Just heard about the winners of the first phase of the competition. Great work everyone and good luck with the next phase…

“Architecture for Humanity New York (AFHny) announces a month-long ideas
competition in search of innovative concepts for a new market place for
the Red Hook Food Vendors in Red Hook Park, Brooklyn.”


“Designers from each of the five “Selected Entries” listed below will be
part of a team that engages in the long process of bringing a project
from a design idea to a built part of the public realm. The designers
of these concepts will begin collaborating with AFHny, the Red Hook
Vendors, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation at
the beginning of 2009. AFHny looks forward to beginning the project’s
next stage of collaboration.”

“The competition juries selected the following entries:

Selected Entry 1 – “Food Fence”
Designers: Mateo Pinto, Carolina Cisneros

Selected Entry 2 – “Bleachers”
Designers: Miki Onodera

Selected Entry 3 – “Food Coloring”
Designers: Asaf Yogev, Craig Tooman AIA, LEED-AP

Selected Entry 4 – “Double Sided”
Designers: Emilie Graham

Selected Entry 5 – “New Vendor Kiosk”
Designers: Jackie Luk

The juries also awarded the title of “Honorable Mention” to the following designs:

Honorable Mention 1 – “Splitting the Difference”
Designers: Raj Kottamasu, Michael Haggerty, Brian Ackley

Honorable Mention 2 – “Tapas Toldos Plaza”
Designers: Nic Goldsmith, Ashish Soni, Eric Smith, Matthew Hilyard

Honorable Mention 3 – “Groundplane”
Designers: Chris Syrett

Honorable Mention 4 – “Market Made”
Designers: Nick Brinen