Winners for the Bering Strait Project
1st place, Taller 301
The winning concepts for the Bering Strait Project International Ideas Competition were recently announced in both the professional and student categories. The objective of the competition was to construct a bridge or tunnel to span between Russia and the United States. The project would create a world highway linking Asia, Africa and Europe with North America and South America.
The competition seeks to not only achieve an architectural connection but also a connection among all races in an attempt to form a future society to prepare the world for unity rather than disjunction. The project, due to its massive scale, would require mutual efforts on both sides to complete, thus all must cooperate and communicate to reach success. ”Eventually, it aims to remove the barrier of human race, culture, religion, and nations by letting this obstructed way flow and to being peace to the world…the Bering Strait project can be rephrased as an elimination of all the barriers like spatial disconnection of national borders and chronological disconnection of today and tomorrow, and thus, stepping forward to peace and prosperity for all earth and mankind,” explained the jury.
A great video clip of the project and the full list of jury winners after the break.
The scope of the competition includes a design proposal of a peace park with a bridging structure using two islands, Big Diomede and Little Diomede, to symbolize the continuation of two continents. Once the connection is made, the railway will go through both Uelen of Russia and Cape Prince of Wales of the United States linking the North American Rail System. A new highway will link the existing coastal highway of Uelen – Dezhnev – Tunytlino at Russia and Wales – Tin City – York at the United States.
Although the jury has announced the winner, images have not yet been published. We will be sure to pass them along as soon as we can. For now, here’s the complete list of awardees:
1st Prize in the Professional Category (USD 55,000):
Diomede Archipelago: Taller 301 – Julian Restrepo (Colombia), Pablo Forero (Colombia), Manuela Mosquera (Colombia), Susana Somoza (Venezuela), Tomas Jaramillo (Colombia)
2nd Prize (each USD 25,000):
Bering Strait: Rachdi Manal (France), architecture OFF (France)
Bridge the Memory: Jaeik Sim (Republic of Korea), Hyunwook Woo (Republic of Korea), Daekwon Park (Republic of Korea), Jonghyuk Lim (Republic of Korea), Dongjin Lee (Republic of Korea)
Imprinted Time: Jitaek Shim (Republic of Korea), Sung Hoon Chung (Republic of Korea), Seung Youp Lee (Republic of Korea), Seung Hwan Shim (Republic of Korea), Sung Gi Park (Republic of Korea)
3rd Prize (each USD 10,000):
Entanglement: Evelyn Alonso (Spain), Sara Sarmiento (Spain), Manuel Perez (Spain)
Nebula: Marek Rytych (Poland), Krzysztof Kryska (Poland), Malgorzata Piotrowska (Poland), Pasternak Karol (Poland), Radek Tabor (Poland)
Honorable Mention:
Connect Five: Jessica Liew (Australia), Clare Kwok (Australia), Zi Yang Boon (Australia), Elissa Loh (Australia), Irene Ng (Australia)
Diomede Plane: zer0group [Laurent Troost] (Brazil)
Light of Peace: Jacob Forsberg (Sweden), Helen Hallberg (Sweden)
Suspended Time: Ben Addy (United Kingdom)
1st Prize in the Student Category (USD 15,000):
Nature Must Colonize Human: Taegon Kim (Republic of Korea), SeongJae Lee (Republic of Korea), Joohui Son (Republic of Korea)
2nd Prize (each USD 10,000):
Gone with the Wind: Hyunil Oh (Republic of Korea), Jongwon Lee (Republic of Korea), Jaesuk Choi (Republic of Korea), Sangyoon Lee (Republic of Korea)
Rising Land: Jannik Duellmann (Germany), Philipp Lueffe (Germany), Pascal Maas (Germany)
3rd Prize (each USD 5,000):
Invisible Bridge: Hyungi Kim (Republic of Korea), Jihwan Moon (Republic of Korea), Tahn Shin (Republic of Korea), Sungyeol Choi (Republic of Korea), Hanbyul Rhee (Republic of Korea)
Solid Linking: Antoine Denieau (France)
Trans Bering Strait Tunnel & International Peace Park Memorial: Julian Huang (United Kingdom), Vimal Mehta (United Kingdom), James Petty (United States), Hongtao Wei (China)
Honorable Mention:
Breakwater: Joohyung Oh (Republic of Korea), Yunsuk Lee (Republic of Korea), Doosan Baek (Republic of Korea)
Invisible Bridge: DeokKi Hong (Republic of Korea), JaeKyu Han (Republic of Korea), WooYoung Park (Republic of Korea), DaeSoon Kim (Republic of Korea), Seok Choo (Republic of Korea)
Moving Island: HeuckJin Jung (Republic of Korea), HwanSuk Choi (Republic of Korea), DaeHyun Kim (Republic of Korea)
Smile!: Piotr Bialobrzeski (Poland), Marcin Kulesza (Poland)
The Heteropia: Sung Jun Bae (Republic of Korea), Hyo Young Park (Republic of Korea), Jae Won Heo (Republic of Korea), Jung Jae Park (Republic of Korea)
As seen on Bustler.
The video and rhetorics in it makes me angry…
Please don’t ruin Alaska to to suck out more fossil fuel!
And by “making peace” – they really meen making money – for themselves..
This is the most self-serving rhetorical drivel I have seen in a very long time. It was hard to tell if the promo wasn’t merely a spoof on it’s self. I wonder if any of the people in the competition have a clue as to the nature of the environment in the Bering Straits. Having worked in the Bering Straits region for over a decade, at Tin City, Wales, and St. Lawrence Island, I would challenge any of the competition “winners” to use their spoils and visit the region and realize the challenges that the local inhabitants face just to survive. Oh and existing highway… utter b.s., the road from Wales to Tin City is no highway. Try a one-lane dirt and cobble path. And the road from Tin-City to York is non-existent. Oh and York, York is a ghost-town just outside of Nome. Complete and utter drivel. Arch Daily inspires on a fairly consistent basis, but on this, this you should have done your homework.
money and peace don’t go together…
Entering this competition did not mean we thought it was a realistic project. In fact, it was almost impossible to design due to the lack of existing infrastructure and also the severe weather conditions. And personally, almost an impossible and unfeasible project given location, economy and politics. The very notion of it being sustainable and environmentally sound was totally rhetorical. But at the end of the day, it was an ideas project as most design competitions are.
peace and prosperity…? ah ah Where ? In the Moon ?
“peace and prosperity for all earth and mankind” …sounds like miss world wrote this. It just a freaking bridge not a new world order
Who is driving from Alaska to Siberia? Would any civilization exist at either end of the bridge?
I says “a connection among all races”. ¿Dogs are included? I only know one human race called human. The concept of “race” should not be aplied to humans. Please. It is a conection of countries, of people.
Whoa, at long last someone has figured it out: the real solution to world peace is to build a bridge connecting Sarah Palin to Siberia. We can scratch world peace off our global to-do list.
This is ridiculous.
I found it interesting that no American (or Canadian, or Russian) teams were finalists. Probably because no one from those countries is stupid, naive, or gullible enough to fall for this idiocy. Not sure why so many Korean teams were finalists…must have been highly publicized there or something.
I love the warm and fuzzy language surrounding this thing too. Its the same tone all “pioneers” take when they know they’re getting ready to pull one over on you.
Dumbest Competition Ever!
Ah, I get it now. Just visited the website and its all clear: A Korean tunnel contractor sponsored this nonsense.
Let’s see, you’re a large tunneling company and you need work. But dammit, no one needs a tunnel. So what do you do? You come up with your “dream job”…a big money maker for you. Then you come up with a strategy to get people to want this thing (in this case a competition, shows you how smart these guys are). Then, to keep people from quickly seeing you for what you are, you wrap the idea in tender names and words like “peace”, “prosperity” and my favorite, “Sponsored by: The Foundation for Peace and Unification”
Sounds like these guys just rented “Chinatown” and said, “Hey, if they could do it in L.A. with water, why not the Bering Strait, with peace.”
Morons.
55K for first place?!? God Damn!
Competition is sponsored by “The Foundation for Peace and Unification.” They’re a wacky church offshoot inspired by this rich Korean guy Sun Myung Moon. He probably owns the tunnel company.
where are the images of the proposals?
That video was terrible.
Why on Earth someone would want to build a bridge between Russia and USA?!
Who then next?!
In this case someone should sponsor a competition for a human settlement on the moon. That’s more realistic!
well, I can’t stand the hype…
I love how the video says that this bridge will “connect the WHOLE world”. Last time I checked, the world doesn’t consist of only two continents…
Ideas competitions: freeway-dreaming and concept-thinking.
Results: workless design firms search for contracts.
Reality: a lot of unsolved problems.
Advice: stop searching so far away and take responsability on the footsteps of your own house!
In short: Architects, stop messing around and do your job!
The video doesn’t load for me, so i have absolutely nothing to go on.
What’s wrong with taking an aeroplane from USA to Russia?
Strawberry Canyon in California- Hippy settlement -told me of successfully crossing of frozen Bering Strait in 70, November
Young East German escaped to West Germany -purchased 2cv citroen- crossed safely- light weight and large diammeter wheels an assist. The source who was busy converting 2cv,s to 4 wheel drive Safari type models says the escapee did not want his name revealed then because of his relatives in e.Germany.
1908 New York to Paris race -sponsored by NYTimes and ParisNewspaper originally called for route up frozen Alaska river and Bering straight- An inexpensive ferry on airbearings/hybrid hovercraft could act as backuk or pick-up truck- in emergencies.
ive heard of this idea before Of a connecting route through the bearing straght. Would It increase trade? Probally some but the whole thing about it being the solution to world peace. That I highly doubt. Now a tunnel/bridge probaly will get build eventually, might not be for a several decades but it will het built.
As for the movie. Seemed dated and as other ppl have said “rhetorical”.
5:51 PM Jun 18th
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