Merrell Asks Architects and Designers to Create a Sustainable "Beacon"

Footwear brand Merrell is tasking UK-based architects, engineers, artists, designers or students of these disciplines to come up with a design for a small, temporary "beacon" for the UK's most remote island, Foula. Named "The Beacon Project", the competition was initiated as a way of raising awareness around the physical and mental benefits of outdoor experiences and activities. Free to enter, it requires designers to come up with a structure that provides a resting place for visitors to take a ...