Students Kelton Minor, Derek Magee and Tiffany Carlson of The Danish Institute for Study Abroad have taken first place in Chicago Architecture Today’s 2011 International Mock Firm Skyscraper Design Challenge with their skyscraper proposal for Stockholm. Additional images of VOX‘s (the student’s mock firm) winning proposal in addition to a video and a description of the work can be found after the break.
The competition required us to imagine a new commercial skyscraper to be sited in Stockholm Sweden under the theme “Architecture that Works,” while developing a mock firm identity (VOX) and design process. Using lessons learned and insight gained from our daily movement through and analysis of the Scandinavian street, we proposed a vertical street typology as a potential solution to inject an interconnected public-private program into vertical space by continuing Stockholm’s local infrastructure.
