Polish version
Students of the Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw University of Technology on the third place in the prestigious competition Bering Strait Project
Małgorzata Piotrowska, Karol Pasternak, Radek Tabor, Filip Kurzewski and Maciej Podlewski (graduate), under the guidance of the architect Marek Rytych, came up with an over 80-kilometre-long underground tunnel with a huge colourful sphere of ca. 300-metre diameter.
At present, it is a dream design, an architectural idea. But the organisers of the competition from an international organisation, the Foundation for Peace and Unification, assure that if the USA and Russia reach agreement, the solutions used in the Polish project may be used when building an intercontinental connection. The foundation, created in 2008, strives for peace and international cooperation in the region of the Bering Strait, as well as for cooperation between Russia and the USA in the area of using natural resources in Alaska and Siberia, which might prevent the crisis.
Teams from all over the world took part in the competition. The jury, comprising i.a. a leading Russian architect Andrei Bokow, an American architect from Yale University Joel Sanders and an Italian Luciano Lazzari, vice-president of the European Council of Architects, granted the main prize to the team from Venezuela and Colombia and the second prize to the French and Korean team. The third place and a cheque for 10 thousand dollars was given to the Poles.
The leader of the Polish team Marek Rytych says that he intentionally resigned from Polish less prestigious competitions – he chose the one at the world level in order to show that Poles can be international winners.
