Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial

First Stage Submissions

         All design submissions in the first stage shall be digital and judged anonymously. Digital images will be identified by your CODEWORD and must not bear any name, mark, or emblem by which the participant might be identified.  Each registrant will be assigned a unique CODEWORD which will be used on all subsequent submissions and communications. Digital submissions must be received online at competition@acbhm.org, no later than 5 p.m. EST, March 15, 2010.
 
        We urge competitors to finalize submissions well before the deadline, since heavy online traffic at that time could slow down the submission process and result in our failure to receive your submission before the deadline. If you experience any difficulty with the procedure, please contact the competition management team before submitting.  Email competition@acbhm.org or call 609-641-4100.
 
        LATE REGISTRATION: Due to unprecedented interest, the Design Competition Management Committee has decided to permit late registrations for an additional $50 fee. The late registration period extends from February 15 to March 15, 2010. Late registrants (and only late registants) will be allowed to submit their submissions until April 1, 2010.  An entrant who has already registered may change status to "late registrant" by submitting an additional $50 processing fee. 

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         CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS:  The selection of 6 to 10 finalists from among the entrants in stage one, as well as several additional merit awards, will be made anonymously by the Jury. Submissions will be judged on the basis of responsiveness to the competition program, originaity and clarity of conception, and suitability of the future Memorial to its site and surrounding environment. In addition, economy and feasibility of construction within the proposed budget will be factors. However, all inventive programmatic ideas will be considered. We encourage competitors to provide the most forward thinking, compelling and speculative solutions.
       
        Caveat: If, at the first stage, the Jurors are of the unanimous opinion that one design proposal is superior to all others, and that no further purpose would be served by the development of additional proposals, they may recommend that a winner be declared in place of a second stage of competition. If in its opinion, there is no submission of sufficient merit, the jury may make no selection. In either case, a written report will be made to the sponsor, setting forth its reasons for its decisions.

        HOW TO SUBMIT:   First stage submissions are digital only and will be juried from a computer screen or projector. You may submit a plan and as many as 4 images or perspective renderings, as a single jpg or jpeg file, horizontal format, 2600 x 3500 pixels. Please limit file size to 5 MB maximum and 85% compression. In additiion, a separate pdf file containing descriptive text may be included.
  
       
        Deadline: All proposals must be submitted online to competition@acbhm.org no later than 5 p.m. EST, March 15, 2010.  Transmit your design inside a zip file clearly labelled with your unique codeword (ex. "CODEWORD.zip").  You will receive an email confirmation within 7 days.

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       WHAT TO SUBMIT:  All submissions must include a plan as well as an eye-level perspective rendering of the proposed Memorial, as viewed from the Boardwalk side.  Images may be sketched, drawn, photographed, or computer aided; black & white, or color. Up to three additiional diagrammatic or perspective images may be submitted to clarify the entrant's design concept or the relationship of the Memorial to its site and surrounding context. We encourage the inclusion of lighting concepts and night views. 
 
      Descriptive Commentary: We invite you to accompany your proposal with a pdf file of descriptive commentary, in English, of 150 words or less, to best communicate design intention to the Jury. Enclose the pdf file along with the jpg (or jpeg) file inside a zip file labelled your "CODEWORD.zip" and email to competition@acbhm.org.  
 
        Title: Please title your email submission as follows:  "Subject: ACBHM Submission: Your CODEWORD"
       
        Identification: Your CODEWORD is unique and must be clearly displayed in the upper right hand corner of each page or slide. No other identifying information should accompany the submissions.

       COMPLIANCE:  We encourage competitors to provide the most forward thinking, compelling, and speculative solutions, and all inventive programmatic ideas will be considered. However, competitors are responsible for any liberties taken with the published stipulations. Submissions are reviewed by the competition management team for compliance with the rules of the competition, and failure to comply could result in disqualification and withdrawal from the competition. The sponsor, upon the advice of the Jury, reserves the right to accept a submission even if it does not comply strictly with the published competition guidelines. 
 
      Smile  BY THE ACT OF SUBMISSION, COMPETITIORS WARRANT THAT ENTRIES ARE ORIGINAL WORK.