Common Boston's Common Build (CBCB) is a 72-hour competition that challenges participants to design and build a project in response to real community needs.

Our Common Build 2014 was a great success! Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this wonderful event happen.

Jury Awards

1st Place / $450 MassArt Monster Arch
2nd Place / $250 Mass Helix
3rd Place / $150 Chalk Blocks

Audience Award

$150 / Chalk Blocks

Thank you again, and hope to see you again in 2015!!!

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Common Boston's Common Build (CBCB) is a design and construction competition that challenges participants to design and build a project in response to real community needs in just under 72 hours. Based on this year's theme "The Places In Between," we invite teams* to explore the intersection of two vibrant communities, Allston-Brighton and Kendall/MIT, to uncover what such places mean to the community, both individually and collectively.

Teams will be asked to work with a local institution to develop design solutions that address specific physical and social needs of the neighborhood. Designed and constructed objects will be integrated into their site with an emphasis on the unique contextual elements and needs of that location. The Common Boston Common Build demonstrates that even when created in under 72 hours, an innovative and influential response to a real problem can alter the way we interact with and understand the built environment creating tangible benefits for the community.

REGISTER

For more info and to register yourself or a team, visit our CBCB14 registration page.

PRIZES

Over $1000 will be awarded to teams selected by our jurors and by the public via an online vote.

JURY

Renata Von Tscharner, Director of the Charles River Conservancy
Emily Grandstaff-Rice, BSA President, Architect at Cambridge Seven Assoc
Iram Farooq, Acting Deputy Director for Community Planning, City of Cambridge
Ross Miller, Artist of renown and expert on public art
Cathie Zusy, Exhibition Curator, Member of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Assoc.

MORE INFO

Teams + Participants

Register individually; you'll receive an email requesting your team name and team members. Note that this competition is open to all regardless of background, and teams can be of any size. We also encourage "free agents" to sign up and join a team at the kick-off event.

Forms

Download and print Team Registration, FAQ and Waiver here!!

Download and print a CBCB poster here!

Key Dates

Kick-off: Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30–8:00 – The Common Build has begun!
Tools Down: Sunday, October 5th at noon
Tour with Judges: Sunday, October 5th from 1–4pm
Public display onsite: Sunday October 5th through Sunday October 12th
Awards Ceremony: Friday, October 10th at the BSA Spectators welcome! RSVP separately.

CB2014

This event will lead into our CB Fallfest, running October 9-12, 2014. The Fallfest includes events of all kinds and is the third/final installment of our 2014 festival weekends. In just the last year we have hosted community roundtables, a speaker forum, a design party, workshops, architectural-boat-walking tours, and much more all in the name of engaging designers and the public for more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable communities.