The Rural Countryside as Classroom
Countryside Dilemmas – New Rural Planning 1st Place – ©Tianjin University Team Planning used to be at the bottom of Chinese students’ lists of design priorities. One western architect, whose firm was at the forefront in the design and implementation of numerous planning projects in China, surmised that planning was an area that received little attention in ...
Read more...Reimagining the Thompson Center
Public Pool Image: ©Perkins&Will The Chicago Architecture Club Shines the Spotlight on Another Endangered Landmark What do Bertrad Goldberg and Helmut Jahn have in common? Besides having high-profile buildings threatened by demolition, both served as subject matter for two competitions sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Club (CAC)—raising public consciousness about their impending fate. They both produced ...
Read more...High Density Housing in the Suburbs?
An Ideas Competition in Berlin Seeks Answers Winning entry perspective Image: ©AllesWirdGut Architekten Berlin developer HOWOGE recently staged what was regarded as a “planning Laboratory” competition for a model satellite in northwest Berlin. The brief for this invited competition noted that the urban sprawl, which had accompanied the reunification of Germany(and Berlin) in 1989, was low density ...
Read more...Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion in Danger
Image: ©wHY Architecture Earlier this year, an article in the Architects’ Journal described what almost sounded like a death knell for wHY Architecture’s winning competition design for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion site. When the competition took place, some observers may have regarded wHY as a wild card, in the company of such high-profile firms as BIG and ...
Read more...A Russian City Sets Its Priorities in the Public Realm
Astrakhan Looks to Raise Its Quality of Life Index Aerial view of downtown Astrakhan Planning competitions with a strong landscape component take many forms, including some for plazas and gateways to major town centers, city neighborhood sites with multi-story housing units, university campus plans and finally, comprehensive city plans—the latter either being for new towns, as in ...
Read more...Hightech Designs as Low- and Mid-Rise Research Models
Siemens Healthineers Campus, Bengaluru Aerial View of site, Rendering: ©Eller + Eller Architekten Siemens new Healthineers campus in Bengaluru, India, is hardly a milestone in the design of major R&D facilities. Although the winning design by Eller + Eller Architekten did include the necessity to go higher than the 2- to 4-story models we often find, whether ...
Read more...A New Meeting Place for Moscovites
SWA/Balsley Wins Paveletskaya Plaza Landscape Competition Aerial view at night – courtesy SWA/Balsley 5+ Design 0f the nine railway stations in Moscow, Paveletskaya is the largest and one of the last of those that opened around the turn of the century. Compared to other Moscow stations, Paveletskaya, designed by Alexander Krasovsky and opened in 1900, represented a ...
Read more...One Design to Fit All
Image Courtesy Network Rail From Grand Central Station to King’s Cross in London, railway stations have often represented some of the major architectural accomplishments of our times. But those edifices have been primarily located in great cities. In the U.K. there are over 2,000 stations located in medium-sized, small, and rural communities. Most of those are ...
Read more...The Budludzha Monument Project
Pedestrian perspective The result of an effort from a professor at the TUM (Technische Universität München) to restore the Budludzha Monument in Bulgaria, located in a remote location on a mountain top in that country, we discovered that it originally was the result of a 1959 design competition won by the young Bulgarian architect, Georgi Stoilov. “On ...
Read more...Results Announced for the Annual International 2021 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize
Competition sponsor: UC Berkeley Prize Essay Competition and Community service Fellowship Competition Competition type: essay General competition goals: Through distinct competitions – the perennial Essay Competition and various Fellowship Competitions – the international Berkeley Prize competition encourages undergraduate architecture students worldwide to go into their communities for the purpose of thinking and writing about issues central to the understanding of the social art of ...
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