Mission accomplished: Results of the 2019 Chapman Taylor Design Competition announced

We are delighted to announce the winners of Chapman Taylor's 2019 Design Competition.

We challenged you to look 60 years into the future, to 2079, and the possibility of a human colony on Mars, and to submit design proposals for different aspects of that vision.

The standard of all submissions was extremely high, and the quality of presentation was very good across the board. Choosing the winners was challenging but, following detailed deliberation, our judging panel named the following submissions as its top three:

1st Prize: Hephaestus 149 by John Riley (Manchester studio)

2nd Prize: 25th Hour by Olesia Kotiyar and Evgeny Zelenov (Moscow studio)

3rd Prize: Project Zima by Antonio Aguilar, Jerome Sripetchvandee, Naipaporn Buppa and Mawee Pornpunyalert (Bangkok studio)

The judges felt that the vision, creativity and layers of detail captured in John's entry (which included the main image above) offered a bold and exciting template for future human life on Mars.

Congratulations to John and to all the winners!