Thank you to all who submitted projects for the Syracuse Works exhibition. Interest in this exhibit far outstripped our expectations, and we were amazed at the breadth of project types, and level of sophistication, of all of the entries. As difficult as it was to select just 20, it needed to be done. The following twenty projects have been selected, and the submitters will be contacted to arrange the receipt of exhibition-quality files. Once again, thank you for your participation, and we hope everyone will attend the opening of this exhibition on September 2, 2011, at the Storefront for Syracuse.
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Students are encouraged to submit school- or extracurricular- related projects for an unprecedented exhibition of student work in downtown Syracuse, to be held at the student-run, Storefront for Syracuse this September, thanks to support from Syracuse University. The exhibition will be entitled Syracuse Works: Student Visions for the City, and is intended to open a dialogue between student-architects, and the citizens of the City for which they are frequently designing.
Submission requirements:
- Projects must be designs for the City of Syracuse or its immediate environs. Preference will be given to projects based in Downtown Syracuse.
- Projects must be designed by students or alumni of the Syracuse University School of Architecture’s undergraduate or graduate programs.
- Projects will be selected with an eye towards presenting the broadest spectrum of student projects possible, including architectural techniques, building types, theoretical approaches, and aesthetic agendas.
- Collaborative projects are encouraged.
- Students may submit multiple entries.
- Format: two (2) tabloid-size (11″x17″) layouts which may include any of the following: drawings, renderings, perspectives, sketches, diagrams, photos of models. The only requirement is a map describing the location of the project.
- Deadline: Submissions must be emailed as a PDF to storefrontforsyracuse@gmail.com by 11:59pm on August 15, 2011. There is no file size requirement, but remember: as the submissions will be emailed, their file size cannot exceed your email provider’s maximum attachment size, usually 20MB.
From all the entries, twenty student projects will be selected to be included in the exhibition. Selections will be announced within five (5) days time on this website. Selected students will be contacted privately to arrange for the transfer of presentation-quality files. For more questions, please contact Nilus Klingel or Steve Klimek at storefrontforsyracuse@gmail.com — Good luck!
This past month, The Front’s “Near Westside Flashpark” was dismantled by a team of community activists, led by 2010-2011 Engagement Fellow Elysa Smigielski. The benches, park tables, and sod were used throughout the Near Westside to spruce up front yards and turn vacant parcels into small gardens. You can view photos [here].
Salt Magazine, an award-wining student-designed arts & culture magazine optimized for the iPad, featured The Front and profiled its co-directors. You can view the article, without an iPad, on Salt Magazine’s website, http://saltmagazine.com
The Front co-directors Steve Klimek and Nilus Klingel were named Syracuse University Kauffman Engagement Fellows for 2011-2012. More details are available on the Syracuse University and School of Architecture websites.
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The Front co-directors Steve Klimek and Nilus Klingel presented at this week’s Emerging Talk conference, and received the Raymond von Dran IDEA Award, a $5,000 grant to help towards establishing The Front’s venture, The Storefront for Syracuse, at its new home in the State Tower Building.
This past Monday morning, crewmembers of The Front, including myself and James Conley, took occupancy of the new storefront. Our short term plans are to clean the space extensively, paint it, and install a small, lightweight exhibition of student work, including having the space open this weekend for conference attendees to visit. We will also having drawing materials available, so that attendees can write suggestions, or may drawings of, possible future uses of the space.
Looking into the next few months with the space, we hope to use it as a community forum to discuss architectural initiatives in Downtown (building projects, The Warehouse, The Connective Corridor, the Near Westside Initiative) as well as to host workshops or student/community groups, such as Crisis City. We also see the development of usable and attractive real estate as an important aspect of our project, and to that end, we will be researching grants and civic funding sources, in order to fund rehabilitation of the space’s walls and flooring, and to revamp the electrical and lighting systems.
More to be posted soon. Opening hours will be announced during the Reclaiming Architecture conference, and will be posted here shortly.
