Arch Tracker

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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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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BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania, consisting of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony.

The capital Tirana is undergoing an urban transformation which includes the restoration and refurbishment of existing buildings, the construction of a series of new public and private urban structures, and the complete reconceptualization of Scanderbeg Square. This important square is the site of the new cultural complex that will consist of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony.

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Organized by AWR, LOFT is an international architecture competition, the population growth and the urban centralization lead to an increase of the demand in the real estate market and in the food. One possible solution is the vertical farming. For these reasons, AWR proposes the design of a new skyscraper on the Thames waterfront. The new tower will be inserted into the new city skyline. More info and schedule about this competition after the break. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

EMERGENT Tom Wiscombe, a Los Angeles based practice, won the competition for the desing of the new Shenyang Civic Sports Center and 2013 National Games Arena in China’s Northeast. The 123,000 sqm facility combines a sports civic center, a national games taekwondo arena and a swimming arena in an exciting ETFE bubble-clad light-weight structure. Project description and more images after the break.
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eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. The award seeks to discover young talent, whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. [Winning projects after the break.]
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Venice City Vision Competition is the second edition of the international competition series promoted by City Vision Mag. The purpose of Venice’s competition was to give the opportunity to architects, designers and students to activate their creativity to stimulate the contemporary potential of the city and besides wanting to enhance the historic texture of the city, sees on the aquatic identity of the lagoon a fundamental starting point to create new visions about a possible development of this component. The imagination of the participants, the use of parametric software and eco technology will be the main driver of Venice’s visions and the proposals will shown how to create new digital landscape for a city so connected to classicism and tradition. More info after the break.

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Crab studio – the studio of Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham, in association with Brit Andresen – have won the competition for the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University in the gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. Project description and more images after the break.

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Title: Second Annual Architizer Competition Competition 2011
Location: Worldwide
Link out: Click here
Description: One of the things that makes this profession so economically treacherous is the sheer amount of time we spend working on projects that will never see the light of day. Paradoxically, we’d claim that all those countless proposals, entries, and ideas are usually your most interesting and vibrant work. And we want to recognize them: in the words of Architizer Programming Director Ryan Quinlan, “We want to rescue these worthy designs from the annals of flat files and off-site hard drives everywhere. Re-submit your work and let it be re-judged on its merits.”

So, Architizer + Relative Space are teaming up to bring you the second installment of Competition Competition. Upload your unrewarded competition entries onto Architizer.com and give them one more chance at glory. Details including entry requirements, last year winners,  jury and all info after the break.

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Title: Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards
Location: Worldwide
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Description: Zerofootprint is offering the Zerofootprint Prize to the design team who can take an older concrete high-rise structure and using re-skinning along with other retrofitting technologies, reduce its carbon, water, and energy footprint to net zero while also maintaining the highest architectural design standards. The entrant is required to have a net zero footprint for one year.

Zerofootprint also offers the annual Re-Skinning Awards to showcase the most successful, holistic retrofitting projects of the year. These are projects that update older buildings to bring their carbon, energy, and water performance to sustainable levels, improve their aesthetics, and make them “smarter.” 2010 Re-Skinning Award winners were announced at the World Urban Forum 5 in Rio de Janeiro. This year we are partnering with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto to build on the success of our inaugural year.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2011. For more information about the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards, including detailed entry criteria and a list of last year’s prize winners, visit the competition’s official website.
Start Date: 2011-01-31
Deadline: 2011-08-31

UNStudio unveiled their entry for the Waalse Krook, Urban Library of the Future and Centre for New Media in the Belgian city of Gent. The proposal by Ben Van Berkel & Caroline Bos-led didn´t win the competition, but we are very happy to share it with our readers. Architects description and more photos after the break.

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New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro have unveiled their design for a new Los Angeles museum for The Broad Art Foundation. Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian de Portzamparc, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Foreign Office Architects competed last year for a 120,000 sq ft and $130 million dollars project for a new museum and in August Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the competition. [More info and images after the break]

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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.

The exponential increase of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban areas has prompted hundreds of new developments without adequate urban planning and poor architectural design. The aim of this competition is to redefine what we understand as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life. 

This is just a reminder to inform our readers that there is only one week left to register for the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. The registration deadline is January 11, 2011. You can find more information about the competition and the registration form in the following permanent link:
http://www.evolo.us/architecture/registration-2011-skyscraper-competition/

Last year winners:
http://www.archtracker.com/winners-of-the-2010-skyscraper-competition-organized-by-evolo-magazine/2010/03/

The Challenge
This competition is a call for ideas to design a building block of an inclusive school environment that will uniquely enhance the quality of life for teens and adults with disabilities who participate in the Easter Seals VIP Academy. Your design should support the program goals of providing these young adults with the vocational/life skills they require to lead fully productive lives. Traditionally little or no thought has been given to the environments in which these crucial services are delivered.

Eligibility
The competition is open to all architects, designers, students, artists or persons who can contribute new ideas to this challenge.

Schedule
Registration Period: 1/3/2011-2/28/2011
Submission Due: 3/1/2011
Jury Review 3/2-2011-3/31-2011
Winners Announced: 4/1/2011

Jury

• Dr. Kameron Partridge
  VP of Programs and Services
  Easter seals SW Florida
• Robert Vecchione
  Principle, COBROOKE Ideas I
  Architecture I Design
• John LaCivita
  Vice-President
  Willis Smith Construction
• Mr. Chris Tiernan,
  Assistant Vice President,
  Affiliate Services Easter Seals, Inc.
• Connie Allegra
  Interior Designer
  Sarasota Interior Design Group

More info and registration
http://www.designmatters2.com