CULTURE

Congratulations to the Context Graduate Prize First Place Winner, Prajakti Gautam, Afrin Moury, and Rebecca Brodne, as well as their professor Paul Armstrong.

About their winning project The Triada:
The Triada is a mixed-use tower proposed between N Columbus Dr. and E North Water St. in Chicago’s mixed-use zone, the site has a strong potential to become more active, public, and connected to the city. The social aspect responds to nearby residents and workers, including young married people, working professionals, and some older families. The environmental aspect responds to rivers, parks, and public spaces around the site. Green corridors from surrounding parks continue upward through the hotel, residential, and penthouse zones, creating an urban green continuum where landscape becomes part of daily life.

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Congratulations to Barcelona Earl Prize Third Place Winner, Marco Maniacci, as well as their professors Alejandro Lapunzina and Laia Cistero.

About their winning project Twin Theatres:

Twin Theatres is situated in Poblenou, located in Barcelonas developing neighborhood “El Poblenou”. The project reconsiders conventional relationships between performance, audience, and building by elevating the primary theatre above ground, creating a series of alternative, flexible performance spaces beneath the main auditorium.

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Congratulations to Junior Earl Prize Third Place Winner, Itzel Cruz Davalos, as well as their professor Tait Johnson.

About their winning project Cultural Nodes:
“The design fosters the concept of culture through developed curvilinear spaces that bring the Urbana community and future cohousing residents together. Boneyard Creek’s path through Champaign and Urbana inspired the creation of cultural nodes, which unify the entirety of the site through conversations, music, and learning enviorments, ultimately highlighting the importance of living in community.”

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Congratulations to the Space+Wellness Graduate Prize First Place Winners, Jenna Lin, Ellie Lynch, and Jeremiah Pham, as well as their professor Botond Bognar.

About their winning project Kyoto Ma:
Kyoto Ma Studio is a mixed-use architectural complex located in the dense urban center of Kyoto. Inspired by the Japanese concept of Ma, the space in between, the project explores how architecture can create layers of transition, filtration, and pause within an active urban environment. A continuous pathway weaves through fragmented building volumes, creating an elongated experience of movement between interior and exterior. Aluminum shading panels filter light, air, and views, creating shifting moments of openness, enclosure, and pause while maintaining a connection to the surrounding environment.

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Congratulations to Junior Earl Prize 1st Place Winner, Shayna Friedland, as well as their professor Cyrus Dochow.

About their winning project Möbius Urbana:
“Möbius Urbana explores cohousing as a model for balancing individual autonomy with collective living. A continuous winding path links four residential pillars, weaving together shared spaces and layered unit types to create a gradient of public and private zones. Through spatial proximity, shared experiences, and adaptable living arrangements, the complex prioritizes connection while preserving opportunities for retreat, flexibility, and individual living.”

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For the fifth time, the Barcelona International Workshop brings together students from Illinois Architecture and Landscape Architecture and MBLandArch students in a collaboration among UIUC, UPC, and the AMB–Barcelona Metropolitan Area. This year, they investigate the Districte Econòmic–Fira Barcelona through climate comfort, public-space activation, and urban ecology.

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Congratulations to the Barcelona Program Earl Prize 1st Place Winners, Christopher Azzo, Zaien Liu, and Henry Sloan, as well as their professors Alejandro Lapunzina and Laia Cistero.

About their winning project La Plaça:
“La Plaça is a theater in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona that organizes itself around a central plaza that functions as the heart of the building and an extension of the city. Dramatically slanted roofs echo the silhouettes of historic local factories, while the massing respects the adjacent church. Highly transparent facades allow the city itself to become part of the performance, reframing the theater as a shared civic space.”

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Congratulations to the Senior Earl Prize 1st Place Award Winner, Zakariya Rizvi, as well as his professor Madalyn Asker.

About his winning project, CrowWorks:
“CrowWorks reimagines the University of Illinois Stock Pavilion as a crisis-response facility where humans, trained crows, and advanced machinery work together to manufacture and distribute aid packages. Designed to operate during periods of conflict, scarcity, and instability, the facility includes crow habitats, greenhouses, seed libraries, research laboratories, medicine storage, shipping docks, supply-sorting spaces, and a large assembly line hall.”

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