“Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, a City of London Livery Company, invited CAA to partner an international design competition for a 3D ‘pop up’ Diamond (60th) Jubilee card for HM The Queen. The competition was open to architects, graduates and students in Commonwealth and CAA member countries.
A shortlist of cards was selected by a jury including the Master of the WCCA and the Executive Director of CAA and exhibited on the competition website. The overall winner was selected by public vote. The winner, Wan Huay Kwong, from Singapore and an architect practicing in Australia, described his entry as an ‘up-cycled’ card. This used a page from an unwanted window catalogue to draw the Queen’s attention to issues of Sustainability in her leadership of the Commonwealth.
By July we had received a letter from the Chief Clerk to the Queen stating that ‘Her Majesty was touched by your thought in enclosing the winning entry … which she was pleased to see and has given her much pleasure’…..
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