A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

Courtesy: TMOA ©Joe Shih. Architects + Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop

The competition for the Taoyuan Museum of Arts is similar to now what has become the typical invited format for major projects in Taiwan. In this case, 14 architectural teams submitted their qualifications, and

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

Image: courtesy Taiwan National Central Library ©BAF

Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall Competition

Image courtesy Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure ©Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects prevailed over the entries of 47 other firms to win the Sverdlovsk Concert Hall Competition in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Staging this competition in the Urals, in a remote location in European Russia from the centers of power, is testimony that culture

Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge

The Grand Bayway by Common Ground (image © TLS Landscape Architecture) Courtesy: Resilient by Design

At a time when sea level rise is threatening coastal communities, California’s San Francisco Bay area, together with Miami and New York, would appear to be the most immediately threatened by this phenomenon. Assuming that

Sandy Hook Memorial

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

Mussolini on the Spree…and More

Where Ecology Rules: Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition

Winning entry by Morphosis (image ©Morphosis)

Whether it was the establishment of a shrimp industry, general water and flood abatement, or a site for bird migration, the Hsinta Ecological Power Plant competition produced a plethora of interesting approaches to mitigate the negative effects normally associated with the introduction of a power plant. With one possible exception, each of the five finalists in this international, two-stage competition showed an extensive amount of research to support their design strategies and the underlying sustainability features.

University College Dublin’s Future Campus Competition Finalists

Entry by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (© Diller Scofidio + Renfro)

Six design teams have been selected as finalists in the Future Campus – University College Dublin International Design Competition. The teams’ urban design visions for an Entrance Precinct Masterplan and concept designs for a new circa €48m Centre for Creative Design are now

Three Finalists: Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania

Type: Open, international
Number of entries: 177
Process: As a result of the open competition, three finalists were chosen to refine their designs and submit them for final evaluation by the municipality of Kaunas.

The three finalists were:

UAB Paleko Archstudija and UAB Baltic Engineers (Lithuania)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (United Kingdom)
Adam Khan Architects (United Kingdom)

The six practices given honorable mentions were:

Mark Foster Gage Architects (US)
Ja Architecture Studio (Canada)
William Olmsted Antozzi Office of Architecture, TARI Architects and Derek Pirozzi Design Workshop (US)
Ateliers O-S Architectes (France)
RARE architecture (United Kingdom)
Studija Heima, MB and Vaidas Saveikis (Lithuania)
The competition adviser was Malcolm Reading Consultants

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Form and Dichroic Light
Scott Hall at Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle LaFoe and Isaac Campbell
OFFICE 52 Architecture
Forward by Cesar Pelli, FAIA
Introduction by Michael J. Crosbie, FAIA
Leete”s Island Books, Maine USA
Hard cover; 96 pages in color
ISBN 9780918172709

In his introduction to Form and Dichroic LIght, Michael Crosbie never mentions the term, “wild card,” to describe Office 52’s participation in the invited competition for the Carnegie Mellon Engineering Building. The four finalists, picked from a list of 17 firms, also included three household names: ZGF, Wilson, and BCJ (Bohlin Cywinski, Jackson). So what possible chance could a firm, which had just recently opened a small office in Portland, Oregon, have against a competition lineup of this magnitude? But as OFFICE 52 Principal, Isaac Campbell explained, as a small firm, “we were quite nimble,” and the $50,000 stipend the firms all received to produce a design could allow OFFICE 52 more time to undertake the research involved than might be the case with a larger office, where a cost controller is constantly focusing on the operation.

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

The primary reason for establishing a “Southern Branch” of Taiwan’s National Central Library And National Repository Library was logical: the main National Central Library was running out of space to store an increasingly large quantity of physical and digital items. One might have assumed this could have all been accomplished by building a large warehouse-type storage facility. Nothing of the kind happened here. The site of the competition announced by the competition organizers for the design of a new building was in a small city of 80,000 in southern Taiwan.

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst

Not since the Golden Gate Bridge and BART has San Francisco experienced an infrastructure project of the magnitude and importance as the recently completed Transbay Transit Terminal. The subject of a 2007 competition won by Pelli Clarke Pelli (PCP) with Peter Walker Landscape Architects, the project is only missing some rail connections, which will enable passengers to connect to many parts of the state in the foreseeable future.

Sandy Hook Memorial

Commemorating the deaths of 26 victims of a well-publicized school shooting is no small chore. But because of the tragic events at its elementary school in 2012, the village of Sandy Hook has achieved national prominence as a symbol of the gun violence afflicting the nation. Although it is almost impossible to bring closure to such an event, the community did determine that the establishment of a memorial would at least be a positive step in that direction. To arrive at such an important issue as a design for the memorial, it was determined that an international design competition was a logical path to follow.

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

After an extended and rigorous competition process, the winner(s) of the National Memorial for the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kiev have been selected. They are:

1^st Prize – Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin/Germany
2^nd Prize – Burø architects, Kiev/Ukraine
3^rd Prize – Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture, Paris/France

This was the second competition in the process to determine the designs for both the site and the museum complex itself. The purpose of the project was to honor the victims of the attempted suppression of the protests, which ultimately ended with the deposition of the pro-Russian premier, Viktor Yanukovych.

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A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall Competition

Resilient by Design: Bay Area Challenge

Sandy Hook Memorial

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

Mussolini on the Spree…and More

Where Ecology Rules: Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition

University College Dublin’s Future Campus Competition Finalists

2017 Annual is here!

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Recent Competitions

Three Finalists: Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Repository Library as Public-Friendly Asset

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

The San Francisco Transbay Terminal Competition

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst

Sandy Hook Memorial

Architecture as Political Statement in the Ukraine

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2017 Annual is here!

• Half price on 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 Annuals. • 2017 Annual now available in PDF format Look inside.

Recent Competitions

Three Finalists: Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre

Southern Branch of the National Central Library and National Repository Library, Taiwan

City and Developer as Infrastructure Catalyst

• Half price on 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 Annuals.
• 2017 Annual now available in PDF format Look inside.

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst