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U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.

KieranTimberlake’s design met the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, timeless, safe and energy efficient embassy for the 21st century. Their concept most fully satisfied the requirements outlined in the design competition’s mission statement. The concept holds the greatest potential for developing a truly iconic embassy and is on the leading edge of sustainable design. KieranTimberlake is an architectural firm known for its commitment to innovation and environmental responsibility. More images and info after the break.
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Project: Hotel and Hotel Center
Author: SHL Architects
schmidt hammmer lassen architects
Project Partner: Kim Holst Jensen, schmidt hammer lassen architects
Project Architect: Kristian Lars Ahlmark, schmidt hammer lassen architects
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden
Client: Midroc Property Development (Sweden)
Area: Hotel and congress 16,900 m2/ Housing and shops 17,100 m2
Competition year: 2009
Competition type: Property development competition
Contractor: Midroc Property Development
Landscape architect: schmidt hammer lassen architects in collaboration with Masu Planning Landscape (Denmark)
Executive consultants: Sweco (Sweden)

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In fall 2009, the entry by Californian firm DRDS Architecture won the first prize in the architectural design competition for the new KNN Media Center in Busan, Korea. The project, located in the new Centum City district, includes new broadcast facilities for KNN, office condominiums, retail spaces, and a museum. The winning proposal was a collaboration of DRDS with local design firm Ilshin Architects. More info and images after the break.

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Nicknamed the “Blue Volcano”, Njiric+ Arhitekti’s large stadium is designed to push the boundary of “human experiences of public spaces.” The overwhelming built form creates a presence in the city that distinguishes it as a new landmark for the area.  The stadium was conceived not as a building typology but rather as a topography. Using the natural undulation of the landscape, the new civic arena is housed within an artificial hill made of recycled rubber and blue pigment sprayed onto corrugated aluminium sheets.

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BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and a team of consultants have won the largest ever commission on the Faroe Islands for a 19,200 m2 Education Center in Torshavn. In collaboration with Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad, BIG will design the new Education Center situated on a hillside on the outskirts of Torshavn, to serve as a base for coordination and future development of all educational programs in the region.

As the largest educational building project in the country’s history, the institution combines Faroe Islands Gymnasium, Torshavns Technical College and Business College of Faroe Islands in one building, housing 1,200 students and 300 teachers.

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced today the winners of the 2009 President’s Medals Student Awards.

The Royal Institute of British Architects has been awarding the President’s Medals since the 1850s and the awards were established in their current format in 1984.

The aim of these prestigious awards is to promote excellence in the study of architecture, to reward talent and to encourage architectural debate worldwide. Widely regarded as the best architectural education awards in the world, students aspire each year to be selected by their school to enter for the medals and for the opportunity for their work to be recognised and publicly exhibited.
During this week we’ll be publishing the winners.

A collaborative effort of Danish architects 3XN, engineers Lemming & Eriksson, and landscape architects Schønherr Landskab has won the competition for the expansion of the Courthouse in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

According to 3XN, the new building will be a sculptural and classic structure, which at once expresses a welcoming transparency while maintaining the justice system’s sobriety and seriousness. More Images after the break.

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Project: Cité du Design
Author: LIN
Finn Geipel + Giulia Andi
Architects Urbanists
Project status: International competition, 1st prize, realisation
Location: Saint-Etienne, Loire, France
Client: Saint-Etienne Metropole
Surface net: 17 250 m²
Dates: competition 2004
Realisation: 2006 to 2009
Costs: 41,5 m €

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Danish firm 3XN Architects has won an architectural competition to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. The winning design was part of an collaboration effort with Nord Arkitekter, Hans Ulrik Jensen A/S, Exner Studio, and Søren Jensen Engineers.
More images and project descrption after the break.
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The World Architecture Festival has announced the winners to their 9 categories (Civic and Community, Culture, Holiday, House, Housing, Learning, New and Old, Office,  and Shopping) after the break you’ll find a couple of images for each of the winners with the captions provided by the festival.

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Danish Architects COBE and Public Architects, in collaboration with Public Architects, Grontmij Carlbro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have been awarded first place in the international competition to design the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen, Denmark.
More images after the break.

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Last week the Taipei Pop Music Center competition had announced three finalists and four honorable mentions. JDS Architects / Julien de Smedt has been awarded Honorable ention for their proposal in the Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition. More images and project descritpion by JDS after the break.
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Kristin Jarmund Architects in collaboration with C. F. Møller Architects, has recently won a major competition to design a spectacular new landmark project in the city of Oslo, for the client KLP Eiendom AS, one of Norway’s largest property investors. The project, which has been dubbed “Crystal Clear”, consists of three towers, which grow organically from the ground to form a sculptural cluster, and are composed of stacked, prismatic volumes.
More images and project info after the break.

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suckerPUNCH sponsored the Lavender Lake Art Factory competition, and the winning designs have been recently announced. The international competition proposed an ‘art factory’ at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York cointaining private/shared art studios, a storefront gallery/bar, analog/digital shops, and live/work spaces for rotating artists in residence. More info after the break.

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Over the course of the summer, Design It: Shelter Competition received submissions from people in 68 countries for a total of nearly 600 entries that met competition requirements. On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the two winning entries: David Mares’s CBS – Cork Block Shelter, which won the People’s Prize after receiving 64,875 votes out of more than 100,000 votes submitted online by voters around the world; and David Eltang’s SeaShelter, which was selected by a jury of architecture and design experts for the Juried Prize. Prizes include airfare and two nights accommodation for two in New York City, behind-the-scenes tours of the Guggenheim Museum and Google offices, and Google SketchUp Pro licenses. Congratulations to both winners!

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