Following the relative success of last years contribution to the Love Architecture Festival, the reading of Under Plywood by Thomas Dylan, The Welsh Architects Theatre Studio are this year proposing a new form of talent contest. This follows the method, now preferred by Government, of inviting competitive proposals for selection by a group of people, notable principally for their celebrity, not knowledge or wisdom, to select projects for scarce funding.
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The contest will bring to the already problematic area of architectural competition the moral dimension of the present Government, popular press and the televised talent contest. Five short listed contestants will present to an all- star
panel competing for funding from the ILF (Imaginary Lottery Fund) for The
Building Wales Most Needs. The contestants will present their proposals using slides or
appropriate media and be questioned as to viability, feasibility,
sustainability and rationality by the panel and audience.
Each contestant will
then be subjected to ordeal by local cuisine;
The Taff Tucker Trial
1.
Clarkes pie + Bacardi Breezer
2.
Pot Noodle + Malibu
3.
Guinness and Tia Maria
4.
Onion bhajee + Pint of Brains SA
5.
Cockles + Strongbow
The event will be hosted by the Welsh School of Architecture
at the Birtacres Theatre on Thursday 20 June 2013 (TBC).
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The
competition is open to all professions active in Wales and its colonies.
Additional
points will be awarded for most imaginative use of S106 Agreements.
The final
decision of the judges will be arbitrary.
The winners
will be given full coverage in the Welsh edition of Hello! magazine,
Hiya!/S’mae? And be mentioned in passing on Radio Wales.
PROVISIONAL LIST OF ENTRANTS PROPOSAL
Frank Lloyd George and Partners
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A Museum of Welsh Aspirations
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Zahara Wadid ap Rhys
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Temporary Toilets for National Eisteddfod
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T.B.C
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Offshore Tax-Free Green Sustainable Casino, Brothel and Bird
Sanctuary on Flat Holm Island
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I am a sad and lonely architect, still breathing, who feels this sort of thing would be just the job to kick-start new life into my tired and addled brain. Like me, it can't come quick enough. By the way, I have visited the Museum of Welsh Perspirations and it is not pleasant.
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