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Adriatico

Iron Island

YAC and MANNI Group launch a call for ideas to write the future of ancient oil platforms.

Prizes15.000 €
DeadlineApr 24, 2024
Iron Island

YAC is an association whose aim is to promote architectural competitions amongst young designers – no matter if graduates or students.

Firstly, YAC aims to encourage design-related research by regurlarly providing tangible architectural or urban planning projects. By doing so, YAC wishes to inspire reflections about physical places for increasingly volatile and dynamic human activities. Secondly, it aims at endorsing young architects’ creativity and talent by granting the best of them adequate prizes and good exposure amongst paper and web platforms. YAC wishes to breathe new life into the design culture to pragmatically address issues on human action and soil consumption. YAC wishes numerous architects will join this challenge.

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During its years of activity, YAC has collaborated with some ot the most refined firms of the international architectural scene, that, from competition to competition, were asked to express their judgement on the project proposals received.

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