Detail from Oliver Lowrie's cartoon strip Paper City
A city of artificial hills, with towers peaking above the clouds in permanent sunshine, is the vision drawn by Anna Boldina, winner of Blueprint and the Royal Academy’s Paper City competition. Boldina, who is an urban design graduate from Moscow, has lived in London for one year and was inspired to draw her idea after seeing the exhibition earlier this year at the Royal Academy (RA). The competition received more than 150 entries, and was judged by architect Peter Cook; illustrator Sara Fanelli; RA architecture curator Kate Goodwin, and Blueprint editor Vicky Richardson. Other shortlisted entries to the competition can be viewed on the Royal Academy’s website here
Thanks to those who provided prizes: Alessi for the prize of a Crevasse vase designed by Zaha Hadid, for the winner, Anna Boldina; the Society of Architectural Illustrators for a subscription to its journal, and to Daler-Rowney for art materials for the children’s prize
Overall winner Anna Boldina created a city made up of artificial hills and towers that rise above the clouds
A special illustration prize was awarded to Tom Gibson and Bee Emmott for a poetic photographic image. Runners-up included an exquisite pen-and-ink drawing of The Automatic City by George King; Zoltán Gaál’s detailed and humorous drawing of what people need in a city, including a detox clinic located next to an off-licence, and Metamorphocity, a machine for transforming the way people live, by Oliver Lowrie. In the children’s category, the prize went to Hamish Fawcett for his drawing of the city as a human body, with Daniella Howe as the runner-up. Both are aged 11 years and from Norman Court School in Hampshire.
Zoltán Gaál’s annotated drawing of a city showing everything people need to live
Winner of the prize for illustration: Tom Gibson and Bee Emmott created this poetic image using photography
Runner-up in the illustration category: George King’s delicate pen-and-ink drawing of The Automatic City
Runner-up Oliver Lowrie’s cartoon-strip presentation of an idea for a machine to transform life in the city titled Metamorphocity
