
As we announced yesterday, IND [Inter.National.Design] + Powerhouse Company have won the Çanakkale Antenna Tower Competition to design a 100-meter Observation and Broadcast Tower in Çanakkale, western Turkey (the first international competition in Turkey since 1997). The team beat out an impressive shortlist of eight architectural heavyweights, including Sou Fujimoto Architects, Snøhetta, and FR-EE/Fernando Romero Enterprise; see all their proposals, after the break.
1ST PRIZE

IND [Inter.National.Design] + Powerhouse Company, in collaboration with ABT
2ND PRIZE

Snøhetta & Özer/Ürger Architects & Battle Mccarthy
3RD PRIZE

1ST MENTION

Teğet Mimarlık & Consultants: Yonca Çeltikçi, Mehmet Okutan, Muharrem Akbulut, Lütfi Kutluay, Öykü Kocaman
2ND MENTION

3RD MENTION

FR-EE/Fernando Romero Enterprise, KOTUstudio,MAP/Mx, in collaboration with Werner Sobek
4TH MENTION

Sou Fujimoto Architects & Aecom
5TH MENTION

Olaf Gipser Architects, Arup, DS Mimarlık
The tower will be completed in 2015, in time for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Galipoli.
For more antenna towers, check out Smiljan Radic‘s winning design for the antenna tower that will alter the skyline of Santiago, Chile here.