Great Odds

A new competition is out that we're thinking of entering.
The announcement seems promising.

Las Palmas Exhibition

Dear friends and fans, if you happen to be in Las Palmas for the Biennial, feel free to stop by their architecture school (Escuela Superior de Arquitectura) to see the legendary visiondivision project The Merchants of Venice, it may be the last opportunity to do so in full format, and Las Palmas is lovely at this time of the year.



More info:

The 2G Competition. Venice Lagoon Park exhibition travels to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Opening Saturday, 7 March 2009 Monday-Friday, from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm Escuela Superior de Arquitectura. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Campus Universitario de Tafira n/n Tel: 928 277 530

As part of the Second Biennial of the Canary Islands: Architecture, Art and Landscape , the 2G Competition exhibition will be on view in Las Palmas from 7 March to 3 May. It can be seen at the Escuela Superior de Arquitectura de Las Palmas from Monday to Friday, between 9.00 am and 7.00 pm. Admission free.

Launched in Barcelona in September 2008, the 2G Competition exhibition includes the winning projects, special mentions and a selection of the proposals chosen as finalists. In October 2008 the show travelled to Venice, where it remained until the end of November.
For more information: www.bienaldecanarias.org

Barcelona exhibition

If you happen to be in Barcelona this or the next week, we could warmly recomend the 2G exhibition where visiondivision is exhibited with their proposal "The Merchants of Venice".
The exhibition will remain open from 25 September to 10 October.
If not, you could soak in some exhibition atmosphere below.



Opening: Wednesday 24 September 2008 From 8.00 to 10.00 pm Editorial Gustavo Gili. Rosselló 87-89. Barcelona Metro: Hospital Clínic or Entença (L5) Tel: 93 322 81 61

The Merchants Of Venice

2008-01-17
Visiondivision came out as a prize winner in the 2G-Competition for the Venice Lagoon with over 560 proposals.
The proposal will be published in the 2G Magazine and at the Biennale this summer.
Assertion from the jury report with Anne Lacaton as the jury president:

"The forcefulness with which the proposal re-posits the rules of the competition in terms of a critical pragmatism of those rules, one that is aware of the flows of capital."

See the final outcome and download the posters at http://www.2gcompetition.com/, print them and put them on your wall.

Above: The posters
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