RAH design comp attracts 126 entries
The design competition to help decide the future of the Royal Adelaide Hospital site has attracted 126 entries from 48 different countries.
Twenty-nine designs were from South Australia, out of 71 Australian submissions.
Design submissions closed yesterday, and the State Government announced the numbers this morning – which it says exceeded expectations.
The State Government-run competition aims to gather ideas for the current Royal Adelaide Hospital, which the Government says will no longer be needed when the new hospital in the city’s west end is completed in 2016.
All the submissions will be released for public viewing on September 13. A jury is considering the designs, and will announce a shortlist of six on the same day.
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Feedback from the public and “key groups involved in the site” will be used by the design teams to refine their submissions. The designs will then be re-released in November for final consideration.
The jury-selected winners, who will receive $900,000, and the people’s choice winners will be announced in December.
The Government has made it clear that the design competition will only gather ideas. The Government has not committed to building the winning design.
Government Architect Ben Hewett said today design competitions were a good way to get the community involved in the design process.
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