Young architects build for future in HP Cityscape 2020 City Life Design Competition

Design students from around Australia put forward their visions of an Australian city skyline in the year 2020 in this year’s HP Cityscape 2020 City Life Design Competition.

Judge, Shane Lucas, director HP Graphic Arts South Pacific, said that the quality of entries in this year’s competition made it hard to choose a winner. Entries were judged on creativity including originality, presentation, inspiration and execution, and community vision covering environmental sustainability, local relevance and future city planning vision.

“Our decision was extremely difficult as the quality of the entries was incredibly high. The entrants demonstrated lateral thinking and presented ingenious portraits of Australia in the year 2020,” he said.

Pictured: (L-R) Jas Johnston, Ian Robertson, Tom Morgan and Shane Lucas Director HP Graphic Arts South Pacific.

“I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of my fellow judges, architects Paul Berkemeier and Tom Kovac, to congratulate the winner, Tom Morgan and the two place-getters, and to thank all the entrants for their time, commitment and creative energy. We certainly have some brilliant creative thinkers in this country and HP is proud to support these awards.”

Fifth-year architecture student from RMIT, Tom Morgan, took out first prize for his entry ‘Broke + Remade’ and was followed by Ian Robertson from University of NSW, second prize and Jas Johnston from Melbourne University in third place.