WAMO Competition November 30th deadline
November/09/2010 02:08 AM Filed in: Washington Monument Competition
Dear Coalition Friends:
The Washington Monument seems to be all over the news these days -- colossal public gatherings, proposed new security screening building, and the WAMO ideas competition.
Here below is the latest press release from the Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument grounds headed, appropriately enough, by a group of professors from George Washington University. I am a member of the steering committee.
There are hundreds of reasons — here are our Top Ten!
November 9, 2010 – With only weeks until the November 30th registration deadline, leaders of the National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds report a surge in public interest they hope will stir even greater participation by teachers, designers, and dreamers.
One eighth grade teacher from Charlottesville reports bringing her class to Washington to personally inspect the site, and she said that students are thrilled to see this enormous space as a tablet for testing ideas about America.
A graduate professor in communications hopes the competition will illuminate American history and important heroes.
An architecture firm is using the competition as a forum for an office wide discussion about design and planning.
Competition chairman Jim Clark lists the top ten reasons people say they’re participating:
· It’s getting noisy on the Mall: I want my voice heard!
· Our school is using the competition as an educational tool for history and art.
· I want to shape history with creative ideas.
· Big things start with an idea!
· This space belongs to me and all Americans – I want to take ownership!
· The grounds should say more about 21st Century America.
· It’s about time to make this space even better than it is now.
· This is a design opportunity for me – I want to be part of something bigger.
· I want to make this a Greener Place!
· I like it just as it is, and I want to tell you why.
Every generation leaves its mark on the Mall, and you can see that sweep of ideas over history at www.wamocompetition.org. The Washington Monument (WAMO) encourages Americans of all ages and experience levels to submit creative ideas for making the area around the Monument more welcoming, educational, and effectively used by the public.
The Competition is sponsored by an independent group of university professors, architects, designers, and civic leaders partnering with The George Washington University, the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects, and other educational organizations and universities. The Competition is open to anyone 12 years of age and older. Register by November 31, 2010 and enter your submission by December 18, 2010.
For more information the Competition and to register, visit www.wamocompetition.org.
The Washington Monument seems to be all over the news these days -- colossal public gatherings, proposed new security screening building, and the WAMO ideas competition.
Here below is the latest press release from the Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument grounds headed, appropriately enough, by a group of professors from George Washington University. I am a member of the steering committee.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ellen Goldstein 202-253-5694 or James Clark 703-524-6616
National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds
www.wamocompetition.org
WHY SEND YOUR IDEA FOR THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT GROUNDS?
There are hundreds of reasons — here are our Top Ten!
November 9, 2010 – With only weeks until the November 30th registration deadline, leaders of the National Ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds report a surge in public interest they hope will stir even greater participation by teachers, designers, and dreamers.
One eighth grade teacher from Charlottesville reports bringing her class to Washington to personally inspect the site, and she said that students are thrilled to see this enormous space as a tablet for testing ideas about America.
A graduate professor in communications hopes the competition will illuminate American history and important heroes.
An architecture firm is using the competition as a forum for an office wide discussion about design and planning.
Competition chairman Jim Clark lists the top ten reasons people say they’re participating:
· It’s getting noisy on the Mall: I want my voice heard!
· Our school is using the competition as an educational tool for history and art.
· I want to shape history with creative ideas.
· Big things start with an idea!
· This space belongs to me and all Americans – I want to take ownership!
· The grounds should say more about 21st Century America.
· It’s about time to make this space even better than it is now.
· This is a design opportunity for me – I want to be part of something bigger.
· I want to make this a Greener Place!
· I like it just as it is, and I want to tell you why.
Every generation leaves its mark on the Mall, and you can see that sweep of ideas over history at www.wamocompetition.org. The Washington Monument (WAMO) encourages Americans of all ages and experience levels to submit creative ideas for making the area around the Monument more welcoming, educational, and effectively used by the public.
The Competition is sponsored by an independent group of university professors, architects, designers, and civic leaders partnering with The George Washington University, the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects, and other educational organizations and universities. The Competition is open to anyone 12 years of age and older. Register by November 31, 2010 and enter your submission by December 18, 2010.
For more information the Competition and to register, visit www.wamocompetition.org.