WINNER: LAND ART GENERATOR

Melbourne practice NH Architecture in collaboration with architecture students from RMIT University, Ark Resources and John Bahoric Design has won the fifth biennial Land Art Generator international ideas competition for large-scale works of public art that also produce clean energy. The winning proposal, Light Up, is a lightweight tensile structure incorporating some 8,600 solar panels in a light-filtering canopy over Melbourne’s Jacka Boulevard, providing shade and improving pedestrian and street networks. The structure would produce 2,220 megawatt hours of clean energy annually for the area, enough to power nearly 500 Australian homes.

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Image: courtesy Land Art Generator Initiative