Perkins+Will’s Master Plan for SANY Beijing was selected as the first place winner in the “Conceptual Design” category at the 8th International Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The judging committee based their award selection on four central themes of the exhibition: spatiality, connectivity, originality and sustainability. The Perkins+Will submission featured the SANY Beijing Master Plan..
Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL Location: Oslo, Norway Client: Oslo International School Design Team: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Siv Hofsøy, Anders Granli, Halvor Kloster, Katrine Skavlan, Nikolaj Zamecznik, Kazuhiko Yamada, Trine Johanne Jamtli Landscape Architect: Grindaker AS Consultants: AS Frederiksen (structure), Ingénia AS / Ing. Per Rasmussen AS / He..
PROJECT Northshore Hamilton Parkland CLIENT Port of Brisbane Corporation LOCATION Brisbane, Australia ARTISTS Fiona Foley, Jennifer Marchant, Daniel Tobin DESIGNER Kylie Bickle ARCHITECT PDT Architects LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Conics, Place In 2008 Urban Art Projects’ collaborated with Landscape Architects Conics and PDT Architects for the development of the Northshore Hamilton Riverside Park located..
Austrian architects soma have recently won the first prize in the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion for the 2012 Expo in Yeosu, South Korea. The Thematic Pavilion will be one of the major facilities of the Yeosu Expo. Its exhibitions will give the visitors overview and introduction to the Expo’s theme, “The Living Ocean and Coast”. The aim of soma’s design titled “One Ocean” is..
Libraries are something that has been revolving my head ever since I read some writings by Kahn on the Exeter Academy Library. Part of my graduate studies focused on how this typology has evolved during this last few years, moving between the silent sanctuary of books we find at Exeter and new public spaces like OMA’s Seattle Library. As the publishing/reading platforms are changing at an unprec..
WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture, the design competition organized by UCLA’s cityLAB, culminated with the announcement of “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park” as the winning proposal of the professional competition and “R_Ignite” and “Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans” as the winning proposals of the student competition – WPA 2.0 (SE). Winner of the professional competition: “Carbon T.A.P.// Tunn..
Yesterday, Bustler reported about the AIA Seattle 2009 Honor Awards that were presented to Washington State’s most outstanding architects and design teams earlier this week. One of the award winners that received the Citation Award in the ‘Envisioned’ category was a team comprised of Seattle-based firms zero plus and STAVE for their proposal for a thematic pavilion for the Expo 2012 in Yeosu, Ko..
Architects: 3LHD Location: Zagreb, Croatia Project team: Sasa Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic, Silvije Novak, Jasminka Jug, Zorislav Petric, Zeljko Mohorovic, Dijana Vandekar, Marin Mikelic Client: City of Zagreb Site Area: 1,360 sqm Project Area: 1,438 sqm Project year: 2003-2008 Construction year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Sandro Lendler The opening of big movieplex cinemas in ..
Canadian Museum for Human Rights Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2010 The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is rooted in humanity, making visible in the architecture the fundamental commonality of humankind-a symbolic apparition of ice, clouds and stone set in a field of sweet grass. Carved into the earth and dissolving into the sky on the Winnipeg horizon, the abstract ephemeral wings of a white dove..
Möhn + Bouman Architects have sent us photos of the Daycare Centre Felsoord. The building, located in Delft, The Netherlands, is a rare example of a modern design that uses thatch, a material more commonly associated with 19th century cottages. The project concerns the extension and renovation of an existing daycare centre for mentally disabled, situated in a natural wetland area near Delft, the..
