Re-Imagining the Garden City: Shortlist

The first phase of the Competition attracted entries from competitors based in Australia; France; Germany; India; Iran; Italy; the Netherlands; Poland; Thailand; the United Kingdom and the United States of America

Following appraisal of the anonymous design submissions, the authors of the four short listed

EcoResponsive Environments Ltd., Leicester, U.K. CF MØller Architects

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

Gladstone Library Extension

Stage 2 Results of Maidan Museum in Kiev, Ukraine

First Prize: Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin/Germany

Second Prize: Burø architects, Kyiv/Ukraine

Third Prize: Lina Ghotmeh – Architecture, Paris/France

Runner-up: Dominique Lyon Architectes, Paris/France

Runner-up: Coop Himme(l)blau, Vienna/Austria

Runner-up: Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Arquitecto SLP, Seville/Spain

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve Results

Winning entry ©studio McLeod

Location: Kent, U.K. Competition administration: RIBA

Winner Studio McLeod and Ekkist, London

Finalists ArkleBoyce Architects, U.K. Ben Adams Architectsm U.K. Bilska de Beaupuy.

Note: Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve comprises 73 hectares of mixed habitat almost entirely man-made. The five lakes, ponds, reedbeds and woodland are home to an

NWA Affordable Housing Competition

Image: ©Kevin Daly Architects

Type: From 100 design professionals from around the world which were invited to submit qualifications, 25 were selected and invited to participate in the competition. Sponsor/Facilitator: Faye Jones School of Architecture and Design, Fayetteville, Arkansas Support was furnished by the Walton Family Foundation

The competition winners were:

Adelaide Contemporary Art Museum Submissions Revealed

The designs of the six shortlisted teams that entered the Adelaide Contemporary competition are now on display.

Adjaye Associates and BVN with McGregor Coxall, Steensen Varming, Plan A Consultants, Barbara Flynn, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Aurecon Group and Front Inc

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and JPE Design Studio with United

Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition in Taiwan

It’s almost strange to state that the format of the above competition is a departure from the recent trend toward invited competitions in Taiwan. But competition adviser Barry Cheng administered an open, two-stage international competition, which recently ended with the top two places going to well-known U.S.-based firms: Morphosis (Los Angeles) and Leers

University College Dublin’s Future Campus Shortlist

The shortlist was expanded from the expected five to six in recognition of the outstanding response from the international design community. The finalist teams won their places on the basis of submissions scored on relevant experience and team composition.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (US) John Ronan Architects (US) O’Donnell + Tuomey (Ireland) Steven Holl

Designing Aljada’s Central Hub

Zaha Hadid Architects Wins UAE Masterplan Competition

Following the international competition, ARADA has appointed Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to design the Central Hub, the centerpiece of Aljada, the developer’s masterplan in Sharjah, UAE. The other competitors in the invited competition were HOK (U.S.) and RMJM (London).

Developed with environmental considerations integrated

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

Winning project by Office Ou (image © Office Ou)

The features of a truly international competition were quite in evidence in Prague’s SMÍCHOV School search for an ideal elementary school design: the event attracted 66 entries from around the world, and the winners were a team from Canada and Poland. The sponsors went so far as to even estimate the number of hours spent by all of the architects who submitted entries for the competition (58,800). One can only imagine what that number might have been for the Helsinki Guggenheim competition, which attracted 1,715 entries.

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.

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

Garage Screen, a program of film screenings on contemporary art and culture, was launched in 2012 and introduces viewers to notable examples of Russian and foreign feature films, documentaries, and experimental films. Since its inception, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has selected and shown films and videos examining issues of contemporary art and culture in all their manifestations, rare documentary films on the lives and lifestyles of prominent and little-known artists, musicians, architects, and performing artists, as well as films about the creation of exhibitions and works of art.

A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

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 four qualified for the second competition stage. They were Q-LAB + menacoo architecten, Joe Shih. Architects + Riken Yamamoto and Field Shop, Ricky Liu & Associates, and JJPan and Partners, Architects and Planners + MVRDV.

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.

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Re-Imagining the Garden City: Shortlist

THREE FINALISTS: KAUNAS M.K. ČIURLIONIS CONCERT CENTRE

Gladstone Library Extension

Stage 2 Results of Maidan Museum in Kiev, Ukraine

Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve Results

NWA Affordable Housing Competition

Adelaide Contemporary Art Museum Submissions Revealed

Hsinta Ecological Power Plant Competition in Taiwan

University College Dublin’s Future Campus Shortlist

Designing Aljada’s Central Hub

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Recent Competitions

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

OFFICE 52 at Carnegie Mellon

Movies in the Park: Garage Screen Summer Cinema Competition in Moscow

A Museum as Entertainment Landscape

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

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

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2017 Annual is here!

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Recent Competitions

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: An International competition in Prague

The Taoyuan Museum of Arts Competition

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

City and Developer as Infrastructure Catalyst

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SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst