London Bridge 800 Ideas Competition by RIBA

Thursday, August 27, 2009

"Organised on behalf of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects (WCCA), a Livery Company of the City of London, the competition marks the 800th anniversary of the opening of the first London Bridge in 1209AD.

The competition invited today's designers to imagine a new version of the inhabited bridge. The competition received an exceptional response with a total of 73 entries received from architects and students of architecture from all over the world.

Submissions came from the UK, Europe and as far afield as the USA, Argentina, China, Hong Kong and South Africa. The judging panel, which included Richard Saxon CBE, journalist Peter Murray, Colette O'Shea of Land Securities, and Ian Head, Master of the WCCA, described Laurie Chetwood's scheme as 'beautifully presented, wildly imaginative and a unanimous first choice'. "

London Bridge 800: Design an Inhabited Bridge Competition

First prize: Laurie Chetwood, Chetwoods, London

Second prize: Lawrence Friesen, GenGeo, Ilona Hay, London

Third prize: Ryszard Rychlicki, student, Poznan, Poland

All above text and images from: RIBA