The Future of Architecture with a New Administration

  If history tells us anything, the advent of a new Trump administration could have serious implications for the future of architecture in this country. Trump’s previous tenure in office saw several appointments to D.C. agencies that foretold a significant attitude change toward modern architecture. First, we might expect a repeat of Trump’s 2018/19 appointments to ...
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Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Competition

  Completed IMEX by Tuck Hinton Architects. Photo courtesy Anecdote   It is not often that we look back to a competition that occurred three decades ago that was also covered in detail by COMPETITIONS (Vol. 4, #4; pp. 14-27). What made the Chattanooga IMAX different back in 1994 was that the article covering that competition was authored ...
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Preston Mosque Competition

  A City Follows in the Footsteps of an Honored Tradition            Winning entry by Luca Poian Forms  Image ©Filippo Bolognese images   Good design seldom happens in a vacuum. And so it was with an international competition for a new mosque in Preston, U.K. A mid-sized city of 95,000, and located in Lancashire near the west ...
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Changdong Station Transit Center, Seoul

    Whereas international competitions for real projects have become a rarity lately, Korea is a welcome exception. Among the plethora of competition announcements we receive almost weekly, several have ended with foreign firms as winners. But the history of welcoming international participants does go back several years. One notable early example was the Incheon Airport competition, ...
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Ropax Ferry Terminal Competition in Riga

  1st Place: Zaha Hadid Architects – night view from river – Render by Negativ   Arriving to board a ferry boat or cruise ship used to be a rather mundane experience. If you had luggage, you might be able to drop it off upon boarding, assuming that the boarding operation was sophisticated enough. In any case, the ...
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The Covington Gateway Competition – A Visit with the Winning Architect and Covington’s City Planner

  One thing about competitions, and having the fortunate experience I’ve had, I’ve really learned that being ambitious for your client and society is hugely important.  – James Cheng     This is Thursday, April 11, 2024, and I am in the office of emersion DESIGN with architect James Cheng and J.T. Spence, the latter the former planner of ...
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Architecture at Zero 2021/22 and 2023 Winners

    2023 Teaching and Innovation Farm Lab Graduate Student Honor Award by USC (aerial view)   Architecture at Zero competitions, which focus on the theme, Design Competition for Decarbonization, Equity and Resilience in California, have been supported by numerous California utilities such as Southern California Edison, PG&E, SoCAl Gas, etc., who have recognized the need for better climate ...
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New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan

  RUR model perspective – ©RUR   New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan (2011-2020) Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC/ Jesse Reiser – U.S.A. with Fei & Cheng Associates/Philip T.C. Fei – R.O.C. (Tendener) This was probably the last international open competition result that was built in Taiwan. A later competition for the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, won by Neil Denari of the ...
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Architecture  Competitions as the Victim of American Exceptionalism

  Winning Stage 2 design for the WWll Memorial Competition ©Friedrich St. Florian   The guidelines for the administration a design competition are not a closely held state secret. Still, leading up to the announcement of a design competition for the World War II Memorial, some in the military seemed to think otherwise. In early 1993, an AIA ...
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35 years of COMPETITIONS – Recalling Some of the Most Memorable, Both Built and Unbuilt

    Helsinki Central Library, by ALA Architects (2012-2018)   The world has experienced a limited number of open competitions over the past three decades, but even with diminishing numbers, some stand out among projects in their categories that can’t be ignored for the high quality and degree of creativity they revealed. Included among those are several invited competitions ...
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