With the building industry going belly-up these days, more architects (the under-employed and un-employed) are turning to competitions for a little validation. The lure of $150,000 also helps. And a flashy website lends a little credibility to the proposal…
But The Bering Competition, a grandiose call to:
“eliminate all of the barriers like spatial disconnection of national borders and chronological disconnection of today and tomorrow, and thus, stepping forward to peace and prosperity for all earth and mankind”
-is just plain silly. I love that the islands of the Straight take their names from Greek mythology, for surely only architects of the most tragic hubris are going to enter this…
Dan Stewart has this one in the bag!
