https://www.citylink.com.au/ideascompetition.aspPower Street Loop Ideas Competition
Are you a creative professional or an ideas-person with a flair for sustainable urban design? If so, your next great idea could earn you up to $25,000 in prize money and help breathe new life into a prominent site in Melbourne's arts precinct.
Launched by CityLink, the Power Street Loop Ideas Competition challenges teams of creative students and professionals to come up with design elements and artistic solutions that could help transform an unused land site next to CityLink in Southbank.
The competition recognises creative thinking and allows CityLink to collect a wide range of ideas that could inform the final project. Particularly we are interested in seeing ideas that showcase sustainable energy and rethink unused space. For specific competition details, please download the Competition Briefing Pack below.
All entries will be judged by a panel comprising Transurban CEO Scott Charlton, City of Melbourne Director City Design Rob Adam, Landcare Australia CEO Tessa Jakszewicz, Victorian College of the Arts Director Professor Su Baker and Creative Victoria Deputy Secretary Andrew Abbott. You can read more about the judges on the panel factsheet.
Award categories and prizes
First Prize $20,000
Most Innovative Response to Site $2,500
Best Sustainable Response $2,500
The site accommodates the exit ramp from the Domain Tunnel to Power Street in Southbank and borders Sturt Street. While the site is not accessible to the public, it is highly visible from neighbouring buildings, pedestrian paths and passing traffic from CityLink and Sturt Street (refer to image).
The Power Street Loop in the Melbourne arts precinct (Southbank) is the subject of the project. CityLink and the exit from the Domain Tunnel are shown on the left of the site of the picture and Sturt Street borders the right-hand side of the site.
Key dates
The competition opened on 14 January and will close on 13 March 2015. Finalists will be announced on 25 March 2015 and the overall winners announced at an Awards Event on 30 March 2015.
A selection of the ideas received will be on display at the Testing Grounds Site Studio (1 City Road, Southbank) between 31 March to 7 April 2015. So make sure you check it out!
More information
Please download the Competition Briefing Pack for competition details, entry requirements and terms and conditions.
For all enquiries, please contact the competition convenor via email:
competition@aecom.com.
Competition terms and conditions
The terms and conditions for the competition are set out below:
1. This competition is being run by CityLink Melbourne Limited and convened by AECOM Australia Pty Ltd.
2. By entering this competition, you accept these terms and conditions.
3. Entries which do not comply with these terms and conditions, the requirements set out in the rest of this Briefing Pack, or which are incomplete, are not eligible to win. No responsibility is accepted for lost, late, illegible or misdirected entries.
4. The competition is open to all residents in Australia, other than persons described in section 2.1 of this Briefing Pack. Entries may be submitted by teams a minimum of two and maximum of four people.
5. One entry is allowed to be submitted per team.
6. The entry must be your original work. By submitting your entry you represent that it does not infringe the intellectual property rights (including copyright) of any other person.
7. The winners will be announced at an Awards Event on 30 March 2015, and will also be notified by telephone or in writing (email or post) after the Awards Event.
8. The judging criteria and prizes are set out in this Briefing Pack.
9. The judging panel’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
10. You must not make direct contact with members of the judging panel and should avoid unnecessary communications with the competition convener, AECOM.
11. By entering this competition you agree to assign to CityLink all intellectual property rights (including copyright) in your entry. We may use your entry in any way we choose, including publishing the entry, adapting your design and implementing or installing your design at the Power Street Loop or any other site. If you retain moral rights in any works used by
us, we will attribute you as the author of the works in accordance with those rights.
12. By entering this competition, you consent to Citylink and AECOM collecting your personal information for the purposes of facilitating the competition, including publishing the name of the winners and publically displaying your name alongside your entry. Without this information, we may not be able to accept your entry and/or we may be unable to deliver your prize if you are a winner. Your personal information is managed in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which is available at:
citylink.com.au/files/Transurban_Privacy_Policy.pdf
13. This policy also provides further details about how you can access and correct your personal information, or lodge a complaint.
14. We will not be liable for any loss or damaged suffered by any person in relation to this competition.
Submission requirements
Boards
All entries must be presented as graphics and words mounted on flat, stiff, light, strong backings. Boards should be no more than three millimetres thick and can be laid out vertically or horizontally, but together must create either an A2 (420mm x 594mm) entry. Boards must be clearly numbered “1” to “2” in the top right-hand corner, whatever their orientation.
The top left-hand corner of each board must show the team’s competition code received at registration.
The team must choose a title for its proposal, and this must be displayed on all documents. The team can decide the positioning of the proposal title on the boards.
Board 1 must explain in words the specific design idea/s with reference to the competition criteria.
Board 2 must present a visual depiction of the project, highlighting the design of the project, and the relationship between the site, Sturt Street and the broader arts precinct, including three dimensional representations of the project.
All plan drawings are to show the site boundary as identified below. All graphic and descriptive documents must have a graphic scale. Additional documents or models are not considered by the judging panel and may, at the panel’s discretion, result in the team’s elimination from the competition.
Image: The Power Street Loop site boundary is highlighted in red
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Digital
Digital copies are to be submitted on CD or a USB stick. Submissions are to contain a high resolution (300 dpi) PDF of each board with a maximum file size of 10 megabytes (4MB per board).
Digital submission is compulsory, but will not replace paper submissions which are used to judge the projects.
Submitting entries
Entries must be addressed to the competition convenor:
Power Street Loop Ideas Competition c/o Tim O’Loan AECOM Level 45, 80 Collins Street Melbourne 3000
Entries can be submitted in the following ways:
Delivered in person to the competition convenor’s office no later than the final submission date, or
Sent by courier or post to the competition convenor’s office no later than the final submission date and time.
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