Winners
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Honorable Mention
![The New Marine Transfer Station by Yashar Ghasemkhani, Arash Mesbah, and Pooneh Sadrimanesh.]()
2012 ENYA Ideas Competition: The Harlem Edge
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Ideas Competition endeavored to broaden the scope of architectural discourse by posing a design challenge grounded in the context of New York City and encouraging local and international emerging designers to participate. For 2012, The Harlem Edge competition, along with the Department of City Planning’s “Vision 2020: A Comprehensive Waterfront Action Plan for New York City,” sought to increase public access to the city’s waterfront through smart design interventions. Working with Nourishing USA as a programmatic sponsor, the competition brief included both interior and outdoor spaces to anticipate programmatic developments in a growing urban agriculture movement, along with the requirements to physically connect to the adjacent residential community. Entrants were challenged to re-imagine the presently inactive site in light of four criteria: public access to the city waterfront; means by which urban agriculture can be introduced into the community; creative programming and its ability to stimulate economic activity; and sustainability.
