With the intention of framing a new cultural center within the iconic identity of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, STL has designed a complex program that will revive the cultural atmosphere of the city for the Kaohsiung Competition which is to be submitted by January 10, 2011. More images and architect’s description after the break. The Kaohsiung harbor is truly at the heart of the Kaohsiung urban lands..
Winners have been announced for the suckerPUNCH-curatedWilliamsburg Waterfront Performance Venue competition. This openinternational ideas competition asked for an integrated design of aninnovative music venue in the East River State Park located inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn. The new park is the site of the ‘JELLY Pool Parties’summer concert series which brings 10,000 fans to the site on sundayafter..
Rome-based practice OFL architecture has shared with us their project Silk Road Map Evolution that just won them the First Prize in the international competition "New Silk Road Map". The competition was organized by New Italian Blood and was open to Italian and Chinese professionals and students. New Silk Road Map invited participants to develop innovative ideas-projects, material or immaterial,..
MVVA Team - Historic Landscape Pond View Landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburghand a multidisciplinary team introduced as experts in “urban renewal,preservation, commemoration, social connections and ecologicalrestoration” have been picked for the planning phase of The City+TheArch+The River 2015 International Design Competition. Leaders of the team will be introduced, along with details on..
Here are some more of the villas from Athens developer Oliaros‘ project on the island of Antiparos, Greece including designs from Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Greek firm decaArchitecture (see our earlier story). Above and top: Panagia I&II by Katerina Tsigarida Architects Antiaros Design Properties comprises 24 residences of which seven have already been b..
Swedish architects We Are You shared with us their latest project “Jönköping by Bike”, a gift they offered along with Super Sustainable to the city of Jönköping. It is a proposal for a sustainable future development where biking is one of the leading aspects. More images and architect’s description after the break. The municipality of Jönköping has presented 3 strategies for the future developme..
Alessandro Liberati‘s Efficient Living Machine project transforms a building into an infrastructure able to improve and expand the lifestyle of the metropolis. Liberati proposes that the skyscraper become a system of overlapping grids upon the existing environment as a way to read the city differently. These grids contain different layers of programmed activities, ranging from recreational areas..
Yaohua Wang shared with us his project An Open Appeal for China, designed along with Scott Chung, Jiaohao Lu, Xiaoxuan Lu, and Lennard Ong. They recently received 2nd Prize in the AIM International Architecture Competition. More images and architect’s description after the break. The problem of architecture in the role of artistic production is that there are none. Modern artistic practices have..
Project name: Park Life Client: Eurocol Assignment: Master plan Location: Tirana, Albania Size: 51,300 sqm + 14,000 sqm parking garage Status: Invited competition, 1st prize, realisation 2010 - 2012 Principal architect: Marc Joubert Project team: Jeroen de Loor, Marian Dusinsky, Alessandro Guida, Kim Byungchan JA Joubert Architecture, a Rotterdam-based architectural office, has won first prize i..
Self-navigating cars, small streets and a city crawling with information is architect Jurgen Mayer H.'s winning idea for Audi's Urban Future Award, announced this week at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Audi's Urban Future competition tapped six firms--also included were Alison Brooks Architects, BIG, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Cloud 9 and Standardarchitecture--to imagine mobility and..
