The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a team led by Brock Carmichael Architects as the winners of the Tristan da Cunha Design Ideas Competition, a call for proposals on how to create ?a more self-sustainable future? for the island of Tristan da Cunha, the world?s most remote inhabited island.

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a team led by Brock Carmichael Architects as the winners of the Tristan da Cunha Design Ideas Competition, a call for proposals on how to create ?a more self-sustainable future? for the island of Tristan da Cunha, the world?s most remote inhabited island.The competition, run by RIBA on behalf of the Government of Tristan da Cunha, encouraged architects to submit ?innovative and cost-effective proposals for the re-design and consolidation of Tristan?s government (community infrastructure) buildings? in the community of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the only permanent settlement on the island.
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The remote nature of the community (2,173 kilometres (1,350 mi) away from the nearest settlement, St. Helena), demands residents live a lifestyle built around planning for the future. The competition brief called for initiatives to assist this lifestyle, including improvements to the performance of residential properties and the island?s agrarian systems to support livestock grazing and y...