This is a story that few people are happy to tell. It is a story that shining downtown skyscrapers hide.
However, the deep wounds on the huge body of Detroit prove it happened and still endures: countless battered dwellings, empty streets and abandoned buildings scar the city. It is difficult to tell how “the arsenal of democracy” – Detroit grew to be known as this in the early 1940s- transformed into the largest modern-day ghost city. Yet, history is full of contrasts.
The pendulum of time often changes its direction. Time and again, where a void is created an opportunity arises. Indeed, over the last years strong winds of change have been whipping the city. They have blown the fog of the past away and dispersed the mist of decay stifling Detroit’s development for decades. As a result, many of the voids of the city – the wounds generated by depopulation and economic crisis- turned into new epicenters of urban regeneration. They became valuable canvas where to paint new masterpieces of contemporary architecture.
Detroit Waterfront District precisely focuses on the most fascinating canvas of all: the urban void overlooking the river amid downtown skyscrapers.
Detroit Waterfront District is the competition promoted by Manni Group in collaboration with Sterling Group to design the future leisure and entertainment heart of the city of Detroit.
Architects will deal with the area where stood the Joe Louis Arena beside the place where- according to tradition- Detroit’s founding fathers landed. Participants will have the opportunity to design a building complex to redefine the city skyline. They will generate superb architecture masterpieces to become the symbol of the revival of one of the most iconic and controversial cities of the history of the United States of America.
Yac thanks all the architects who will take part in this challenge.
Winners
First Prize
METAA
Clément MEYNARD, Thomas Labarthe, Sergey Guichard, Jung Hwan Kim
Second Prize
Okuma
Miguel de Rojas, Gerardo Peregrín, Marc Amigó Cañas
Third Prize
SOWA
Joanna Cieslikowska, Sylwia Darewicz, Aleksandra Wtulich, Weronika Majchrowicz
Gold Mention
ATLASMART
mohamed abdelkrim khaled bouhidel
Gold Mention
ELEV8
Michael Conroe, Rachel Mordaunt, Andrew Dugan, Nicholas Sylvies, Britt Zuckerman
Gold Mention
EASY
Sergii Protsan, Karina Shmarkova, Oleksii Glushkov
Gold Mention
Design Outsider
Callum O'Connor, Josh Speedie, Leo Räni, Daniel Duncan, Aidan Scott
Mention
Kornel&Antoni
Kornel Mierzejewski, Antoni Ciemiński
Mention
Nodar Giorgi Ana
Ana Tevzadze, Giorgi Maisuradze, Nodar Dekanosidze
Mention
Studio Unha Park
Unha Park
Mention
ibrahim nawaf joharji
ibrahim joharji
Mention
Comeaux LeFevre
Rachel LeFevre, Page Comeaux
Mention
Archus
Alp Arda, DIANNA MARIE AQUINO, LIU ANYI GUANGDONG , Duc Huy Pham
Mention
ArchiART
Ruiting Wang, Qingqing Jiang
Mention
vi,da
Vicky Daroca, Andres Villar Calle
Mention
Yona
Yona Lekova
Mention
BT
CEREN BINGOL, FURKAN KAYA, BEATRICE TOSINI
Finalist
RedVertex Team
Gergana Asenova, Youssef Hammadeh, Nikolay Ranguelov, Gita Ivanova, Petar Kasadzhikov, Yoanna Yordanova, Alexandrina Kraleva
Finalist
Juan Sebastian Jaramillo Ortiz
Juan Sebastian Jaramillo Ortiz , Nayibe Freire Sanchez
Finalist
Tarek Saleh-Lubna Adel
Tarek Saleh, Lubna Barkawi, Nouran Bakla
Finalist
gdassociati
Giuseppe D'Albenzio, Alfonso Vitolo, Massimiliano Campi
Finalist
Chenxi
Chenxi Wang, Tao Dong, Yunchen Lei, Rongpeng He
Finalist
N45/E24
Iulian Tatarciuc, Daniel Poleac, Miriam Sanchez, Vlad Grumezescu
Finalist
Vanoffice
Yi Guo, Haoyan Wei, Ruihang Yang, Bo Gao, Ze Gao
Finalist
Unfolded Story
Martynas Sinkevicius
Finalist
Team VI
Chun Ho Kwok, Yuan Yang Ho, Man Yee Lai
Finalist
ALTERA
Marco Padovani, Francesco Maria Fratini
Finalist
KArchitect
Young Kang
Finalist
popUP architecture
Matteo Gawlak, Riccardo Gialloreto, Carmen Simone
Finalist
M/M Architects
Michał Skowroński, Martyna Podrażka
Finalist
OFFTEC
FLAVIAN BASILE, MARIA ROSARIA SAVOIA, FLAVIO MAIO, MARIKA MAIO, FRANCESCO BUTTA'
Finalist
Slav Dimitrov
Slav Dimitrov
Finalist
RUA
Alberto González-Garcés Mediero, ANDIARENA VILLAVERDE
Finalist
etienne.amouret.architecture
Etienne Amouret
Finalist
xK
Konstantinos Xanthopoulos
Finalist
K3
Barbara Kobusińska, Anna Kolator, Michał Komosiński
Finalist
AI atelier
Andrada Ispas
Finalist
DYL Studio
Jingyuan Yang, Jun Deng, Wenting Li
Finalist
paradise
Cai Yicong
Finalist
Basnap
Marino Bracci, Claudio Cammarota, Antonio D'ascia, David Marity
Finalist
NINI Ye Sam Ren
NINI Ye, Jiajun Ren
Finalist
Studio Nobody
Ramses Terrero, Andrea Oritz
Finalist
MADRAS
Kalpita M., Nandita R.
Finalist
S2A
Bokyung Kim, Eunjae Jeong, Jaewoo Park, Jisu Kim
Finalist
SSNR
Roberto Somma, Samuel Morleo, Nunzio Dellerba, Stefania Assenti
Finalist
Frame+Layers
Amir Javdan, Sepehr Sabour, Amirhossein Fasahat, Shayan Adham
Finalist
Sexto Sentido
Adil Benyoussef, Zineb Moukhlis
Finalist
&SENS
Clemence Lemarie, Lisa Ohanessian
Finalist
MaMaMoD Architects
Monika Gabryszak, Magdalena Góra, Martyna Gruszka, Dobrochna Łowicka
Finalist
NG arch
Nacho Gimeno