A few weeks ago, we shared our opinion on the benefits of the open architecture competition. Whether you believe entering competitions degrades architects because ideas are shared without monetary compensation, or whether you find that competitions inspire your creative edge, how about this scenario: a competition canceled one day after the submission deadline.
More about the canceled competition after the break.
The competition for the Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center included a brief that one participant explained as being “hundreds of pages long and required months of work and coordination with multiple consultants. Not to mention the cost of producing 15 hard copy books for the submission. For any office that did it the right way (meaning they paid their employees) the overall cost of investment is easily in the 10s and maybe 100s of thousands for this competition.”
