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Competition / International Competition of Landscape and Functional Design for Substations in Guangzhou / Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau

Death by Architecture — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I. Background

Guangzhou is a millennial commercial capital with 130-year history of electricity use. The city is widely known for its practical, pioneering, open and inclusive mindset, while it is the common wish of all citizens to promote the green and coordinated urban development and facilitate the harmony and coexistence between human and nature.

Power grid serves as the large artery in the city’s power supply network to inject strong development impetus into the city. The power supply infrastructures, as the city’s energy arteries, have expanded continuously along with the urban development, winding through historical alleyways and connecting trendy commercial circles. Substations, as hearts of the power grid, are expected to not only facilitate electrical distribution, but also reflect the environment-friendly concepts of urban architecture.

In this context, Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau jointly launch the International Competition of Landscape and Functional Design for Substations in Guangzhou (the Competition). By establishing a world-class design competition platform, the Competition intends to solicit excellent landscape and functional design proposals from renowned design institutes, design masters, as well as individuals both at home and abroad, so as to create urban landmarks through design of artistic level and better integrate the landscape and functional design of the substations with the urban development of Guangzhou. We look forward to witnessing the perfect integration of mechanics and aesthetics in the Competition, so we could make meticulous efforts to promote the urban construction, enhance the city’s function as the core engine for the GBA development, and boost the city’s initiatives in revitalizing the historical districts and making new progresses in four aspects (urban functions, soft power, modern services and business environment).

II. Organization

The Competition is co-hosted by Guangzhou Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and Guangzhou Power Supply Bureau.

The Committee of International Competition of Landscape and Functional Design for Substations in Guangzhou (hereinafter referred to as the “Competition Committee”) is set up as the decision-making body of the Competition. It organizes, coordinates, and renders guidance, supervision and inspection for the Competition, handles disputes relating to the Competition, and make decisions for key matters of the Competition.

III. Participant Categories

With three participant categories, namely “Design Masters”, “Professional” and “General Public”, the Competition intends to solicit landscape and functional design proposals for selected substations from global participants.

The Design Masters Category invites teams of academicians, fellows, or international architectural design masters who have won the Pritzker Architecture Prize to design one designated substation, and each substation will be provided with two design proposals for evaluation. By now, six design masters have been invited to the Competition, namely CAE academicians He Jingtang, Wang Jianguo, Cui Kai, and Meng Jianmin; Arata Isozaki, winner of the Pulitzer Prize + Hu Qian, and Philip Cox, RIBA International Fellow, AIA Honorary Fellow and RAIA Life Fellow.

The Professional Category is open to the registration of Chinese and international design organizations. Eligible design organizations shall, by the registration deadline, submit registration materials and conceptual proposals for two enlisted substations (See Appendix 1). Hosts of the Competition will, in view of their comprehensive strength, proposed project team, concept proposals and etc., select design organizations to participate in the Competition. The shortlisted participants are required to design the substations designated by the Hosts, including the existing or new ones in CBD, the waterfronts or academic areas of the city.

The General Public Category is open to the registration of organizations or individuals from home and abroad, including design institutes, universities and etc. No limitation is set on number of participants in this category. Participants need to select substation(s) out of the ten designated by the Hosts (See Appendix 2) for design.

IV. Work Contents and Detailing Level

(I) Design Masters Category

For each substation, individuals or organizations under the Design Masters Category are required to conduct designs including location and environment analysis, design concept and planning (including the naming of substation), overall functional design, master planning, architectural design (including façade and functional layout while excluding electrical design), outdoor space and garden, construction/operation/maintenance cost narratives, representation of design effect, etc. In particular, a standardized design approach is encouraged for the façade design, so that practical and cost-effective design components and combination methods could be worked out to create “standardized design products” that are easy for duplication.

The design deliverables should be detailed to the architectural and landscape SD level, and should include design narratives, drawings, display boards, multimedia presentation file within 2 minutes, and 1:200-1:500 physical model. The specific requirements are subject to the design brief of the Competition.

(II) Professional Category

Design institutes registered under the Professional Category need to select two substations from the given list (see Appendix 1) to prepare conceptual proposal according to relevant design requirements. The design contents include but are not limited to the design concept analysis (including the naming of substation), the overall spatial intent, and other contents that can show the highlights and features of the design proposal. Design documents for each substation is no more than 5 pages. The Competition Committee will select 15 design institutes as competition participants under this category based on comprehensive review on the submitted conceptual proposals.

Each participant under the Professional Category conducts design for two to four substations in a group of substations designated by the Hosts, and submits one proposal for each substation. A total of three participants will provide designs for each group of substations.

The design contents of each substation include location and environment analysis, design concept and planning (including the naming of substation), overall functional design, master planning, architectural design (including façade and functional layout while excluding electrical design), outdoor space and garden, construction/operation/maintenance cost narratives, representation of design effect, etc. In particular, a standardized design approach is encouraged for the façade design, so that practical and cost-effective design components and combination methods could be worked out to create “standardized design products” that are easy for duplication.

The submitted proposal should be detailed to the architectural and landscape SD level, and the deliverables should include design narratives, drawings, display boards, multimedia presentation file within 2 minutes for each substation, and 1:200-1:500 physical model, with specific design requirements subject to the technical documents of the Competition.

(III) General Public Category

Each participant selects project(s) out of the ten substations (see Appendix 2) designated by the Host and conduct conceptual design accordingly. The design mainly presents the creative ideas, while deliverables include design narratives, drawings and display boards.

V. Rewards

(I) Design Masters Category

Individuals or organizations under the Design Masters Category whose deliverables are submitted as required by the Design Brief, meet the design requirements of the Competition as reviewed and are implementable will receive design fee for the design of each substation in view of the type of the substation. Each built substation will have the designer’s name (individuals or organization) appear on its name plate.

(II) Professional Category

1. Cost compensation: The competition participants from the Professional Category whose deliverables are submitted as required by the technical documents and meet the requirement of the Competition as reviewed will receive the cost compensation for the design of each substation in view of the type of the substation, and those whose deliverables fail the technical review or are invalid will not receive the cost compensation.

VI. Schedule

The Competition will last from January 2021 to June 2021.

(I) Professional Category

January 21, 2021: Release of Pre-announcement

February 7, 2021: Release of official announcement

March 7, 2021: Deadline for registration and start of participant shortlisting

March 12, 2021: Release of technical documents to shortlisted participants, Q&A and site visit

May 20, 2021: Submission of design proposals

Late May, 2021: Technical review & proposal evaluation meeting

June, 2021: Announcement of competition result

(II) General Public Category

January 21, 2021: Release of Pre-announcement

February 7, 2021: Release of official announcement

March 12, 2021: Release of technical documents

April 30, 2021: Deadline for registration and submission of design proposals

Early May, 2021: Online voting

Late May, 2021: Proposal evaluation meeting

June, 2021: Announcement of competition result

Note: All time and dates are subject to Beijing Time. The Hosts or Organizer reserves the right to change the above schedule.

VII. Means of Competition

(I) Professional Category

1. Registration Requirements

(1) No professional qualification threshold is set for the registration of the Competition.

(2) Design institutes from the Chinese Mainland must be independent legal entities, and those from the outside of the Chinese Mainland must be design offices legally registered in the corresponding country/region.

(3) For different institutes with one same legal representative (including its wholly-owned subsidiaries and its holding company), only one is allowed to register for the Competition.

(4) Registration in name of consortium is acceptable, while each consortium should have no more than two members.

2. Means of Registration

Interested parties shall send the completed registration form duly signed and affixed with the corporate seal (see Appendix 3), commercial documents (see Appendix 5) and conceptual design proposals (see Appendix 1) to the email address designated for Professional Category by the deadline, and mail the hardcopies of such documents (signed and stamped with the corporate seal) to the Hosts by the deadline.

3. Deadline for Registration

Registration will be closed at 17:00pm, March 7, 2021 (Beijing Time). Late submission will be rejected.

(II) General Public Category

1. Registration Requirements

Registration in name of design institute, individual or team is acceptable, with a maximum of five persons for the professional credit of each design proposal.

2. Means of Registration

Interested parties shall send the duly completed and signed application form (see Appendix 4) to the email address for General Public Category by the deadline.

3. Deadline for Registration

Registration will be closed at 17:00pm, April 30, 2021 (Beijing Time). Late submission will be rejected.

VIII. Other Matters

All documents and correspondence relating to this Competition are written in Chinese or English.

The laws of the People’s Republic of China are applicable to the Competition and the relevant documentation.

The Hosts and Organizer shall own the intellectual property rights of the design deliverables related to the Competition (excluding “standardized design products”), and all participants enjoy the professional credit of such design deliverables, as well as the intellectual property rights of “standardized design products” (typical design). Where the “standardized design products” will be applied to other substations, the details of IP rights and service means are subject to separate design contract to be entered by and between the Hosts and the participants.

The Competition solicits conceptual design and involves no statutory planning or land requisition. The subsequent project implementation is subject to legal procedures and approvals.

Any inconsistency between this official announcement and the design brief or technical documents is subject to the latter two.

IX. Contacts

Email for Professional Category: GZICDS@163.com

Email for General Public Category: GZICDSPUB@163.com

Address: F6, Annexe of Guangdong Machinery Building, 185 Yuehua Lu, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Contact: Mr. Luo and Mr. Deng

Phone: 020-83647079, 020-22099922

More information at link below with download code: 7ipk
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1tcxggNiaezBL2PKoZAQzcQ

Competition / The NG200 Project Design Team Selection Process / Malcolm Reading Consultants

Death by Architecture — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:30:29 GMT

The National Gallery is seeking a multi-disciplinary design team to work with it on a suite of capital projects to mark its bicentenary, its 200th anniversary, with an initial phase to be opened in 2024. The NG200 Project will enable the National Gallery to redefine its visitor experience – improving the ‘welcome’ the Gallery provides to its millions of visitors so that this lives up to the quality of its collection – considered by many the most perfect in the world. The design brief focuses on the entrance spaces in the Grade I Listed Sainsbury Wing and also includes the creation of a new Research Centre in the main Wilkins Building, and reimagining the relationship between the Gallery and the public realm. This two-stage selection process will identify an exceptional design team who can work with the Gallery to develop an architectural vision and conceptual approach to a phased five-year programme of works. The first stage is an open, international call for architect-led, multi-disciplinary design teams to demonstrate their relevant skills and experience. The deadline for first stage responses is 14:00 GMT Thursday 18 March 2021.

Competition / ADFF:2020 / Eventbrite

Death by Architecture — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:30:16 GMT

The Architecture & Design Film Festival is coming to a screen near you with a two-week long virtual festival! From November 19-December 3, ADFF:2020 - presented by Eventscape - will take viewers on an uplifting journey around the world with 17 virtual film programs highlighting some of the world's most iconic architects & designers like Paul R. Williams, Alvar Aalto, Albert Frey, and more. During the two-week period, attendees will also enjoy director Q&As and introductions with special guests like starchitect Bjarke Ingels, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli, and internationally-acclaimed filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine. The film programs can be watched on any streaming device within the US and Canada. Tickets are available now at adfilmfest.com.

Competition / Atlanta Legacy Makers / Central Atlanta Progress, City of Atlanta

Death by Architecture — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:25:10 GMT

Central Atlanta Progress, in partnership with the City of Atlanta, has issued a call for architecture and design firms, artists and urbanists, to submit proposals for a landmark project on the north plaza of Atlanta’s Woodruff Park. The project, Atlanta Legacy Makers, will honor the leadership of two pivotal mayors while creating public space that reaffirms our commitment to Dr. King’s dream of the Beloved Community. We envision public space that journeys from historical narrative around Mayors Ivan Allen, Jr. and Maynard Jackson, Jr. to a monumental work of contemporary art that reflects our highest aspirations for our city. Please go to atlantalegacymakers.com for Call for Proposals, Curatorial Committee, podcast series, and background information.

Competition / BERKELEY PRIZE / Ray Lifchez

Death by Architecture — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:24:47 GMT

The BERKELEY PRIZE offers the opportunity for undergraduate architecture students to participate in a yearly Essay competition. Those who advance are invited to submit a proposal for a Travel Fellowship. The Prize cycle launches in mid-September.

Competition / International Design Studio / Poch? Studio

Death by Architecture — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:24:28 GMT

The inaugural edition of Poché International Design Studios begins with Alter Ego, a studio problem situated on a site stretching from the New Delhi’s Central Vista to the banks of the Yamuna. This will be the site for a city for everyone. Guided by seven renowned instructors each bringing a different perspective, the design process will also be stimulated by The Pochè Conversations: a series of 15 lectures by artist, writers, environmentalists, historians, sociologist amongst others who will share ideas of a city from their perspectives. The studio will encourage dialogue and exploration of varied perspectives, positions, and speculations giving voice to a creative and energetic life emerging out of the messy everydayness of social patterns, economic activity, and cultural expressions. This is the alter ego of the city of symbols and icons, more inclusive, less violent, and far more sympathetic to nature. Poché shows the way for an online platform for a design studio, talks and discussion replete with the assimilation of online tools such as Slack®, Zoom® and BIM360®. Participants will not only engage in a collaborative space from across the globe but also establish new ways of thinking and working together online. See their website www.thepoche.org for more details

Competition / IAAC GLOBAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2020 ONLINE WORKSHOPS / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Death by Architecture — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:24:09 GMT

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to launch the Global Summer School 2020 (GSS20), the 13th edition of the international summer educational program focused on redesigning the future of our cities. The programme will take place online from IAAC Barcelona from June 29 through July 24. This year the GSS20 is presenting a unique online experience interconnecting its extraordinary network of faculty, industry collaborators, nodes and laboratories in the biggest online educational summer course ever done before. Since the very first editions, we have been digitally connected, meeting, sharing, learning together in an incredible global environment of innovators and educators. IAAC decided to present a novel, flexible model, enriching our digital routes within a new format. The GSS will offer 4 online courses exploring at different scales the impact of novel tools in the definition of a new Advanced Architecture. The programme is an opportunity for architecture, design, arts students and professionals alike to conduct multi-level investigation on Computational Design, Ai Urbanism & Machine Learning, Building Information Modelling and Design for Robotics - controlling IAAC robots from their home. This new program will be a celebration of alternative models and future education dealing with the challenges of the new world transforming our cities, architecture and technology. Each participant can now trace a personal path in this dynamic format, picking a single GSS course or enrolling for the entire program. Every module will be run by IAAC faculties, allowing students to interact, work together, develop projects and participate in Global Lectures meeting IAAC international experts and guests. “Programs such as IAAC’s Global Summer School have never been more important than they are now,” said Aldo Sollazzo, director of the Global Summer School at IAAC. “The world is in severe need of new minds in architecture to solve the humanitarian problems that threaten us. We at IAAC created the Global Summer School in order to provide the budding minds of the architecture field with the tools they need to address these problems.” The previous edition of GSS19 “Becoming” brought together more than 160 international participants, and was a great success as an explorative summer educational program. Students interested in participating need to submit an application here by 25th June, 2020. Join the biggest educational summer program ever done before! Learn more about the GSS20: http://globalschool.iaac.net/ Apply to the program here: gss.flywire.com Follow the latest GSS news on : > GSS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iaac.gss/ > GSS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iaacgss/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/CPKiwmUSa00

Competition / PLAYHOUSE Competition / Playground, Ben Clark Design and Barney Ibbotson

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:48:04 GMT

PLAYHOUSE Competition Hacking the home to make play part of everyday (a) Competition Overview Play is an essential part of all our lives, whether child or adult. Be it playing sports, a board game or simply sharing jokes with friends, play is just as important to adults as building a den or playing dress-up is to a child. The Coronavirus outbreak has left many of us having to spend extended periods of time at home in lockdown, restricting the opportunity to socialise and play in ways that we are used to. How can we use creativity to encourage play at these unique times? (b) The Brief To design something that will enable people to play at home during lockdown. Your design could make an existing everyday activity playful, provide a break from work, or make work more fun. It could recreate some form of existing outdoor play inside the house, create a whole new type of game, or do something entirely different to create play! It could be for adults or children, and enable a person to play alone, with their family or housemates, or even with their neighbours or friends far away. Your design should only use objects commonly found in the house, garden or shed in its construction or as props. It could make play inside or outside the house (in the garden) or even on the house itself! Your design only needs to hypothetically work. Humour, whimsy and innovation are all encouraged! (c) Inspiration sources and examples For inspiration, you might consider the different types of play that exist. • Intellectual play: Solving mental mind games for pleasure. e.g. doing a board game. • Social play: Interacting with others through playful scenarios. e.g going to the pub or play-fighting. • Active play: Moving all or part of the body, to actively induce a playful state of mind. e.g going swimming • Extreme play: Using extreme scenarios or conditions to induce a range of emotions resulting in pleasure. e.g skateboarding. • Exploratory play: Using your senses to experience the world around you. e.g exploring the woods. • Imaginative play: Inventing scenarios in your imagination, and sometimes acting them out. e.g playing shop. • Creative play: Creating something new, for pleasure. e.g painting a picture • Frivolous play: Undertaking small and simple acts that induce a playful sensibility e.g. playing a prank. You might also find inspiration in the work of: Heath Robinson, Rube Goldberg or Japanese Chindogu. Some examples of designs created around the house might be: • House maze By using the furniture available in each room, siblings could create a maze that runs the length and height of the house for each other; changing the winning route each hour. • Washing line stories By making a makeshift pulley system from washing lines, bike wheels and clothes pegs, stories could be written on paper and pulled back and forth to be shared between neighbours. • Knights of the kitchen table Using implements only found in the kitchen cupboards; bored homeworkers could have a contest for the best knight costume. (d) Submission requirements One or two A3 sheets (landscape or portrait) explaining your design. Your files should be saved as a high-resolution (300dpi) PDF (Max 25MB) and should show an image or set of images of your design in use. This could be an illustration, a 2D/3D technical drawing, a photo of a model, an animation, a mix of these, or anything in between! You may want to add annotations, dimensions, construction information, or zoom in on parts of your idea to help us understand how it might work. The more detail, the better. In addition to your sheets please include with your submission: • Your name, social media handles and portfolio/website link. (So we can promote your work!) • The name of your design. Make it snappy! • 300 words explaining your design. • A kit list of objects/materials needed to create your design. Please email your submission to: hello@playgrounddesignstudio.com with the subject title ‘PLAYHOUSE competition’. Work can be done by hand but needs to be digitally submitted (please don’t send us anything by post!). The competition is free to enter and open to creatives from all disciplines both in the UK and abroad. Submissions can be from an individual or a team effort (no limit on team sizes!) (e) Submission Deadlines First wave of submissions by 6pm Friday 24th April 2020 to be featured in May. Second wave by 6pm Friday 22nd May 2020 to be featured in June. (f) Competition Outcome A selection of the best submissions will be showcased on our social media pages including applicants’ details. We hope this will be a great opportunity to support and promote creatives during a difficult period, while bringing some much needed light-relief through play. In addition, we aim to collate these designs into a book or individual prints to be sold at the end of the lockdown period, with all profits going towards the National Emergencies Trust’s Coronavirus Appeal. The appeal collects and distributes funds to local charities and organisations supporting those directly affected by Coronavirus physically, socially and economically. Instagram: @playhouse_comp Facebook: Playhouse Competition Twitter: @playhouse_comp (g) Copyright By submitting work to this competition you are giving consent for Playhouse Competition to distribute and publish this work on your behalf both digitally and physically. All copyright stays with the designer. Playhouse Competition is a collaboration between Manchester design studios: Playground: @playgrounddesignstudio Ben Clark Design: @ben_clark_design Barney Ibbotson Illustration: @barneyibbotsonillustration Download full brief here: www.playhouse-competition.com

Competition / The Student Annual Architecture Models + Artifacts (S.A.A.M.A.) EXHIBITION / Curatorial Practices Team at KSU-Arch

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:47:51 GMT

The Student Annual Architecture Models + Artifacts (S.A.A.M.A.) exhibit is a collaborative design exhibition that focuses on architecture student model work. It is an annual exhibition that catalogs a curated publication of the best physical models that architecture students have made across North America. This is a call to all hardworking architecture students to submit images of their models to be reviewed by the Curatorial Practices Team at KSU-Arch (Kennesaw State University) and publish a catalog of the best work that you have to offer in a digital exhibition.

Competition / 2018 North American Copper in Architecture Awards / The Copper Development Association

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:47:36 GMT

Winners will receive a custom copper plaque featuring an etching of their award-winning project at the 2019 awards ceremony in New York City. Following the reception, projects will be featured on the Copper Development Association’s website and promoted in various publications. Description: Architects, designers and sheet metal contractors are invited to submit their copper building projects for the 2019 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) awards program. The program recognizes and promotes architectural copper and copper alloy structures in North America. Eligible projects must feature a significant application of architectural copper, be located in the North America and have been completed within the past three years. Submission link: https://www.copper.org/applications/architecture/awards/submit.html

Competition / Architecture at Zero 2020 / AIACA, PGE, Architecture at Zero

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:46:43 GMT

The 2020 Architecture at Zero competition challenge is to create a zero net energy library for the San Benito County Free Library in Hollister, CA. Entrants are encouraged to highlight any energy efficiency strategies or systems shown. In order to demonstrate the building design and its performance, entrants will provide required documentation and may also include supplementary documentation. The preferred solution is an all electric zero net energy library. The preferred solution will not include natural gas and will use electric power.

Competition / Project of the Year 2020 / Architecture of Israel + The European Union

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:46:29 GMT

Architects, interior designers, landscape architects, researchers and students are invited to submit works planned or written since 2015 onwards. PowerPoint presentations, not exceeding 5mb, should include a short explanatory text describing the project, its location, purpose, its uniqueness and date of accomplishment.. Run by Architecture of Israel and The European Union, the competition is international and organized in six categories: Buildings, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Conceptual Plans, Students and Research. Special credit will be given for creativity, feasibility, climate and environmental awareness. Projects reaching the final stage will be published in a special issue of Architecture of Israel. Final Stage Chair: Professor Winka Dubbeldam, Partner of Architecture-Tectonics and Chair of the Department of Architecture, Stuart Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania - www.archi-tectonics.com www.aiq.co.il +972-9-955-1500

Competition / AIA National Photography Competition / AIA St. Louis

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:46:11 GMT

AIA National Photography Competition was founded to capture the photographic talents of architects and design professional. Top fourteen award winning images will be exhibited at the AIA 2020 National Convention/Conference on Architecture in Los Angeles, CA in May 2020. In addition, the images will be available for public viewing at AIA Chapters.

Competition / IAAC Global Summer School 2020 / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:45:54 GMT

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to inform you about the launch of Global Summer School 2020 (GSS20), the 13th edition of the international summer educational program focused on redesigning the future of our cities. The Global Summer School will take place in Barcelona and in other cities or “nodes” worldwide simultaneously from June 29 through July 11. Global Summer School is an opportunity for ambitious architecture professionals and students alike to conduct multi-level investigation on the implications of emergent techniques in our planned environments. Each year, international teams located in key cities around the globe explore a common agenda with projects deeply embedded in local conditions unique to that city. Participants in each location have an international laboratory at their disposal to test their design hypotheses, and will learn how design conclusions derived locally can be tested and evolved globally in different cities where other teams reside. Each node is taught by a renowned professional in the architecture field, and will feature lectures from experts in various fields related to the topic being tackled in that city. This intensive two week workshop connects each participant to ongoing research agendas in robotics, simulation, parametric design, digital fabrication, and other relevant emerging design methodologies. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding and creating critical research advanced on the application of new technologies in design and architecture. “Programs such as IAAC’s Global Summer School have never been more important than they are now,” said Aldo Sollazzo, director of the Global Summer School at IAAC. “The world is in severe need of new minds in architecture to solve the humanitarian problems that threaten us. We at IAAC created the Global Summer School in order to provide the budding minds of the architecture field with the tools they need to address these problems.” The previous edition of Global Summer School 2019, “Becoming” brought together more than 160 international participants, and was a great success as an explorative summer educational program with 13 different locations worldwide. This year, GSS will have nodes in Barcelona, Monterrey, Manila, India, Melbourne, Beirut, Tehran, Istanbul, Dubai and many other locations soon to be announced. Students interested in participating need to submit an application here by May 31, 2020. To learn more about the GSS20, please visit the IAAC Global Summer School Official website: http://globalschool.iaac.net/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iaac.gss/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iaacgss/ To apply to the program, discover different nodes applications here: http://globalschool.iaac.net/gss20_apply/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/CPKiwmUSa00

Competition / ARCHITECT Magazine's R+D Awards / ARCHITECT Magazine

Death by Architecture — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 07:45:37 GMT

Have an industry-changing design approach, research pursuit, product, or technology to share? To celebrate the state of the art—and the processes that made them possible—ARCHITECT invites design firms, manufacturers, researchers, students, startups, and inventors in all building-related disciplines to enter its 14th annual R+D Awards. This distinct program honors advances in architecture at every scale, from novel design and construction solutions to high-performance building systems and details, newfound building typologies, and go-to products and digital tools. Instead of focusing just on the polished results, the R+D Awards also values the rigor and persistence behind the solutions. Start today by registering your entries online—all it takes is an abstract (200 words maximum) accompanied by support materials (20 pages maximum). Your entries will be reviewed by jurors who straddle the architecture, technology, and innovation space. The winners will be published in the July 2020 print issue of ARCHITECT and on our website. Register your submission online by the early bird deadline of April 17, 2020, and pay a $175 processing fee for the first entry, and $95 for each subsequent entry. After that date, the fee increases to $225, with each additional entry at $145. Full-time faculty members, students, and researchers at academic institutions pay a reduced processing fee of $95 per entry for both the early bird and regular deadlines. All submissions must be complete and finalized by Friday, May 8, 2020, 11:59 p.m. EDT. For complete rules and regulations, visit rdawards.com. See past R+D Awards winners at our online archive.

Competition / Q City Plan? Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition / Hebei Provincial People's Government

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 07:02:18 GMT

“Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition” can be seen as a new approach to make urban public spaces more intriguing through directly intervening in the small-scale environments instead of large-scale landscape axis, key areas or nodes, in order to complement the insufficient research and design on micro spaces in cities. “Q City Plan” is a new thought of people-oriented humanistic planning through a "trivial-to-grand" mechanism, which is expected to make a remedy for the traditional urban planning of macroscopic narrative. It is a government-initiated activity that involves people to be part of urban regeneration and development, which abandons large-scale demolition and building and respects the original urban texture at its best.

Features

1.Design Categories are various and flexible;

2.Low cost and high level of practicability;

3.Architects-dominated. Architects have rights to control all aspects of projects including designs, materials, constructions, and costs.

Competition Requirements

Design Principles

1) Creativity: Create diverse and interesting places for Qinhuangdao citizens and tourists. A design must be original. 2) Locality: Project should be designed with a comprehensive consideration of local history, culture, and natural environment of Qinhuangdao with its geological features highlighted; 3) Sustainability: The sustainability of design, materials, and operation should be considered. 4) Feasibility: This is not only a conceptual competition. The selection of material, the form of construction and the requirement of craftsmanship should all be feasible. 5) People-orientation: Designs should fully consider diverse needs of different groups of people and provide citizens and tourists in urban spaces for activities.

Design Categories

There are a variety of design categories for participants to choose. Public spaces where daily activities of citizens and tourists occur, such as town square plaza, block, roadside green space, bathing beach, public toilets and food markets can be designed into art installations, street furniture & installations, and landscape scenes. Entries can be independent or in a series, however, unrelated multiple works are not allowed. It should be noticed that entry in a series is that under one certain theme, while production-oriented duplication is not encouraged (For more information about the requirements of site selection, please enter the official website http://qcityplan_qhd.uedmagazine.net/en_down.html to download).

Site

(1) The competition committee provides several available sites for design; participants can select one from these sites. For related basic information about the sites please download from competition website; (2) Participants are also encouraged to select sites and definite design theme by themselves, discovering and finding solutions to urban issues with a bottom-up approach. A self-selected site should be a real site in the city of Qinhuangdao. Photos, satellite images and videos of the site are required in submission materials. Participants are required to consult the organizing committee before making the final decision. Participants will be disqualified if they started design without acknowledge of the site by the organizing committee. (3) Whether the participants choose the provided site or self-selected site has no influence on the jury review. (The information of the provided site can be downloaded from the official website)

Competition / Open Call- 24h competition 24th edition - humanity / Ideas Forward

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:59:21 GMT

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views of the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes. The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative. In an era of globalization where communication was dominated by the technological revolution, there is the need to rethink the cities and how Man can relate in a global World as well as rethink the economic, social and cultural patterns of contemporary societies. The young creatives and thinkers are a precious commodity that we value a lot. We want to give them a voice.

AIM OF THE COMPETITION - 24H

A space where the time limit is used to stimulate your creativity. The aim of this competition is to present answers in 24h to social problems, visionary ideas, humanitarian causes and sociologic problems of the contemporary societies. Commitment, perseverance, inspiration and hard work are all the necessary bases to develop a proposal that meets the premises that will be released regularly in the brief of the competition. We challenge you to prove your talent in 24 hours! There is a period of registration on the competition, when it ends, starts the 24H competition! You have 24H to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained on the brief that will only be available on the same day the competition starts. Take the risk!

FRAMEWORK Humanity

Are we the holders of civilizational powers? Are we responsible for the humanitarian safeguard? Are we responsible for the genocide? Are we responsible for war crimes? Are we responsible for wars? And for peacemaking ages? And by false morals? And by the values? And by the rules? And by the bulletproof countries? For children, women, man, animals, air, ocean, rivers, plants, trees, jungles? Yes we are.

Competition / Open Call: 7 Petal School, Designing the School of the Future / Architects 3000 Network

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:57:47 GMT

This is a call for all visionary architects and designers that wish to change the Education in a worldwide scale. Our world urgently needs architectural proposals that foster innovative ideas for the Schools of this Third Millennium. The 7 Petal School is such a project, aiming at a re-evolutionary educative transformation, based on the programs of Pedagooogia 3000. With this purpose, the Architects 3000 Network was co-created in 2008. As non-profit and pedagogic organisations, the Architects 3000 Network and Pedagooogia 3000 conceived this open call as a solidary competition, based in sharing ideas, establish alliances and open opportunities, in which we all win. All together we are co-creating this network of ideas to transform the Education for the children of Today and Tomorrow. Please share your creative visions!

Topics: Innovative architecture for a 7 Petal School for an existing site or an ideal place. The proposals must integrate the 7 pedagogical areas which are interlaced and complementary. Please download the 7 Petal School book, at no cost, by Noemi Paymal and Pedagooogia 3000 and refer to the 7 Petal School Web Page (https://architects3000.weebly.com/open-calls.html).

Design and conceptual guidelines: The proposals will be appreciated and selected by the following guidelines: • Layout of the 7 Petals clearly outlined, with its respective 7 colours • Integration of some universal geometry, related to contemporary design • Bio-construction (optional) • Bio-climatic design • Green areas and open air spaces • Functional and practical design for children • Aesthetically harmonious and attractive • And fun for the students (and teachers)! Awards: Three selected proposals will receive a free registration and hotel accommodation (for one person per team) to present the project and participate in the 6-days of the 9th International Gathering of Architects 3000 and Universal Geometry that will happen in Milazzo, Sicilia, Italy (September 24-30, 2018).

Competition / Call Camposaz 13:13 Vooruit (Gent, Belgium) / Camposaz

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:55:53 GMT

The announcement aims at the selection of 10 candidates between architects, designers and wood carpenters who will take part to a design and selfconstruction workshop in a 1:1 scale. The thirteenth edition of Camposaz will take place from 11 May to 20 May 2018 in the art centre of Vooruit (Gent, Belgium), within the framework of The May Events festival curated by Silvia Bottiroli. Conceived on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of May 1968, The May Events doesn’t aim at celebrating it or at discussing its accomplishments and failures. It is rather a way to use this anniversary as a trampoline to investigate where and how art is today a place for social choreographies to be shaped and performed, for bodies and subjectivities to gather and generate new movements, and for us all to sense the potentialities for revolt and revolution in and through the arts. During the festival a temporary community of architects, designers and carpenters will design, work and live together for ten days, with the aim of contributing to the festival with a temporary installation within the space of the Vooruit Café.

The ambition of Camposaz 13:13 is to transform the café into an active space of confrontation for the festival, emphasizing its role of collective and interactive space. The installation, constructed with modular wooden elements, will try to accommodate informal lunch conversations, conferences, and debates, becoming a backdrop for the artists’ performances. The May Events will be an occasion, for the participants, to explore the possibility of an autonomous proactive collaboration between architects and designers as a form of resistance to the extreme competitiveness of today’s creative economy. Camposaz consists in a free workshop aiming at designing and self-building architectural objects for space reactivation and landscape enhancement. It is targeted to young architects, designers and carpenters, selected by Camposaz collective, for the purpose of gathering in a temporary group the processes of design and self-construction. In ten days, the participants will ideate and create wood Installations, following the thematic suggestions provided by the organizers and developing eco-friendly, practical and sustainable designs based on the relationship with the construction site and its users.

Competition / IAAC Global Summer School 2018 / Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC)

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:54:47 GMT

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is pleased to inform you about the Global Summer School 2018, 11th edition of the international summer educational program about the future of our cities, that will take place in Barcelona and in other nodes worldwide simultaneously from the 2nd to the 14th of July 2018. This two-weeks intense program brings together experts from around the world to discuss the future of urbanism and the impact of technology on spaces exploration through a series of workshops, global lectures, presentations and a final ceremony.

The Global Summer School (GSS) is a platform defined by ambitious, multi-scalar investigation on the implications of emergent techniques in our planned environments. Each year, international teams located in key cities around the globe explore a common agenda with projects that are deeply embedded in diverse local conditions. Because of this, participants have an international laboratory to test their design hypothesis, understanding how design conclusions derived locally can be tested and evolved globally in different cities where other teams reside. This intensive course connects each participant to ongoing research agendas in robotics, simulation, physical computing, parametric design, digital fabrication, and other relevant emerging design methodologies. Specific emphasis is placed on understanding the multi-scalar implications of design conclusions, thus creating critical research advanced on the application of new technologies in design.

Nodes for Global Summer School 2018 editions are: Barcelona, Paris, Quito, Muscat, New York, Querétaro, Shanghai, Budapest, Tehran, Chandigarh, Istanbul, Manila, Moscow, Melbourne and Beirut. The previous edition of Global Summer School 2017 - Space Dynamics - brought together more than 1500 international participants, becoming a great success as a reference summer educational program for Barcelona in the field of cities. Learn more about the program & GSS Call for scholarships at: http://globalschool.iaac.net/ Applications are open: http://globalschool.iaac.net/gss18_applications/

Competition / CGTrader?s Digital Art competition 2018 / CGTrader

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:54:02 GMT

CGTrader, one of the leading 3D model marketplaces in the world, has just launched the Digital Art Competition, which is open to all CG artists (both 2D and 3D): https://www.cgtrader.com/digital-art-competition ! You can submit up to three works of art to each of the six categories: Character Illustration, Character Concept Design, Environment Illustration, Environment Concept Design, Object Design, and Object Concept Design. All artworks will also have the chance to win the Public Award. The CGTrader Digital Art Competition offers artists exposure in our 1.2M+ user community and the opportunity to win prizes worth a total of $60,000. There are no hard requirements, and artworks do not have to be created exclusively for the competition, so feel free to show everyone your best and favorite works. For more details, visit the competition page and be sure to check out the Categories & Prizes section!

Competition / On the Docks: Alexander Docks Ideas Competition / Various

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:53:31 GMT

The intent is to involve citizens in urban potentials of the underused and/or abandoned spaces of Winnipeg. Through a community based ideas competition, people will be encouraged to come up with imaginative solutions for the site. There are no limitations to the ideas, and explorative ideas are encouraged. By giving the voice to the community, people are able to take ownership and provide their ideas to a platform that emphasizes a shared collective of ideas. The Alexander Docks have become one of these derelict spaces in which the local community has the opportunity to voice their ideas of how it could be better used. Located along the Red River, there is even greater opportunity to link the downtown with access to the river. We’re posing this question to the community - what type of public space would most benefit the site? All proposals will be on display and continue the conversation of how to develop the docks area.

Submissions will also be sent to the City of Winnipeg to show just how invested Winnipeggers are in our public spaces. Think big; use your imagination; think about what the space and downtown could really benefit from on the site. Submissions can be done individually or in teams to come up with a bold new idea or use for the immediate and surrounding site. It is strongly encouraged that the final submission address one of the seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter) and accessibility to the river. Using the downloadable submission board, draw, paint, collage, render, write, use any medium you’d like to clearly interpret your idea.

Competition / The Site Magazine "Foundations & Disruptions" (Technology/Architecture/Urbanism) / The Site Magazine

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:52:01 GMT

VOLUME 39: FOUNDATIONS & DISRUPTIONS Technology is the answer—but what was the question? —Cedric Price Just 20 years ago, Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the MIT Media Lab, anticipated that the post-information age would remove the limitations of geography. Digital living, he said, would allow transmission of place itself. (1) This prediction that technology would destroy distance and that our physicality would lose relevance did not hold true; rather, it expanded the meaning of physical space by making it more complex and inseparable from its digital dimension. (2) The translation of the built environment into digital information—through robotics, big data, and smart sensors—creates a new definition of what is spatial. (3) As the industrial revolution drove automation at the turn of the nineteenth century, the social, cultural, and political motives ever-present in open discussions and behind closed doors gave shape to social values and standards that define today’s cities. If we are in an age of a similar turn, it seems that currently ubiquitous techno-optimism and the sheer pace of development is thwarting our ability keep stride with any adequate scrutiny. While optimization and efficiency become the highest regarded value systems for maximization of profit, all other values seem to be deemed irrelevant.

Whether at home or in the public realm, the digitalization of our space comes with a shifting locus of power. The four most powerful tech giants, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon—known collectively as GAFA—keep track of every step we take in order to know our needs before we do, from highly personal scales to the scale of the environment and the city. The urban realm has become an arena for technological experimentation that happens without our conscious participation. “Cyberspace,” the sharing economy, cryptocurrency, and AI all emerged from a quest for equality, yet their utopian manifestoes increasingly project capitalist agendas and their expanding reach raises concerns of very significant violations of public privacy, security, and that very equailty they set out to protect. Is the internet a public utility? Can Bitcoin build sustainable wealth when mining a transaction costs more than powering a home? Where does the individual stand in a fully networked and digital society? Are we reduced to consumers or elevated as agents by our seemingly limitless options for customized existence? How will projects like sustainability or community, in opposition to fast-paced consumption, retain relevance? How will architecture adapt, reconfigure, and develop to shelter us from our digital shadows and provide structure in our augmented lives? Will it preserve the elements of human existence that cannot be reduced to an algorithm and sold for cash? Data and numbers offer quantifiable truths, but output is not debate and technology as a force that acts on and within human societies and global ecologies is anything but neutral. As technological change rushes relentlessly forward architects play catch up, pushed to consider a blurring of our foundational dichotomies: interior/exterior, public/private, urban/rural. Volume 39 seeks critical perspectives on the role of technology within the built environment. We are interested in the social, economic, political, and ecological implications of technological “progress” as it relates to architecture, design, and urbanism, and in examinations of the role of architecture that go beyond a purely reactionary model. How should we extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones? Digital modernity is upon us, and the human is still at the centre of this paradigm shift, determining the courses charted by our machines. Who do our choices leave behind and who do they empower?

Competition / Future Campus ? University College Dublin International Design Competition / Malcolm Reading Consultants

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:50:25 GMT

Future Campus – University College Dublin International Design Competition focuses on enhancing and enlivening University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) extensive campus. This competition – the first stage of which closes at 14:00 BST on Monday 26 March 2018 – is seeking an outstanding integrated multidisciplinary team for two much-needed design initiatives. First, the Entrance Precinct Masterplan will create a new urban design strategy for a 23.8 ha area that will guide UCD in defining the quality of the campus through placemaking, architecture and the public realm, as well as allowing for future planning. Essential to this will be a distinctive, confident and highly-visible entrance and arrival experience that expresses the University’s identity and showcases its Dublin site.

The second element, the 8,000 sq m Centre for Creative Design, is conceived as a charismatic yet well-integrated architectural addition – a maker space that is a living learning lab – that will express the University’s creativity and promote inter-disciplinary engagement. The total value of the Centre for Creative Design is circa €48 million. Initially, UCD is seeking expressions of interest from integrated multidisciplinary teams organised under a lead consultant and including expertise in architecture, masterplanning, urban design, landscape, sustainability, engineering and transport planning. At the second stage, teams will be invited to propose additional consultancy including, but not limited to, planning, lighting design, wayfinding and accessibility; and international teams will be required to team up with a local executive team. An honorarium of €40,000 will be paid to each of the shortlisted teams following the conclusion of the competition.

Competition / ASA International Design Competition 2018 : VEX Agitated Vernacular / The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:49:00 GMT

This year’s ASA International Design Competition aims to upend the typical associations of vernacular architecture and design. The term ‘VEX’can be approached from a multitude of perspectives, all to challenge, or agitate, the stereotypes of what vernacular should or should not be. One tends to assume that vernacular architecture is in opposition to modern architecture and lifestyle. There is the perception that vernacular is something that is traditional and therefore is considered to be technologically ‘inept’ or ‘crude’. This relegates vernacular design to irrelevance in today’s society and also implies that it is immutable and static, and ‘unimprovable’. The challenge of the competition is for participants to create a new type of vernacular with characteristics not commonly associated with vernacular design. The competition is looking to showcase new vernacular design that is mutable, inventive and capable of self-renewal. The goal is tore-think vernacular as something that can assume performative roles and possess generative potentials. The Jury will reward entrants that can demonstrate vernacular design that is dynamic and is particularly suited to innovation, invention and relevance.

Competition / 24h Competition - 23th edition - bigData / Ideas Forward

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:43:31 GMT

Ideasforward wants to give young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. We are an experimental platform seeking progressive ideas that reflect on emerging themes. The eco design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts and technologies are compelling issues in the societies of the future and the involvement of the whole community is imperative. In an era of globalization where communication was dominated by the technological revolution, there is the need to rethink the cities and how Man relates in a global World as well as rethink the economic, social and cultural patterns of contemporary societies. The young creatives and thinkers are a precious commodity that we value a lot and so we want to give them a voice. AIM OF THE COMPETITION - 24H A space where the time limit is used to stimulate your creativity. This competition proposes give responses in 24H to the social problems, future visions, climate changes, humanitarian causes and sociologic problems of the contemporary societies. Commitment, perseverance, inspiration and hard work are the necessary bases to develop a proposal that meets the premises that will be released regularly in the brief of the competition. We challenge you to prove your talent in 24 hours! There are a period of registration on the competition, when it end, started the 24H competition! You have 24H to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained on a brief that you only know on the same day that start competition. Take the risk! FRAMEWORK Big Data Imagine something gigantic. Imagine something immeasurable. Imagine what can be bigger than the planet Earth. Imagine things. Let’s imagine the volume of what can not be accounted for. Imagine structures. Imagine the speed. Imagine the complexity. Let us imagine the variability. Imagine the variety. Imagine a dimension of information so big that wanting to account for it, is simply impossible. Imagine what is going on around us. Imagine what we can see and not see. Imagine information. Can we imagine the non-visible? Let’s imagine Big Data. beginning of the registration period: February 19th Promotional registration period from February 19th to February 25th at 23:59 - Fee € 20€ Regular registration period from February 26th to March 27th at 23:59 - Fee € 25€ Late period of registration from March 28th to April 7th at 11:59 - Fee € 30€ During the competition period: Fee 50€ Publication of winners and honorable mentions at www.if-ideasforward.com on May 18th the competition date // April 7th to April 8th // The competition begins at April 7th 12:00 noon and ends at April 8th 12:00 noon (London GMT + 0:00) AWARDS 1st Place - € 500 + publication in website, social networks and media partners + 24H trophy + 5 sketchbooks Emílio Braga + 24H registration fee 2nd Place - € 150 + publication in website, social networks and media partners + 24H trophy + 5 sketchbooks Emílio Braga + 24H registration fee 3rd Place - € 50 + publication in website, social networks and media partners + 24H trophy + 5 sketchbooks Emílio Braga + 24H registration fee 7 Honorable Mentions - publication in website, social networks and media partners This is a competition in 24 hours so you only have access to the brief on the contest day Download on April 7th 12:00pm (noon) (London GMT+0:00) but do not forget that you always have to register before April 7th at 11:49 am (London GMT + 0:00) CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATING Participation can be individual or as a group. Participants must be over 18 years old. In the case of groups, the leader must be over 18 years old. By participating in an ideasforward contest the participant accepts all the terms and conditions published on our website that define the rules for use of the company website, as well as the rules of participation therein.

Competition / A I R / Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:42:53 GMT

This is a call for Works of art and design that are also devices for manifesting, registering, materializing, manipulating, or visualizing the quality, movement, properties, or “spirit” of air in, around, and through buildings.

Air: the mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that serves all forms of terrestrial life; that carries a million other compounds and particles; that we feel on our skins and breathe and smell; that vibrates with sound; that carries birds and planes; that foams water, feeds fires, and fills tires; that moves curtains and removes roofs; that presses in on everything without our noticing. Air invisible, essential, shapeless, shaped: how might we see you? Air, brother of Space, how might we design with you in mind?

The works selected will be exhibited as part of a symposium (called A I R, set for October 4, 2018), that will bring designers, writers, scientists, engineers, and artists together to explore the theme of air beyond conventional terms (e.g, climate, HVAC, pollution…).

The Work should be a physical object that brings the beholder’s attention to the nature and quality of the air in the immediate environment, defined for the purposes of the Competition as: inside or near West Mall Building and Battle, Sutton, and Goldsmith Halls of the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Works that also quantify in some way will be preferred. Works that are shippable and technically and economically feasible will also be preferred. Those that are not, and are still of high interest, may be chosen for display and publication as representations.

Competition / Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition 2018 / Ceramics of Italy

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:40:54 GMT

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the annual awards program organized by Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Agency honors the exceptional work of North American architects and designers who feature Italian ceramic and porcelain tile in their residential, commercial and institutional projects. In a new initiative this year, Ceramics of Italy is also looking for imaginative concepts from students in addition to built projects. We are excited to announce that the 2018 Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition has officially launched! Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the annual awards program organized by Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Agency honors the exceptional work of North American architects and designers who feature Italian ceramic and porcelain tile in their residential, commercial and institutional projects. In a new initiative this year, Ceramics of Italy is also looking for imaginative concepts from students in addition to built projects. Visit www.tilecompetition.com to learn more and apply by February 23, 2018

Competition / Sky Forest and Bee Farm - Manhattan, New York / Superskyscrapers

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:40:18 GMT

This competition challenges participants to design a Sky Forest & Bee Farm Hotel Skyscraper as a concept that must take advantage of any great views around it and minimise any bad view this area of Chelsea district in Manhattan, New York Metropolitan Area. The design is expected to be visually and aesthetically engaging in contributing positively to the area with emphasis on provision of great hotel and leisure facility. It should maximise the positive contribution of such a vertical structure close to the Hudson River whist minimising the negative impact. The aim of the competition is to explore and investigate the possibility of a high quality Sky Forest & Bee Farm Hotel Skyscraper within a development concept that sets a new high standard in contemporary high-rise or tall building design in a key part of Manhattan in New York as well as a statement of our the need to reintroduce more of nature in urban areas.

Competition / Triumph Architectural Treehouse Award (TATA) 2018 : Treehouse fit for a Prince / ArchTriumph

Death by Architecture — Thu, 03 May 2018 06:39:10 GMT

COMPETITION TITLE

Triumph Architectural Treehouse Award (TATA) 2018 : Treehouse fit for a Prince AIM: The aim of this international ideas competition is to recognise the architectural and design principle involved in designing a high quality treehouse and the role they sometimes play in shaping our ideas of low-cost, low maintenance and sustainable architectural design in many world communities. This competition investigates, explores and emphasises the importance of sustainable concept in Treehouse design as they become ever more popular, more intricate and more commercial.

PROJECT

The program challenges participants to design an original Contemporary Treehouse fit for a modern Prince as a play and discovery space to be used by the young Prince George, his parents and friends. The treehouse design should allow for adult supervision from a distance with any use of modern technology kept to a minimum. In the knowledge that every child is their parents prince and princess, combined with an inclusive society we encourage designs that allow for further use for other private, public or associated charity playtime events. The treehouse concept must be one that is sustainability and exhibits consideration for the welfare of the tree at it’s core. It should also project an image of elegance and connection to nature in its form and aesthetics. Treehouses have a magic that stimulates our imaginations in any unique surroundings and posses an unforgettable promise of an adventure. The uniqueness of a Treehouse is sometimes based on the unique feature of the host tree or anchor points, which adds to that childhood dream or fairy tale of a hideout and adventure playground set high in the sky. It is also a space of retreat transporting adults from the stresses of everything reality to a world high up the tree top to be close to nature or an elevated view. Treehouses were all the rage among wealthy adults during the renaissance and through 16th and 17th century Europe. It known that the current Queen then, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip stayed in a treetop lodging in 1952.

Article / Architectural Record Announces 2020 Design Vanguard by Architectural Record

Death by Architecture — Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Architectural Record's annual Design Vanguard program honors 10 emerging practices from around the world. This year, Record recognized 10 firms and featured their work in June 2020's issue of the magazine.

This year's highlighted firms are:

Word - Chris Warren

Los Angeles, CA USA

Cristian Izquierdo

Santiago, Chile

AtelierJun

Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Vladimir Radutny Architects

Chicago, IL, USA

Christoph Hesse Architekten

Korbach/Berlin, Germany

NHDM Architects

New York, NY, USA

Young Projects

New York, NY, USA

Space Popular

London, England

McLeod Kredell Architects

Middlebury, VT, USA

O Studio Architects

Hong Kong

For more information, visit Architectural Record:

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/14605-design-vanguard-2020

Posted by DBA Team

Article / International Architects Propose Intriguing New Ideas for LACMA by The Citizen's Brigade to Save LACMA

Death by Architecture — Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

International Architects Propose Intriguing New Ideas for LACMA

Coop Himmelb(l)au, Barkow Leibinger, Reiser + Umemoto Among ‘LACMA Not LackMA’ Entrants

Public Is Invited to Vote Online

LOS ANGELES—The jury for “LACMA Not LackMA” has selected six leading ideas that could contribute to an alternate design for a new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), correcting major shortcomings of the currently proposed scheme. A gallery of the six concepts will be open for public review and voting at www.saveLACMA.org. “Our call for ideas was to open and make pubic what has been a closed process, and to present alternatives that inspire and show a way forward for a LACMA that is improved, fresh, and practical, not reduced and compromised,” says noted writer and designer Joseph Giovannini, co-chair of The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA, which organized the ideas competition.

“This collection of six designs represents the ideas the jury found most compelling,” notes architecture writer and curator Greg Goldin, co-chair of The Citizens’ Brigade. “We are not proposing any one of them be built as-is, but that the public, the museum board, and the County Board of Supervisors view them as inspirations to consider alternatives that truly capture people’s eyes, hearts, and minds, and showcase the collections in a practical and architecturally stimulating environment that embodies—rather than usurps—LACMA’s purpose and spirit.”

The six firms are Barkow Leibinger, Berlin; Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna; Kaya Design, London; Paul Murdoch Architects, Los Angeles; Reiser + Umemoto, New York City; and TheeAe (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic), Hong Kong. Three propose to build from the ground up, while three chose to work with the existing architectural fabric.

All of the designs selected by the jury of architects, curators, and critics correct problems that are inherent in LACMA’s current scheme designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor. They all

• enlarge, rather than reduce, the exhibition square footage

• build only on the current site, rather than bridge across Wilshire Boulevard

• save money per square foot, as compared to the Zumthor plan, thereby allowing County funds to be used to better serve its citizens (especially during the COVID-19 crisis)

• place curatorial concerns ahead of making a dictatorial architectural statement

• provide flexible gallery interiors, not permanent concrete gallery walls

• retain back-of-house services, including curatorial offices and library, rather than placing them off site

• tie the Resnick Pavilion and BCAM into the new museum and embrace the La Brea Tar Pits Park and Museum

• use conventional construction methods rather than expensive high-finish concrete

• maintain the formal continuity of LA’s memorable Miracle Mile district along Wilshire Boulevard

FROM THE GROUND UP

“LACMA Wing” by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Vienna

Emphasizing “an architecture that combines functionality with aspiration,” Coop Himmelb(l)au designed three main elements: landscape plinth and two, three-level “floating” gallery wings. Public circulation on ramps connecting the volumes would be encased by expressive amorphous forms whose openness to the outside refreshes the museum visiting experience. These public spaces are accessible without a ticket to the museum, but windows into the galleries are meant to entice people inside. The jury appreciated the curatorial flexibility of generous gallery spaces, with 22-foot floor-to-ceiling heights, the possibility of mezzanines and intimate galleries, and open floor plates. “This entry combines issues of great efficiency with moments of drama,” noted the jury. “The ‘bubbles’ offer exciting spaces that celebrate the public realm while connecting to straightforward, practical, functional galleries in the wings.”

“Unified Campus” by Paul Murdoch Architects, Los Angeles

To create greater institutional cohesion, Paul Murdoch Architects took a holistic approach to the entire LACMA campus and its relationship to the cultural institutions flanking it. The design, according to the architects, is “expressive of LA in its openness, multiplicity of urban, natural, and cultural connections, and abundant use of controlled natural light.” The jury noted how this horizontal skyscraper—an on-axis version of the neighboring tower across Wilshire—corresponds to the urbanism of the area. “It restores the continuity of the Wilshire Boulevard streetfront with a respectful attitude by placing the narrow part of the building facing the street and the broad side framing the park.” The east glass façade offers a strong, complementary visual connection to Hancock Park and the La Brea Tar Pits, and the west façade forms a long public plaza bordered by BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion, uniting the two campuses.

“HILLACMA” by TheeAe (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic), Hong Kong

TheeAe (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic) considers Los Angeles’ diversity when proposing the museum as “a new cultural platform that connects people from different walks of life,” by simultaeneously offering enclosed cultural spaces and an open, sculpted, outdoor landscape. The tall building (five levels plus garden roof) combines an undulating façade along Wilshire Boulevard to the south with “hill” element sloping into the park on the property’s north side. The jury remarked that the dramatic hybrid design would make it a “destination building” cleverly designed to sustain the urbanity of Wilshire on one side while extending the bucolic nature of the park on the other. “The Wilshire façade becomes a kinetic wall, imparting a strong urban experience that changes as you drive by, which is how most Angelenos experience the city,” noted the jury.” “The back façade, a built hillside, is a landscape event that adds a surprising new participatory dimension to Hancock Park. This will be a hill you want to climb.”

INTEGRATING EXISTING ARCHITECTURAL FABRIC

“Re(in)novating LACMA” by Reiser + Umemoto, New York City

Reiser + Umemoto’s aim was “to create a coherent, retroactive masterplan that builds off the campus’ prior successes and seeks to engage and reinvigorate the full breadth of LACMA’s collection.” The three-pronged approach includes adding new elements in and around the original 1965 buildings, binding them into a new whole. The Cone sits within and atop the Ahmanson; The Bar, an elevated gallery building, transects the campus from north to south, offering an appropriately scaled Wilshire entrance and new gallery space; The Cluster replaces the 1986 building with a series of interior pod-shaped galleries, as well as exterior exhibition space on a reimagined plaza level. “The architects found a way to make the plaza into a connective tissue and strategically make the existing buildings work as an ensemble,” said the jury, which also commended the clear circulation that employed new interstitial spaces to move people through the building’s interior spaces.

“Tabula LACMA” by Barkow Leibinger, Berlin

This “reconstitution” is an unusual hybrid of old and new, as it maintains the scale and context of the original LACMA buildings by reconstructing them with modern, sustainable materials, then interconnecting them with a new plinth form punctured by courtyards. Barkow Leibinger stresses this would “provide spaces for art, delight, and public encounter.” The jury thought this flexible, spacious design addressed the changing role of museums by including a good amount of shopping, cafés, and event venues that urbanize the spaces and engender a lively environment. “There’s a powerful idea of using the area around the pavilions to create a whole new programmed space,” according to the jurors. They enjoyed the rediscovery of the inner plaza and could “imagine these would be great spaces to be in, as well as fun to discover.”

“Reimagining/Restructuring” by Kaya Design, London

Replacing the 1986 building, Kaya Design proposes “to preserve the best elements of the past while creating a more contemporary, multi-use alternative space.” An elevated volume that respects the scale of the existing structures has solid walls on three sides for curatorial flexibility, then opens to the north with an all-glass façade. Circulation into the entrance is through a gentle ramp/walkway leading into the lobby that directs visitors to the other buildings on other floors—the ramps equalizing the importance of all adjacent floors. The new structure is reserved for exhibition space on six above-grade levels, including the interior of the spiral element. “This design achieves a considerable service to the campus, making the east campus more coherent than it’s ever been,” said the jury. “The biological form of the spiral—as ancient as seashells and hurricanes—gives value to the floors it connects.”

The jury will award $1,500 to each of the six leading firms. Each of the Peoples’ Choice selections (one in each category) will receive an additional $500. Nine firms, whose entries the jury deemed ideas of merit, will each receive $500. These 15 projects will be featured on www.saveLACMA.org.

Comprising a roster of noted architecture and museum professionals, the jury included:

• Aaron Betsky, director of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture + Design, Blacksburg

• Winka Dubbledam, founder of Archi-Tectonics, New York City, and Miller Professor/chair of architecture at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

• Joseph Giovannini, principal of Giovannini Associates and architecture critic of Los Angeles Review of Books, New York City and Los Angeles

• Greg Goldin, independent architecture writer/curator and co-chair of The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA, Los Angeles

• J. Patrice Marandel, chief curator of European Art (retired) at LACMA, Los Angeles

• William Pedersen, FAIA, founding design partner of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), New York City

• Barton Phelps, FAIA, principal of Barton Phelps & Associates Architects and Planners, Los Angeles

Acting as competition advisor was John Walsh, former director of J. Paul Getty Museum, who guided that Los Angeles institution through the construction of its Richard Meier & Partners Architects-designed project.

“We at The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA are impressed with the creativity, sensitivity, and passion these international architects brought to their ideas, as well as the generosity of their considerable time and effort,” says organization co-chair Giovannini. “Our aim is to open a constructive dialogue about LACMA’s future by offering creative new workable alternatives that will invite the public into a process that better serves the taxpayers of Los Angeles County and the many people around the world who have loved LACMA’s collections for the past 55 years.”

The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA is a group of unpaid design professionals, art experts, and citizens at large, concerned about the catastrophic impact of the proposed design on LACMA and Los Angeles culture. We are not categorically against the construction of a new building for LACMA, or even against the demolition of the three William L. Pereira & Associates and the Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates buildings (though some attempt to adapt and expand them should be studied). The Atelier Peter Zumthor plan will shrink LACMA and reduce its scope, instead of nourishing and growing the museum through its collections. The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA is not affiliated with LACMA or Museum Associates, which runs LACMA, or with any other organization. For more information: www.savelacma.org.

ABOUT THE LEADING FIRMS

Coop Himmelb(l)au was founded by Wolf D. Prix, Hon. FAIA, Helmut Swiczinsky, and Michael Holzer in Vienna, Austria in 1968. Known in Los Angeles for the Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, the Vienna-based firm, now headed by Prix, are practitioners of radical, “expressive architecture.” Work includes the contemporary art pavilion at the Museum of Groningen in the Netherlands, the Gasometer, an industrial building converted into a housing complex in Vienna, and the multi-functional BMW Welt building in Munich.

Barkow Leibinger is an American/German architectural practice based in Berlin and New York, founded in 1993 by Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger, Hon. FAIA. Recently completed buildings include the Trumpf Smart Factory in Chicago, the Fellows Pavilion for the American Academy in Berlin, the HAWE Factory Kaufbeuren, and the Tour Total office high-rise in Berlin. Their work was included in the Serpentine Summer House program in 2016 in London and was shown in the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017.

Kaya Design, with locations in London, Istanbul, and Cyprus, was established in 2017 by Saffet Kaya Bekiroglu. Prior to forming his own firm, he collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects on several competition-winning projects, such as the London Aquatics Centre for 2012 Olympic Games, the Kartal Pendik Masterplan in Istanbul, and the regeneration of Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, Cyprus. He previously collaborated with Frank O. Gehry & Associates on such large-scale projects as the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and the Lake Front Music Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park.

Paul Murdoch Architects, founded in Los Angeles in 1991, is headed by Paul and Milena Murdoch. In 2005, the firm won the Flight 93 National Memorial competition. The firm’s work in Southern California includes UCLA’s Plant Growth Center, L.A. City’s Central Avenue Constituent Services Center, and the upcoming zero-net-energy gymnasium at the Boyle Heights Sports Center, as well as modernizations for the American Jewish University.

Reiser + Umemoto, based in New York City, builds in a wide range of scales, from furniture design, to residential and commercial structures, to landscape, urban design, and infrastructure. Established by Jesse Reiser, AIA, and Nanako Umemoto, among the firm’s recent work are Taipei Pop Music Center in Taiwan, Kaohsiung Port Terminal in Taiwan, and 0-14 Tower Dubai in United Arab Emirates.

TheeAe (The Evolved Architectural Eclectic), founded by architect Chris Woohyun Cho, began in Hong Kong in 2011 and expanded into New York in 2019. The firm’s projects span much of the far east and Asia, including the Gwangju Library in Gwangju, South Korea, Mumbai Airport in India, and hotels from Vietnam to Mongolia.

http://www.savelacma.org/

Posted by DBA Team

Article / National World War I Memorial Stage 2 Finalists Announced

Death by Architecture — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT

Five concepts have been selected to proceed to Stage II for the National World War 1 Memorial design competition.

In the next stage of the competition, the five finalists will work in consultation with the Commission, public agencies with ultimate approval authority over the design, and other stakeholders to further develop and refine their initial design concepts. At the end of Stage II the jury will make recommendations to the World War I Commission, which expects to announce a winning design concept in January 2016.

Public comment is welcome.

http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/stage-ii-finalists.html

Posted by Mario Cipresso

Article / Pinup 2014 Design Competition by Morpholio Project

Death by Architecture — Sun, 11 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Pinup 2014 invites students and young professionals to submit a collection of their studio, 3d printed or un-built 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 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.

The Competition 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.

Pinup 2014 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 ArchDaily, Shapeways, the AIAS, IIDA, ADC, AIGA and is hosted by The Morpholio Project. The guest jury includes participants from FastCompany, ArchDaily, Design Milk, Interior Design Magazine, Core77 and Columbia GSAPP.

http://www.mymorpholio.com/site.php/home/pinup2014

Posted by Mario Cipresso

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

Death by Architecture — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

(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

Death by Architecture — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Death by Architecture — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

3XN / facebook / LinkedIn

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Death by Architecture — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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/.

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Article / The New Holmenkollen Ski Jump by JDS Architects

Death by Architecture — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Death by Architecture — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

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

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