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Winning Teams

FIRST PRIZE ($10,000 Award)

#105 - Michael Overby & Emma Fuller
New York, NY
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SECOND PRIZE ($5,000 Award)

#22 - Jeffrey Gordon Smith, Landscape Architecture
Los Osos, CA
Danielle Cegelski, Paul Morabito, Eric Silva, Bradley Sunnarbog


AWARDS OF DISTINCTION (Numerical order)

#54 - Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C.
New York, NY
Jeeyong An, AIA, Sang Hwa Lee, Younjin Park

#65 - UZAWA Lab, University of Tsukuba
Japan
Takashi Uzawa, Tomonori, Artia, Yu Azuma, Tsuyako Gushi, Suguru Koike,
Aya Masudome, Mitsuzaki Ryuta, Tsumura Hideki, Toshiya Yoshida

#79Roberto Rovira, Jeff Burris, & Edgar Albandoz
Coral Gables, FL


HONORABLE MENTIONS (Numerical order)

#62 - René Davids, FAIA, & Eleanor Pries
Oakland, CA
Woranol Sattayavinij, Wilson Wang

#96 - Reuniting Gondwana, Judy Venonsky &Yadiel Rivera-Diaz
Pennington, NJ

Overview

The San Francisco Botanical Garden, which encompasses a botanically diverse and ecologically important collection of over 7500 varieties of plants on 55 acres within San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, sponsoring an open, one-stage, international competition to select a design for the Gondwana Circle. The Botanical Garden, owned by the City of San Francisco, seeks a design solution that effectively communicates the historical significance of Gondwana in relation to the evolution and current horticultural communities of the Southern Hemisphere.

Gondwana formed approximately 200 million years ago when the supercontinent Pangea split in two, creating Gondwana and Laurasia. The Gondwana continent, containing most of the landmasses found in today's Southern Hemisphere, as well as Arabia and the Indian Subcontinent, moved south. The Sponsor views this as a unique opportunity to provide visitors of all ages to the Garden with an understanding of the mechanics of plate tectonics and plant evolution as related to Gondwana through educational and interpretive aspects of the winning design. The Gondwana Circle is a significant locus for the Southern Hemisphere collections, and should include a focal feature (e.g. sculpture, water feature, etc.

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Schedule

The competition will be conducted from May through early September 2009, and is open to all landscape architects, architects, artists, urban designers, educators, students and others interested in gardens and public art issues. Multi-disciplinary teams that include landscape architects and public artists are encouraged. All submissions will be PDFs printed in color by the Sponsor. A public exhibit is planned for September-October. The Jury will award a total of $15,000 in prizes. Bill Liskamm, FAIA, will serve as the Competition Advisor. A briefing for competitors will be held at 1 PM, Thursday, June 4, 2009 at the Recreation Room of the County Fair Building, San Francisco Botanical Garden, Golden Gate Park, Ninth Avenue at Lincoln Way, San Francisco, CA 94122 (415) 661-1316.

For additional information and questions email Bill Liskamm, Competition Advisor, at gondwana@sfbotanicalgarden.org

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