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The judging for this competition has now taken place and we are pleased to announce the winner and the runner ups. A staggering 98 entries were received for the competition. The judges thought the range of ideas were great and were also delighted by the diversity in age and profession of our entrants. The youngest entry came from a 4 year old and the oldest in their seventies.
The competition sought an idea for a monument which could represent and reflect Dundee in Dubai. The winning concept would then be submitted to a professional designer to take this original idea and develop it further into actual specification drawings for the build in Dubai.
The judging took place at the Al Maktoum Institute in Blackness Road and the display of the entrants took up the whole of their conference room. The judges did not have an easy job as the range was so diverse, however they were keen to have a concept which would reflect the city as it is currently but also acknowledge the past.
The winner and the runners up will receive notification and their prizes by post. The next stage of the competition will progress this outline idea into a fully specified drawing which the municipality in Dubai will use to create the final version in the park.
Our thanks to everyone who participated and congratulations to the winner and the runners up.
Also special thanks to the sponsors of the first prize - Emirates Airlines and Hilton Dundee
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Winning Entry
Eddie Hunt  Eddie's idea caught the imagination of the judges who all agreed that it appeared to have all the right elements that would represent Dundee. Eddie proposed that the law should be the basis of his proposal with the Tay at its base. The Law would have a fountain at the top from which water would flow/splash down its sides. There would a spiral route to the top which passes various landmark buildings on the way.
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Runners Up
Ruth Walker - retired from a long medical career.
Ruth entered her concept as a written entry. She based her ideas on the idea of Dundee being a University City and a place of research, especially in medical research. She noted that students and researchers came from all over the world to study and research here in Dundee. Her proposal was for a drinking fountain that would be a flowing sculpture of the city showing the Law and Balgay Hill and various buildings. The Tay would act as part of the drinking fountain and represent knowledge being dispersed out into the world.
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Norman Watson - a Dundee journalist.
Norman's entry was a written entry accompanied with photographs and poems. Using Cox's Stack as a basis for his proposal, he imagined an 8.5 metre high replica of the stack that would be covered in ceramic tiles. On each side of the square base there would be panels of text, one giving a short history of Dundee and the other three would have poems about Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
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Jessica Hamilton - Morgan Academy.
 Jessica's proposal is based on the story of the Nine Maidens Dragon wrapping itself around the law with the Tay bridges. She hoped the sculpture would be 20 feet high.
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Jayde Wallace - Morgan Academy.
 Jayde features the Law in her concept. At the top the Tay whale spouts water which would be lit by coloured lights. The Tay Rail Bridge completely surrounds the Law and Dundee City of Discovery would be inscribed into the side of the Law. She wished it to be made in bronze.
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Kristen Baikie - Artist.
 Kristen proposed a large sundial made of three tapered columns. Each column would have an opening that would contain something that says something of Dundee. One would have water running over a girder inside representing the rail bridge and add sound the piece. Another column would have jute inside and the other would have metal type blocks in the form a front page from the Courier to represent journalism. The three columns would be stood on the layout of a large sundial with maps of both Dubai's and Dundee's waterfronts.
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