The MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards uniquely celebrate un-built or incomplete design projects. As such the awards judge fine architectural creativity and practices responses to client development briefs. Below is a pick of the best winners of this years contest.
Project: Footbridge in the Tasos Papadopoulos Avenue, Cyprus
Architect: Elina Pattichi
Judges comments: "This connective project reinterprets the nature of the cantilever for social benefit."
Project: AF Floating Cinema, UK
Architect: Joe Morris
Judges comments: "The floating cinema crated in a canal boat is simultaneously a social idea internally, and a proposition about animating public space"
Project: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)
Architect: Rice+Lipka Architects
Judges comments: "An inspirational project that combines past and present in a well resolved and convincing manner. It creates new spaces for creativity in a post-industrial city"
Project: C3 House, New Zealand
Architect: Richard Naish
Judges comments: "Lightly touching architecture: wall and roof are of the same material, embodied energy is massively reduced through local sourcing.
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