Architecture Foundation Launches UK Pavilion Competition
Applications for the competition must be received by the London-based architecture center by March 3.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 12/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
The Lightbox gallery. Photo by Peter Cook.
The Architecture Foundation is looking for a few good architects. Well, at least one.
The independent UK architecture center has launched its Art Fund Pavilion competition, which calls on designers to conceive a semi-permanent pavilion that will be placed alongside the new, highly touted Lightbox gallery and museum in the London suburb of Woking. Applications for the open competition, to be judged by an international panel that includes Anish Kapoor and Wayne Hemingway, are due by March 3.
The winning design will be built with proceeds from the Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest arts jackpot valued at about $149,000, which Lightbox received in 2008. Architecture, design, and construction firm Facit has agreed to engineer, fabricate, and install the winning design, so all submissions must adhere to the company's digitally based manufacturing and construction techniques. The pavilion will be launched during the London Design Festival in September as part of Tent London, before heading to the Lightbox to provide additional exhibition and event space.
Lightbox, designed by Marks Barfield Architects, opened to acclaim in September 2007, winning a Civic Trust Award for community design and a Royal Institute of British Architects South East award for architecture.
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