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The London Internet Museum architecture competition posed participants with the intriguing task of combining a very physical monument with the abstract concept of the technology superhighway. The juxtaposition of these two concepts made for some fantastic and well-thought out projects, with the submissions varying dramatically. Our panel of judges showed a preference for projects that were not bound by precedents or assumptions, steering away from some of the more typical archetypes associated with contemporary technology, such as Apple-esque glass ultra-modern buildings.
The winning project by 404:NOT FOUND is as abstract and against the grain as an architectural idea could get. The project looks at architecture as an assemblage of crowd-sourced processes rather than the singular vision of a top-down designer. Architecture becomes an act of empowerment and an experiment for the participant, creating a platform and ethos of collaboration that legitimizes and enacts the desires of the user.
The second place winners, TRANSISTOR, took a different approach, almost critiquing the disposability of modern technology and its inherent ability to replace the old with the new, which itself quickly becomes old too. The scheme consists of a series of linear sky-lit corridors adjacent to programmed spaces punctuated by courtyards. Third place was awarded to a project distinguished by the clever association of the London Internet Museum as a digital monument. The concept involved a holographic representation aboveground, and the suppression of museum function below ground.
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1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
