Causeway Competition Booboo

This happened before with the Carlow Visual Arts Centre competition… seems to be the norm!

Pardon my ignorance, but does it matter? If your architecture would win a closed competition, surely it would win an open one?
I would have thought the only place anonymity is necessary is at the judging stage. (As long as the judges don’t lose the winning entry!)

(I’m not being a smartarse here- not being an architect I can’t see what your concern is and I’d like to be enlightened… Cheers.)

Yes I agree….does it affect the competion or standard of entries if competing firms are aware of other practices taking part.

don t think this boo boo will make much difference to be honest, it would be relatively easy in any instance to pick out 9 out of 10 irish firms who enter competitions and pick their entry.

ps for ryan, thanx for letting us know u got ur part 5 and that u went to queens , congratulations. cud nt have slept tonite without knowing that

macm
student, university of life, B.life, M.Life etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

@architect_ryan wrote:

If the Judges are now aware of who has entered they will, and it is only human nature, look for the “zaha hadid” style scheme. (im using zaha as she has a very obvious style) And with that in mind it could cloud their judgement. It shouldn,t but some of the entrants may be worried that it could. If the judge then has an idea who a scheme is by they may judge the scheme on the firms experience in such projects and not the scheme. Again the shouldnt but it could happen.

Ryan Hood
http://www.hbkarchitects.com

Some judges might go for the Hadid scheme- for others judging, it would probably go to the bottom of the list. If I was judging I think I’d look for the scheme that best responds to the brief. I’m guessing that most of the comp judges would do likewise. I noticed from the link on the other thread that many of the judges are foreign, so presumably they wouldn’t be as familiar with house styles as homegrown judges would be.
And as macm points out, any visually aware judge (at least the Irish ones) would be able to pick out an Irish house style a mile off.

I think you should just be glad that it’s a free entry competition as opposed to an invitation-only event. Best way for a young practice to make a mark.

Best of luck with it.

PS I think we all knew you were entering anyway, judging from your previous thread and your enthusiasm. 🙂

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