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San Francisco As It Will Be
Pruned — ... To grapple with the realities of sea level rise, a new suite of shoreline design concepts is needed. The Rising Tides ideas competition seeks responses to various design challenges, such as: How do we build in an area that is dry now, but that may be wet in the future? How do we retrofit existing shoreline infrastructure such as shipping ports, highways, airports, power plants and wastewater treatment plants? Can we imagine a different shoreline configuration or settlement pattern that allows temporary inundation from extreme storm events? And how do we provide flood protection ...

Competition Fights San Francisco’s ‘Rising Tides’
Earth911.com — San Francisco is looking for architects, planners and engineers to create proposals to help “climate proof the Bay Area,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Rising Tides competition will award a $125,000 prize for the best design to help the city prepare for a future which may contain rising sea levels of up to several feet. ...

Winning Designs Chosen in Rising Tides Contest
Worldchanging: Bright Green — Rising%20Tide.jpg Eager to help cities adapt to climate change, more than 130 design groups from 18 countries entered the Rising Tides competition to come up with a plan to protect the inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area from predicted sea level rise . In December, the Bay Conservation and Development Commission announced the competition to help spur creative answers to climate change. Today, BCDC announced the winners. According to the Rising Tides site, "the selection of six winners was an unexpected twist in announcing the competition results and illustrated just how many different promising solutions ...

Raydike Tells It Like It Will Be When The Water Levels Rise
TreeHugger — The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commissions' Rising Tides Competition sought ideas "from practical and pragmatic to aggressively imaginative and speculative" to deal with rising water levels that will result from climate change. The judges had a problem; there were so many wildly divergent but interesting proposals that instead of giving out a top prize and secondary prizes, they just divided the prize pool among six winners. Thom Faulders of Faulders Studio certainly fell into the aggressively imaginative category: a "dike" made of lasers that will let citizens know what their city will...Read the full story ...