Design A Shelter

Ever fancied designing a shelter? Now's your chance. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has teamed up with Google to launch the Design It: Shelter Competition (title link). Use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to create and submit a design for a virtual 3-D shelter anywhere on Earth. Bus shelter? Nuclear shelter? Mountain rescue shelter? Bird table shelter? Whatever. The competition opened two days ago on Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday and closes on 23 August. Two prizes - a Jury Prize and a People’s Prize - will be awarded on 21 October, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.