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The Estuarine City
07.20.2009 Mithun, Awards, In The News, Thought Bursts
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) recently hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond. Mithun's entry, The Estuarine City, received an honorable mention along with 6 others of 130 competition entries from 18 countries. Mithun (architecture, planning, ecology) collaborated with experts from Bionic (landscape and planning), Regenesis (regenerative planning) and NSI (wetland planning) to find a solution to the 100-year 55 inch rise in the San Francisco bay tide.View the 6 winning entries and 7 honorable mentions on the Rising Tides competition website.
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