Dwelling in the city: Spaces in the 21st century

Canary Riverside
 
Type: Open
Registration Deadline: August 31, 2000
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2000
Open to: Architects, designers and students under 35 years of age
Entry Fee: Students £5 - Professionals £10
Awards: First prize £5,000, two commendations of £500
Jury: Fred Koetter, Eva Jiricna and Deyan Sudjic
 
The way people dwell in the city is under constant transformation. The contemporary lifestyles of people, and the physical pressures of our cities today are redefining the conventional perceptions of the way we live in the city. Given a specific site at the top of Berkeley Tower, at Canary Riverside, at West ferry Circus, at Canary Wharf, the challenge here is to critically translate contemporary living into a tangible, physical space - The Penthouse. Typologically, this dwelling space is analogous to the country house, but here, it's the contemporary 'urban villa'. The Penthouse represents the idealised space - a space that is perched at the top of a vantage point to capture all the strategic views of the urban landscape.  The task, here, will be to intervene in the ongoing process of architecture by merging the outside built form with the interior space - the building shell is complete but not the interior space.

This single stage ideas competition offers young architects and designers an opportunity to stretch their imagination and offer new ideas towards, forms of space, use of new materials, integrating eco-friendly ideas, leading to a new understanding of contemporary dwelling by critically evaluating how architectural space is evolving in the new Millennium.

As its first major residential development is nearing completion at Canary Wharf, Canary Riverside is keen to engage architects and designers in a competition leading to a commission, a design symposium and an exhibition of the short-listed entries.  Through this competition, we hope to develop new ideas for 'Dwelling in the City - Spaces in the 21st Century.'

Open Ideas Competition Challenge :
This stage of the competition simply challenges the candidates to design the interior space for the duplex flagship penthouse with a twenty-first century urban lifestyle in mind.  The client scenario for the space is left up to the discretion of the competitor.

The Site:
Given an existing concrete building shell, the competition will focus on the design of the interior space of a two-story penthouse apartment at the top of Berkeley Tower - the tallest in the Canary Riverside development, at Canary Wharf. The penthouses are at the 21st - 22nd floors, having distant views of central London on one side, and views beyond the Millennium Dome on the other.

For more information or to register, contact:
Dwelling in the City: Spaces in the 21st Century
Kate Taylor
Canary Riverside Management (UK) Ltd.,
50 West Ferry Circus,
Canary Wharf,
London, E14 8RR
Email: Ktaylor@hpluk.com
Website: http://www.canaryriverside.co.uk