RETHINK: 2025 Design Competition, RIBA post-pandemic Architecture Contest News
Rethink 2025 Design Competition Longlist
9 July 2020
RETHINK: 2025 Design Competition
Post-pandemic buildings and cities – RIBA reveals longlist for Rethink:2025 international design competition
Thursday 9th of July 2020 – The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (9 July 2020) announced the longlist for Rethink: 2025 – an international design competition for our post-pandemic world.
Rethink: 2025 invited architects and students from around the world to consider what our buildings, streets and communities might look in 2025. How will the pandemic have modified the way humans interact with space and one another, and how can design mitigate its worst effects" Entrants submitted ideas tackling the seven following areas: healthcare spaces, high density living, public transport, high streets vs online shopping, remote learning, 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, selected 32 proposals, from almost 150 entries, to progress to the next stage of the competition.
The longlisted ideas range in scale from addressing details of healthcare provision and transport design to radically reconsidering the design and use of our streets and cities ? whether that be repurposing existing buildings or designing new ...