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Seven petals for Paris

At the "Living Future '11" conference in Vancouver on April 29, 2011, we were announced the winners of the Living City Design Ideas Competition and the grand prize of $75,000. The competition was organized by the International Living Future Institute in partnership with The National Trust for Historic Preservation. Organizers invited competitors from around the world to envision the transformation of existing cities into cities of the future by translating the strictest green building codes contained in the Living Building Challenge 2.0. Desired were possible solutions with existing technologies that could be applied in the near future. Being an open competition, more than 80 collectives addressing 69 cities from 21 countries entered the competition. After a thorough jury that lasted more than two months, our proposed project for the modernization of Paris was chosen as the winner. Read the full text in the 3/2011 issue of Arhitectura magazine.

At the "Living Future '11" conference that took place in Vancouver on April 29, 2011 we were designated the winners of the idea contest Living City Design Competition and were awarded the great prize in amount of 75,000 dollars. The organizers invited competitors from all over the world to visualize the transformation of the existing cities into cities of the future through the transposition of the strictest norms of ecology for the built fund comprised in the Living Building Challenge 2.0. The solutions sought after should have been possible with the existing technologies and applicable in the near future. Being a competition open to everybody, more than 80 collectives representing 69 cities from 21 countries appeared at the contest. Following a thorough examination by the jury which took more than two months, the project proposed by us for the modernization of Paris was designated the winning project. Read the full text in the print magazine.