Peak

Challenge to visualize an ideal neighbourhood

Worldwide

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (9)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Miguelangel and Kevin

HARLEM USTOPIA

Harlem Ustopia reimagines East Harlem’s future after forced displacement. From a demolished landscape, a synthetic network grows, reconnecting memory, public life, and housing through adaptive modular structures and autonomous technologies. A new community, regrown.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Tobias

Threaded City

Threaded City reimagines Harlem as a network of cultural, housing, mobility, and wellness ribbons. Inspired by jazz, the design fosters resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity, weaving together community life, nature, and innovation into a dynamic urban fabric.

Shortlisted

7 Entries

Negar and Dung

N.U.M.B: Nodal Urban Mechanism for Breathing

Before New York froze, it drowned. In the aftermath, N.U.M.B. emerges from Two Bridges—a geothermal seed of survival. Heat, breath, and proximity stitch new life into the frozen city, growing not by restoration, but by resilience, memory, and shared endurance.

Preethi and Tina

CHELSEA SHELL

The Chelsea Shell reimagines the Chelsea neighborhood in NY as a hydro-powered flood control system in response to future rising sea levels. While primarily of industrial use, the Chelsea Shell embeds itself within the community by preserving Chelsea's identity as an art district through its cultural center and gallery avenue.

Grace and Laura

Tidal Nexus

As the climate crisis intensifies, coastal cities such as New York City must evolve to protect their waterfront communities. This project utilizes The Battery as a case study to explore ways to not only protect the city from rising sea levels, but also support communities socially, economically, and environmentally.

Amy

Fluid Syntax

Alphabet City sits low on the East River, making it vulnerable to rising tides and powerful storms that flood and divide the neighborhood. But the goal isn’t just to recover, it’s to rethink how a city lives with water. Through Fluid Syntax, the city becomes a living system where infrastructure learns from nature and adapts in real time.

Ivan and 2 others

Peak: Resilient Parking

This project reimagines the East River waterfront in Manhattan as a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable neighborhood built from the ground up. Responding to the challenges of climate change, aging infrastructure, and social inequality, the design proposes a multi-use recreational corridor for flood protection systems and renewable energy networks.

Kurt

Living Ledges

Adapting new systems for sustainable living by preserving the natural faculties we rely on.

Nicolaos and 2 others

LIANA

In order to optimize life in communities, the Liana city project is thought to enable citizens to live near their work space, allowing families to spend some quality time together throughout the day. it was designed to bring every substantial aspect of one’s routine closer to their home.