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Title: Traveltime international workshop
Location: Imvros/Gökçeada
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Description: traveltime is an international summer workshop that will take place in the island of Imvros/Gökçeada between 7-15 August. The intensive 9-day design workshop is open to all architecture students who are interested in relationships between theory and practice. Participants will investigate ways of understanding a place with its history, memory, geography, nature and culture through travels, readings, and performances on the island in order to develop individual and group design work.

traveltime refers to the spatiotemporal character of travel which we aim to explore in this workshop. Throughout history, Imvros/Gökçeada has been a place of traverse as a result of migration, exile, and tourism. For example, the Greek population in the island fell dramatically after the 1960s. The half-open prison on the island caused another population flow until the 1990s when the prison was closed. In the summer, there happens another community circulation on the island as visitors search experiences and emotions as diverse as relaxation, pleasure, remembrance, and exploration. Some spend the summer in their seasonal home; others visit the island for the yearly celebrations of the Panagia Festival; some stay at the numerous hotels on the island for a short holiday; others come to the island to visit the places their migrated families once lived. This workshop will provide an opportunity to consider these different acts of travel that suggest different time frames in which one experiences a place.

traveltime will initiate participation, active involvement, and creative production. We intend this event to evolve around daily performances, readings and discussions from architectural discourse and other fields such as art, music, gastronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Start Date: 2010-08-07
End Date: 2010-08-15

Title: Architecture and Design Film Festival 2010
Location: Tribeca Cinemas @ Manhattan
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Description: The Architecture and Design film festival celebrates the creative spirit of architecture and design. A variety of films will engage the audience with how architects and designers think, work and create.

The festival will take place this October in New York City at the Tribeca Cinemas. This 4-day event will showcase films that focus on a range of design related topics, i.e., architecture, the people and the personalities behind architecture and design, the design process as well as product design. We are in the process of programming the festival, and would be interested in seeing if your film would be appropriate for this year’s screenings. Please send us a preview DVD for review, along with the necessary contact information to:

ADFF- Architecture & Design Film Festival
180 Varick Street, Suite 410
New York, NY 10014
USA

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS AUGUST 15th 2010

For additional information please contact:
ADFF Coordinator
Sofia Mourato
ph. (917) 940 9727
sofia@adfilmfest.com
Start Date: 2010-10-14
End Date: 2010-10-17

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Norwegian architects Snøhetta has won the Times Square Reconstruction Project to create a series of pedestrian plazas along Broadway, including Times Square. The winning team led by Snøhetta also comprises WXY Architecture and Design, Weidlinger Associates (engineers), Matthew Nielsen (landscape), Billings Jackson Design (industrial) and Bexel (audio-visual).

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Project: Casa en Pilar
Architect: BAK Arquitectos
            María Victoria Besonías, Luciano Kruk.
Contributor: Sebastián Indri
Location: Country Club en Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plot area: 600 m2
Built area: 142 m2
Date: 2006
Photography: Cora Surraco y Alfredo Herms

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Project: The Marcus Beach House
Architect: Bark Architects
Location: Marcus Beach, Queensland
House Area: 260m2
Site Area: 727 m2
Builder: Murray Wall
Structural Engineer: Meecham Engineers
Materials: Spotted Gum hardwood Timber, zincalume sheeting, corrugated zincalume, clear & opal polycarbonate, Fibre Cement sheet cladding, timber tongue & groove flooring, plasterboard wall lining, plywood ceiling lining.
Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones

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Project: Showroom FUA
Architect: BROISSINarchitects
           Gerardo Broissin
Design Team: María Teresa de la Torre Gorráez, Verónica Rebollar García
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Awards: 1st prize Interior Nacional design award México 2006
        American Hardwood Export Council, Best Interior Word use. 2006
Date: 2006
Furniture: Arte Línea
Contractor: BROISSINarchitects
Photography: Paul Czitrom

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Project: Panta Rhei College Interiors
Architects: Snelder Architecten
Location: Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Interior design: i29 | interior architects
Client: Panta Rhei, Amstelveen
Floor area: 4000m2
Poems: ErikJan Harmens
Constructor: Wouters Bouw
Interior builder: Zwartwoud
Photography: Jeroen Musch

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Project: Clapham Manor Primary School
Author: dRMM
Location: London, UK
Type: Education
Client: London Borough of Lambeth
Gross Internal Area: 927 m2
Project Manager: Sprunt
Cost Consultant: Appleyard & Trew
Structural Engineer: Michael Hadi Associates
Services Engineer: Fulcrum Consulting
Acoustics: Fleming & Barron
Main Contractor: The Construction Partnership
Materials: Glass (transparent, coloured and fritted), concrete, plywood, acoustic plasterboard, terrazzo
Photography: Jonas Lencer, Philip Marsh

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The RIBA is pleased to announce the RIBA Stirling Shortlist 2010

Neues Museum by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Archtitects

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects

Christ’s College School by DSDHA

Ashmolean Museum by Rick Mather Architects

Clapham Manor Primary School by dRMM

Bateman’s Row by Theis and Khan

The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.

The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000. The prize is named after the great British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-1992). 

The RIBA Stirling Prize Winner 2009 was Maggie’s Centre London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Images:
Neues Museum: Audringje
http://www.flickr.com/photos/audringje/

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts: ZioPaolino
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ziopaopao/

Christ’s College School: Planning Resource
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33232053@N03/

Ashmolean Museum: Martin Beek
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/

The Fab Lab House, developed by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), is a self-sufficient building that marks a new paradigm of energetic efficiency through its innovative hability to generate energy, food and utensils. The house produces three times more energy than it consumes, and thanks to its elevated structure –which naturally creates a patio/orchard/kitchen space underneath to provide for food. Also, it incorporates state-of-the-art machinery which can build tools and everyday objects by using the very same parametrical designs used in the general design of the space. More info and pictures after the break.

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The 18th CEMEX BUILDING AWARD shows the contest has strived to achieve its goal of promoting a culture of innovation and competitiveness in concrete construction. The outstanding structures by the winners and finalists show the effort and hard work involved in creating architecture committed to improving people´s quality of life while still caring for the environment. More info after the break.

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eVolo – to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away…

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe to take part in the 2011 Skyscraper Competition.

The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city. Info about registration, schedule, jury and awards after the break.

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Back in April, 16 architectural firms including Zaha Hadid, Mecanoo and O.M.A. submitted their designs for a new dance and music center on the puiplein in The Hague, The Netherlands. A selection committee led by politician and royal adviser Herman Tjeenk Willink has evaluated the 16 designs and has now selected three Round 2 Finalists. The new building on the Spui Square will become the hot spot in The Hague for dance, opera, musicals, family shows, theater, concerts, classical music and jazz.

The finalists are RAU, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten / Kirkegaard Associates, and Zaha Hadid Architects. After the breaks images of the finalist projects.

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ICADE Promotion and MVRDV present the design for the Pushed Slab office building at ZAC Gare de Rungis in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The 19.000 m2 building will be one of the first low energy buildings realised in France; with low energy consumption and an energy production of appr. 200.000kWh per year. Construction of the 35 million Euro building commissioned by French project developer ICADE Promotion is expected to start 2011. More info after the break.

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Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at La Biennale di Venezia 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Press release after the break.

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