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Sea-Change / Changement de cap

Stage 1

Richard Klopp, Agathe LeSage (Winner)

Alvin Bartel (Finalist)

Peter Reese, Rob Grant (Finalist)

Darryl Condon (Finalist)

K. Scot Carr (Mention)

Kevin Hanvey (Mention)

British Columbia Landscape Association Environmental Committee

Kristin Schulberg

Rui Nunes, Shawn Bleet, Robert Fabianik, Stuart Maddocks

Sabrina Leman, Jennifer Franks, Sean Ruthen, Nicole Brink

Scott Parker

Andre Kroeger

John McCormick

Christopher Small

Carl Selden

Robert Bradbury

Rod Maruyama

Teresa Vandertuin

P. Charbonneau

Steven Cox

Cecila Achiam, David Yurkovich, B. Kezia Wong, Heng Song

Brian Aman, Rob Bateman, Jeff Gavistin

Dwight Atkinson

Graham Bolton

Bourke Bruegger Architects

Cedric Burgers

Steven Cheung, Catherine Yeung

Maia Chowdhury

De Hoog, D'Ambrosio, Rowe Architects

Chris Doray

Eco-Design: Paul Kernan, Michel Labrie

Jonathan Ehling

Marianne Enhorning

Michael Fox

Ian Grais, Charles Leman

Mark Geatrix

Sabina Hill

Jules Killam and Sarah

Joldine Lee

Deborah Lefrank

J.P. Maruszczak

Nicole May

Keith McKeown

Shabnam Monadizadeh, Ian McLean, Sophie Mankowska

Pat Murphy, Terry Johnson, Darcy Fortier

Mike Noble, Sarah Rahman

Peter North, Pierre Belanger

Elizabeth Ohi

Steven Palmier

Danielle Pepin

Savina Preseuth

Sharif Senbel

Richard Sporns, Shane Ripon

Rolando G. Torres, Raymundo Vicente

winner

Richard Klopp, Agathe LeSage

GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE COMPETITION

Year	1998
Location	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stage	One stage
Competitors	54

Price by stage	First prize $1500; Second prize $750; third prize $250

Professional advisor	Bruce Carscadden
Doc. level	50%

Description

Sea-change was a design competition about Vancouver's most dramatic space -it's waterfront. The competition was open to architects, artists, landscape architects, planners, and all other interested parties. The 54 participants were asked to create hypothetical, conceptual, or reality-based design ideas for sites along the city's seawalls and shorelines. Entrants were to choose their own site or sites, from Wreck Beach to the Second Narrows Bridge. Entrants had the possibility to choose any site (or sites) that is (or will be in the foreseeable future) part of the publicly accessible waterfront within the limits of the City of Vancouver.

(From competition brief)

Jury comments

Judging a design competition is rarely a simple or straightforward task. The goal in this competition was not to elect the most buildable or the most appropriate design, but to select the most insightful, provocative and creative ideas -that would stimulate an engaging dialogue about this unique public space and the natural environment of the waterfront.

We have to admit that we, the jury, considered the possibility of not awarding a first prize, but after polling all members we realized there was a unanimous choice which we all agreed with. There was one entry which all the jurors placed in their top three: Seawall Nightfall.

The jury felt that Seawall Nightfall responds to the idea of the seawall as linear space -as a public promenade. It uses the seawall as the most significant public promenade in Vancouver. Nightfall is reminiscent of the way Italian (and Spanish) towns light their main street during festivals and holidays. Light serves as an ephemeral design element... it can change over time, the seasons, the event, the place. Nightfall is a particularly inclusive vision; it is an open idea inviting response, and further development. We do, however, have some reservations... we would not want to see the entire seawall lit up all the time. There is a certain beauty and serenity to walking along the seawall at night, with only the distant light of the city across the water.
The three runners up all present different types of ideas, in terms of scale: from the conceptual to the architectural, and each represents different ways of thinking about the problem that was given in the brief.

(From jury report)

List of Competitors

Competition staff and jury

Jury	Roy Arden, Artiste
	Peter Cardew, Architecte
	Arthur Erickson, Architecte
	Marta Farevaag, Urbaniste
	Bill Pechet, Artiste
	Yoji Sasaki, Architecte de paysage
	Sam Sullivan, Conseiller Municipal

Calendar

Competition announced : January 21st 1998
All questions received by V.L.S.A.E. : February 23nd 1998
Questions and answers available : March 15 1998
Registration deadline : March 15 1998
Entry deadline : April 1st 1998
Jury's deliberation : April 3rd and 4th 1998
Exhibition : April 6th 1998
Gala opening : April 9th 1998

Press Review

Canadian Architect, Vancouver's Sea Change, 1998

The Vancouver League for Studies in Architecture and the Environment, Sea-Change A Design Ideas Competition, 1999, Vancouver, B.C.

List of general documents

(not accessible)

Monographie post-concours
Monographie post-concours
Monographie post-concours
Pamphlet résumé
Monographie post-concours
Monographie post-concours

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