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Awarding the most creative, disruptive, and influential individuals in the world today, Bjarke Ingels receives the Wall Street Journal’s first annual Innovator of the Year Award for Architecture for BIG’s wildly expressive structures, including the radical re-imagining of the New York high-rise apartment building, the commitment to sustainability and the philosophy of pragmatic utopianism. [More info after the break]
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Project: Brussels Airport Connector
Architect: UNStudio
Ben van Berkel, Gerard Loozekoot with Wesley Lanckriet and Joerg Petri, Maud van Hees, Milena Stopic, Perrine Planché, Deepak Jawahar, Hans Kooij, Benjamin Moore.
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Client: The Brussels Airport Company NV
Building surface: 23,182m2
Programme: Connector building between the Terminal and Pier A
Status: Competition entry
Local architect: M. & J-M. Jaspers-J. Eyers & Partners
Structural advisors: Ney+Partners and Technum-Tractebel Engineering
Visuals: MIR and Moka-Studio
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Etiquetas: Airport, Belgium, Ben van Berkel, Brussels, competition, Project, UNStudio | 
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BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 1960′s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District. [More info and renders after the break]
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eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. [More info after the break]
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The Serpentine Gallery is delighted to reveal the plans for the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by world-renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This year’s Pavilion is the 11th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK and will include a specially created garden by the influential Dutch designer Piet Oudolf. [More info and images after the break]
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Project: Omonia Bakery
Architect: bluarch
Antonio Di Oronzo
Location: Queens, New York, USA
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Project: New Cultural Center in Ranica
Architects: DAP studio & Paola Giaconia
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Typology: Cultural
Photography: Alessandra Bello
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Etiquetas: Bergamo, Cultural Center, DAP studio, italy, Paola Giaconia, Ranica |
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Project: The Nautilus Project
Architect: Design Spirits
Location: Singapore
Photography: Toshide Kajiwara
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Project: Qi Urban Lobby
Architect: Manadaº
Katerina Alatzia, Alejandro Tapia
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Type: wellness/retail
Area: 162 sq mt
Date of completion: November 2010
Client: Centro Qi Wellnes Center, Condesa, Mexico DF
Time to completion: 6 weeks
General contractor: La Invencible
General contractor: construccion patente, mexico city.
Photography: Jaime Navarro
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Project: Adamos Residence
Architect: Varda Studio
Location: Limassol, Cyprus
Photography: Christos Papantoniou
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Project: Glasgow Riverside Museum
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Program: Exhibition space, cafe, retail and education
Client: Glasgow City Council
Total Area: 11000 sq nt
Exhibition Area: 7000 sq mt
Site Area: 22400 sq mt
Footprint Area: 7800 sq mt
Photography: RiverSide Museum
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The New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion at Peter Minuit Plaza has now officially opened to the public in New York City’s Battery Park. The pavilion was designed by Amsterdam-based Ben Van Berkel/UNStudio in collaboration with Handel Architects LLP, New York serving as associate architect. The project’s landscape was conceived by Parks Dept. Landscape Designer Gail Wittwer-Laird. [more images and project description after the break]
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Project: Veracruz 60
Architect: JSª
Javier Sánchez
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Design Team: Juan Manuel Soler, Mariana Paz, Alejandro Ita, Karen Cheirif
Project area: 14,667.00 sqf
Project year: 2009
Photography: Jair Navarrete, Paúl Rivera – archphoto, Pedro Hiriart
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The next big event in China after the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Expo with a projected 12 Mio visitors for the coming 6 months, Xi’an International Horticultural Expo has officially opened last Thursday and already received more than 200,000 visitors over the first weekend. The ancient city of Xi’an- home to the Terracotta Army and many buildings of unique historical significance- is using this opportunity to focus on the current challenges from its recent growth and transformation. [More images and project description after the break]
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