Exhibition for Octavia Boulevard Housing Design Competition Opens June 6 at CCA
San Francisco, June 2, 2005
An exhibition featuring close to 200 housing design proposals for San Francisco's newly constructed Octavia Boulevard will take place June 6–10 and then June 13–19, after the winners have been selected. Both exhibitions take place in the Nave at CCA's San Francisco campus. Also placing in the competition was CCA alum Wayne Campell, whose group from Elevation Architects received one of five Awards for Meritorious Community Ideas.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
About the Competition
San Francisco Prize is conducting an architectural design competition for six parcels that front the new Octavia Boulevard. Two of the parcels will be subsidized by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency as affordable housing. The city will sell the others to private developers. The purpose of the competition is to generate creative housing ideas for those and other sites formerly occupied by the freeway. While construction of the winning designs is not guaranteed, the competition sponsors will encourage developers to team up with designers who submit entries that will bring architectural distinction to the boulevard. Winning designs will win cash awards and subsequently be exhibited and published.
Sponsors of the competition include the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Economic Development, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, the American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter, San Francisco Beautiful, California College of the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and neighborhood representatives.
For More Information
For more information on the exhibition, please contact 415.703.9562 or architecture@cca.edu.
For more information about the Octavia Boulevard Housing Design Competition, please visit www.sfprize.org.