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Winner of PW Global
Design Competition -
'From Ford to Future'
Press - September 2016
Talent Factory, submitted by Janneke Eggink and Aarathi Muralidharan, was selected as the winner from among 75 wide-ranging designs.
"An imaginative plan to create an economically and environmentally diverse and sustainable community for learning, producing and living on a former factory site in Saint Paul, Minnesota."
See full announcement on Perkins and Will
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“The same kind of temporary rental concept that’s driving Airbnb, being applied to a place where you’re generating economic activity, I thought was really compelling.”
Juror Kjersti Monson, director Civic Studio
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