Officials then ran a design competition to see if a better bus could be invented.
The design competition is being managed by Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) and closes on 13 June.
She says they are asking why there was ever a design competition in the first place.
After an international design competition, an eight-member jury chose Ms. Hadid's design in January 2008.
The design competition to completely overhaul the square was announced by the council last year.
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Recently, the winner in a Finnish wedding design competition used KLM uniforms to create her couture gown.
The formal design competition will get under way before a public exhibition and consultation runs in November and December.
Oh, and there's that killer design competition to round it all up.
Iceland's Landsnet power company ran a similar design competition in 2008.
The plan called for a new tower as well as a memorial, and the new agency -- the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation -- announced a design competition for the memorial.
The National Trust submitted an application in June 2008 based on a design by the Dublin-based architects, Heneghan Peng, who won an International Design Competition for a visitors' centre in 2005.
Launched in 1984, the annual natural colored gemstone and cultured pearl jewelry design competition is considered by many to be the most respected and prestigious creative award for the jewelry design industry.
Mr. Watson's invention looks to be part of a design competition, thus we're not exactly sure if GE or Kitchen-Aid has contacted him regarding a deal, but hopefully we'll soon see these things replacing those antiquated versions we're all forced to deal with now.
The Wiki Weapon Project, hosted by a group that calls itself Defense Distributed, set out in July with the goal of raising enough money to hold a design competition among 3D-printable software models for a working gun capable of firing at least a single .22 caliber bullet that can be printed on a relatively cheap RepRap 3D printer.
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Design-competition proposals for baby cribs as well as coffins made of cork give "cradle to grave" new meaning.
And that's why our administration has initiated something called Race to the Top, where my Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has helped to design a competition among states so that they can foster the kinds of excellence in learning everywhere.
The cornerstone was laid in 1792 and a competition design submitted by Irish-born architect James Hoban was chosen.
In the first challenge, which focuses on the vehicles mobility systems and drivetrain, teams will use a DARPA-designed online collaboration tool called VehicleFORGE to put together and submit a design to the competition.
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Ware, the founder of the Columbia School of Architecture, and incorporated into the competition to design the library.
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Last week, the Mott MacDonald HOK Sport Team was announced as the winner of the international competition to design the multi-sports arena.
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It broke several of the rules laid down for the competition to design a new opera house (in fact, two performance halls) on Bennelong Point, in Sydney.
At the launch of a competition to design it, I specifically remember it becoming about providing a green, clean bus to try and solve the air pollution crisis in London.
One of the highlights of the week will be a three day competition between design schools from France and the USA to create prototype lighting designs, using 3D printing as an in situ maker technology.
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Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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Philips was the only entrant for the competition and its design underwent 18 months of testing before being declared a winner.
Each year high school students from around the country compete in the AbilityOne Design Challenge, an annual competition encouraging students to develop assistive technologies that empower people with disabilities to overcome barriers to employment.
The BBC's Jane Standley in New York says the public rows and the amendment of the design which won the international competition to rebuild the WTC have left many New Yorkers disillusioned with the project.
Mr Robertson said the increase in security costs was due to a change in the international security situation and not being able to complete final planning until the competition schedule and design of the venues was known.
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The annual Zombie Safe House competition challenges architects to design the best ghoul-proof home, and zombie "fun runs" are now regular events across North America.
In green design news, a new architecture competition challenged designers to transform the Costa Concordia shipwreck off the coast of Italy into a new seaside park.
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