Lakefront Kiosk Entries

"Chicago Horizon" uses cross-laminated timber, a new carbon-negative engineered lumber product, to create an expansive canopy supported by a series of slender columns. — Chicago Horizon by Ultramoderne | Providence, USA — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition Winner

Composed of a translucent free-span roof resting on two structures housing the kiosk and a storage space, the entire construction is built of ordinary squared timber battens, which are recycled through the process of building. — TRU Architects | Berlin, Germany — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition Finalist

This proposal attempts to express Chicago's "unlikeliness: that chutzpah, the strange emergence of something intricate and sophisticated in a hostile environment." The pavilion, its surface fading in from routed plywood panels to a pattern of shingles, transforms from a blank, block-like mass into something more architectural, refined and domestic. — Lekker | Singapore, Malaysia — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition Finalist

"Behind the Curtain" aims to present itself in a manner that tries to conceal rather than embellish its monumentality, iconicity, and symbolism. Indeed, the kiosk's attenuated cylindrical form, composed of a simple base and frame, is simply obscured with a thinly-meshed veil. — Behind the Curtain by Kelley, Palider, Paros | Chicago, USA — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition Finalist

The proposal draws from the idea of the wall, a fascination that starts with ancient ruins and temples—objects that are destroyed, but which still live in our memories. The kiosk forms a long, black wall that separates two worlds—the hectic, crowded streets and the tranquil sea. — kollektiv-a | Berlin, Germany — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Honorable Mention

The "little kiosk artistically considered" is an architectural assemblage. "It is flexible enough to suit most cultural and commercial programs but always retains the same architectural expression: the protection of a warm timber roof, the efficiency and luminosity of a glass box, the spatial punctuation brought by an arbitrary column. All its elements correspond in a loose and playful way." — fala atelier | Porto, Portugal — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Honorable Mention

"Ambient Light" aims to highlight the unique ambience of the waterfront, where sky meets earth and the horizon is exposed and illuminated. The kiosk, using lightweight materials, steel tubes, and fabric cables, forms a circle of translucent fabric that diffuses light, delimits space, and generates privacy. — Guillaume Mazars | Sydney, Australia — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition Honorable Mention

While the service areas is solid, the social viewing space is permeable and expresses the visual metaphor of trees with thin fins of varying densities wrapped around it to define the space. — RA Projects | London, UK — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

Plastic Sunrise is constructed with often discarded colored high-density polyethylene, fused with stone as "plastiglomerate"; the result is a pink and golden morning sky structure with a positive ecological impact. — Plastic Sunrise by Meredith Miller and Thom Moran | Ann Arbor, USA — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

The Donny, an intimate glass pavilion with air ventilation modeled after the Canadian well, aims to exist in the collective psyche of those who encounter it. — Donny by Bureau Cosmique | Rennes, France — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

A simple cuboid is transformed into a unique reflective object by shifting the verticality of the walls by 10 degrees in both directions at half height, resulting in isolated views of the environment superimposed in unexpected ways. — toprojekt | Rybnik, Poland — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

Inspired by the Fibonacci Spiral found in shells, the kiosk has a chimney at its center to provide ventilation in hot summer months and as a smoke exhaust while in use as a sauna. — Kotilo by Live Nordic | Helsinki, Finland — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

In the opened state the caterpillar-like outer wall segments are structurally configured to lean and lock onto one another to become load bearing. — Laboratory for Explorative Architecture & Design | Hong Kong — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

The kiosk’s function transforms through rotation: open pavilion, summer kiosk, a winter chapel; Tinted skylights cast a warm glow during the day and internal lighting combined with colored windows create a waterfront beacon at night. — Light House by Knowhow Shop | Los Angeles, USA — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

The kiosk is made of natural steel, not treated, painted blue, in order to let the texture of the material change during time defining itself as a real touchable presence and not as an abstract object which stays the same. — Unopluseen | Bruges, Belgium — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition

Intended to be an open vessel, the trifolium formation provides a figuration with multiple frontality; the panels are composed of interlocking jigsaw-like panels. — 24° Studio | Kobe, Japan — Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk Competition