RIBA Announces Post-Pandemic Design Competition Winners

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced three joint winners of the Rethink: 2025 international design competition. Looking for designs for a post-pandemic world, the competition invited architects and students to consider what life and our built environment could look like by 2025. In total, there were over 147 entries from 18 countries that were submitted to reimagine daily life. The Rethink: 2025 winning entries are:

1. Streets are Made for Walking by People Matter - This proposal uses Holloway Road, an arterial road in North London – as an example of what could be done in any city to redesign its streets to make high quality public space for those living either side of such traffic corridors.
2. Greater London Agriculture by Tim Rodber and Dominic Walker - This proposal seeks to transform London’s metropolitan area into an ecologically diverse, agricultural landscape, addressing the premise that industrialised food production has made us vulnerable to diseases transmitted from animals to humans.
3. Get Everyone In, Benjamin Holland, Olivia Dolan by Katie Williams - This proposal draws on two issues – the need to house people who are homeless and the prediction that many office spaces will become permanently redundant. Bringing these issues together, it suggests that empty office spaces can be re-used and repurposed to house homeless people.