DETROIT, MI - Imagine a forest covering Hart Plaza.

That vision won the

for New Jersey and South Korea residents Soom Buym You and Hyun Tek Yoon.

And while jurors for the AIA Detroit Urban Priorities Committee-led event said it may not be practical, it is certainly ambitious. Check out the renderings of the winners and comments from the jury in the gallery at right.

The duo's entry for designing Detroit's riverfront was selected by a jury from among more than 400 entries from 46 countries. The other two top place winners were both from London.

In a release,

said that the jury deliberated from the empty executive suite of the One Woodward building, overlooking the site. The jury included Walter Hood, landscape architect and UC Berkeley professor; Reed Kroloff, director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; Faye Nelson, President of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy; and Canadian architect Lola Sheppard.

The jury members also got together for a symposium Tuesday night to discuss what shape Detroit's riverfront should take, and

For the competition, the first place winners receive $5,000, a trip to Detroit and an AIA sponsored lecture to present the winning scheme. Second place is awarded $2,500, and third place takes home $1,000.

AIA Detroit Business Manager Lauren Myrand said that the agency will display some 50 boards of the submissions, and is also compiling a book with comments from the jurors.