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DawnTown 2009: Metromover

Topic: new station for Metromover, Downtown Miami’s elevated public transportation system (brief, gallery of entries).

Winners (jury statement):

  • 1st Prize: team #78097 “Office 24/7″ from Melbourne, Australia: Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Suinaga (boards, details, video, website).
  • 2nd Prize: team #02887 “See You Sunday” from Bangkok, Thailand: Saran Chaiyasuta and Prachaya Vanagul (boards, details, video).
  • 3rd Prize: team #70842 “Double Katya” from St. Petersburg, Russia: Ekaterina Mikhaylova and Ekaterina Vasilieva (boards, details, video).
  • Honorable Mention: team #59438 “Weston Williamson” from London England: Chris Williamson (boards, details, video, website).

Award ceremony (photos, video part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)

Keynote speaker: Adriaan Geuze, founder of West 8 landscape architecture firm (video part 3, part 4)

Jury: Harpal Kapoor, Director of Miami-Dade Transit; Luis Revuelta, architect; Terry Riley, architect; Mera Rubell, Rubell Family Collection; Dennis Scholl, Miami Program Director of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Gillian Thomas, President of the Miami Science Museum.

DawnTown 2008: Waterworks

Topic: sewer pump station (gallery of entries)

Winners (video of award ceremony):

Jury: Loretta Cockrum, CEO of the Foram Group; Raymond Jungles, landscape architect; Cathy Leff, Director of the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum; Misha Mladenovich, Vice President of Cabi Developers; Terry Riley, Director of the Miami Art Museum; Gillian Thomas, President of the Miami Science Museum; and Alex Wall, Professor of Urban Design at the University of Karlsruhe.

DawnTown 2007

Topic: the future shape of cities

Keynote Speaker: Ricky Burdett, Professor and Director of Urban Age project at the London School of Economics, Director of 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale, and Chief Architecture Adviser the London 2012 Olympics (video of symposium).

Response Panel: Lizz Plater-Zyberk, founder of DPZ and Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture; Andres Viglucci of the Miami Herald; and Neisen Kasdin, head of the Land Use Group at Akerman Senterfitt.

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