2010-01-14 32 tents for the Peace Pentagon

Architects, designers, artists, engineers and multi-disciplinary teams from across the globe were invited to participate in the competition to “re-imagine and rebuild the Peace Pentagon, located at 339 Lafayette Street in New York City“. Overall, there were 128 submissions with ideas for the historic home of the American peace movement. The design, which combines the metaphorically powerful form of a white cube made out of the material from 32 white refugee tents with a functional reorganisation of the existing building, was awarded first prize.