Halftime at the Nobel Center Competition

Halftime at the Nobel Center Competition

The Adjudication Process Not Completely Anonymous

by Stanley Collyer

butterfly2 Shortlisted entry entitled “Butterfly”

The initial phases of the international architectural competition for a new Nobel Center in Stockholm has concluded; but serious questions have already arisen concerning the adjudication process. According to the competition brief: “the competition (in the first stage) includes an overall design concept explaining how the building will relate to the surrounding urban and marine setting on Blasieholmen. The proposals are anonymous and assessed by criteria in the competition brief. The jury will not comment on any proposal until November 2013 when two to five proposals have been selected to proceed to the second stage of the competition upon which the names of the finalist architects will be revealed. Thus, the finalists will then have the possibility to participate in public discussions regarding the design of the future Nobel Center. The second stage of the competition includes further refinement. A winning proposal will tentatively be presented in April 2014. It will then make the basis for the detailed planning process.”

Reviving the Icon: Flinders Street Station Design Competition

Reviving the Icon

The Flinders Street Station Design Competition

by Olha Romaniuk

hhdm-melbourne cbd flinders st aerial hero Winning Entry by HASSELL + Herzog & de Meuron

Since its construction over a century ago, Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station has remained as an impressive example of public architecture throughout the city’s history. However, the gradual deterioration of the building over the last 50 years has greatly diminished the image of the Flinders Street Station of today. Nevertheless, despite the neglect of the upkeep, the station continues to be used by more than 150,000 passengers every day, with the intersection of Swanston and Flinders Streets remaining to be the busiest intersection in Melbourne.

American Academy in Rome 2013-2014 Rome Prize competition

The American Academy in Rome is the oldest American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities. For one hundred years the Academy’s eleven acre center in Rome has provided an inspiring environment for those who practice the fine and liberal arts.

The Rome Prize is awarded annually to

[Re]Opening Public Space: Cambridge University Library Landscape Competition

An innovative design competition in Cambridge to elicit fresh and unexpected ideas for the environmental landscape and entrance sequence to the University Library.

The competition aims actively to encourage creative and unconventional approaches to the challenging brief of responding to the imposing architecture of the Library, in order to bring about a transformation of its

Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing

Sponsor: United Nations (UN-Habitat)

Type: Open, student and recent graduates, one-stage

Language: English

Fee: None

Timetable:

• Registration starts September 15th, 2013

• Registration ends November 15th, 2013

• Submissions open December 15th, 2013

• Submissions close January 15th, 2013

Post Earthquake Reconstruction Ya’an Sichuan — Rebuild Panda’s Hometown from the Earthquake

Sponsor: 2013 AIM Competition

Type: Open, one-stage, digital

Language: English

Fee: None

Timetable:

14 January 2014 – Submission deadline

Awards:

Scenic Village Planning Award — US$5,000

Architecture Renovation Award — US$5,000

Innovative Production Award — US$3,000

Sustainable Development Award — US$3,000

Jury:

ILHAN ZEYBEKOLU President of Zeybekoglu and Associates,Inc Professor of Harvard

Museum of Non-Visible-Art (MoNA)

Sponsor: Praxis

Type: Open, international, two-stage

Language: English

Fees:

Professionals – $100

Student teams – $60

Student – $30

Timetable:

31 January 2014 – Submission deadline

Jury: TBD

Awards:

$20,000 First Prize

10 finalists will receive $1,000 each to develop their final proposal

Process:

After receipt of the proposals, the ten short-listed winners will be

International Museum of Astronomy

Sponsor: Arquideas

Type: International, ideas, student

Languages: English, Spanish

Fees:

Early Registration (through 29 November, 2013): 50 € individual registration 75 € team registration (from 2-4 members)

Regular Registration (30 November 2013 to 16 January 2014):

75 € individual registration

100 € team registration (from 2-4 members)

Timetable:

Arquine International Architecture Competition #16

Sponsor: Arquine

Type: Open, international

Languages:

Eligibility: Open to architects and architecture students all over the world. Teams, collective and individual participants are welcome. The groups may incorporate professionals or students from other disciplines so long as the team leader or representative is an architect or architecture student.

Fees:

Early Registration (through 20 December,

Interview: Susie Kim of Koetter & Kim (Winter 2004)

kka.1 Sewoon District 4 Urban Redevelopment Competition, Seoul, South Korea (Winning entry)

COMPETITIONS: Let’s talk about one of your most recent competitions where you came out on top – the Seoul planning competition. I recalled one of your statements about urban planning while I was looking at the Seoul plan: “You can’t fool a city.” With that in mind, how did you approach the challenge to create something new in a high density environment, where an old megastructure once existed?

KIM: These ideas are one that come from oneself. You study a city., you know the personality of a city. If one begins by looking, it’s the city that is going to tell you something. Because Seoul is my hometown, I could have a lot of input in the design process. In fact the area where I grew up is just down the street where my grandfather owned a block. I was quite familiar with the nature and characteristics of this district. Historically, it was always the heart of the city. If you look at it topographically, you come to realize what it was historically: it was an important place. (This place) was alive with its history, its philosophy, religion and culture. It was really the heart of it all. In recent years it has been neglected, and for various reasons: the landowners would not sell – they really didn’t need the money so they set a price that was actually too high. During the military era, they put a highway through the district. The canal, which had been the center of much of domestic life, was filled in – it was also part of the city water system at one time. My sense was that if it was going to come back, it shouldn’t ignore its historical roots. There was every reason why it should be something of great quality. It’s not just about keeping up with the Jones’s, just to bring the tourists in, but it had to become the center that it was always meant to be.

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Sewoon District 4 Urban Redevelopment Competition, perspective view with reflecting pool

So one begins to come up with an idea, and those ideas begin with those natural conditions, where if you understand the Korean culture, there is a great link to something natural; it’s an authentic place. At the same time there is more willpower to the city than any other city I have seen. It’s possible there that you can have both, linking you to what is to its history; but you really want to be in the position where you are the example of what the city of the future should be also. That’s where we begin, and it doesn’t necessarily come from ourselves, but it comes from the study of the possibilities presented by the given conditions and situation.

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Sewoon District 4 Urban Redevelopment Competition, site plan

COMPETITIONS: The way this was explained to me, this will be somewhat like the Potsdamer Platz model from Berlin with various architects establishing their own personality within the plan. Do you see a similarity?

Ross Pavilion International Competition Shortlist

The seven-strong shortlist that reached the second stage of the Ross Pavilion International Design Competition was selected from the 125 teams (made up of 400 individual firms) who entered the competition. The Pavilion, which will provide a flexible platform for the imaginative arts and cultural programming that Edinburgh excels in, will allow visitors and residents to engage with a variety of events all year round. Other aspects of the circa £25m project include subtle updates to the West Princes Street Gardens – the latter being of outstanding cultural significance and operated and managed by the City of Edinburgh Council as Common Good Land.

The public is being invited to share its views on the project via a survey at the exhibition or by emailing the competition organisers, Malcolm Reading Consultants, at rosspavilion@malcolmreading.co.uk.

Southmere Village Library Competition

Peabody is seeking to select a firm of architects to provide architectural design and related services for a new, purpose-built library building at Southmere Village. Consultants from other required design disciplines in respect of the project will be appointed directly by Peabody. This could include working with artists to potentially incorporate art works within the building. This new civic building lies at the heart of the first phase of the planned 1,622 new homes to be delivered as part of the Abbey Wood and South Thamesmead Housing Zone.

13 July 2017 – Deadline for RfQ submission

PHL “Image Maker” Design Competition

Philadelphia International Airport and PHS are collaborating on a design competition to create an “Image Maker” landscape at the Airport. In line with PHS initiatives that transform public space, a Design Competition for PHL is an opportunity to demonstrate Philadelphia’s position as America’s Garden Capital and a chance to create a welcoming and iconic Philadelphia image.

Timeline:
7 July 2017 – Deadline for questions
21 July 2017 – RFQ response deadline

Canada (Modern Architectures in History series)

Rhodri Windsor Liscombe

Michelangelo Sabatino

(authors)

Reaktion Books Ltd.

London (2016)

Although Canada is a large country in area, its population of approximately 38 million—equivalent to the state of California— is concentrated near its southern border with the United States. The rapid expansion of its population over the past century has also led to a corresponding demand for housing and public services—and architects needed to design them. All this has coincided pretty much with a period highlighted by the rise of modern architecture on a global scale.

M20 – Museum of 20th Century Extension Competition

This is not what we fought for!

by Wilfried Wang*

Winning design: ©Herzog & de Meuron

Wilfried Wang’s commentary on the competition results for the extension of Mies’s Museum of the 20^th Century (M20) was published in the German journal, Bauwelt (40.2016). The author is the founder of the Berlin architectural practice Hoidn Wang Partner with Barbara Hoidn and has been the O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin since 2002. The text, translated by the Editor, is a slightly modified version (by the author) that appeared in Bauwelt.

Both in architectural and urbanistic terms, the jury’s misguided selection of the Herzog de Meuron entry as the winner of the M20 competition is another missed opportunity for Berlin.

By extending the form of this introverted structure to cover the entire competition site, little or no value is added to the immediate environs. To the contrary, that and the immense surfaces of the facades, right up to the edge of the pedestrian walkways, only serve to diminish the importance of the surrounding buildings. All the trees to the south of the site will disappear, and 90% of the outer walls of the building, regardless of the suggested use of porous brick detailing, are completely closed off. Only the eastern entrance of the Herzog de Meuron plan faces the main entrance of Scharoun’s State Library; the other two main entrances lack any such connection with the urban context. Thus, the Cultural Forum gains nothing in urban quality, but rather the sense of desolation will increase.

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