BADDEST / 1st Prize:
MJ Public Domain Countdown by fi5e (Hong Kong)
BADDER / 2nd Prize:
Foreverland by PYT & Associates (California)
BAD / 3rd Prize:
Share Your Bed by James (Salt Lake City)
Off The Wall
People's Choice
1st Prize: e=mj2 by ayseoren (Istanbul)
2nd Prize: Fun? by Prozacville (Prozacville)
3rd Prize: Mjkop Towers by lava (Stuttgart)
Honorable Mentions
Change the World
By jcrabb (USA)
The Michael Jackson Memorial Orphanage & Hospice
By sstutter (london)
Foreverland Ranch
By timn186 (Cincinnati)
Deus Ex Machina
By Christoph Kapeller (Los Angeles)
King of Pop in Orbit
By etoile (Paris France)
Soltitude
By Lewis (NY)
Vacuous Tears
By dawid pol (nyc)
The Michael Jackson Mitten Jamboree
By C U P (blacksburg)
Man on the Moon: The Transforming Monument. By: Mark Baechler & Neeraj Bhatia
By nbhatia (toronto)
Healing the world, one cell at the time.
By monocultured (Gothenburg)
Michael Jackson lived one of the most extravagant, magnificent, and crafted lives in centuries. What act of design could possibly outshine the combined effect of the star's own intricate life?
While the music and images Michael left us will seal his cultural immortality, we are still obliged to commemorate him. What is the nature of a monument to Michael Jackson? What single place do we choose to remember a person who touched the globe and had aspirations for the moon?
What is the appropriate scale to remember a man who operated on everything possible - from the studied renovation of his own human form to the creation of an architectural-scale wunderkamer at Neverland Ranch? What design proposal can top his own unrealized plans to construct a 50-foot robotic replica of himself that roams the Las Vegas desert shooting laser beams out of its eyes?
Live Forever challenges you to design a monument to the epic that was Michael Jackson. There are no limits to this open competition. Your monument may be located anywhere you choose and be any scale that you deem appropriate.
Jury
Christopher Hawthorne - Los Angeles Times Architecture Critic
Michael Bierut - Pentagram / DesignObserver
Sam Jacob - Fat / Strange Harvest
Orhan Ayyuce - Archinect Senior Editor
Bryan Boyer - Archinect Senior Editor
Paul Petrunia - Archinect Founder/Publisher
Heather Ring - Archinect Senior Editor
Prizes
Baddest (1st)
The first place winner will receive a $500 cash prize, the complete Michael Jackson's Essentials (4 Parts) iTunes Package, a limited edition Michael Jackson tribute shirt (designed by With Bare Hands) and the winning project published on Archinect and Bustler.
Badder (2nd)
The second place winner will receive a $250 cash prize, the Michael Jackson's Essentials (The Basics) iTunes Package, a limited edition Michael Jackson tribute shirt (designed by With Bare Hands) and the project published on Archinect and Bustler.
Bad (3rd)
The third place winner will receive a $100 cash prize, the Michael Jackson's Essentials (The Basics) iTunes Package, a limited edition Michael Jackson tribute shirt (designed by With Bare Hands) and the winning project published on Archinect and Bustler.
Off the Wall (People's Choice)
The people's choice winner will receive a limited edition Michael Jackson tribute shirt (designed by With Bare Hands) and the winning project published on Archinect and Bustler.
Format
Entries must be submitted as a single 72 DPI image in JPG format sized exactly 1200 pixels by 800 pixels.
Submission
Entries must be uploaded via the online form by clicking the above "Upload Entry" button. Each entry may include one image and a text description not exceeding 500 characters.
Deadline
All entries must be submitted no later than August 22 at 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time.
Winners
The jury will select 3 winners in addition to 1 people's choice award, as determined by an online vote.
The winners will be announced on August 29, 2009, what would have been Michael's 51st birthday.