American Institute of Architects' President RK Stewart Honors Winners in International Sustainable Architectural Competition at West Coast Green

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American Institute of Architects' President RK Stewart Honors Winners in International Sustainable Architectural Competition at West Coast Green

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Sep. 20 -/E-Wire/-- RK Stewart, President of the American Institute of Architects will be honoring and awarding top prize winners for the Royal Institute of British Architects-USA international competition "Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance" at this weekend's West Coast Green Residential Building Conference and Expo held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco open from September 20 to September 22, 2007.

The Building A Sustainable World Competition Awards Ceremony as well as Sustainable Practices Forum will be held in Larkin Hall at 12.30 p.m. through 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, September 22.

The competition attracted 65 registrations from 18 different countries, encompassing over 200 partici-pants, either as individuals or in multi-disciplinary teams. It challenged participants to develop concepts for healthy, vibrant communities designed to address climate change and reverse, rather than add to, en-vironmental damage. Each entry tackled environmental and social challenges of enormous scope and offered engaging, inspiring solutions.

First Prize for $10,000.00 is awarded to a Fijian Team - Toby Kyle, Chris Cole and Kamineli

Vuadreu for their project Sustainable Urban Housing in Fiji - "Vakabauta Village". This

proposal addresses the displaced and low income Fijians with ways to uplift their local economy with

affordable sustainable housing, and engaging ideas for the local people to create higher incomes for

themselves whilst respecting and maintaining their cultural values and traditions.

Second Prize for $5,000.00 is awarded to an Australian Team from Gall and Medek - team DES of

Brisbane, presented by Jim Gall and Tony Frye called "Boonah Two Development". This proposal

addresses primary elements of off the grid communities including water catchment, food production,

transportation, and relationship to each other and nature.

Third Prize for $2,500.00 was won by the United States design team of Wallace Roberts and Todd,

LLC from Philadelphia, presented by Stephen Gibson called "Urban Kidney Project" (The

Forgotten Bottom). The WRT team includes George B. Bryant, Stephen M. Gibson, Kyle Gradinger,

John Keene, Adam Krom, Lauren W. Leatherbarrow, Jamie R. Ober, Anthony C. Okoye, Yogesh Saoji,

KaMan E. Skinner, Devinder S. Soin, and Michael J. Tweed. This proposal addresses "The Forgotten

Bottom" in Philadelphia and the sustainable restoration and re-use of this brown field site.

Bonus Prize for $5,000.00 - was awarded to the entry that demonstrated the most imaginative use of

Autodesk Software. This prize was awarded to Liu Di of China for his entry called "Seasonal Flood

Threatened Community". This proposal addresses solutions to protect and support communities

An Honorable Mention was also given to a U.K. team - Angela Rivera, the Sustainable Construction

Team with DGP International and Scott Wilson Ltd for their highly creative thinking outside of the box

called "Tankers Converted to Village". This proposal addresses our soon to be flooded

coastlines and offers a solution by converting abandoned oil tankers into sustainable communities.

Architects have a golden opportunity to make a tremendous difference to our future by showing

leadership and demonstrating how readily available sustainable systems of building and design are,

exemplified by the works here.

Works by the entrant's will be shown via rotating Power Point Presentations during the expo and will soon be available for viewing on the new upcoming website SustainableWorldArchitecture.org hosted by competition's publisher Gibbs-Smith Publishing. Contact Info:

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