Arch Out Loud has announced the winners of their New York City Aquarium and Public Waterfront Competition, which invited students and professionals alike to design "an intertwined public aquarium and park" on an underutilized riverfront property located on the East River in Queens. Participants were asked to ?redefine the aquarium typology, examining its relationship to the urban context and the public domain.? 

Aquatrium. Image via Arch Out Loud

Arch Out Loud has announced the winners of their New York City Aquarium and Public Waterfront Competition, which invited students and professionals alike to design "an intertwined public aquarium and park" on an underutilized riverfront property located on the East River in Queens. Participants were asked to ?redefine the aquarium typology, examining its relationship to the urban context and the public domain.? The call for submissions was answered by 556 participants and 178 proposals from forty counties, and included ideas that pushed the physical boundaries of the site and responded to the idea of redefining the typical aquarium typology.The jury, which included both practicing architects and educators, made their selections based on designs that challenged the relationship between the waterfront and the city, and analyzed how the combination of these two can bring people together and form a new type of aquarium. The winning proposals are simple, powerful designs with easily understa...