A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE:
Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles
An Open Ideas Competition
Sponsored by SCIFI at SCI-Arc and The Architect’s Newspaper
Entries Due March 13, 2009 at 5pm; Winners Announced March 21 at SCI-Arc.
The passage in November 2008 of Measure R, a half cent sales tax in Los Angeles County, will provide as much as $40 billion for transit-related projects across the City of Los Angeles over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to make the largest investment since the 1950s to rebuild our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI (Southern California Institute of Future Initiatives) program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The Architect’s Newspaper are sponsoring an open ideas competition for architects, engineers, urban planners and students to propose new ideas for LA County’s transit infrastructure.
The competition will encourage entrants to develop solutions that dramatically rethink the relationship between transit systems, public space and urban redevelopment. Competitors will be encouraged to work within the parameters of LA County Ballot Measure R. Their entries will focus on specific rail extension projects and also take a look at larger-scale, inter-related transit planning challenges.
The competition jury will include Thom Mayne, Principal and Founder of Morphosis Architects; Aspet Davidian, Director, Project Engineering Facilities, LA Metro; Neil Denari, Professor, UCLA; Principal, Neil M. Denari Architects; Gail Goldberg, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles; Roland Genik, Urban Planner and Designer, Exposition Line; Cecilia V. Estolano, CEO of Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles; and Eric Owen Moss, Director, SCI-Arc; Principal and Founder of Eric Owen Moss Architects as well as transit engineers from Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), developers, and local civic leaders.
For details about how to enter the competition, please download the competition outline and registration form from http://www.sciarc.edu/news.php?id=1376
For further information visit www.sciarc.edu or www.archpaper.com
