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- Tennessee Aquarium IMAX Competition
- Preston Mosque Competition
- Changdong Station Transit Center, Seoul
- Ropax Ferry Terminal Competition in Riga
- The Covington Gateway Competition – A Visit with the Winning Architect and Covington’s City Planner
- Architecture at Zero 2021/22 and 2023 Winners
- New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan
- Architecture Competitions as the Victim of American Exceptionalism
- 35 years of COMPETITIONS – Recalling Some of the Most Memorable, Both Built and Unbuilt
- Holocaust Memorials Under Siege?
- Seoripul Open Storage Museum in Seoul
- Alster Swimming Pool Restoration, Hamburg
- International Competition for a conceptual architectural design of a primary school in City Kvart in Podgorica
- Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Competition
- Düsseldorf “New Heart” Tower Competition
- Take Back the City Competition
- Dallas Tabs Nieto Sobejano as Choice For Museum Redesign
• David Chipperfield Architects (London, UK) • Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York, USA) • Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, USA) • Michael Maltzan Architecture (Los Angeles, USA) • Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain) • Weiss/Manfredi, New York (USA) - Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art
- Four Plans to Unify Disparate Parts of the Portland Museum of Art’s Campus
• Adjaye Associates with KMA, Michael Boucher Landscape Architecture, Atelier Ten, and 2×4 • LEVER Architecture (Winner) with Unknown Studio, Chris Newell – Akomawt Educational Initiative, Openbox, Once-Future Office, Atelier Ten, and Studio Pacifica • MVRDV with STOSS, the Institute for Human Centered Design, Pentagram, Atelier Ten, and DVDL • Toshiko Mori Architect + Johnston Marklee + Preston Scott Cohen with Hargreaves Jones, Cross Cultural Community Services, WeShouldDoItAll, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, and Arup - Rafael Viñoly: Buoyed by His Early Successes in Competitions
- Butrint National Visitor Center, Albania
Winner • Kengo Kuma & Associates (Japan)with CHwB Albania, YOKE, Esmeralda Agolli, Ervin Paci, SOLARON Albania, iMEPS Engineering & Consulting, and R-Team Engineering Finalists • Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (Finland)with Geometria Architecture, doxiadis+, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Giorgos Papazafiriou, and Sitowise • Philippe PROST / AAPP (France)with Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, William Van Andringa, Terrell Group, ECO + CONSTRUIRE, and CL Design • William Matthews Associates(UK) withBarker Langham, Harris Bugg Studio, Structure Workshop, and Atelier Ten - A Korean Heritage Site Sets the Tone
- Bringing Design and Construction in Closer Proximity
- Shedding More Light on a Non-Profit’s Work Spaces
- Transforming a Helsinki Harbor Site
- Respect for the Old, In with the New
- A Modern Concert Hall for Prague
- A Tribute to Veterans on the Wisconsin Prairie
- The Architect of GSA’s Finest Hour
- Ottawa Parliamentary Precinct’s Block 2
- Infrastructure Hub as Urban Revitalization Catalyst
- Belgrade Philharmonic Concert Hall Competition
- Gyo Obata: How a Broad Horizon Paid Dividends
- High Density in a Green Environment
- Taipei’s New Music Center as 24/7 Destination
- Richard Rogers: Purveyor of the High-Tech Message
- Functionality to the Forefront
- The Rural Countryside as Classroom
- Reimagining the Thompson Center
WINNERS • “Offset: The Vertical Loop” by Tom Lee and Christopher Eastman of Eastman Lee Architects • “One Chicago School” by Jay Longo, James Michaels, Kaitlin Frankforter, Michael Quach, Abaan Zia, Mackenzie Anderson, Nicolas Waidele, Roberta Brucato, Zachary Michaliska of Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Chicago • “Public Pool” by David Rader, Jerry Johnson, Ryan Monteleagre, and Matt Zelensek of Perkins&Will, Chicago HONORABLE MENTIONS • “Rejuvenation” by Yuqi Shao and Andrew Li, students at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology • “Ripple” by Patrick Carata, Simon Cygielski, Sarah Bush, Ilyssa Kaserman, Sean King, Amparito Martinez, Marcin Rysniak, Mica Manaois, Ed Curley, and Cameron Scott of Epstein • “There’s Something for Everyone” by Chava Danielson, Eric Haas, Tim Jordan, Bohan Charlie Lang, and Xixi Luo of DSH architecture, Los Angeles • “Thompson-Scraper“ by Wenyi Zhu of Zhu Wenyi Atelier at Tsinghua University, Beijing - High Density Housing in the Suburbs?
- Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion in Danger
- A Russian City Sets Its Priorities in the Public Realm
1st place • Consortium led by GAU "Institute of the General Plan of Moscow" (Moscow, Russia) 2d place • Consortium led by LLC "NPO" YURGTs " (Rostov-on-Don, Rostov region, Russia) 3rd place • Consortium led by LLC "Orchestra design" (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) - Hightech Designs as Low- and Mid-Rise Research Models
1st Place Eller + Eller Architekten GmbH Düsseldorf/Berlin, Germany 2nd Place Henning Larsen Architekts A/S Copenhagen, Denmark 3rd Place DP Architects Singapore 2nd Round Serie Architects London, U.K./Mumbai, India 1st Round Vastu Shilpa Consultants Ahmedabad, India Gensler Design India Pvt. Ltd Bengalore, India - A New Meeting Place for Moscovites
Winner SWA/Balsley, New York Finalist Gillespies, U.K. - One Design to Fit All
Winner 7N Architects, Edinburgh with ARUP, Gardiner & Theobald and Lisa MacKenzie Consultancy Finalists • ARUP, London + MAC.Atelier, Rio de Janiero • ATKINS, London • Pascall+Watson Ltd., London with Cundall, Gillespies, LAPD Lighting Design and Fusion • Workshop Architecture Inc. Toronto with ARUP - The Budludzha Monument Project
- Results Announced for the Annual International 2021 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize
- A Barn by Herzog de Meuron in Berlin
- An Urban Icon Emerges
Winner • SMAR Architecture Studio (Fer Jerez and Belen P. de Juan), Perth, Australia Finalists • Rish Ryusuke Saito, Sci-Arc/RNT Architects, San Diego, CA • Qinrong Lui / Ruize Li, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA / Singapore - From Anthropology to Architecture: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Competition
Winner KPMB with Omar Gandhi (Toronto) and Public Work (Landscape Architecture) Finalists Dialog (Winnipeg/Toronto) with Brackish Design Studio (landscape architecture) Architecture49 with Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DSR) and Hargreaves Jones (Landscape Architecture)
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Winning entry by Luca Poian Forms Image ©Filippo Bolognese images Good design seldom happens in a vacuum. And so it was with an international competition for a new mosque in Preston, U.K. A mid-sized city of 95,000, and located in Lancashire near the west coast and almost equally distant from London and Glasgow, Preston has a storied past, going all the way back to the Romans and the late Middle Ages, where it was the site of significant battles. During the Industrial Revolution, the city prospered, and it was not until after World War II that Preston experienced the British version of the U.S. Rust Belt. In the meantime, the city has experienced an upswing in economic activity, with an unemployment rate of only 3%. Aside from the appearance of new industries, the city has benefitted from the establishment of Central Lancashire University (CLU), which employs over 3,000 faculty and staff, and, as such, is one of the regions major employers. Any new university requires new facilities, and one of the most outstanding examples of this at CLU was the new Student Centre and Plaza, a result of a 2016 RIBA-sponsored competition won by Hawkins/Brown Read More Preparation and Organization of Design Competitions [phase 1] Benjamin Hossbach / Christian Lehmhaus / Christine Eichelmann 210 × 230 mm, 192 pp. over 600 images softcover ISBN 978-3-86922-316-2 (English) ISBN 978-3-86922-240-0 (German) Dom Publishers €48 in EU (For price abroad, see below) Founded in 1998 in Berlin, Phase 1 has been a principal player in the organization and facilitation of design competitions, not only in Germany, but abroad as well. The accomplishments of the firm have been well documented in three volumes—The Architecture of Competitions—beginning in 2i006. Whereas these books mainly focused on the results of the competitions they have administered, the present work, Fundamentals of Competition Management, takes one from the very beginnings of the competition process to its conclusion. The authors envisioned the publication as “three three books in one: one „blue book“ with example projects, one „yellow book“ with statements and the „white book“ with the actual guideline to competition management.” Although there have been a number of handbooks covering the administration of designcompetitions a study covering the entire process in such detail is a welcome addition to the the literature in this field. As a contribution to this important democratic process that has yielded exceptional design for decades, this volume is not only valid for Europe, but a current overview of the process for those globally who wish to raise the level of design by virtue of a design competition. -Ed Foreign institutions wishing to obtain a copy of the book will recieve a discount to cover the cost of foreign shipping. To obtain a copy for that offer, go to: [email protected]
Changdong Station winner – image ©D & B Partners Architects
Whereas international competitions for real projects have become a rarity lately, Korea is a welcome exception. Among the plethora of competition announcements we receive almost weekly, several have ended with foreign firms as winners. But the history of welcoming international participants does go back several years. One notable early example was the Incheon Airport competition, won by Fentress Bradburn Architects (1962-70).
Among the more recent successes of foreign firms was the Busan Opera House competition, won by Snøhetta (2013-) and the Sejong Museum Gardens competition, won by Office OU, Toronto (2016-2023).
Read more… 1st Place: Zaha Hadid Architects – night view from river – Render by Negativ Arriving to board a ferry boat or cruise ship used to be a rather mundane experience. If you had luggage, you might be able to drop it off upon boarding, assuming that the boarding operation was sophisticated enough. In any case, the arrival experience was nothing to look forward to. I recall boarding the SS United States for a trip to Europe in the late 1950s. Arriving at the pier in New York, the only thought any traveler had was to board that ocean liner as soon as possible, find one’s cabin, and start exploring. If you were in New York City and arriving early, a nearby restaurant or cafe would be your best bet while passing time before boarding. Read more… Helsinki Central Library, by ALA Architects (2012-2018) The world has experienced a limited number of open competitions over the past three decades, but even with diminishing numbers, some stand out among projects in their categories that can’t be ignored for the high quality and degree of creativity they revealed. Included among those are several invited competitions that were extraordinary in their efforts to explore new avenues of institutional and museum design. Some might ask why the Vietnam Memorial is not mentioned here. Only included in our list are competitions that were covered by us, beginning in 1990 with COMPETITIONS magazine to the present day. As for what category a project under construction (Science Island), might belong to or fundraising still in progress (San Jose’s Urban Confluence or the Cold War Memorial competition, Wisconsin), we would classify the former as “built” and wait and see what happens with the latter—keeping our fingers crossed for a positive outcome. Read More… 2023 Teaching and Innovation Farm Lab Graduate Student Honor Award by USC (aerial view) Architecture at Zero competitions, which focus on the theme, Design Competition for Decarbonization, Equity and Resilience in California, have been supported by numerous California utilities such as Southern California Edison, PG&E, SoCAl Gas, etc., who have recognized the need for better climate solutions in that state as well as globally. Until recently, most of these competitions were based on an ideas only format, with few expectations that any of the winning designs would actually be realized. The anticipated realization of the 2022 and 2023 competitions suggests that some clients are taking these ideas seriously enough to go ahead with realization. Read more… RUR model perspective – ©RUR New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan (2011-2020) Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC/ Jesse Reiser – U.S.A. with Fei & Cheng Associates/Philip T.C. Fei – R.O.C. (Tendener) This was probably the last international open competition result that was built in Taiwan. A later competition for the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, won by Neil Denari of the U.S., the result of a shortlisting procedure, was not built. The fact that the project by RUR was eventually completed—the result of the RUR/Fei & Cheng’s winning entry there—certainly goes back to the collaborative role of those to firms in winning the 2008 Taipei Pop Music Center competition, a collaboration that should not be underestimated in setting the stage for this competition Read more… |