Hasta La Ideas

Vaguely related to the last two posts, if you strip out most everything except for the sustainability and the San Francisco-area parts, we turn to the Rising Tides competition. It was a contest put together by a number of organizations, chief among them the local AIA chapter in the Bay Area, which asked for submissions of plans to help deal with sea level rise in the San Francisco area, with a prize of $25,000 going to the best entry. It was an interesting brief in and of itself, but as our pal Kristen Richards pointed out, the surprise announcement of the winners yesterday was more intriguing. Notice we said “winners” there, as in plural prizes, a decision no one expected:

The selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many different promising solutions were offered. Juror Walter Hood said it best when he stated, “San Francisco Bay is not the place for a single idea. Taken as a whole, the six winning entries begin to tell a story about adaptation to sea level rise.”

So now each winner will take home $4,166, their share of $25,000 divided by six.