Adelaide Contemporary Shortlist

Adjaye Associates (London, UK) with BVN (Sydney, Australia) BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (Copenhagen, Denmark)

with JPE Design Studio (Adelaide, Australia)

David Chipperfield Architects (London, UK)

with SJB Architects (Sydney, Australia)

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York, USA) with Woods Bagot (Adelaide, Australia) HASSELL (Melbourne, Australia) with SO-IL (New York, USA) Khai Liew

RIBA Gasholder Bases Competition

Winning design © Outpost

This competition was an open, ideas competition with wide participation from Europe.

Winner

Outpost Architecture & Design, London

Runnerup

Wilson Owens Owens Architects (WOO), London

Finalists • 318 Studio, London • CF Architects, offices in Kent and Surrey, U.K. • Jan Verhagen and Pricille

Taichung Tower Competition

Image: ©Elizabeth de Portzamparc –

This Taichung Tower Competition, won by Elizabeth de Portzamparc, is a second competition for this Taichung Gateway site. A previous competition held for the same project was cancelled, as the City client decided that the winning design by Sou Fujimoto could pose a dangerous risk to visitors. This

U.K. Holocaust Memorial Competition

Image © Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects

There were 92 expressions of interest submitted, of which ten firms were invited to submit proposals.

Winner: Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects, London/New York

Honorable Mention Henenghan Peng Architects, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Bruce Mau Design,and Sven Anderson, Dublin/London/U.S.

Finalists

2017 Burnham Prize Winners

On August 24th, 2017 a distinguished jury of notable professionals, academics, and cultural leaders met to decide the competition winners. In response to this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial prompting Make New History, the 2017 Burnham Prize Competition: Under the Dome used the historical and typological construct of the dome and called for its critical re-imagination.

Finalists in the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest announced

UAB Paleko Archstudija and UAB Baltic Engineers; Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios; and Adam Khan Architects announced as the finalists of the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest

• 117 teams entered the contest from 36 countries • All concept designs for the Centre were judged anonymously • New M.K.

Tallinn City Harbor Masterplan Competition

Finalists

• Zaha Hadid Architects, London (winner) • Alejandro Zaera-Polo Maider Llaguno Architecture, Spain / Kavakava, Tallinn • Andres Alver, Tallinn

Thamesmead Library Shortlist

Sponsors/organizers: Peabody, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

Location: London Borough of Bexley.

The shortlisted teams (in alphabetical order) are:

Adam Khan Architects, UK Architecture 00 Ltd / Studio Weave, UK Bisset Adams Ltd, UK Keith Williams Architects, UK Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, Norway

The new library and civic building will lie

London Centre for Music Shortlist

Sponsors: Barbican, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Process: RfQ, shortlist

The need for a new state-of-the-art venue was the result of a study, drawn up by Arup and Arup Associates among others, which said London lacked a venue with ‘brilliance, immediacy, depth, richness and warmth’ and

Ross Pavilion Design Competition

Image: © wHY Architecture

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Type: RfQ with shortlist of seven (7) teams

Site: The site for the new Pavilion is a nationally-important space, perfectly positioned below Edinburgh Castle and adjoining the city’s most famous shopping street. Currently occupied by the Ross Bandstand, this is a true

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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Welcome Dave

Adelaide Contemporary Shortlist

RIBA Gasholder Bases Competition

Taichung Tower Competition

U.K. Holocaust Memorial Competition

2017 Burnham Prize Winners

Finalists in the Kaunas M.K. Čiurlionis Concert Centre International Design Contest announced

Tallinn City Harbor Masterplan Competition

Thamesmead Library Shortlist

London Centre for Music Shortlist

Ross Pavilion Design Competition

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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

Welcome Dave

2017 Annual is here!

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

SMÍCHOV ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
An International competition in Prague

City and Developer as
Infrastructure Catalyst