Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest: 2013 Winners
Check out the 2013 winners, runner-ups, and a few of the most creative entries from the annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Winner, Registered Architect - Gregory Klosowski, Senior Project Architect; Pappageorge Haymes Partners: Chicago
Napkin Sketch Title: Chicago Amaranthine
After spending nearly two decades working in San Francisco, Gregory Klosowski, 42, moved back to his native Chicago this year to become a senior project architect at Pappageorge Haymes Partners. When he arrived, he found his favorite vista unchanged—a spot along Wacker Drive where the Tribune Tower and the Wrigley Building frame the Chicago River. “The word ‘amaranthine’ in the title means eternally beautiful and unfading,” Klosowski says of his en plein air sketch. “The Chicago skyline changed in the years I was away, but seeing that this view was the same was reassuring.”
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Winner, Non-Registered Architect - Harold Vinasco, Designer; Beame Architectural Partnership
Napkin Sketch Title: Miami by Colonial Roots
While aboard a recent flight, Harold Vinasco, 56, sketched a rich streetscape of balconies, colonial-style roofs and flowers—recollections of his hometown of Cali, Colombia. “There are a lot of places in Colombia where you can find this kind of image,” Vinasco, a designer at Beame Architectural Partnership in Miami, says of his three-minute sketch. While he has used programs like autoCAD since the late 1980s, Vinasco says that a sketch always serves as his starting point. “I am so happy to do it, because my work is also my hobby,” he said—“in the train, on the plane, everywhere.”
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Registered - Barry Schade, Architect Hydzik Schade Associates Ltd; Chicago
Napkin Sketch Title: Napkin City
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Registered - Ronald Kent, Architect Outside The Lines, Inc.; Sugar Land, TX
Napkin Sketch Title: Libeskind's Denver Art Museum
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - John Devlin, Architect, Cooper Carry; Alexandria, VA
Napkin Sketch Title: Vancouver Public Library
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Lushan Yao, Stay-At-Home-Mom; Redmon, WA
Napkin Sketch Title: The Louvre, Paris, France
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Roland Escalona, Staff, Mark Scheurer Architect Inc.; Newport Beach, CA
Napkin Sketch Title: Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Lulu Yang, Graduate Student, University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati
Napkin Sketch Title: Walking in the World of 'Intertwine'
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Best Firm - Vess Dimitrov, Architect, Callison; Seattle
Napkin Sketch Title: Mirror of Time
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Best Firm - David Chamness, Architect, Callison; Seattle
Napkin Sketch Title: Napkin Sketchers @ Callison
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2013
Best Firm - Ivan Silantyev, Designer, Callison; Seattle
Napkin Sketch Title: Movement #23