Bamboo sidewalk shed, Hong Kong A sidewalk shed is the scaffolding erected above the sidewalk during a construction project. Several NYC institutions - the NYC Department of Buildings, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Alliance for Downtown New York, the New York Building Congress, the Illuminating Engineering Society of New York, the Association for a Better New York Foundation, the Structural Engineers Association of New York, the NYC Department of City Planning, and the NYC Department of Transportation - hosted the urbanSHED International Design Competition to generate alternatives to standard sidewalk sheds which "hide the beauty of New York City’s architecture." Three finalists were selected and their proposals can be viewed at the AIA NYC gallery on Laguardia Place in Greenwich Village. The three winning proposals are Tripod MOD(ule) (XChange Architects with Ex Nihilo Studio, Rider Levett Bucknall, and Weidlinger Associates) urbanCLOUD (KNEstudio