Well this is cool. State of Play announced a virtual architecture competition a few weeks back with the theme “public space” (or something of that nature). I considered entering something on which I’ve been working, a virtual learning space, but after researching the backgrounds of the judges I decided to concentrate on seeing my project through instead of doing something to match their expectations. And I’m glad I did because as it turns out, I’m part of the winning team anyway (this is where I post “woot!”.). Unbeknownst to me, Randal Moss of the American Cancer Society (here’s a pic of him in action) entered the virtual charity event SL Relay for Life (here’s a pdf of his entry) and I happened to contribute to that effort by designing and building the architecture around the opening ceremony stage (over three days with the encouragement of virtual residents Candy Fox and Punkie Hatfield, watching the activities with me in this pic). The image below was taken just after the charity ended and you can see all the entries on the State of Play website here. Good news for the weekend.