobel - Editorial Director, SHoP Architects
Anne Rieselbach, Program Director, The Architectural League of New York
Weston Walker, AIA, LEED AP, Design Principal, Studio Gang Architects
Ekaterina Zavyalova, CDR Studio (2014 City of Dreams Pavilion Winner - Governor's Cup)SLO Architecture Co-Founder and Principal
Alexander Levi, AIA, will serve as a design mentor to the finalists and winning design team.
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