LAVA Architects Win Masdar Eco City Center Competition

German-Australian practice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA)

recently won the first prize in the Masdar Eco City Center Competition

for Masdar, United Arab Emirates.

LAVA already succeeded in the first stage of the competition earlier

this year, and collaborated with Kann Finch Group, Arup,Transsolar,

and a team of international experts for the second stage challenge.

This is how LAVA explains its concept for ‘Masdar Plaza, The Oasis of the Future’:

The City of the Future

The future well being of cities around the globe depends on mankind’s

ability to develop and integrate sustainable technology.

Masdar City is the city of the future; positioned at the forefront

of integrating sustainable technology into modern architectural design.

Rome, Athens, Florence; most great historical cities have had the plaza,

forum, or square at their epicenter – where the life, values, ideals,

and vision of the population evolved. Equally, the center of Masdar

must be an iconic beacon that attracts global attention to sustainable technology.

LAVA Architects