WORKSHOP, Inc (http://www.workshoptoronto.com/) is pleased to annouce the finalists selected in Stage One of the Shoe Tower Design Competition for University of Toronto Students. Congratulations to:

Nelson Cheng, MArch 2

Xian Chi, BAAS 4

Omri Menashe, BAAS 4

Tyler Murray, BAAS 3 and Nicholas Gosselin, BAAS 3

Peter Sherratt, MArch 3

Jia Zhu, BAAS 4 and Xia Sunny Li, BAAS 4

Jury: Andrew Jones, furniture designer and adjunct professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design; Larry Wayne Richards, professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and Artistic Director, WORKshop, Inc. (Chair of the Jury); and Robin Speke, furniture designer and manufacturer with Speke/Klein, Durham, Ontario

The finalists' Stage Two submissions are due on October 7, 2009, and the competition winner and runner-up will be announced in mid-October.