International competition for the railway revitalization “WHY STOP Competition : Imagining the South Coast Rail” SHIFTboston is challenging urban planners, architects, urban designers, designers and landscape architects — professionals and students — to explore and visualize destinations along the proposed South Coast Rail extension, which will connect Boston to Taunton, New Bedford, and Fall River, Massachusetts.
This international competition and event will foster the development of valuable concepts necessary for a new and vital urban network along the railway therefore becoming a true realization of the potential of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s South Coast Rail Economic Development and Land Use Corridor Plan.
The winner will receive a cash prize and present his/her concept at the SHIFTboston WHY STOP Forum at Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA on October 20th, among select members of the jury, government, community and business leaders, local developers and regional economic development groups.
The winning entry will be featured in a new game for mobile devices which will be featured at the Forum and as part of the WHY STOP Exhibition. Winning and select submissions will be on public display as part of a traveling exhibition which will begin at South Station in Boston, the New Bedford Public Library and then Fall River begining in January of 2012.
Deadline: September 16, 2011.
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