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2012 Submissions

2012 Winners

Bistro Box

The Bistro Box concept is a small business incubator that transforms surplus cargo containers into a compact restaurant and culinary destina...

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Chess Pocket Park

Offers fun, active, strategic chess play to children and residents of Old North....

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Mighty Mississippians

The Mighty Mississippians utilizes this lot in two ways: a demonstration garden using native plant selections or their relatives historicall...

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Sunflower+ Project

The Sunflower+ Project: StL turns previously developed urban lots into a community asset through the planting of sunflowers. With a goal of...

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Renewing Roots Urban Farm

Our Farm is tailored to address the characteristics of North St. Louis City, offer a viable solution for reversing blight, add taxable entre...

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2012 Finalists

Carbon Carpet

Proposal to plant a native grass + forb garden using 5″ deep cell plant plugs. Mimic the pattern of a Persian Rug (hard geometry, bilatera...

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HUB: Hybrid Urban Bioscapes

The team developed a palette of possible landscape and recreational interventions that can be implemented in vacant lots....

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shiftUP

shiftUP would be a community space to rent, maintain, and learn about bicycles. As a bike hub, shiftUP would encourage bikers from other par...

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2012 Semi-Finalists

Urban Beautification Warriers

We propose that this space be transformed into a giant walk-through kaleidoscope. The area can be used for many purposes; i.e.: event space,...

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Interactive Living Landscape

We aim to demonstrate that vacant lots can be aesthetically landscaped to provide self-maintaining public gathering spaces that not only hea...

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Activating Capacities

We seek to develop design prototypes which can be projected into a larger vision for re-modeling energy and water infrastructures at neighbo...

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CORE

An economic opportunity for neighborhood residents to set up a light manufacturing and retail enterprise in a movable, temporary, green buil...

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NEXtUS!

Access to information, education and people can be leveraged to increase life opportunities. Areas of vacant land separate people and limit ...

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Old North Resource Library

We propose a modular, mobile resource center for materials and knowledge for neighborhood residents, property owners, businesses, employees ...

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Remaining Submissions

  • SPORE’s Rehabilitation Hub
  • Project Flyway
  • STL ABC
  • Type(scapes)
  • Appleseed Project
  • St. Louis FORWARD
  • Refab
  • Off Paper
  • Community-Oriented Infrastructure
  • Ground Incision
  • Kit House
  • Sand Lot
  • BambooLAB
  • Mound City
  • Aqua Botanical
  • The Food Deck
  • Yin-Yang
  • x-studio
  • Native Species Living Lab
  • Sustainable Nectaring Garden
  • Water Fountains for Peace
  • Team ‘Herben’ Garden
  • Sunflower Power
  • STL Alley Lovers
  • Confluence Square
  • Light Polls: Illuminating the Vote
  • Empower Your Neighbor
  • CLOUD drop
  • Growing Together
  • Northside Tool Library
  • VoidedBy
  • Wong, Morley, Kalahele & Sorenson
  • Movie Night
  • MLAWU

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