Cambridge Room: Ideas Competition and Logo Design
The Cambridge Association of Architects in partnership with the University of Cambridge, Cambridge City Council and South Cambridge District Council announced a competition for the ideas and logo of the new Cambridge Room. The competition attracted 17 wonderfully creative entries from far and wide, including students, academic staff, aspiring and practicing architects from Cambridge.
The winner was Victoria, Eric, Pawel & Luciano from Allies & Morrison Cambridge Studio, and runner up Alex, Brg & Liam from Neubau. The announcement of the winner is featured in the Architect’s Journal. Read more from the AJ article here. More information on the competition can also be found at the CAA website.
‘The room is the beginning of architecture‘
(Louis Kahn, The Room, the Street, and Human Agreement, 1971)
Winner:
Victoria Fabron, Eric Martin, Pawel Pietkun and Luciano Ingenito from the Cambridge studio of Allies and Morrison.
‘Praised by judges as a “beautiful, clear and accurate” concept, the portable kit of parts could be used to furnish a permanent room for discussion or be “carried between different locations for peripheral or pop-up events”.’
The Runner Up:
Alex Giarlis, Brg Lenz and Liam Cooke from Neubau
Commendations:
LDA Design of Cambridge
Simon Bumstead of Studio SNAAP
Kyriaki Kasabalis, Darius Woo of Kasawoo and David Valinsky
Kelly MacKinnon, Laura McClorey and Jess Mulvey
