Building on last year's success with LOST, VMWP is sponsoring CHANGED, a fun competition for Architects, Planners and Developers. Awards will be bestowed upon the projects that demonstrate the most change from initial design concept to the actual final design while maintaining design excellence. There is a built and un-built category. Check out last year's winners here.
Exhibition
All entries will be exhibited at the Design Guild SF Gallery in San Francisco from September 27 – October 1 as part of the San Francisco Architecture & The City Festival.
A Gallery Reception will be held to announce the winners September 29th 6pm-8pm.
Gallery Reception
September 29th 6pm-8pm
Design Guild SF Gallery
427 Bryant Street map
Eligibility
Entry must be either:
An Architecture or Urban Design Project located in the Bay Area.
An Architecture or Urban Design Project by a Bay Area Architect, Urban Designer or Developer.
Register
Download the Entry Form on the left and fill in. Then email or mail to the address provided by September 15th. You will be sent an entry number for your submission. This number will need to be on the back of your submission. The nominal $75 entry fee can be paid below and is to cover the cost of the competition. Any proceeds beyond these will be donated to the Center for Architecture+Design.
Pay Entry Here
Submit
Keep it simple – you’ve already done all the work! Assemble graphics that you have produced into a stunning display on one 20" x 40" board, which must include a narrative of NO MORE THAN 300 WORDS describing why your project is the most changed and why you are deserving of this award. For the built category please include actual images of the completed project.
Anything you want to put on the board is OK, but no protrusions, no models, no pop ups, just 2D graphics and the narrative AND it must be a real project – submitted to either the built or un-built categories.
Entries will be judged anonymously. Please place project name, your company name and/or logo in the lower right corner of your submission board. This will be covered until after the jury deliberation, then uncovered for the exhibition and reception.
Extended!
Submission boards are due September 22nd by 5:00 pm to:
Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP
Attention: CHANGED Competition
18 De Boom Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Direct Questions to:
changed at vmwp dot com or 415.974.5352 x 218
Selection
The Jury will select the best and brightest among the changed submissions. Selection will be based on the merit of the design, the projects that demonstrate the most change from initial design concept to the actual final design while maintaining design excellence, the best narrative argument and maybe the biggest laugh. Grand winners will be chosen for both the un-built and built categories. Honorable mentions may also be awarded at the jury's discretion.
Why?
CHANGED is a unique opportunity to show, to the public, the often unseen efforts involved in the design process outside of the finished product.
Press. Get some appreciation and exposure for your hard work. Winners will be announced at the Gallery Reception, in several email blasts to thousands of industry folks and in various publications.
The Grand Winner will get a really Cool Trophy!
It's a Good Cause - proceeds will benefit the Center for Architecture+Design.
It's Fun! Come to the reception and check out what your colleagues submitted.
Check out last year's winners here.
Thank You
A big thank you to the following for making the Changed competition possible:
AIA San Francisco for running the exhibition as part of the Architecture & The City Festival.
Design Guild SF Gallery for hosting the Changed exhibition.
To our fantastic jurors for donating their time, talent and good humor!