Green Awards: Architecture for Life After

Dear FuturArc readers, Ouroboros is an ancient emblem symbolising the cycle of Life. Everything in the natural world is born, lives and dies. While most humans spend the majority of their lives wrapped up with birth and living, they are less inclined to delve into the topic of death or dying. Yet we all know that this cycle is inevitable—there is no birth without death, no death without birth. When setting the theme for FuturArc Prize 2024, we wanted to look deeper into this topic and its implications on the future of architectural solutions along with the environmental, social and urban impacts. In present times, there is nowhere that has not been affected by the severity of changes in Earth’s climate—we have been dealt with the hottest day ever recorded in history;1 people are dying of extreme heat;2 and the fate of small island nations3 are hanging by a thread. Thus, the premise called forth by the 2024 competition cycle based on the scenarios of Climate Destruction and Endings have been revealed to be most apt, as agreed by the jury panel too. The FuturArc Interview features excerpts from the jury meeting held earlier this year, highlighting the jurors’...