Nike 6.0 is joining the Crowd.
Evidently, in a gesture of good faith, Nike, partnering with the San Onofre Foundation and SurfriderFoundation, is sponsoring a design contest to create a safe, and responsible way to move surfers from their cars to the beach, without destroying the natural environment.
This is a great opportunity for those professional and wannabe landscape architects out there to blend all those trails and railroad crossings into the background. Please pass it on to any professionals, students and professors who are looking for some practical experience. It would be even better if the contestants knew the space intimately so they can blend the surfing culture’s needs into the ecological needs of the site.
It’s great that our beloved Trestles is getting the attention it deserves. Let’s see if Nike can live up to its desires to be green. And, let’s give them all the support we can to get it done.
The contest, being organized by Architecture for Humanity, is called Safe Trestles. Here is the link:
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/trestles
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