A Significant Addition to a Public Place
The Cadogan Café Competition, London
by Stanley Collyer
Winning entry by NEX (Illustration: NEX)
This place is missing something—probably a subliminal thought of many Londoners who frequented the Duke of York Square area in London, near the entrance to the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea. The locals also decided the site needed a visual lift—but what kind? Settling on a café as the answer would always seems to meet at least one requirement: You can pick up a coffee on the way to work, or it can serve as a casual meeting place. In any case, it is not to be ignored.
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Urban Design in a Remote Village:
The Klaksvik Town Center Competition
by Stanley Collyer
Winning entry by Henning Larsen Architects (Illustration: Henning Larsen Architects)
The Klaksvik Town Center competition revealed that even a fishing village in a remote north Atlantic island group can attract the notice of the global architectural community. Located on one of the Faroe group islands in the north Atlantic between Iceland and Norway, Klaksvik was a relatively isolated fishing village until the recent construction of a road linked it to the rest of the island. Before that, all commercial communication with the rest of the archipelago had to take place by boat.
Klaksvik has been dependent on fishing for centuries; but as recent economic uncertainties in the fishing industry have battered the local economy, the municipality is looking elsewhere for economic stability—such as technology. However, in order to stem the brain drain to the European mainland of their younger citizens, the city decided that an upgrade of the town center could be part of the answer. In this way, they could at least visually keep in step with their European neighbors. To increase its public visibility and lend the town a more urban character, the city fathers decided to stage an international competition on the Scandinavian model—the islands are linked politically to Denmark—for modernization of the town’s center.
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 “World Cultural Center” – World Trade Center Innovative Masterplan – Runnerup, Ground Zero, NY, 2003 By THINK Team: Shigeru Ban, Frederic Schwartz, Ken Smith, Rafael Vinoly
COMPETITIONS: When did you know that you wanted to become an architect?
Frederic Schwartz: I grew up just a couple of towns over from Levittown. When anybody got a washing machine or refrigerator, I would scour the neighborhood for the boxes and bring them home with the help of my dad. I would make things out of them, like tunnels or big buildings. Where I grew up, they were always building houses in the neighborhood, and I was always watching this construction.
When I went to Berkeley, I had my first course with Joe Escherick as my professor, who was such a great teacher. He was the only architect I knew who won both the gold Medal for Firm of the Year and the teaching award. We remained very close through the rest of my career. In fact his wife gave me his shirt when he passed away. So when I was a freshman in college, I was already sure I wanted to become an architect. It wasn’t just Escherick, there were all these other great teachers, i.e., Roger Montgomery, J. B. Jackson, Richard Bender, Russ Ellis, and Marc Treib at Berkeley, and Jerzy Soltan at Harvard.
This was already called the College of Environmental Design in the 60s; so you automatically approached architecture and urbanism recognizing those parameters. I agreed with their philosophy: the school was very much about the relationship of landscape to building.
COMPETITIONS: You have participated in many competitions, some entirely on your own—here I am thinking about the memorial competitions you have won more recently—and others where you were a team member. Santa Fe is an example of the latter. But early on you collaborated with Robert Venturi on two competitions here in New York City. From those, the Whitehall Ferry Terminal has been built. How do you decide with whom you may wish to collaborate?
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Client: Islamic Community of Kosovo
Type: open, one-stage, international
Location: Prishtina, Kosovo
Language: English
Fee: 100 EUROS
Eligibility: Architects licensed in their country of origin
Timetable:
28 December 2012 – Registration deadline
4 January 2013 – Q&A period ends
8 March 2013 – Submission deadline
Awards:
1st prize – EUR 25,000
2nd prize – EUR
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Sponsor: 2nd Street Community Partners
Type: Open, student, one-stage
Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students majoring in architecture, engineering, interior design, or other design-related disciplines
Entry fee: none
Awards:
1st Place: $500 Cash Prize and Certificate
2nd Place: $250 Cash Prize and Certificate
3rd Place: $100 Cash Prize and Certificate
Timetable:
11 January 2013
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Sponsor: Center for American Architecture and Design, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin
Type: Call for Proposals: open, international Location: Austin, Texas Eligibility: open to professionals and students Fees: Early Registration-US$35 Regular Registration-US$50 Timetable: 14 February 2013 – Registration deadline 14 March 2013 – Submission deadline Jury:
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A shortlist of six design teams have been invited to submit proposals for the architectural design of M+, Hong Kong’s future museum for 20th and 21st century visual culture within the District, scheduled for completion in 2017. M+ is an ambitious project, the scale of the museum building alone, at around 62,000 square metres, will
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Client: University of Manitoba
Type: open, two-stage, international
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Language: English
Fee: none
Timetable:
11 March 2013 – Phase I entry submissions 29 July 2013 – Phase II entry submissions
Awards:
The promoter will provide the net amount of approx. 270,000 Canadian Dollars (CAD) for fees and prizes for services rendered. The total
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Sponsor: German Federal Government
Location: Berlin, Germany
Type: Open, one-stage, anonymous
Language: German
Fee: none
Eligibility: Architects licensed in their countries of origin: GPA/GATT Timetable: 13 December 2012 – Documents available 28 February 2013 – Submission deadline
Awards: 45,000 EUR total
To enter, go to:http://www.bbr.bund.de/cln_032/nn_22808/DE/WettbewerbeAusschreibungen/PlanungsWettbewerbe/Ablage__LaufWettbewerbe/Ablage__2012/bmas.html
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Sponsor: City of Gold Coast, Australia
Type: open, international, two-stage, RfQ
Fee: none
Process:
Phase 1: Concept design competition (March-September 2013). This starts with an open invitation to participate and leads to the shortlisting of up to three teams, each of which will be asked to submit a detailed concept design. A winner will be
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