Death by Architecture

Competition / Inside: 2013 / AIAS, ADC, AIGA, Morpholio Project

2013-06-12T05:48:28Z

Inside 2013 invites students and young professionals to submit a collection of their “inside” work comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The Competition is open to all design disciplines including architects, interior designers, furniture designers, digital fabricators, graphic designers, lighting designers, product designers or any other creative field that creates for the inside. The competition is free to all entrants.

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we create, and connect on a daily basis. For design, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every entrant can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers.

Inside2013 poses the following questions: What are the aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

Inside 2013 was assembled by designers, professors and students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia and amongst today's emerging talent. The competition is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. The guest jury includes participants from Dwell magazine, Apartment Therapy, Wired magazine, Inhabitat and TEDx. We look forward to your participation and recognition.

Competition / Design, Make, Display: An Exhibit of Architectural Models / AIA Cincinnati & Architectural Foundation Cincinnati

2013-06-12T05:37:19Z

EXHIBIT THEME

The architectural model is the ultimate representation of a building’s design. More than technical drawings or sketches, the architectural model has the ability to communicate the entire concept of a building and its spatial effects. When executed with skill and care, some architectural models can be considered artwork on their own. But the architectural model is evolving. Many designers have stopped using traditional physical models made of wood, paper and glue and have switched to digital means of representation. While something may be lost in the rush to digitize design methods, new technologies offer different ways of thinking that can achieve results never possible through other means. Architectural design is now at an interesting intersection of digital and physical means of model making. This exhibit hopes to show how the architectural model is a changing art form that continues to be a critical method of representation of an architectural design. The exhibition hopes to include examples of traditional hand-built models and models that incorporate contemporary digital technologies. The models will be selected from a public call for work and the selected entries will be displayed at the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati in the Fall of 2013.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. To enter email the completed entry form and at least one image of the model to afcmodelexhibit@gmail.com

2. All entries must be received by July 15, 2013. No late entries will be accepted.

3. Models will be selected by August 2, 2013 by a panel of AFC and AIA Cincinnati members.

4. Selected models must be delivered and picked up from the AFC at times to be determined.

5. The AFC will provide pedestals, wall space, and lighting for the exhibit.

6. Any digital display methods must be supplied by the entrant. The AFC will not provide equipment for display.

7. The AFC is not responsible for transportation or shipping of models and will not store any models that are not picked up.

8. Firms and individuals are allowed to submit up to three entries.

9. Please complete one entry form per model.

SUBMISSION FEES

Only selected models are required to pay the entry fee. One entry fee per model. All entry fees go towards exhibition insurance costs and expenses related with gallery installation and display. The AFC will not cover any transportation or shipping expenses. All entry fees are due by August 16, 2013.

Large Firm (>50 employees) -- $100

Small Firm (<50 employees) -- $75

Sole Practitioner / Individual -- $50

Student -- Free

Competition / Workplace of the Future / Metropolis magazine & Business Interiors by Staples

2013-06-11T07:29:17Z

How will we work in 2020?

Rapid and dramatic changes are remaking how we work. The tools we work with have changed and continue to evolve at a break-neck pace. The modern office is adjusting to the “work everywhere” approach. Today systems thinkers who explore all facets of sustainability, accessibility, material innovation, and technology shape the design of everything. The workplace is smack in the middle of this massive rethink. The Workplace of the Future Design Competition asks the design community to imagine what our work lives will be in 2020.

Competition / Tamarac Benches / City of Tamarac Public Art Program

2013-06-11T07:23:51Z

The City of Tamarac, Florida, seeks an artist, designer or team to envision unique public benches for use throughout the city located west of Fort Lauderdale and adjacent to the Everglades. The benches must be affordable and durable in a sub-tropical climate with hurricanes and help to create a unique sense of place. A $20,000 fee will be paid to design both a covered and open bench and prepare fabrication documents. The selection will be based on recent work, resume and references, and if requested, an in-person presentation. The applications are due on July 9, 2013 and open to all professionals in North America with experience working with public agencies.

Competition / AIA Forward Journal: Call for Submissions / AIA

2013-06-11T07:22:31Z

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Associates Committee (NAC) invites article submissions for Forward, the Architecture and Design Journal of the National Associates Committee. Forward, the bi-annual design journal of the NAC, is distributed to AIA leadership, 85,000+ members, non-members and educators. The journal is a research-based publication that presents articles from the perspective of the designer. We also strive to extend our focus beyond architecture towards multidisciplinary discussions incorporating art and technology. For more information, please review our submission guidelines on the following website: www.aia.org/NACforward

Forward 212: Temporality In addition, submitting authors will have the opportunity to be selected as part of the Forward Peer Review process. Appointments will be made based on the quality of an author’s submission and alignment with Forward’s journalistic objectives.

Competition / CITE: The New Periphery / CITE Magazine: Call for Submissions

2013-06-11T07:21:11Z

CITE: The New Periphery Special Issue Call for Submissions

Historically, suburban life has represented the American Dream, the physical manifestation of opportunity and prosperity expressed in an autonomous built environment based on the single-family house, private yard, two-car garage, and nuclear family. Often “blamed” on the largesse of the federal government’s highway program, big business conspiracies, or even on the nature of capitalism, the suburbs are where most Americans live and where contemporary designers, planners, artists, and critics are just beginning—again—to do some real work.

More than forty years after Herbert Gans’s seminal work The Levittowners suggested that suburbia was more than a culturally moribund and homogeneous domestic utopia, the suburbs are re-emerging as an embattled site of critique—less now for suspicions of isolation, homogeneity, and gender inequity—and more for their new and overwhelmingly diverse “urban” attributes. While strong undercurrents of class, race, and cultural segregation continue to remain relevant--a barrage of diversified, complex, reinvented, re-appropriated, and hybridized opportunities are emerging in this new periphery. Shifting from the utopian suburban ideal toward the contemporary heterotopian reality—the physical buildings remain unchanged, yet simultaneously, the meaning, function, and socio-economic context of the built environment has been radically transformed. The single-family detached house is now home to new social configurations, the least of which is the traditional nuclear family. Garden apartments built in the 1970s are caught within the current cycle of disinvestment and have become new, de facto “projects”. Across North America--the strip mall, once housing the typical franchises of established middle-class homogeneity, is now home to foreign remittance centers, ethnic grocers, charter schools, and discotecas. Big box retail and shopping malls, the epitome of conventional consumption, are shuttering their doors in response to changing demographics of the suburban marketplace and reinventing themselves to become part of the urban realm.

Within this changing landscape, civic and public spaces remain both transitional and illusive. Apart from these transformations, suburbia continues to be stereotyped as the site of conformity and middle-class homogeneity. As gentrification reverses the flight toward the “inner city” and poverty, density and diversity in turn define the periphery, how does this change our cities and the potentials of the people who live in them? The Spring 2014 special issue of Cite entitled “The New Periphery” seeks submissions from educators and practitioners across disciplinary fields that critically examine contemporary issues in suburbia and the emerging relationship between the city center and its periphery.

Competition / Interdisciplinary Summer Academy PoolPlay with artistic research on SPACE and TIME / ar2com

2013-06-11T07:19:27Z

Creatives fill an empty swimming pool (im)materially. Space and time are designed by architecture, music and dance/theatre. The PoolFillment is a presentation of the research results at the end.

Facts:

what ? a summer academy for artists, musicians, dancers and architects

when ? 09/09/2012 – 15/09/2012

where ? Innichen, South Tyrole – Italy

money ? 500 EUR including tutors, lunch and bed as well as the spa of the hotel

grants ? 300 EUR possible

tutors:

music > Günter ‘Baby’ Sommer is one of the master musicians of contemporary European jazz. He belongs to the circle of extraordinary drummers that developed throughout the improvised music scene a highly individual playing and built up the unmistakable. Since 1995 he has been professor at the School of Music “Carl Maria von Weber” in Dresden

creative perception > Maximilian Lösch is writing about contemporary arts for a local online magazine franzmagazine. Writing, language and perception of patterns are important instruments for his way of comprehension and transmission of knowledge. The frontal and active-passive way of teaching showed him that there was something important missing. So his focus during PoolPlay will be on recognizing patterns and opening of new possibilities of interaction.

architecture > Jula-Kim Sieber is an architect and a singer. Her cosmopolitan lifestyle added to her perception of time and space a special note!

who ? participants The summer academy by ar2com /architecture to communications/ is inviting CREATIVES interested in music, dance and architecture to elaborate a play within a week in an empty swimming pool. The summer academy made for creative human beings who would like to train or better their interhuman, intercultural and interdisciplinary skills during a playful, palpable project. please ! spread the word and share this.

Competition / 72 hour urban action Derry~Londonderry 2013 / Festool, Coca Cola, Parkes hire, Derry~Londonderry city of culture

2013-06-11T07:16:25Z

72 Hour Urban Action - the world's first real-time architecture competition - gives selected teams only three days & three nights to design and build interventions in public space in response to local needs. Participants will have an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space to rapidly leave a lasting impact on the city's urban fabric. They will be battling the clock, the restrictive conditions and each other to dream and realize projects in response to the spatial and social challenges the sites and missions offer.

The international teams will include residents, architects, designers, artists, craftspeople, students and generally nice people. Teams will come to Derry~Londonderry armed with a passion for action, and ready to give their time and expertise to help with community needs. All participants will live together on site, in a local school converted into a sleep-work camp, enriching the neighborhood with a multi-cultural and intense experience.

Participating teams will receive a budget for materials, a central prefabrication camp, and a team of 'Angels' (construction and safety engineers). The missions and sites will be assigned randomly on take off day. An international panel of jury will include prominent leaders, architects and curators. WE INVITE ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, ARTISTS, CRAFTSPEOPLE AND GENERALLY NICE PEOPLE TO TAKE PART IN THE ACTION! For more information and for press enquiries, contact us at info@72hoururbanaction.com http://facebook.com/72HUA 72HUA.com

Competition / SELDA 2013 (Samsung Everland Landscape Design Award) / Samsung Everland

2013-06-11T07:15:00Z

Samsung Everland, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is inviting students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design programs around the world to participate in our design competition. We are looking for creative ideas and innovative design approaches that will lead us to the new possibilities of urban typologies.

Competition / Godzilla Robotic Simulation Competition / RoboFold Ltd. London

2013-06-11T07:14:25Z

***COMPETITION: THE BEST USE OF GODZILLA GETS A FREE PLACE***

Judged on creativity and practicality: Submit your name, association and a link to your video to robots@robofold.com. We add an additional place for the winner. Flights, accommodation etc. are not included.

Join us for the first Godzilla robot workshop - experiment with the easiest robot software on the Grasshopper platform.

FREE TO PARTICIPATE

RoboFold released new software for robotic simulations and fabrication control called Godzilla, on 3rd May 2013. The software comes as a user-friendly plug-in for Robotic simulations in Rhino 3D to perform variable tasks for Architecture, Industrial Design, Manufacturing, Digital Fabrication and many other disciplines, using Grasshopper Plug-in.

Workshop & competition are organized at RoboFold London.

DAY 1:

-Learn the Godzilla software Interface

-Creating a tool path -Robot fundamentals: Inverse Kinematics, Applications

-Use example files: Set up a robot simulation

-Scripting a loop in Python

DAY 2: -Developing the winning design into a working application

-Testing

-Beers and BBQ Details:

-Tutors: Gregory Epps(RoboFold founder), Florent Michel (RoboFold Software developer) -Please install Rhino5, Grasshopper, and Godzilla before this event. -No previous experience with Grasshopper necessary. -Hours: 10am-6pm. Workshop Fee: Student: £ 399 Professional: £ 599

Competition / Injection Design Award - Packaging Phase / Uniteam - Italy

2013-06-11T07:09:19Z

The aim of the “Injection Design Award” is developing from the concept to the packaging a new office accessory that can be manufactured using injection moulding process. In the previous phases Desall community has developed a simple, easy to use and extremely versatile product that works as mousepad, laptop stand, tablet stand and desk organizer. Now it’s your turn: design a new packaging that combines creativity and functionality and give your creative interpretation of the product name.

Competition / WATER INDEX [CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS] / University of Virginia, School of Architecture

2013-06-11T07:08:41Z

The University of Virginia School of Architecture would like to extend the invitation to submit visions for the future of water to be considered for inclusion in the upcoming book entitled WATER INDEX. This book will catalogue the world’s most promising and provocative visions for the future of water and humanity. This is an open call for projects and papers that acknowledge and challenge the pressing water issues confronting the 21st Century. Submissions can vary in scale and discipline. Submissions can be at the scale of a cup or a dam, a fountain or a city. WATER INDEX is a search for intelligence about how to create a sustainable, productive relationship between water and people.

Competition / ONE CLICK Photography Competition / Re-thinking The Future

2013-06-11T07:06:11Z

For the past few years man has broken his conversation with the nature and has kept himself busy in growth and development. Unknowing the need of growth, man is using resources at a rate which earth is failing to replenish. With this growth, man is remained with less of forests, less of coal, less of petroleum, less of rivers, less of water, less of species, less of calm, less of purity, less of peace and less of humanity. And with more of technologies, more of construction, more of urbanism, more of cars, more of congestion, more of pollution, more of global warming, more of climate change, more of fear and more of stress.

And with all these things, man is heading towards more or less extinction. And if this is the future, then there definitely is a need of ‘Rethinking The Future’ A future that aims to meet human 'needs’ while preserving the environment so that these ‘needs’ can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. A 'future’ with less of stress and more of humanity. Photography as Medium of Awareness, RTF has organised this Competition to provide a platform to have photographs that make sense. Choose any of the four themes : 1. Nature 2. Work 3. Rethinking The Future 4. Architecture

Competition / The Community "Connector" Student Competition / National Organization of Minority Architects

2013-06-11T07:05:10Z

NOMA is issuing a challenge to design a carbon neutral mixed used transit oriented development (TOD) that will “[connect] people to people and people to places.” The design requires entrants to use innovative techniques while balancing the rich history of the site and the principals of the Smart Growth Initiatives for the city of Indianapolis. This project is intended to celebrate the past while looking to the future to create a transit hub for the new Smart Growth community between Martingdale-Brightwood and King Park.

The Indy Connect is central Indiana’s transportation initiative. It will include doubling the service for buses that currently exist, implementing a light rail or bus rapid transit system, increasing bike and pedestrian pathways, and expanding, maintaining and improving the roadway and bridge system. While currently there is no public transit serving E. 25th Street and Monon Trail, the design must include the transportation that is implied by this initiative.

The competition calls for a cohesive development of an urban transportation hub and mixed-use complex in the northern region of Indianapolis. The design should accommodate various components of each primary topic in the following program:

- Community Connectivity

- Provide pedestrian and vehicular connections to the larger community

- Create a seamless transition between the neighborhood and new station site with a continuous streetscape

- Define a network of streets and pedestrian links to surrounding areas which facilitate easy access to the TOD for people on foot or bike

- Consider how the TOD relates in terms of scale and design to the surrounding context and plan appropriate transitions of scale

- Draw from the architecture and place-making elements of the broader community to create a setting that fully compliments its neighbors

- Establish a street hierarchy which directs new traffic away from neighborhood streets

- Extend the new streetscape, such as bike lanes, sidewalk improvements and directional signage, into the existing neighborhoods Sustainability

– Carbon Neutral Building

- Renovate or reuse existing buildings

- Orient new buildings to maximize passive solar design

- Incorporate on-site renewable energy sources such as solar panels, geothermal, or micro wind turbines

- Design an envelope that compliments the HVAC system and maximizes solar heat gain in the winter while providing shade in the summer

- Propose strategies which optimize, upgrade, and remove HVAC systems

- Create rainwater harvesting system which distributes grey water for flushing toilets and irrigation

- Reduce heat island effect by incorporating green roofs on flat surfaces and tree islands in parking areas

- Design storm water treatment features as green space amenities along the streets and parking areas

- Utilize sustainable low embodied energy options for building materials

- Incorporate alternative transportation strategies such as public transit, bicycles, and carpools

- Provide public spaces for passive or active use to encourage public health Potential complimentary TOD programs

- Office and Retail

- Multi-family Residential units and/or Live-Work units

- Theaters, entertainment, and civic cultural centers

- Schools, libraries, and child care centers

- Bed and breakfast facilities and hotels of under 250 rooms or suites

- Public open space and private open space to which the public is generally admitted

Competition / SKIN / TEX-FAB

2013-06-11T06:57:45Z

The building envelope and the transition between what is outside and what is inside presents the most complex and fundamentally linguistic element of architecture today. The form and performative capacity of what we might call the activated envelope is foundational and presents a dialogue the building has with itself and that of its context. A building’s skin has the potential to synchronize form and illustrates the totality of the project, while driving how the building responds to its context, its role and ultimately its utility.

Fundamental to this is an explicit or implicit adaptability found in its performance – how it functions and meets the needs of the building. In the preceding 100 years since the beginning of the 21st century the transformation from a static, heavy and obfuscating series of load bearing walls, to its current role of a communicative skin, dynamical and exploratory, sets the stage for what we believe is the most important area of research in architecture.

SKIN, as a digital fabrication competition, asks architects, designers and researchers to speculate, or if they so choose present existing research, on its role – by exploring new methods to enable the performative qualities of a façade. Design submissions may develop any context they choose, real or virtual, at any scale and on any building type so to present a complete thesis. Integrating structure, dynamical cladding or other system whether static and active may be submitted. We encourage the boldest visions and challenging technologies in the development of your proposal. The competition will select four of the most robust and intriguing projects, that best rethink the envelope, supporting those selections through prototypes developed to illustrate the potential of the competition submission.

Competition / The Connected City Design Challenge / Dallas CityDesign Studio

2013-06-11T06:00:05Z

The Connected City Design Challenge will build awareness of urban design solutions capable of shaping Dallas forward, develop a more refined and specific strategy for connecting our downtown and river, and assist in securing future public and private investment. By empowering both designers and citizens, The Challenge will work to realize integrated solutions that improve the livability and viability of our city.

In order to secure the most capable design talent and facilitate a variety of solutions, The Connected City Design Challenge will be structured as a competitive process consisting of two idea streams: a professional stream and an open stream. From the Professional Stream, the jury will select three design teams through a competitive request for qualifications process. The selected design teams will be awarded $50,000 to bring their expertise and ideas to the challenge and up to $10,000 covering travel to Dallas. The Open Stream invites professionals, non-professionals, and students to submit design proposals. By a combination of popular vote and jury selection, four finalists will receive $5,000 each and participate in the public exhibit and activities. Public events will include a symposium and lecture series by all three professional teams and panel discussions including the open stream finalists.

The Connected City Design Challenge is pleased to announce the three Professional Stream finalists! OMA*AMO New York, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura of Barcelona, and Stoss Landscape Urbanism of Boston with SHoP of New York.

Competition / Thresholds 42: Human (call for submissions) / Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Department of Architecture

2013-06-11T05:53:59Z

Thresholds 42: Human prompts us to consider the past and present changing notion of ‘the human’ with regards to its physical, virtual, and psychological habitat. In the last decade innovations within cognitive imaging, computer interfaces, communication technologies, surrogate natures, sensory mediators, and global tracking have reshaped our understanding of the Self. This shift can be seen, on one hand, as a revolution of sensibilities while, on the other hand, still pushing towards an enlightenment-based, rationalist perspective of the human as a neurobiological mechanism. No matter which way this ‘human’ is being reshaped, does it not also reshape ‘the humanities’ as well as our understanding of ‘humanity’? Have we indeed formed new gateways of artistic and architectural possibility or have we forced ourselves into a deterministic and mechanistic view of both occupants and design? Humans are different than machines, after all, but how has the human/machine duality been rethought in our current age? How does art, architecture and film envision, critique, or challenge this ‘new human’?

We are looking for scholarly papers that address this topic through a historical, sociological, or an anthropological lens. We are also interested in art and architectural projects that explore these issues.

Thresholds is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish only original material. Text should be in American English, limited to 3,000 words, and formatted in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style. Images should be included separately at 72 dpi—print quality images will be requested upon acceptance into Thresholds. Author must have permission for all images. Submissions should include a cover letter with author’s name, affiliation, telephone number and email address, and a brief bio. All submissions should be sent in digital format, with text as MS Word or RTF files and images as uncompressed TIFF files. Please email submissions by April 30, 2013 thresholds@mit.edu For correspondence and inquiries: Tyler Stevermer, Editor thresholds, MIT Architecture 77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 7-337 Cambridge, MA 02139 thresholds@mit.edu.

Competition / Sunshade Competition / International Festival of Art & Construction

2013-06-11T05:51:58Z

The object of the competition consist on designing a itinerant textile sunshade device in order to build it in a summer workshop at IFAC from 4 to 15 August, 2013 in Covarrubias (Spain). The programme is simple, around 70/100 square meters of an opened light shadow device. The use will be very flexible and open: talks and lectures, workspace, dining, concerts...

Competition / Beyond the Grid / Off Grid Shelters, LLC

2013-06-11T05:51:13Z

Beyond the Grid is an architectural design competition that challenges students and young professionals to create beautiful, sustainable shelters that integrate “off-grid” energy, water and waste system solutions for specific, pre-selected climate zones. The primary goal of the competition is to provide a showcase for design talent and provide media exposure and business opportunities for winning contestants. The competition also aims to promote sustainability and resources conservation in the residential housing industry.

Competition / Experiments in Motion: Discussions on Film 2013 / Discussions On Film

2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Discussions on Film is intended to bring together two disciplines that often overlap - Architecture and Film. Dispensing with the formality of cinema, instead appropriating spaces and transforming them into impromptu rough urban cinemas; projecting the city back unto itself, and inviting discussion. The project is driven by a passion for film and a desire to explore the discursive and narrative possibilities of the medium in relation to architecture and cities. For our first screening this year we are inviting submissions on the theme of Experiments in Motion. We are for filmic experiments by architects and film-makers exploring the possiblities of considering architecture and space in moving images.

Competition / Orange County Crime Victims? Memorial Design Competition / Orange County Board of Supervisors and OC Parks

2013-05-30T05:42:23Z

In observation of 2013 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, you are invited to participate in the Orange County Crime Victims’ Memorial Design Competition. The County of Orange, the Orange County Board of Supervisors and OC Parks are sponsoring a competition for the design of a new Crime Victims’ Memorial to be installed at a beautiful site within William R. Mason Regional Park.

The goal of this competition is to identify an outstanding artistic complement to the landscape of the park, to create an iconic gathering space that will provide visitors with a space for contemplation, remembrance, and healing. The winning design will be inherently egalitarian and human-scale, expressing the cross-cultural and inter-generational impact of crime on members of our community.

Entrants should view details of the competition and register online at http://ocparks.com/about/projects/orange_county_crime_victims_memorial in order to participate in the jury evaluation of submitted designs. OC Parks must receive the completed registration form no later than 5:00 p.m. (PST) on May 31, 2013. OC Parks will send a registration confirmation in reply via email.

Competition / Ideas Competition: A HOUSE FOR... / OPENGAP

2013-05-30T05:39:25Z

OPENGAP invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and the project. Each participant or team will propose the client for designing a house. This will be a person of interest and inspiration for the project. This competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people. The proposal submission consists of two digital panels in .jpg format, not bigger than 4MB each.

Competition / Spartacus Alive International Competition / The Government of Yaroslavl Region, UNESCO, ICOMOS

2013-05-30T05:37:56Z

Revitalization of the stadium "Spartak" in the historical center of Yaroslavl (UNESCO Zone).

Goals and objectives: Formation of a closed space for exhibitions, festivals, fairs. Creation of a new pavilion type in the historic center of the city of Yaroslavl, on the site of the old ravine (protected landscape) according to the development program of the museum complex of the city.

Note: the maximum height above the existing ground level, the upper edge of the ravine — 2 m

This is official competition of the Yaroslavl International Architecture Biennale.

Prizes: - 1st place: Grand Prix of Yaroslavl International Architecture Biennale, - the right to further object design (for the realization of the project), - all projects will be published in the catalog of competitive projects, - the best projects (shortlist) will take part in the exhibition and presentation, as a part of a Biennale program.

Competition / Seoul City Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper / SuperSkyScrapers

2013-05-30T05:35:55Z

PROJECT: The program for this competition challenges participants to design a NEW Urban Vertical Farm and Botanical Gardens Skyscraper in Seoul City that takes into today's ever-increasing urban growth, consumption in populated cities. The design should be visually and aesthetically engaging and investigates the possibilities for urban Vertical farming communities and maximise the positive impact of Vertical Farming and be an acceptable addition to the Seoul City Skyline. It should also respond directly to the issue of space and population density in Seoul city. And address the social, environmental, cultural and economic issues and concerns of the ever-increasing urban growth.

Competition / Mapo Oil Reserve Base Competition / Seoul Metropolitan Government

2013-05-30T05:33:56Z

[The Beginning of Change, from the Nanji Mountain of Waste to an Eco-Friendly Park]

Over the past decade, the Sangam area has undergone enough change to be classified as a microcosm of Seoul's history of growth. Ahead of the 2002 World Cup, the abandoned 'Nanji Mountain of Waste' was converted into an eco-friendly park. Its surroundings were transformed into a World Cup Mecca and riverside ecological-waterfront-park. It was reborn as a Digital Media City that is responsible for the future growth of Seoul.

[The oil reserve base that was hidden in the middle of Sangam for the last 10 years]

There is a place that is unknown to citizens, and is hidden due to the aftereffects of the 2002 World Cup. This is the old oil reserve, which is adjacent to Maebongsan, near World Cup Stadium. The oil reserve base is an important facility that stores oil for the country in case of an emergency. As the only oil reserve in Seoul, Mapo was the facility that the Korea Petroleum Development Corporation created at the foot of Maebongsan, Seongsan-dong, Mapo-gu in 1976. Five storage tanks were buried there in order to manage the oil reserves. During the construction of the 2002 World Cup Stadium, it was determined that the oil reserve needed to be moved due to safety concerns, because the two locations were only 500m apart. The base was closed following the oil reserve transfer in November 2000. Additionally, parts of the site are temporarily being used as a bus parking. Meanwhile, various methods of utilizing the oil reserve base were explored; these methods included 'the Science Museum' and 'the Media Industry Complex.' However, the suitability to drive confidence could not be identified. Although it has a wide range of potential and value, this facility was unexpectedly forgotten by citizens and, until recently, hidden.

[The Value and Potential of the (Old) Oil Reserve Base]

During the period of growth, careful development has caused various problems that include environmental degradation and rapid urbanization. However, the oil reserve, a symbol of the industrial era and period of growth, can be an eco-friendly, sustainable place that can care for future generations. On one hand, the Sangam Digital Media City and the adjacent oil reserve base can be regarded as a place that is crucial to our future growth. And also, the oil reserve is valuable as a special space hidden in the midst of the city. If it is recycled to its fullest, it could serve as a great symbol that exceeds the idea of creating anew.

[The legacy of the industrial era and oil reserve base, and a new beginning for citizens of the future.]

To confidently determine the direction of the use of the oil reserve, which bears high values and allows for a variety of discussions, the conclusion is that citizen consensus be the determining factor. Over the last 10 years, the Seoul Metropolitan Government developed most of the Sangam area to be an environmental and ecological park, house the World Cup Stadium and be a Digital Media City (DMC). However, the direction of the use of the oil reserve base, the last land remaining land in Sangam, will be reborn as a place for citizens that reflect the citizens through the ideas of professionals and students. By recounting the meaning, value, and the potential of the space, and reestablishing that space to meet this new era’s core values of environment & ecology and sustainable future, we would like to return the space to the citizens. In order for citizens to become owners of the space, and truly shape it in the manner that they desire, we plan to communicate with citizens and establish a utilization plan through an idea competition. In an effort to create a landmark attraction in Seoul that receives the love of its citizens, we welcome all ideas. A variety of ideas and opinions received from professionals and students will be forwarded to and assessed by experts to plan guidelines for the redevelopment of the oil reserve base. We will focus on seeking new methods to take advantage of discarded, hidden facilities and spaces by collaborating with interested professionals and students. As a first step, please take part in the International Idea Competition for professionals and students.

Competition / Seaholm Intake Design Idea Competition / The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department

2013-04-08T22:45:30Z

The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department is pleased to announce the Seaholm Intake Facility Design Idea Competition. The competition is in collaboration with the Austin Parks Foundation, The Trail Foundation and AIA Austin.

The competition is intended to encourage all design students, design professionals, and artists working individually or in teams to envision and articulate concepts for an adaptive reuse of the Seaholm Intake Facility that is for a park or recreational related use. Entries will be challenged to reinterpret and envision a re-adaptive site and buildings for park related use. Entries will respond to the surrounding changing environment while engaging the trail, park users and the Lake front. Entries will create a vision of the facility as a new community destination.

The top ten (10) will then be on display at Austin City Hall from July 29, 2013 through August 2, 2013. All top ten (10) will be posted on the City of Austin project website. The top three (3) entries will receive recognition for their efforts and their concepts will be incorporated into the next stage of development through a Public-Private Partnership process. *All entries will become the sole property of the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department.

Competition / Competition of Competitions / Storefront for Art and Architecture

2013-04-08T22:39:50Z

Redefining Briefs, Clients and Agents Throughout history, competitions have constructed a relationship of servitude between architects and the structures of economic, politic and cultural power. The competition brief has served as the initial document for the manifestation of desires either through programmatic, economic or formal needs. Often, the role of the architect has been reduced to answer a question that someone else has asked. In exceptional occasions, the architect’s ability to reinvent and produce new desires has occurred in the form of rebellion against the brief.

In an act of bravura, architects have broken the rules, driven by the pure belief that the real needs were contained outside of the given principles. This competition claims that the true desires of our present society are outside of the current taxonomy of competition briefs and that architects should be participants in the construction of the questions they are asked to answer.

The intention of “The Competition of Competitions” is to provide and deliver new and relevant forms of engagement and content to the economic, politic and social systems that currently act as the voice of authority for the development of our cities. “Competition of Competitions” asks architects, artists, economists, philosophers, writers, and citizens at large to create interdisciplinary teams to formulate the questions of our time and define the agents that should pursue the task to ask and commission the visions for the future in the form of a competition brief.

We encourage participants to rethink the format, content and agent/s that constitute the basis for the way competitions and commissions are organized.

Competition / Olympic Campus: A new headquarters for the IOC / International Olympic Committee

2013-04-08T22:27:06Z

At the Lausanne-Vidy site (Switzerland), the IOC would like to: • Create new headquarters for 450 staff members on one site. The volume of the planned building is roughly 70,000m3 with a ground surface area of 18,000m2. • Plan for the development of an “Olympic campus” housing administrative buildings as well as possible accommodation and services. The surface area of the plot available to the IOC is 24,000 m2. This will allow the IOC to benefit from two Olympic sites in Lausanne: one in Ouchy around The Olympic Museum, to host the general public; and the other in Vidy for the whole administrative staff and to host its institutional partners. The administrative provisions of the competition and the candidature file are available for download on: http://www.olympic.org/architecture-competition

Competition / San Francisco Fire Department Headquarters Competition / ARCHmedium

2013-04-08T22:23:24Z

The sun had yet not risen when the sirens began to sound. It was the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906 and the city of San Francisco was shaken awake by an earthquake measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale. More than 30 fires were reported throughout the city as a result of gas leaks caused by the earthquake. San Francisco began to burn, and would continue to do so for four days and four nights. The water network had also been seriously damaged by the quake, preventing firefighters from controlling the fire by the usual means. Yet this did not prevent them in their attempt to save the city, and they resorted to using all the tools at their disposal. They dynamited entire blocks in hopes of creating a firewall, fought the flames with hoses where the supply hadn’t been cut and installed water pumps to use water from the bay to control fires closer to the coast.

The American people will not forget the courage of all those men who faced what even today, after 100 years is remembered as the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. ARCHmedium proposes the creation of this fire station for the city of San Francisco that serves not only to centralize and improve the service but also as a gift and token of appreciation from the city to this department. The new center should not only be a practical space designed to respond to the needs of firefighters, but must become an icon of the city which rose from the ashes and a reminder of the tragedy, a building that not only the people of San Francisco but the entire world associates with the image of the fire department.

Competition / INSTANTHOUSE @ SCHOOL / MADEexpo

2013-04-08T22:20:45Z

The Instant House @ School is the 5th edition of an ideas competition launched by FederlegnoArredo S.r.l. for MADEexpo, in association with the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Politecnico di Milano. InstantHouse @ School invites designers to develop a new concept for a Kindergartens or Nursery schools in Milano. A multisensory environment conceived to promote learning and interaction for small children.

InstantHouse @ School explores the idea of ecology of the senses based on new form of learning and socialization. Instant house @ School fosters an innovative visual, tactile and acoustic learning environment through the use of new materials and technologies.

The competition is open to all students and young professionals from all over the world, professionals operating in the field of architecture, engineering industrial design and urban planning. All projects will become part of MADE expo Milan fair 2013, visited yearly by 250.000 people.

All entries will be on view at the exhibition at MADE expo, the forthcoming international construction and design trade show that will take place at the Milan Fairgrounds Rho from 2 to 5 October 2013 and featured on the Instant House website. Winners: Three finalists will receive trophies, promotion and media coverage, as well as cash prizes.

Article / ENR California Announces "Top 20 Under 40" by Engineering News Record

2012-12-29T00:00:00Z

(As posted by Bruce Buckley on ENR California Blog, 12/20/2012)

ENR California is proud to announce the winners of its annual Top 20 Under 40 competition, which celebrates the excellence of young design and construction professionals around the state.

Now in its third year, our Top 20 Under 40 contest drew its largest collection of entries yet. An independent jury pored over the entries, judging candidates on the basis of their career experience; industry leadership; community service; and other factors. Winners will appear in the February 11, 2013, edition of ENR California.

Congratulations to our winners, listed below in alphabetical order.

Kevin Albanese

Joseph J. Albanese, Inc.

Hafsa Burt

HB+A Architects

Christopher Bush

Parsons

Joseph (Joe) Carbajal

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Wil Carson

Michael Maltzan Architecture

Mario Cipresso

Studio Shift, Inc.

Gray Dougherty

Dougherty + Dougherty Architects LLP

Dana Fetrow

Spire Consulting Group, LLC

Casey D. Graham

SA Healy/Impregilo

Greg Hadsell

HDR Architecture, Inc.

Marceid DeAngelo Hatcher

Turner Construction Company

Chad Kennedy

O'Dell Engineering

Todd Kohli

AECOM

Justin Mikecz

HMC Architects

Neil Nehmens

SSC Construction, Inc.

Terriann Nohilly

Turner Construction Company

Marnie O'Brien Primmer

Mobility 21

James Seegert

Modern Building, Inc.

Josh Stinson

Nordic PCL Construction, Inc.

Jeffrey Vaglio

Enclos Corp

For more information:

ENR California

Posted By Mario Cipresso

Article / EyeTime 2012 Competition Winners Announced by The Morpholio Project

2012-12-10T00:00:00Z

On behalf of the competition organizers, collaborators and supporters, the Morpholio Project is proud to congratulate the EyeTime 2012 Winners. EyeTime 2012 was assembled as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. "It was inspiring to review " said Aurelie Jezequel, Editor-in-Chief of Resource Magazine and "There was such a vast array of styles and creative techniques employed" said Jessica Lum of PetaPixel. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of entrants who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

EyeTime 2012 would also like to give a special thanks to the ICP, APA, ADC, AIAS, AIGA, NYIP, Resource Magazine, Death By Architecture, Photograph Magazine, Bustler, Archinect, Photography Blog, PetaPixel, The PhotoContest, Photocompete, Wallpaper Magazine, Wired Magazine and the incredible Jury who supported the work. This year's jury included Aurelie Jezequel and Adam Sherwin of Resource Magazine, Jessica Lum of PetaPixel, Kristen Fortier of Wired Magazine, Billy Cunningham of the ICP, and Pei-Ru Keh of Wallpaper Magazine. To view the Winners, Honor Awards and Honorable Mentions, please visit :

http://mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/eyetime2012

Images shown here in order:

Dean West - In Pieces

Simon Chang - Ashura

Zuliandi Abdul Azli - Analog Wave

Anna Pietrzak - Moments of Movement Pt. 2

Nicholai Go - Super

Gerald Haselwanter - Las Vegas Up

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / EyeTime 2012 Photo Competition Finalists Announced by Morpholio Project

2012-11-21T00:00:00Z

On behalf of the competition organizers, collaborators and supporters, the Morpholio Project congratulates the EyeTime 2012: Finalists. EyeTime 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of entrants who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

The EyeTime 2012: Winner(s) will be selected by the Jury as well as public competition “EyeTime”. To view the finalists and contribute your “EyeTime” now for your favorite entrant, please visit the EyeTime site:

http://bit.ly/P8kstT

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Support GREAT SPACES the Web Series by Indiegogo

2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

FROM THE GROUP AT GREAT SPACES:

"Great Spaces delves into the colorful history of design and showcases an offbeat celebration of the art of showing spaces, featuring super-spaces, extreme stunts and challenges, spaces reviews and celebrity interviews, as well as the eccentric adventures of its hosts with Great Space's customary wit and humor. Hosted by design lover Alexi Panos, architect Delaine Isaac, architectural enthusiast Oheri Otobo and UK architect Ben Nother. Great Spaces explores the history of America and abroad, one space at a time.

ABOUT THE WEB SERIES:

The most exciting factor about the web series medium is its ongoing interaction with you as the audience. You, the viewer, can effect the series as it progresses. We want to take this to the next level. Television. And bring you into the process by showing not just how we make films but why we make them.

Along with the 6 episodes (18 spaces) we will be releasing in 2013, Great Spaces will be uploading new spaces and behind-the-scenes videos every week from this fall of 2012 until the first season wraps. To stay up to date subscribe to our YouTube channel GreatSpacesTV for new space clips and facebook for behind the scenes clips.

ABOUT YOUR MONEY:

Right now, we are gearing up for season one and we need your help in order to continue production. With the funds we raise, we will be able to purchase necessary equipment, complete new website development, and support our incredibly hardworking and dedicated production team.

Your payment is processed through Amazon (and is as easy as buying a CD, Book or DVD from Amazon.com). Every penny goes directly towards production and contributor rewards. Before we can start shooting, we need to cover a myriad of production and post-production expenses.

Up to this point, Great Spaces has been completely self-funded. We're doing this because we love design and travel, talking about it and sharing it with other people. It's been awesome -- but the only way to keep it going without sponsors or real advertising money - is through Indiegogo.

Thank you so much for your support and we hope that the stories from each space will inspire you as much as they will inspired us."

http://igg.me/p/277594?a=966795

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Call for Papers: Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design by IIJournal

2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

CALL FOR PAPERS:

autonomous identities

fall 2012 issue I _ call for submissions

As emergent design specializations, spatial design and interior architecture have repositioned the way that we conceive, perceive, and experience our built environment. Autonomous Identities, ii journal’s inaugural issue, seeks scholarly design-research, visual compositions, and work that challenges disciplinary specificity. Spatial environments are informed by not only our perception of space, but also through their social engagement, performance engineering, and graphic integration. New awarenesses have converged to re-imagine the design and construction of spatial and temporal interventions, as well as the corporeal and theoretical conditions of architectural environments and performance events.

Interior architecture and spatial design are poised to transform the design disciplines, and thus, Autonomous Identities is searching to identify tomorrow’s spatial precedents. Both disciplines offer the potential to claim new territory by operating at the intersection of previously discrete knowledge bases. Thus, interior-related theory, praxis, and practice have assumed a collective crisis of identity. In this issue, ii is collecting work which has the potential to blur the traditional boundaries of the design by identifying provocative new spatial territories. The journal endeavors to gather exemplary projects that reveal interdisciplinary approaches to research and ‘making’ skills as they apply to interiors, light-mobile-architectures, and designed objects. Autonomous Identities will reveal contemporary developments in design education and practice relative to the exploration of emerging materials and technologies. The issue will highlight experimentation, theory, research, speculation, and innovation through its focus on collectively re-thinking ‘space’.

Autonomous Identities will feature cross-disciplinary work that offers an alternative perspective on space, materiality, and tectonics. Work may include, but is not limited to, spatial design, graphic design, architecture, industrial design, engineering, fashion, performance, film, and multi-media, as well as the environmental and social sciences.

schedule

15 August 2012 _ worldwide call announced

01 October 2012 _ paper submission deadline

15 October 2012 _ paper selections announced

01 November 2012 _ final edits due

01 December 2012 _ typeset confirmed

15 January 2013 _ journal printed

ABOUT:

ii is the International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design.

In a global, complex, and networked society, interior architecture and its praxis are experiencing unprecedented change. Theoretical investigations, design-research, and alternative explorations blend previously discrete disciplines within an emerging blurred territory. The International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design investigates this new territory by requesting scholarship, design research, and projects that ask bold questions and propose innovative responses. Founded and stewarded by the Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and published by the University of Houston, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design.

General inquiries may be sent to: iieditors@gmail.com

Visit: http://www.iijournal.org/

Posted By Mario Cipresso

Article / Launch of d3:dialog>assemble Volume One by d3 publications

2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

d3 is pleased to announce the launch of the first volume of d3:dialog: >assemble

d3 publications offer global perspectives on architecture, culture, technology, and production. >assemble will debut at the Beijing International Book Fair and Frankfurt International Book Fair in Fall 2012. d3 publications may be purchased on on-line in Europe and North America.

ASSEMBLE

d3:dialog, International Journal of Architecture + Design

editors, Gregory Marinic & Mary-Jo Schlachter

320 pages in full color:

http://www.amazon.com/assemble-dialog-international-journal-architecture/dp/0615652700/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345180402&sr=8-1&keywords=d3%3Adialog

Investigating contemporary issues in architecture, urbanism, and design, d3 views collaboration across the disciplines as a catalyst of change, and thus, seeks to actively build a global network of hybridized creative communities. d3 situates itself in this role out of the conviction that an expanded discourse in architecture fosters learning, creativity, and innovation.

d3:dialog is an international journal of contemporary architecture, urbanism, interiors, and design. Providing an open platform for global exchange, the journal places particular emphasis on design-research as a formal, social, and technological investigation. d3:dialog is a hybrid publication series that combines the depth and format of a book, with the flexibility of a thematic journal. Published by New York-based d3, each issue explores a focused aspect of current architectural theory and production.

>assemble, the first volume of the d3:dialog series, offers an illustrated journey through current practices in avant-garde architecture and design. Casting its lens upon the relationship between information and production the journal asks:

How does an enhanced complicity between author and audience impact the design of urban spaces, architecture, interiors, and objects?

Compiling twenty-seven notable works gathered from around the world, >assemble opens a window onto the expanding forces that shape the contemporary built environment. By doing so, it proposes that framing an alternative perspective on architecture offers limitless unanticipated opportunities.

INTRODUCTION

Gregory Marinic & Mary-Jo Schlachter

The cities and buildings where we live represent temporal manifestations of mass, space, time, and memory. With the advent of digital methodologies, these places may now be conceived more fluidly in terms of information. This shift from analog means to digital systems of conceptual design and material production has allowed a more profound interaction between designer and audience to develop. An inability to separate the real from the digital has emerged, whereby these methods have converged to form part of the same process.

How can the development of 21st century urban space and architecture be re-conceptualized, controlled, and created? How do such environments grow, transition, and transform over time? How has the integration of digital conceptualization tools with physical matter produced increasingly fluid architectural forms, flexible spaces, and transformative assemblies?

http://www.d3space.org/dialog/

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / EyeTime 2012: Photo Competition by The Morpholio Project

2012-08-23T00:00:00Z

EyeTime 2012 invites students and young professionals or enthusiasts to submit a collection of their photography comprised of up to three digital images. By submitting your work, we invite you to share your voice with the collective intelligence of a community of visual thinkers. The competition is free to all entrants.

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we create, and connect on a daily basis. For photography, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every entrant can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as artists.

As the paradigm shift from analog to digital is paired with the emergence of platforms for the digital consumption of images, photography inherently reassess its methods, media and subjects, in order to establish a dialogue with an audience whose visual abilities are increasingly expanded by technology. Thus, this competition challenges you to confront the world with your photography. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your work. You are the artist, the curator and the critic. EyeTime 2012 poses the following questions: How are your photos perceived? What does it take for an image to make a difference within the continuous overflow of data and information we currently inhabit? How can images impact evolving forms of media in order to engage audiences with their message? What is your message?

Eyetime 2012 was assembled by photographers, professors and students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening amongst today's emerging talent. The competition is supported by the ICP (International Center of Photography), APA (American Photographic Artist), ADC (Art Directors Club), and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. The guest jury includes participants from Wired magazine, Wallpaper magazine, PetaPixel, Resource magazine and the ICP. Sixteen finalists will be selected in each category: Emerging Talent and Future Voices. We look forward to your participation.

More information at: http://mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/eyetime2012

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Pinup2012: Student Competition Winners by Morpholio Project

2012-06-04T00:00:00Z

June 04, 2012

On behalf of the AIAS, ADC and AIGA, the Morpholio Project, along with Death By Architecture, congratulates the Pinup 2012: Student Competition Winners and Honorable Mentions. Pinup 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the

research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of students who were bold enough to confront

the world with their voice.

To view the Winners and Honorable Mentions, please download the competition app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/morpholio/id484413042?ls=1&mt=8

Winners:

Anthony Shung Yiu Ko

AA School of Architecture

Jonathan Choe

Illinois Institute of Technology

Tetyana Serafin

Norwalk Community College CT

Anna Pietrzak

University of Cincinnati

Honorable Mentions:

Jason Khoo

Singapore Polytechnic

Ivorin Vrkas

School of Design Zagreb Croatia

Matilda Schuman

Lund School of Architecture

Junsheng Fu

Tsinghua SA

Ziba Esmaeilian

SciArc

Tom Wilz

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Anesta Iwan

California College of the Arts

Dean Austin

Deakin Uni Australia

Chunxiao Xu

Tsinghua SA

Coralee Brin

University of Calgary

Hiromu Noir

TU Berlin

Trent Christensen

NYIT School of Architecture

Competition Statement:

The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do. The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every designer can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers.

new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant(s) will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Competition Site:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

High Res Images:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/press

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Pinup2012: Student Competition Finalists Announced by Morpholio Project

2012-05-07T00:00:00Z

Pinup 2012: Student Competition Finalists Announced

May 05, 2012

On behalf of the AIAS, ADC and AIGA, the Morpholio Project, along with Death By Architecture, congratulates the Pinup 2012: Student Competition Finalists. Pinup 2012 was assembled as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. All of the submissions exemplified outstanding work and the competition organizers are grateful for the enormous amount of students who were bold enough to confront the world with their voice.

The Pinup 2012: Student Winner will be selected by public “EyeTime” as the most viewed collection on May 30th 2012. To view the finalists and contribute your “EyeTime” now for your favorite entrant, please download the competition app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/morpholio/id484413042?ls=1&mt=8

Finalists:

Anthony Shung Yiu Ko

AA School of Architecture

Jonathan Choe

Illinois Institute of Technology

Jason Khoo

Singapore Polytechnic

Ivorin Vrkas

School of Design Zagreb Croatia

Matilda Schuman

Lund School of Architecture

Junsheng Fu

Tsinghua SA

Ziba Esmaeilian

SciArc

Tom Wilz

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Anesta Iwan

California College of the Arts

Dean Austin

Deakin Uni Australia

Chunxiao Xu

Tsinghua SA

Coralee Brin

University of Calgary

Tetyana Serafin

Norwalk Community College CT

Hiromu Noir

TU Berlin

Anna Pietrzak

University of Cincinnati

Trent Christensen

NYIT School of Architecture

Competition Statement:

PinUp 2012 poses the following questions: What are the standards and aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic.

PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Competition Site:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

High Res Images:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/press

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / "Going Viral: Blurred Borders" Discussion & Exhibition, May 21st by AIANY Global Dialogues

2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

The AIANY Global Dialogues committee has dedicated 2012 to “uncovered connections” with the intention to investigate issues that are similarly impacting multiple regions, cultures and individuals. Going Viral explores the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we practice. How do we shape a global conversation? How are we changing the relationships between academia and the profession? What is the impact of hyper information sharing and critique? Throughout the evening, the topics of communication, research, collaboration, and data distribution will be addressed and debated.

Bjarke Ingels of BIG, Toru Hasegawa of Morpholio and Columbia University, Carlo Aiello of eVolo, and David Basulto with David Assael of ArchDaily will come together for a lecture and panel discussion moderated by Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief of Architect. In addition, selected game changing blogs and websites will be exhibited as Voices Going Viral on the evening of the event. Please join us at the NY Center for Architecture on May 21st at 6:00 pm and online at http://aianyglobaldialogues.blogspot.com/ for further information.

Date: May 21, 2012, 6:00pm

Location: Center for Architecture, 536 Laguardia Place, New York, NY 10012, (212) 358-6133

RSVP: Appreciated http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=4440

*AIA Continuing Education Units available

Voices Going Viral Exhibition:

Apartment Therapy created by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan and Janel Laban

www.apartmenttherapy.com

ArchDaily created by David Basulto and David Assael

www.archdaily.com

Archidose created by John Hill

archidose.blogspot.com

Archinect created by Paul Petrunia

archinect.com

Architect’s Newspaper created by William Menking

www.archpaper.com

ArchitectureMNP created by Ryan McClain, co-founded by Kiye Apreala

architecture.myninjaplease.com

Architizer created by Matthias Hollwich, Marc Kushner, and Benjamin Prosky

www.architizer.com

Archive of Affinities created by Andrew Kovacs

archiveofaffinities.tumblr.com

BLDGBLOG created by Geoff Manaugh

bldgblog.blogspot.com

Blurr created by Ahmed Elhusseiny

www.blurrblog.com

But Does It Float created by Folkert Gorter, Atley Kasky, & Will Schofield

butdoesitfloat.com

Cooking Architecture created by Claire Shafer and Juan Jofre

www.cookingarchitecture.com

The Cool Hunter created by Bill Tikos

www.thecoolhunter.net

Core 77 created by Eric Ludlum, Stuart Constantine, & Allan Chochinov

core77.com

Culture Now created by Abby Suckle, Ann Marie Baranowski, Susan Chin, Diana Pardue, and Nina Rappaport

www.culturenow.org

Curbed created by Lockhart Steele

ny.curbed.com

Death by Architecture created by Mario Cipresso

www.deathbyarchitecture.com

DesignBoom created by Birgit Lohmann & Massimo Mini

www.designboom.com

Design Sponge created by Grace Bonney

www.designsponge.com

DesignReform created by CASE

designreform.net

Dezeen created by Marcus Fairs

www.dezeen.com

e-Oculus created by the AIA New York Chapter

www.aiany.org/eOCULUS

eVolo created by Carlo Aiello

www.evolo.us

Inhabitat blog created by Jill Fehrenbacher

inhabitat.com

Landscape + Urbanism created by Jason King

landscapeandurbanism.blogspot.com

Mammoth created by Stephen Becker and Rob Holmes

m.ammoth.us/blog

Morpholio created by Mark Collins, Toru Hasegawa, & Anna Kenoff

mymorpholio.com

Places Journal online created by Nancy Levinson, Harrison Fraker, William Drenttel, Jessica Helfand and Michael Bierut

places.designobserver.com

Post Post created by David Jaubert

www.postpost.co

Project created by Alfie Koetter, Daniel Markiewicz, Jonah Rowen, & Emmett Zeifman

projectjournal.org

Credits:

Global Dialogue Chairs: Bruce E. Fisher AIA and Jeffrey A. Kenoff AIA

Event Co-Chairs: Elie Gamburg, Diane Chehab

Design and Curatorial Team: James Kehl, Rebecca Pasternack, Ciara Seymour, Sarah E. Smith, Andy Vann

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Pinup 2012: Student Competition Deadline Extended by Morpholio Project

2012-04-09T00:00:00Z

As media partner to the Pinup 2012 Student Competition, we would like to encourage all students to take advantage of the extended deadlines for the competition. You now have until April 30, 2012 to submit up to nine images of your work on the Morpholio Project's new mobile platform. See the call for submissions below:

Call for Submissions: Pinup 2012 invites students of all design disciplines to submit a collection of their work comprised of up to nine images. The competition is free to all students. The proliferation of device culture, social networking, and cloud technology are changing the way we work, and connect on a daily basis. For designers, this means that technology is not only transforming the process of production, but also the processes through which we share, critique, and organize ourselves around the work we do.

The competition is first, and foremost an experiment in distributed intelligence. By leveraging the "wisdom of crowds" every designer can see and understand how his or her work is experienced by others. It has been predicted that in 2020, there will be 50 billion mobile internet connections worldwide, the equivalent of seven devices per person. Thus, this competition is not simply about the existence of technology, but rather why and how we harness it as designers. PinUp 2012 poses the following questions: What are the standards and aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

The competition challenges you to confront the world with your work. By sending it out into the field you will test yourself and your projects. You are the designer, the curator and the critic. PinUp 2012 was assembled by professors and students for students as a means to publically promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia. It is supported by the AIAS, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. Sixteen Honorable Mentions will be selected as well as featured in the Morpholio Community and the winning entrant will receive a Community area dedicated specifically to their University or School as a public forum for their work. We look forward to your participation.

Go to the competition website:

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/competition

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Article / Tomohiro Hata Wins WAN House of the Year 2012 by WAN Awards 2012

2012-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates' Complex House in Nagoya, Japan wins the WAN House of the Year Award 2012

The Complex House was described as a serious and modest design but the jury also liked it for its playfulness with light and space and the site itself. It proved to be very popular with the judges, each of them admiring its beauty, balance and intelligence. They were delighted to award it the WAN House of the Year 2012 Award.

The WAN House of the Year Award celebrates the best in international architecture for single-family houses. Jurors for this award come from an array of highly respected establishments across a range of fields. The jury included: Sarah Wigglesworth, Director of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, David Levitt, Chairman of the Housing Group of the RIBA, Philip Marsh, Director at DRMM and remote judge Tom Kundig, Director at Olson Kundig Architects.The client family of this house needed many small rooms within a relatively small space. So, the architects firstly examined the possibility of a row of small, deep rooms. After the concept was fixed, the architects considered different widths depending on suitable scales for each of the rooms. Then they edited the composition of the sections.

The completed house in Nagoya has five roofs that pitch in opposing directions. This alternating arrangement creates a series of triangular windows on the first floor of the two-storey residence. The exterior is clad with metal sheets in standing seam fashion, a technique characterised by slightly overlapped parallel strips. There is an enclosed courtyard and the rooms on the ground floor 'melt' together or overlap each other and are integrated within the communal family space.

The resulting home is a sensitive house that takes the interaction of the family into consideration. It balances the need for a family to be together but also respects and allows for individual personalities and their desire for private spaces. This sensitive, beautiful and serious piece of architecture was greatly admired by all the judges and was selected as winner beating an admirable shortlist that included the Stone House in Luberon Valley, France by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect. The Stone house was also greatly admired and was awarded a "highly commended" title in recognition of the strength of the entry.

TOMOHIRO HATA ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES

http://www.hata-archi.com/

WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/

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Article / ENYA The Harlem Edge Competition Winners Announced by Emerging New York Architects

2012-02-24T00:00:00Z

PRESS RELEASE

ENYA Announces Winners of

The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections Competition

February 23, 2012. The Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) Committee of the AIA NY Chapter is proud to announce the winners of its fifth biennial design ideas competition, The Harlem Edge | Cultivating Connections. One hundred seventy-eight (178) teams and individuals registered for the competition and more than ninety-eight (98) entries from sixteen (16) countries were submitted for judging. The winning entries will be exhibited at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, this July and be published in a competition catalog. In coordination with the exhibition, ENYA will be hosting a symposium to discuss design issues related to the winning entries and possibilities for the future development of the site and its neighboring community. The Harlem Edge is presented as part of FutureNow, the 2012 AIA New York Chapter Presidential Theme.

ENYA Prize, $5000: Sym'bio'pia

Ting Chin and Yan Wang, Linearscape Architecture, New York, NY, USA

2nd Prize, $2500: The Hudson Exchange

Eliza Higgins, Cyrus Patell, Chris Starkey, and Andrea Vittadini, Brooklyn, NY, USA

3rd Prize, $1000: Harlem Harvest

Ryan Doyle, Guido Elgueta, and Tyler Caine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Student Prize, $1000: Stairway to Harlem

Daniel Mowery, Student of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA

Honorable Mentions:

Continuum, by Nasiq Khan, and Scott Brandi, Bayside, NY, USA

Subaqueous Promenade, by Doyoung Oh, and Jaemin Ha, London, United Kingdom/Boston, MA, USA

New Marine Transfer Station, by Yashar Ghasemkhani, Arash Mesbah, and Pooneh Sadrimanesh, New York, NY, USA

Land Over Water Agro-Pavilion, by Michael C. Kilroy, and Jonathan Sampson, Students of Architecture, University of New Mexico, USA

Greenhouse Transformer, by Dongwoo Yim, and Rafael Luna, PRAUD, Boston, MA, USA

The jury selected the winning entries on February 11, 2012 at the Center of Architecture. The jury included: Emily Abruzzo, AIA, LEED AP, Partner, Abruzzo Bodziak Architects LLC, and Winner of 2012 New Practices New York; Meta Brunzema, Principal, Meta Brunzema Architect PC; Dr. Dickson D. Despommier, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University; Louise Harpman, Clinical Associate Professor | Architecture, Urban Design, Sustainability, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study; Michael Marrella, Director of Waterfront and Open Space Planning, New York City Department of City Planning; Jesse Reiser, Principal, Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture PC; and Keith VanDerSys, Principal, PEG office of landscape + architecture, and Winner of the 2010 ENYA Prize.

More information about the jury can be found here: http://www.enyacompetitions.org/awardsjury.html.

The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition explored the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located on the Hudson River at 135th Street. The site offers the opportunity to engage the local Harlem community with the waterfront, and echoes recent efforts by NYC to reclaim the waterfront for non-industrial use, as included Department of City Planning in its Vision 2020, the Comprehensive Waterfront Action Plan for New York City.

For more information about the competition visit the website:

www.enyacompetitions.org

Press contact: Nicole Friedman, 212.358.6126, nfriedman@aiany.org

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Article / 3XN Wins Competition for University Building in Uppsala, Sweden by 3XN

2012-02-23T00:00:00Z

Press Release:

The new university building unites the past and the future by extending the lines from the historical surroundings into an innovative structure pointing towards future study and work life

Uppsala University has more than 500 years’ of history and thus is one of Sweden’s most established institutions, complete with traditions and an esteemed regard. At the same time, the University is known as a modern institution for world class research and higher education. Thus, the vision for the new University Building is to bridge the past and the future by creating synergy between location, expression and layout.

The building builds a bridge between past and future. Several lines from the historic surroundings are also present in the new building, that through its flexible and open spaces will encourage new ways of working, studying and collaborating, explains Jan Ammundsen, Partner and Head of Competition in 3XN.

The 13,000 m2 university building include a number of sustainable features such as natural ventilation and a facade design protecting from direct solar heat gain, while allowing plenty of daylight inside. Although the building has a light and transparent expression its compact structure minimizes the surface resulting in environmental and operational savings.

Contact information

Didde Fuhr Pedersen

Public Relations Manager

dfp@3xn.dk

+45 3264 2310 / 6155 4610

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Article / Opening Reception "Building a Brick" - Cody Lusby - February 18, 2012 by Design Matters Gallery Los Angeles

2012-02-17T00:00:00Z

PRESS RELEASE

Cody Lusby

“Building a Brick”

February 18-March 14th

Opening Reception

February 18th, 2012

7:00-9:00 PM

Design Matters is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Cody Lusby. Design Matters challenged Lusby to create a body of work that relates to architecture, and the process of building, which resulted in the conception of “Building a Brick.” This body of work acknowledges the final result, whether it’s the Disney Music Hall or the Sydney Opera house, but focuses on those who enable the realization of those icons. The architects and designer are highly celebrated within our culture, while the framer, electrician and plumber who all used their hands to create the icon are forgotten. Once construction is complete, those workers are often unable to gain entrance into what was once their workspace- unless they buy a ticket, full price of course. With the state of the economy, and the high rate of unemployed construction workers it seems appropriate to celebrate their role in realizing a creative vision. Ultimately, Lusby’s investigation of the builder allows us to see the ordinary, as extraordinary.

Lusby was born in Portland, Oregon in 1978, then raised in Southern California. He refined his talent at the Orange County High School of the Arts, and subsequently received a scholarship to attend Laguna College of Art and Design, where he received his BFA in painting and drawing. In his work, Lusby ultilizes a mix of oil and aerosol paint, and collage to create his narrative portraiture.

For further press information and images please contact:

Design Matters info@designmattersLA.com

+1 310 841 6423

Design Matters, 11527 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064

Wed-Fri 11-6

Sat 1-5, or by appointment

http://designmattersla.com

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Article / eVolo Skyscrapers by Aiello, Aldridge, Deville, Solt, Lee

2012-02-16T00:00:00Z

Established in 2006, the eVolo Skyscraper Competition has become the world s most prestigious award for high-rise architecture. The contest recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations. Studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered elements of the competition. It is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities.

Over the last six years, an international panel of renowned architects, engineers, and city planners have reviewed more than 4,000 projects submitted from 168 countries around the world. Participants include professional architects and designers, as well as students and artists. This book is the compilation of 300 outstanding projects selected for their innovative concepts that challenge the way we understand architecture and their relationship with the natural and built environments.

The projects have been organized in six chapters that describe the current position and the future of vertical architecture and urbanism. The first chapter, Technological Advances, is an investigation on the use of digital tools and computing fabrication. Ecological Urbanism explores sustainable systems, including new materials and clean energy generation processes to achieve zero-net-energy buildings. Projects that analyze the reconfiguration of existing cities and the colonization of new environments, such as underwater cities and floating habitats, are part of New Frontiers. The improvement of our way of living is the topic of the fourth chapter, Social Solutions, which is a collection of ideas that respond to social, cultural, and economic problems. A more experimental approach to architectural design is exposed in Morphotectonic Aesthetics, with proposals that use fields of data and self-regulating systems to respond to internal and external stimuli -the results are fascinating explorations of function and form. Finally, Urban Theories and Strategies is a group of projects that establish new methods to alleviate the major problems of the contemporary city, including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure, and the exponential increase of inhabitants.

The eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, debate, and development of avant-garde architectural design in the 21st century. eVolo is committed to stimulating the imagination of designers around the world thinkers that envision the future of our cities and a new way of life.

http://www.evolo.us/

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Article / P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S : NYC Book Launch & Symposium Feb. 9th, 2012 by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich

2012-02-03T00:00:00Z

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S : "EMBEDDED"

Jeffrey Inaba, John McMorrough, Marcelo Spina, Jesse Reiser, David Ruy, Michael Meredith and Mark Foster Gage

An event marking the publication of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’ new book, Embedded brings together authors, contributors, mentors and confabulators to discuss some of the most relevant issues haunting contemporary architectural practice and discourse today, such as the perceived divide between progressive design culture, the politics of form and social responsibility.

EMBEDDED is P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S’ long awaited book that reflects on the evolution, actualization and conclusion of certain lineages of design and material research, while signaling the initial stages of others. Co-directed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, this research and collaborative-based practice seeks to move between digital and material expressions. Having gained worldwide recognition for its inventive approach to design and architecture that fuses advanced computation with an extended understanding of form, tectonics and materials, what sets P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S apart is not only its overt ambition to materialization but the quality and extent of realized work. The book includes a collection of more than twenty projects and writings by Spina and Huljich, with contributing essays by Todd Gannon, Marcelyn Gow and John McMorrough.

Organized by P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Los Angeles

Thursday February 9th 6.30 to 8.30pm

Studio-X NYC

180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014

www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/newyork

studioxnyc@gmail.com

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Article / School 4 Burma Design Competition Winners by Building Trust Intl.

2012-02-03T00:00:00Z

Building Trust International announce 'School 4 Burma Design Competition' Winners

Building Trust International are delighted to announce that designers Amadeo Bennetta and Daniel LaRossa, of Berkeley, California have won the School 4 Burma Design Competition.

The winning design, for a modular school for migrant and refugee children in the Thai-Burma border town of Mae Sot, beat entries from all over the world as the competition generated progressive, contemporary design solutions. Over 800 designers and academic institutions expressed interest.

Winner Amadeo Bennetta said: “We are thrilled to have been selected and we're enthusiastic about seeing this project become a reality by continuing to refine the original design into a real, feasible and deployable building.”

As the Building Trust International project now moves from conception to the planning and fabrication phase, the charity plans to work closely with the Kwe Ka Baung School, community leaders and other aid agencies in the area to ensure that the development of the design continues with their input.

David Cole, founding partner of Building Trust International said, “We would like to thank all those who took part. The standard of design entries that we received was incredible. We have the funding to develop the winning design, but we are now also looking for funding partners for a number of entries that we believe could be used to help other schools in the region. The competition has been a great success and highlights the key role that architects and designers have in tackling global issues.”

The winning team submitted a proposal that expressed a high level of flexibility responding well to the brief. The design utilizes an adaptable framework that balances prefabricated structural elements with locally crafted, modular, bamboo panels. By creating entirely flat-packed components, BURMA [RE]FRAMED can be rapidly reassembled from a flatbed truck into a courtyard school, a single building or even as independent multi-use units. By reconsidering the restrictions of land ownership into an opportunity for flexible community space, BURMA [RE]FRAMED acts as a local/global bridge providing at-risk communities with a physical space around which the population can learn, grow and thrive.

The student category winners, Ms.Gauri Satam and Mr.Tejesh Patil from Sir J.J. College of Architecture, Mumbai, India, used the basic design principles of anthropometric/scale along with simple striking colours naturally creating a welcoming feel towards a learning institution for young minds.

Building Trust International is a non profit organisation offering design assistance to communities and individuals in need. Building Trust International assesses areas in need, finds sustainable, economical aid solutions and ultimately provides buildings and infrastructure. These core actions have blossomed into advocating and educating on the principles of socially aware design, providing an accessible resource on humanitarian design projects and providing a structure for the crossover of information between design professionals.

For more details please visit Building Trust International website:

www.buildingtrustinternational.org

Building Trust International is a charity registered in England and Wales (1142338)

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Article / Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form by Thom Mayne

2012-02-02T00:00:00Z

Combinatory Urbanism: The Complex Behavior of Collective Form takes a critical look at twelve large-scale, urban projects executed over the last ten years by Morphosis Architects and is the first such time in which the firm articulates the urban methodologies implemented that have historically been inherent in their work. In order to make explicit the complex processes employed and demystify the resulting complex forms and spatial conditions that result, each project is decoded through text and images to explain the work in its simplest terms.

Each of the twelve projects is defined through four individual strains of urban production: context, program, green space, and infrastructure which establish the project's gestalt. You'll appreciate that the book is not rendering-heavy, rather it is populated with extremely clear and well-articulated drawings and diagrams that really illustrate the substance of each project utilizing varying techniques and levels of detail and complexity. The focus here is clearly to unpack the research and strategies that are the foundation of each project. In addition to individually analyzing each project, the book makes direct comparisons between all projects making useful and quick comparisons for properties such as area distribution, program, FAR, and populations.

The projects featured include New City Park, World Trade Center, NYC2012 Olympic Village, Penang Turf Club, Manzanares River Park Development, New Orleans Jazz Park, College Avenue Master Plan, East Darling Harbour Development, Los Angeles State Historic Park, NEW New Orleans Urban Redevelopment. Greenwich South Visioning and Pudong Cultural Park.

The neon-orange cover may require sunglasses during viewing but you'll always locate it on the shelf immediately.

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Article / Infrastructure Landscape : Case Studies by SWA by Gerdo Aquino and Ying-yu Hung

2011-10-21T00:00:00Z

Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of our rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent ecologies is a primary consideration. Defining contemporary infrastructure requires a multi-disciplinary team of landscape architects, engineers, architects and planners to fully realize the benefits to our cultural and natural systems. This book examines the potential of landscape as infrastructure via essays by notable authors and supporting case studies by SWA landscape architects and urban designers led by Gerdo Aquino and Ying-Yu Hung of their Los Angeles office. Among these case studies are Renzo Piano's California Academy of Science in San Francisco and Morphosis' Giant Group Interactive in Shanghai, the restoration of the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, and several master plans for ecological corridors in China and Korea. The case studies are thoroughly described with technical drawings and diagrams for repositioning infrastructure as a viable medium for addressing issues of ecology, transit, performance and habitat.

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Article / Winners of the Tallinn Vision Competition Street 2020 by Tallinn Architecture Biennale

2011-08-05T00:00:00Z

Warren Techentin Architecture(WTARCH)’s entry “Peer-to-Peer” received the €3000 1st prize of the Tallinn Vision competition STREET 2020, held under the auspices of TAB Tallinn Architecture Biennale.

Tallinn Vision Competition STREET2020 was addressed to young architects and architecture students who were asked to describe a fluently connected, compatible and diverse urban landscape, with a focus on one particular urban typology: the street. The organizers received 35 competition entries, 34 of which qualified. Entries were submitted from Japan, Bangladesh, New-Zealand, Turkey, Italy, Poland, USA, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries.

The architects from WTARCH describe their winning proposal:

“Our concept is to develop a street which connects as many people and ideas as possible through the use of landscape strategies with a simple "user interface". This new Boulevard will connect the historic City to the beachfront, provides a strong edge to the port area, and seeks to unify the disparate existing but undefined open spaces into the collective use of the entire district as a large pedestrian park. The street will form a new entry to Tallinn for visitors and a place to enjoy the city outdoors with physical activity and street vending.”

The jury, comprising Eva Castro (AA School, Plasmastudio, Groundlab, UK) and Endrik Mänd (Chief Architect, City of Tallinn), reflected on the winning entry with the following:

“"Peer-to-Peer” investigates the problematic described in the competition brief in its entirety. The street that is described is in human scale and characteristic to Tallinn and the functions proposed on the sides of the street are well thought through and clever.”

STREET 2020 exhibition presenting all the competition entries will open on August 17th at the basement hall of the Estonian Architecture Museum.

STREET 2020 awarding ceremony together with the catalogue presentation will be held during the Tallinn Architecture Biennale on September 8th at the Estonian Architecture Museum.

STREET 2020 AWARDED WORKS:

1st prize €3000 – pseudonym „Peer-to-Peer“

Authors: Warren Techentin Architecture (WTARCH): Warren Techentin, Brent Nishimoto, Christina Hwang, Andrew Kim, Ahad Basravi, Carrie Smith, Aaron Yip

2nd prize €2000 – pseudonym „The Urban Lobby“

Authors: Kenneth Li, Mark Craven, Fraser Moor

3rd prize €1000 – pseudonym „Street Magnetism“

Authors: Kristi Gri?akov (Aalto University Centre for Urban & Regional Studies), Liis Bormeister, Kristjan Männigo, Joonas Saan / OÜ Ars Projekt

HONOURABLE MENTIONS:

– pseudonym „Jack the Rabbit“

Author: Pawel Artur Pietkun

– pseudonym „Le Corb“

Authors: Joanna-Maria Helinurm, Michael Thomas Lamprides II

– pseudonym „Meter and Demeter“

Author: Alvin Järving

More information at STREET 2020: http://www.tab.ee/#competition

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Article / GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011, April 15-17 by Columbia University

2011-03-25T00:00:00Z

Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation announces their 2011 Alumni Weekend Event from April 15-17. Centered around the theme of "Smart Infrastructure: Negotiating the Future of Design", the event offers a weekend of networking, learning, and catching up with old friends over a series of panel discussions and receptions.

To register for Alumni Weekend, call 212.854.2834 or visit http://www.arch.columbia.edu/alumni/alumni-weekend-2011.

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SUMMARY OF THE EVENT (MORE INFO AT GSAPP WEBSITE)

ALUMNI KEYNOTE LECTURE:

Howard Slatkin '00MsUP, Director of Sustainability for the Department of City Planning, New York

Introduction by Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP

PANEL DISCUSSIONS:

1. Urban Infrastructure: Contemporary Investigations into City Politics, Futures, and Preservation

Kate Ascher, Adjunct Professor at the Wagner School at NYU

Styliani Daouti '05MsAAD, Founder and Principal at AREA (Architecture Research Athens)

Craig Dykers, Senior Partner/Director/Architect, Snohetta

Robert Lane '82M.Arch, Senior Fellow for Urban Design at Regional Planning Association; Partner, Plan & Process LLP

Deike Peters '95MsUP, Director, Urban Mega-Projects Research Group, Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin and Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC

Seth Pinsky, President, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Moderator: David King, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University

AND

2. Communications Infrastructure: How New Media is Changing the Nature of Public Space

David Benjamin '05M.Arch, Director of the Living Architecture Lab, GSAPP

Frank Hebbert, Product Manager, Community Planning Tools, OpenPlans

Daniel Kidd '09M.Arch, Designer/Project Leader, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

Kazys Varnelis, Director of the Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University

Shin-pei Tsay, director of the Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moderator: Troy Conrad Therrien, Creative Digital Consultant, Bruce Mau Designs

AND

3. Education Infrastructure: Discussing New York City’s Biggest Developers of Mind and Land

Maxine Griffith, Executive Vice President for Government and Community Affairs at Columbia University and Special Advisor for Campus Planning, Columbia University

Eve Klein, Associate Vice President for Planning and Design, New York University

Philip Pitruzzello, Vice President, Manhattanville Construction, Columbia University

Meghan Moore-Wilk, Director of Space Planning and Capital Budget, CUNY

Moderator: Carol Loewenson, Partner, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects, LLP

TOURS:

Tour NYC infrastructure: Bring your friends!

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

Gowanus Canal

Croton Aqueduct

Grand Central Station Terminal

NOTES:

NEW THIS YEAR: CES/Continuing Education Credits will be offered for Saturday’s panels!

We will have alumni work displayed digitally on Saturday, April 16th. Please share images of your current work! The submission instructions are below:

» Please submit 3 images maximum, in TIFF or JPEG format.Minimum size is 5" x 7" at 200dpi, RGB color.

» Please keep your images below 5 mb each if sending by e-mail, otherwise submit them on a cd at under 10 mb each and send the cd by mail.

» You MUST name your files with the following format: Firstname_Lastname_program_year_01.tif,...02.tif, etc. (ie: Lindsay_Dorrance_AAD_81_01.tif)

» Be sure to provide the name and location of the work.

Please send your work to:

LD2282@columbia.edu

GSAPP Alumni Weekend 2011

Attention: Lindsay Dorrance

404 Avery Hall

1172 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10027

Images will be shown looped in a display during the weekend. Some images may be edited or cropped for space. Improperly formatted images will not be used.

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Article / Winner in "Place Lalla Yeddouna" Competition in Fez, Morocco Announced by Commune Urbaine de Fes

2011-03-23T00:00:00Z

Morocco, Fez: March 19th, 2011:

The winner of the International Design Project Competition for the Rehabilitation of Place Lalla Yeddouna in the Medina of Fes has just been identified: Mossessian & Partners, London/UK.

Task

The aim of the project is to revitalize Place Lalla Yeddouna, a public square and surrounding buildings at a central crossroads in the Medina of Fez, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. The key objective is to revitalize the site and its surroundings, adapting modern distinctive architecture into an area that is full of tradition, vibrancy and functional diversity. Physically the site comprises small alleyways, a nicely shaped square with a tree, a river, a bridge dating from the 14th and 15th Century, some dilapidated buildings that will be replaced and others that are historically and architecturally significant and will be rehabilitated. In the future the area of Place Lalla Yeddouna shall serve as a vibrant mixeduse urban hub for the community as well as visitors to the Medina. The site is expected to become a major catalyst for artisan development, with spaces for educational programs, residences, artisan production, shops, restaurants, cafés and other services. The new complex must support activities for youth and adults.

Competition Procedure

Between August and October 2010, approximately 1,400 architects from all over the world registered at the Competition website and expressed their interest in the project. Delegations from more than 100 architectural firms visited the site on September 30, 2010. At the beginning of November 2010, approximately 175 competition entries had been submitted anonymously. In December 2010 the international jury, including representatives of the Prime Ministers’ Office, the Ministry of Culture, the “Secrétariat d’État chargé de l’Artisanat”, the “Wilaya de la Région Fès Boulemane », the “Commune Urbaine de Fès” and the “Commune Urbaine Méchouar Fès Jdid” and the Conseil National de l’Ordre des Architectes du Maroc selected the eight projects with the greatest potential for further development in the second phase of the competition – the finalists. These eight participants were sponsored to carry out the second phase of the competition.

Decision

On March 18, 2011, the jury chose the winner after an intense and open discussion. It was decided to allocate the following prizes, according to the competition rules:

1st prize: USD 55,000 Mossessian & Partners, London/UK Michel Mossessian with Yassir Khalil Studio, Casablanca/Morocco Yassir Khalil

2nd prize: USD 40,000 Ferretti-Marcelloni, Rome/Italy, Laura Valeria Ferretti, Maurizio Marcelloni and Bahia Nouh, Fez/Morocco

3rd prize: USD 25,000 Moxon Architects, London/UK Ben Addy with Aime Kakon, Casablanca/Morocco

Recommendation

The jury unanimously recommends the promoter of the competition to commission the team of authors of the project that was awarded the first prize with the services as stated in the competition brief.

Jury Members

The jury was composed of notable and experienced international architects with qualifications in Islamic architecture, the Medina of Fez, cultural and historic preservation, urban design, landscape architecture and project feasibility, as well as officials representing the Moroccan authorities and Ambassador Samuel L. Kaplan of the United States of America. The jury was supported by a number of local and international technical, environmental experts and social specialists.

The competition was managed by [phase eins]., Berlin (Germany).

Exhibition

An exhibition of all design proposals of both phases opens free of charge at the Palais des Congrès in Fez on March 20, 2011 at 8 p.m.. The exhibition will run until Wednesday, March 30, 2011 and is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 8 p.m. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

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Article / eVolo 2011 Competition Winners Announced by eVolo Magazine

2011-03-10T00:00:00Z

eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose

ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.

The Jury of the 2011 edition was formed by leaders of the architecture and design fields including: Juan Azulay [principal Matter Management, professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture], CarloMaria Ciampoli [port director Live Architecture Network], Mario Cipresso [principal Studio Shift, professor at University of Southern California], Ted Givens [principal 10 Design], Eric Goldemberg [principal Monad Studio, professor at Florida International University], Jose Gonzalez [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute], John Hill [editor Archidose], Mitchell Joachim [principal Terreform

One, professor at New York University], Andrew Liang [principal Studio 0.10., professor at University of Southern California], Javier Quintana [principal Taller Basico de Arquitectura, Dean of IE School of Architecture], Rezza Rahdian [Architect, Second Place 2009 Skyscraper Competition], Michel Rojkind [principal Rojkind Arquitectos], and Michael Szivos [principal Softlab, professor at Pratt Institute]. The Jury selected 3 winners and 32 honorable mentions. eVolo Magazine received 715 projects from all five continents and 95 different countries.

The first place was awarded to Atelier CMJN (Julien Combes, Gaël Brulé) from France for their ‘LO2P Recycling Skyscraper’ in New Delhi, India. The project is designed as a large-scale wind turbine that filters polluted air with a series of particle collector membranes, elevated greenhouses, and mineralization baths.

The second place was awarded to Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, and Xavier Schirr-Bonnans from France for a dome-like horizontal skyscraper that harvests solar energy, collects rainwater, and preserves the existing urban fabric at ground level thanks to its large skylights and small footprint. The recipient of the third place is Yheu-Shen Chua from the United Kingdom for a project that re-imagines the Hoover Dam in the U.S. as an inhabitable skyscraper that unifies the power plant with a gallery, aquarium, and viewing platform that engages the falling water directly.

Among the honorable mentions there are “waterscrapers” that clean oil spills and desalinate sea water, inverted skyscrapers for a floating Olympic villa, recycling towers, research skyscrapers that harvest lightning power, vertical cemeteries and amusement parks, sports skyscrapers, fish farms, and “living mountains” for desert climates. Other proposals use the latest building technologies and parametric design to configure environmentally conscious self-sufficient buildings.

eVolo Magazine would like to acknowledge all the competitors for their effort, vision, and passion for architectural innovation and the members of the Jury for their knowledge, time, and enthusiasm during the long review process.

eVolo Magazine is also pleased to announce the publication of a Limited Edition book (only 500 copies) that celebrates the sixth anniversary of the prestigious international Skyscraper Competition. With more than 3,000 projects received, we are showcasing the best 300 proposals from the past six years, including 2011, in a large-format hardcover book. Our goal is to edit a true gem of contemporary architecture printed in over one-thousand full-color pages.

For more information and to view all the winning and honorable mention receiving entries, visit http://www.evolo.us/category/2011/.

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / The New Holmenkollen Ski Jump by JDS Architects

2011-02-23T00:00:00Z

Press Release:

Along with Wimbledon’s All England Club and the Wembly Arena, Holmenkollen Ski Jump is often cited as one of the world’s most recognizable sports facility. Nevertheless it is one of the smallest hills in the World Cup tournament, and in September 2005, the International Ski Federation decided that the current hill does not meet the standards to award the city the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. In December 2005 Norway’s Directorate of Cultural Heritage approved the demolition of the ski jump and in April 2007 the Oslo municipality announced an open international competition for a new ski jump. JDS Architects based in Copenhagen and led by Belgian-French Julien De Smedt, beat out 103 other firms and was awarded the commission the following year.

Working closely with city officials, JDSA established an office in the capital and collaborated with Norwegian engineering firm, Norconsult, to bring to fruition their elegant serpentine form that will become a beacon for the city and a new showcase for the sport of ski jumping. Rather than having a series of dispersed pavilions on site, their design unifies the various amenities into one holistic diagram. The judges booths, the commentators, the trainers, the royal family, the VIPs, the wind screens, the circulations, the lobby, the entrance to the arena and the arena itself, the lounge for the skiers, the souvenir shop, the access to the existing museum, the viewing public square at the very top, everything, is contained into the shape of the jump. The resulting simplicity of the solution improves the experience of the spectators and brings clear focus to the skiers.

The ski jump is clad in aluminum and glass and rises 58 meters in the air. It cantilevers an impressive 69 meters and on the first day of jumping tests; the record of the longest jump made at Holmenkollen was broken.

Atop the ski jump is a platform where visitors can take in some of the most breathtaking views of Oslo, the fjord and the region beyond. It’s a new form of public space, using an unlikely architectural form as its host, affording the same spectacular vantage point for everyone who comes to Holmenkollen. The Lonely Planet agrees, the travel publication recently declared the new Holmenkollen Ski Jump as one of the ten top destinations to visit in 2011.

More information at JDS Architects.

Posted By Mario Cipresso

Article / Interboro Partners Winner Of 2011 MOMA PS1 Young Architects by MOMA New York

2011-02-17T00:00:00Z

Press Release:

NEW YORK, February 16, 2011—The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, and the National Museum of XXI Century Arts of Rome announce Interboro Partners of Brooklyn, NY, as the winner of the 12th annual Young Architects Program in New York, and start, of Rome, as the winner of the first annual YAP_MAXXI Young Architects Program in Rome. Now in its 12th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop highly innovative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. For the first time, MoMA and MoMA PS1 are partnering with another institution, MAXXI in Rome, to create the first international edition of the Young Architects Program. Interboro Partners, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2011 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard. stARTT has been chosen from among five European finalists to create an innovative event space in the MAXXI piazza. Both installations will open in June.

Interboro Partners’ Holding Pattern brings an eclectic collection of objects including benches, mirrors, ping-pong tables, and floodlights, all disposed under a very elegant and taut canopy of rope strung from MoMA PS1’s wall to the parapet across the courtyard. Creating an unobstructed space, the design incorporates for the first time the entire space of MoMA PS1’s courtyard under a single grand structure, while creating an environment focusing on the audience as much as the Warm Up performance. A key component of the theme is recycling; objects in the space will be donated to the community at the conclusion of the summer. The designers met with local businesses and organizations including a taxi cab company, senior and day care centers, high schools, settlement houses, the local YMCA, library, and a greenmarket to determine what components of their installation could be used by those organizations following the Warm Up summer music series. Incorporating objects that can subsequently be used by these organizations is a means of strengthening MoMA PS1’s ties to the local Long Island City community.

The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were FormlessFinder (New Haven, CT/Brooklyn, NY, Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi), MASS Design Group (Boston, MA, Michael Murphy), Matter Architecture Practice (Brooklyn, NY, Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger), and IJP (London/Cambridge, MA, George L. Legendre). An exhibition of the five finalists' proposed projects as well as YAP_MAXXI’s five finalists’ proposed projects will be on view at MoMA over the summer. It will be organized by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Whitney May, Department Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

Mr. Bergdoll explains, “Simple materials that transform a space to create a kind of public living room and rec room are trademarks of this young Brooklyn firm. Interboro is interested in creating elegant and unpretentious spaces with common materials. Their work has both a modesty and a commitment quite at odds with the luxury and complex computer-generated form that has prevailed in the city in recent years. With a few gestures they transform parts of the city to achieve new temporary atmospheres and attract new participants.”

Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large, adds, “MoMA PS1 is very excited about the innovative architecture of Interboro, which describes the famous MoMA PS1 courtyard as one architectural volume, especially since the YAP 2011 opening will coincide with the much anticipated opening of the new MoMA PS1 entrance kiosk by Andrew Berman Architects."

WHATAMI by stARTT is based on the manufacturing of an artificial archipelago-hill, generating smaller green areas in the garden and potentially outside the museum. The hill works as a garden, injecting “green” into the concrete plateau of the museum’s outdoor space, allowing it to serve as a stage and/or parterre for concerts and other events, or as a space to rest and look at the museum itself. The artificial landscape will be punctuated by large “flowers” providing light, shadow, water, and sound. The materials proposed for the installation involve a two-fold recycling process, the supplying of the materials for the construction (straw, geo-textile, plastic) and the dismantling of the “hill” (turf, lighting).

Opened in May 2010, MAXXI was designed by Zaha Hadid and awarded Royal Institute of British Architect’s (RIBA) Stirling Prize for architecture, and has already gained a place among the elite international contemporary art and architecture museums. The other YAP_MAXXI finalists were Raffaella De Simone/Valentina Mandalari (Palermo); Ghigos Ideas (Lissone/Mi, Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete and Francesco Tosi); Asif Khan (London, United Kingdom); and Langarita Navarro Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain, María Langarita and Víctor Navarro).

Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator of Architecture at MAXXI, explains, “We’re very happy with the results of this program for three main reasons. First, the collaboration with MoMA proved as effective and productive as we hoped, finally allowing us a surprising insight into the most recent research in terms of architecture, public space, and landscape. Second, we were able to discover an unexpected positive quality of answers by the

Italian and European young (under 35) architects involved in the project, all proposing fascinating, innovative and well developed proposals. Third, we’re delighted that we were able to choose a winning proposal which incorporates a MAXXI_specific approach to the issues of ecology, recycle, and public space.”

http://www.interboropartners.net

http://ps1.org/

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Article / BOOM: A Bold New Community by BOOM Communities

2011-02-15T00:00:00Z

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boom is a new, master-planned community rising in the spectacular desert surrounding Palm Springs. At a cost of over $250 million, it changes America's idea of urban life. The brainchild of ten international architects, boom was conceived for the gay community but readily extends its embrace to all. boom is pedestrianoriented, culture-driven, and designed to inspire its residents to better themselves and others.

The architects range from the well-known - Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York - to such emerging stars as the Berlin-based Juergen Mayer H. Coordinating the project is Matthias Hollwich, of hollwich kushner in New York. The developer is boom Communities, Inc., a Los Angeles-based, real estate investment company formed in 1959.

The first phase of construction starts in 2012. 300 residences will be built in eight unique neighborhoods, each designed by a different architect. Pathways and plazas, set in a landscaped desert environment, connect to the social and geographic heart of boom: the entertainment complex, a boutique hotel, the gym+spa, and boom's wellness center. The health and wellness services cater to the health needs of all generations. Upon completion of Phase 2, boom will expand to over 700 residences.

boom is more than a revolution in design. In the twenty-first century, urbanism is not created by cutting-edge architecture alone. Social and communal engagement are vital. With www.boomforlife.com, designed by the renowned Bruce Mau Design, boom is growing its community online - now. This use of a website is ground-breaking when it comes to a new architectural project. Social media is being utilized to move participants from a virtual community to one constructed out of bricks and mortar.

The website allows boom's design team to collaborate with prospective residents, incorporating their ideas into the design of the boom community. These 'crowd sourcing' efforts also encourage boom members to shape the social programs and lifestyle for boom. When construction is completed, boom will already be a vibrant and functioning community.

See more at Architizer, http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/boom/17638/

Posted By Mario Cipresso

Article / BIG Wins Competition to Design National Gallery of Greenland by BIG, TNT Nuuk, Ramboll Nuuk

2011-02-10T00:00:00Z

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BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.

Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland’s fjords, the 3000 m2 National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen?Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.

As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three?dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum’s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.

“The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and visually in harmony with the dramatic nature, just like life in Greenland is a symbiosis of the nature. We have created a simple, functional and symbolic shape, where the perfect circle is supplied by the local topography which creates a unique hybrid between the abstract shape and the specific location”, Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Partner, BIG.

The slope opens up the sculpture garden towards the city and the view, framing both the sculpture garden and museum functions. A rough looking external façade of white concrete will patina over time and adjust to the local weather, while the circular inner glass façade will consist of a simple and refined frame which contrasts the rough nature and compliments the beautiful view.

” The building will with its simplistic coarseness and harmony with the landscape become a symbol of the current independent Greenlandic artistic and architectural expression.”, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner & Project Leader, BIG.

The circular shape of the gallery enables a flexible division of the exhibition into different shapes and sizes, creating a unique framework for the museum’s art. Visitor access to the exhibition happens through a covered opening created by a slight lift in the façade into a lobby with a 180 degree panorama view towards the sculpture garden and the fjord as well as access to the common museum functions, including ticket counters, wardrobe, boutique and a café. The new gallery will create more activity at the waterfront by attracting the whole area is interconnected by a path which like the museum, forms after the shifting inclinations of the terrain. The locals and visitors will be able to admire the clear shape of the gallery which appears as a sculpture or a piece of land?art.

“Greenland National Gallery for Art will play a significant role for the citizens of Greenland and the inhabitants of Nuuk as a cultural, social, political, urban and architectural focal point that opens towards the city and the world through its perfect circular geometry and shape”, Bjarke Ingels, Stifter & Partner, BIG.

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Been Laid Off? The Easiest Way to Reinvent Yourself by Cardsofchange.com

2011-02-09T00:00:00Z

Over the last 3 years we have seen many of our colleagues laid off as a result of the massive recession or maybe it was you. No profession or field was left unaffected and no profession was hit harder than architecture. Some estimates have the unemployment rate for architects at as much as 25 percent! Crazy times. But good times always follow crazy times.

Cardsofchange.com wants you to make the best of a bad situation. They want you to take that huge stack of leftover business cards from your last employer, grab your writing utensil of choice and use it as a canvas for reinvention. Upload it to the site and let the transformation begin.

There are some very clever submissions that should prompt a chuckle or two. So, even if you are still employed, it's definitely worth a look. Just don't let your boss catch you browsing the site at the office, otherwise the markups you make will be on your old business card.

CARDSOFCHANGE.COM

Review by Mario Cipresso

Article / Provisional-Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice USA by Edited by Elite Kedan, Jon Dreyfous and Craig Mutter

2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Timing is everything, so they say and this book arrives on shelves at a moment in time when the future of architectural practice is in question on the covers of the two premier architectural journals in the United States. Architectural Record queries, "What Now?". Architect magazine posits "What's Next?" Under the soul-crushing pressure of the GFC (Global Financial Crisis, the best acronym I've heard for the recession) the architecture profession has apparently been sent reeling and just now appears to be regaining some of its footing with reports of increased architectural billings nationwide. The discussion centers around the current, unsustainable model of practice that has been serving unsustainable building and development practices worldwide.

Seeking that new form of architectural practice is the book, 'Provisional'. Composed of a series of interviews taking place largely between 2005 and 2008, Provisional profiles nine architects/firms practicing in various capacities within the broader field of architecture. The firms are a blend of established practices and some relative newcomers. Of the several common themes that appear to tie the practices together, those at the forefront are an interest in hands-on investigation, a willingness to take on responsibility with regards to fabrication and construction and experimentation with emerging technologies and software that leads to the creation of the digital tools of architecture themselves.

The interviews are all quite unique in that each architect comes at the topic from a different background and perspective which I found quite valuable in that it reveals moments of transition and revelation at different points in their careers. A worthwhile read for emerging and well-seasoned practitioners, you'll come away with a notion of how your ideal architectural practice might operate..... then you'll just have to find some work to test your ideas!

Review by Mario Cipresso