AIA 2020 Film Challenge runner up award for "From Ruins to City". The film presents STUDIO V Architecture's master plan for Silo City: transforming the largest collection of grain elevators in the world into mixed-use arts, cultural, residential, and maker spaces, to reinvent industrial artifacts into a sustainable vision for cities.
Located on the winding Buffalo River adjacent to Downtown, Silo City contains ten massive concrete grain elevators interconnected with masonry warehouses, mills, and malt-houses. STUDIO V’s design breathes new life into this iconic collection of structures – today largely abandoned – that inspired the 20th century giants of modern architecture, including Le Corbusier, Mendelsohn, and Gropius. The new architectural design combines innovative areas for fine arts & culture (like galleries, installations, art gardens) with body culture, including an elevated natatorium with pools and a velodrome. Housing will be constructed in the flexible mill structures.