20th Berkeley Prize Results

Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley Type: International, Essay – Travel and Fellowship competitions Number of entries: 79 Topic: How do Civic Buildings Create Community? Awards: • For the eight Finalists, there is the “best of the best” First, Second and Third Prizes, and five Honorable Mentions totaling 35,000USD. • In addition, and in lieu

Type: Open, RfQ, two-stage Location: Sydney, Australia Number of RfQ submissions: 74 teams entered

Winner:

Moreau Kusunoki (Paris) and Genton(Sydney)

Finalists:

• AL_A (UK) and Architectus (Australia)

• Bernardes Architecture(Brazil) and Scale Architecture (Australia)

• BVN Architecture(Australia) and Carlo Ratti Associati (Italy)

• CHROFI (Australia) withReko Rennie (Australia)

• Steven

National Railway Museum: Central Hall Competition Shortlist

The open two-stage competition welcomed both national and international integrated design teams, with competitors encouraged to demonstrate exceptional design talent, creative flair, sensitivity to the heritage context and expertise in sustainability. Seventy-six teams from 19 countries comprising 241 firms entered the competition’s first stage.

The shortlisted teams are (in alphabetical order):

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Houston Endowment Headquarters Results

National Pulse Memorial & Museum International Design Competition Results

Type: Open, International, RfQ Number of Expressions of Interest: 68 Shortlisted for second stage: 6 Professional adviser: Dovetail Design Strategists

Winner Coldefy & Associés with RDAI, Xavier Veilhan, dUCKS scéno, Agence TER, Prof. Laila Farah

Finalists Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rene Gonzalez Architects with Raymond Jungles, Inc. heneghan peng architects, Gustafson Porter +

Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

Location: Kiev, Ukraine Competition Organizer: Phase eins, Berlin Number of entries: 165

Type, Open, international

Winner Querkraft Architekten with Kieran Fraser Landscape Design Vienna, Austria 2nd Prize Dorte Mandrup A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark with Martha Schwartz Partners, New York 3rd Prize merz merz gmbh & co. kg, Berlin, Germany with Topotek 1 Gesellschaft von Landschaftsarchitekten

Shortlist to design new Student Hub for the University of Leeds

Sponsor: University of Leeds Administration: RIBA Type: EOI, Invited Language: English Location: Leeds, UK

The five shortlisted teams are:

• Cullinan Studio with Turkington Martin

• Evans Vettori Architects with Re-Form

• Nicholas Hare Architects with Fabrik and Hesketh Hayden Architects

• O’Donnell + Tuomey with Dermot Foley

• Reiach and Hall

Houston Endowment Headquarters Competition

From 121 teams comprising 354 individual firms, four teams were shortlisted to provide concepts for the final stage of the competition. They are:

Deborah Berke Partners with DAVID RUBIN Land Collective and Atelier Ten Kevin Daly Architects with TLS Landscape Architecture, Productora and Transsolar Olson Kundig with Surfacedesign, Inc Schaum/Shieh Architects with HKS

2019 FENTRESS GLOBAL CHALLENGE WINNERS

1st Place – Infinity Airport

Winner: Daoru Wang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

2nd Place – Newark Airport Biophilic Headhouse and Community Nexus

Winner: Samantha Pires, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

3rd Place – LondonHeathrow2075

Winner: Christopher Johnson, University for the Creative

Young Architects in Competitions

When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality

by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047

What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset?

This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions.

Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link:

https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/

Connector as Solution

National Railway Museum Central Hall (U.K.)

If one were to search for a railway museum in the U.K., London would seem to be an obvious choice. But, as it happens, its location is in the northeastern city of York, far from the major cultural and economic centers of the country. But despite its distance from the major metropolitan areas to the south and west, York has managed to become the focal point of research into the history of rail in the U.K., supplemented by a major museum. Here we are not just talking about some posters, but sheds replete with a large collection of vintage trains.

Xingdong New Area Urban Design Competition: City of the Future

Master plans have been around for ages; but master plans for very large cities with all their support systems are relatively new. Milton Keynes (MK), located in Buckinghamshire in southern England, and begun in the late 1960s, is one of the most successful of the new cities, now having a population of almost 250,000. Its success lies mainly on the lessons learned from the establishment of the planning which generated the new towns in the U.K. during the 1940s and 50s, many of which have not fared well in the test of time. MK’s success was based primarily on the careful separation of high density from residential where the influence of the “garden city” could be seen. Here the idea of a live/work environment was even incorporated.

Investigating Chicago’s Most Complex Infrastructure Issue

The O’Hare International Airport Competition

Winning entry – Studio-ORD

The updating and modernization of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport has been well overdue. Aside from occasional problems caused by Chicago’s winter storms, congestion at the airport has led air travelers to avoid the airport when catching a connecting flight is on the agenda. So Chicago, noted for its modern architecture and the home of several high-profile architecture firms, decided to turn to an invited competition for a solution to these issues.

Competitions in Chicago in the recent past have been anything but encouraging, especially when transparency is an issue. During the competition for the Obama Center on the South Side, the Obama Foundation, which was responsible for the administration of that “competition,” was anything but a model of transparency; and to this day, none of the finalist designs, other than that of the winner, have seen the light of day. In the case of the O’Hare project, videos submitted by the five finalists teams were on public display, and the public was even asked to vote for their favorite.

A Quest to Memorialize a Serious Hate Crime: The Pulse Memorial Competition

In these times when political emotions run high and gun violence is the norm, not the exception; and when emotions no longer are held in check, but encouraged by our leaders, minorities become easy targets for those who adhere to ideologies based primarily on exclusivity and hate.

The LGBT community has long been the target of various segments of our society; but the massacre that took place at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, a favorite hangout for gays, elevated this phenomenon to a new level. After an event that claimed the lives of 49 victims, injured 68 others, and left hundreds permanently traumatized, it should come as no surprise that a memorial to this tragedy has been front and center in the minds of the community ever since. Because the very nature of this event has drawn nationwide attention, the community wanted to get it right. So it was only logical that they would turn to a competition as the most viable vehicle for arriving at a solution for the design of a memorial, as well as a museum. For this, the onePULSE Foundation was formed, to memorialize this tragedy and “ensure that Pulse”s legacy of love, acceptance and hope will never be lost.”

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20th Berkeley Prize Results