Next Generation Design Competition

ATTN: CoA Students

WIN 10K!
Design competition open to CURRENT STUDENTS.

Greetings,

This year we at Metropolis magazine are taking our annual Next Generation Design Competition to a whole new level, one that I feel would be of great interest to your undergrads, graduate students, and department heads working in all disciplines that focus on the designed environment.

We've partnered with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)-one of the world's biggest landlords, with more than 362 million square feet of office space in its holdings-to challenge today's best and brightest young designers to bring an ordinary eight-story office building in downtown Los Angeles to Zero Environmental Impact using dynamic, out-of-the-box ideas.

I hope your school will find this challenge as inspiring as I do. So I urge you to enter our competition, open to designers of all disciplines-architects, interior designers, product designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, communication designers-who have been in practice 10 years or less or are currently students.

The winning design will be awarded $10,000, but perhaps most exciting of all it will be full of ideas that can be potentially applied to hundreds of similar buildings across the country and around the world. As the GSA's Chief Architect, Les Shepherd, says, the Metropolis Next Generation Competition "brings visionary design to real problems. We're not merely seeking to bring our buildings in line with current best practices, we're looking for breakthrough thinking."

If I can answer any questions you might have, please feel free to contact me at sss@metropolismag.com.
For a full competition brief, details about this year's judges, background resources for the project, and more, visit http://www.metropolismag.com/nextgen/.


Sincerely,
Susan S. Szenasy