I didn't guess quite how popular: it attracted 172 entries, from 31 countries, which must be some kind of a record!
Salford Council have just announced the shortlist. These winning submissions will each pick up a £4,000 prize, and go forward to interviews with the judging panel in November to allow an overall winner to be selected.
There are also quite a few of the unsuccessful entries on the internet already, so I'll put together a separate post with those when I get a moment.
Atelier Zündel Cristea, Paris
Mott MacDonald with Moxon Architects, Altrincham and London
Toby Savage Design Limited with Wolfgang Buttress Studio and LDA Design, Stockport
Tonkin Liu Limited with Arup, London
3 comments:
Based on these images alone, my vote's with the Mott Macdonald/Moxon design.
There's an image of the 4th design at http://www.salfordonline.com/localnews_page/45742-in_pictures_extraordinary_bridge_building_plans_for_chapel_street_salford.html, I'll add it here once I've confirmed authorship of the images.
It seems that, despite your earlier concerns about the feasibility of the entries, the shortlisted designs all had some pretty major bridge engineering firms behind them.
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