October 05, 2012Metropolis Magazine Announces Annual Next Generation® Design Competition Call for Entries
Winning Design to be Awarded $10,000. Entry Deadline is February 18, 2013
July 25, 2012
Opening Games: Next Generation winner designs for London’s East End
London Mayor’s office has commissioned an urban installation called BLOOM Games, by Bartlett architecture professor and Next Generation winner Alisa Andrasek, for Victoria Park in the East End.
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The Architect's Newspaper
Mapping the Competition ‘04
July 01, 2004
Where did all these ideas come from?
By Laurie Manfra
Last year Metropolis called on designers of all disciplines to submit ideas for improving the designed environment. The first annual Metropolis Next Generation competition asked young designers (defined as having practiced for ten years or less) “What is your Big Idea?” and offered a $10,000 prize for the most compelling answer. The 204 entrants, which included architects, industrial designers, urban planners, landscape architects, and graphic designers, were required to submit a business plan explaining how they would use the prize money to realize their idea. Judges were selected for their expertise in specific areas of design; the six-person panel included Parsons School of Design professor Jean Gardner; Brandt Resources founder Ros Brandt; and Harvard Graduate School of Design architecture department chair Toshiko Mori.
Submissions ranged in scale from a doorstop to the redevelopment of a waterfront site in Seattle. Most projects fell into five categories: urban regeneration, housing, product and furniture, communications technologies, and new materials. The winning idea—submitted by Single Speed Design—proposed adapting sections of dismantled highway from Boston’s Big Dig into housing. The runners-up included such strong proposals as Portable Transient Shelter Pods (a housing idea proposed by Lira Luis that would provide seafarers who currently sleep on the docks in Manila, the Philippines, with temporary living quarters) and Integrated Concentrator Modules (a prism-like facade system that utilizes nanotechnology and optical engineering to efficiently capture solar energy, an entry submitted by Materialab).
Taken together, the competition entries—which came from 30 states and 22 countries—constitute a kind of informal survey of ambitious young designers. Here we plot two dimensions: where they are geographically and what kinds of issues they are interested in.
January 21, 2009
The Freer Masons
Michael Silver’s new audio software liberates bricklayers from their paper plans.
January 12, 2009
A CASE in Point
2004 Next Generation Runner-up launches an original academic program
June 04, 2008
Growing Full Steam Ahead
November 01, 2007
Shelter from Taliesin to Manila
June 06, 2007
More on Molo
See what’s unfolding for a past runner-up
February 16, 2005
Updates: Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, Jeanine Centuori
Updates on 2004 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition runners-up Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, and UrbanRock Design/Jeanine Centuori.
December 22, 2004
Seattle Waterfront Plan Dealt Setback
Next Generation Design Competition runner-up Cary Moon and her People’s Waterfront Coalition were dealt a blow this week when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced the city’s plan to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct with a six-lane tunnel.
December 01, 2004
A Place to Dock
Architect Lira Luis’s temporary shelter would give Manila seafarers someplace to come home to.
December 01, 2004
Building Blocks
A young designer finds a way to recycle plastics into reusable building components.
December 01, 2004
Flower Power
Landscape-architecture studio StoSS proposes a plan that uses phytoremediation to make brownfields into public gardens.
December 01, 2004
Reclaiming the River
Pete Seeger and friends promote a permeable swimming structure for the newly cleaned-up Hudson River.
November 22, 2004
A Backup Plan
When his study of leading task chairs revealed that most of them force the sitter into unhealthy postures, industrial designer Jeff Jenkins decided to start with healthy postures and work backward.
November 22, 2004
Improv Theater
Architects often espouse the idea of adaptability, but they rarely give it center stage.
November 10, 2004
Software Aims to Revamp Masonry Practice
Michael Silver, a 2004 Next Generation® Design Prize runner-up, and the International Masonry Institute are developing Automason, a software program that delivers precise instructions to on-site masons.
October 01, 2004
Do the Strand
Seattle activists suggest that the best plan for a troubled waterfront freeway may be to eliminate it.
August 01, 2004
Radiant Living
Emergent turns infrastructure into ornamentation with a concept house based on systems of circulation.
July 01, 2004
Accordion Architecture
A Canadian firm’s material experiments produce flexible living spaces.
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