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A COMPETITION FOR DECARBONIZATION, EQUITY AND RESILIENCE DESIGN ARCHITECTURE

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Rafael Viñoly: Buoyed by His Early Successes in Competitions

 

 

Figure 1 Industrial Union Tower (1967)

 

Rafael already made a name for himself in the late sixties as a university student in Buenos Aires. While I was a student serving as an intern in a downtown office in Buenos Aires, one of my peers came back with a story about

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A New Site in San Jose for Breeze of Innovation

 

Plaza de Cesar Chavez Photo: ©xAtsukex

 

The City of San Jose has finally reach a consensus on a site for Breeze of Innovation, the winning entry in the city’s recent Urban Confluence competition. Urban Confluence Silicon Valley announced they have made the important decision to consider building Breeze of Innovation at Plaza

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The Architect of GSA’s Finest Hour

 

Edward A. Feiner, FAIA (1947-2022)

 

 

Nothing is a boon to architecture more than a knowledgeable patron. And one of the foremost “patrons” of architecture in modern societies is government—at its various levels. Our federal government’s role in this is carried out mainly by the General Services Administration (GSA), which oversees the

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Grimshaw wins Nyugati Railway Station Competition

Aerial view ©Grimshaw Architects

 

After the conclusion of the second stage of the Nyugati Railway Station Competition, Grimshaw Architects has been declared the winner. This conclusion was reached by a jury after twelve teams had been shortlisted from the initial stage of the competition in an RfQ process. The shortlisted firms were:

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David Adjaye’s U.K. Holocaust Memorial Cancelled

 

Image ©David Adjaye

After numerous protests by preservationists, who maintained that they had no problem with the idea of a Holocaust Memorial, but that the site next to Westminster Abbey was wrong, the High Court sided with the opposition and quashed the £100M project won by London architect, David Adjaye. Our article about

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Ottawa Parliamentary Precinct Renewal Competition Presentations

 

On Monday, April 10 from 10am to 1pm (EDT) you can view the presentations of six firms shortlisted as finalists for the above competition. From this list, you may see that it should be interesting, especially for students that endeavor to be in a similar situation someday. The presentations will all be in

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Gyo Obata: How a Broad Horizon Paid Dividends

 

Gyo Obata Photo: courtesy HOK

 

If there are milestones in the world of architecture, the passing of Gyo Obata certainly marked one. Obata, along with Cesar Pelli, Richard Rogers and Helmut Jahn, belonged to a group of designers that had strong international connections, sometimes based on family histories. A second generation American

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The Thompson Center on the Verge of Survival?

 

A Progressive Developer Steps In

 

Updated version of Thompson Center Southeast view ©Jahn

 

In a September 28th article on our website, competitions.org, where we covered the Thompson Center competition sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club, the stated purpose of the competition was to investigate possible designs that could re-imagine the building’s

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Richard Rogers: Purveyor of the High-Tech Message

 

Richard Rogers (1933-2021)

 

Image ©faber & faber

 

 

Could you imagine that a person who is anything but adept at drawing, and also dyslexic, would become one of the world’s great architects? Meet Richard Rogers, who was full of ideas, but engaged collaborators to fully realize them. One might even assume

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