RETHINK: 2025 Design Competition, RIBA post-pandemic Architecture Contest News
Rethink 2025 Design Competition Shortlist
14 July 2020
RETHINK: 2025 Design Competition shortlist news
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (14 July 2020) announced the shortlist for Rethink: 2025 – an international design competition for our post-pandemic world.
Rethink: 2025 invited architects and students to consider what life could look like by 2025 and to respond to one or more of the following areas – the future of; healthcare spaces, remote learning, high density living, public transport, high streets vs online shopping, international travel and the use of technology to monitor and control populations.
The judging panel ? made up of five design leaders and radical thinkers, chaired by RIBA Journal Editor, Hugh Pearman ? have selected a shortlist of 12 proposals. Key themes explored by the Rethink: 2025 shortlist include: ideas to reclaim the streets to make them safer and greener, proposals to change existing buildings to make outdoor spaces more accessible, and plans to repurpose redundant offices and shops to create vibrant new community facilities.
The Rethink: 2025 shortlisted entries are:
A Catalogue of Regeneration, Andrew Jackson

This project proposes a series of incremental improvements that can be made to streets and houses. The step-by-step guide sets out five key stages of regeneration, starting with repairing potholes, through to the creation...