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Yesterday we published that last friday the winners of the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition were announced and Reiser + Umemoto was awarded first prize. We now present the winner of the Second Prize by Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote Architecture who worked with Krix Yao of Artech Architects.

Project: Kaohsiung Port Terminal
Architects: Asymptote Architecture and Artech Architects
Project Team: Asymptote Architecture; Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture, Artech Architects; Kris Yao
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Structural Engineering: Knippers Helbig
Environmental Engineering: Transsolar
Cruise Consultant: Parsons Brinckerhoff
Fire, Electrical & Plumbing: Heng Kai
Traffic Engineering: Everest
Project Area: 40,000 sqm
Client: Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau
Competition: Kaohsiung Port Terminal 2010
Renders: Asymptote Architecture
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Last Friday, Reiser + Umemoto, in collaboration with Fei and Cheng and Associates (Taipei), Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC (New York) and Arup (Hong Kong), were announced First Prize winners in the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition. This new development will be located in the city of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, ROC. More Images and project description after the break.

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Light is a fundamental element of life and a key aspect of any architectural project. Prizes will be awarded to projects that have successfully met the architectural lighting needs of an interior or exterior space, having created a positive synergy between architecture, interior design, landscaping and lighting. The Lamp Lighting Solutions Awards value the creativity, innovation and sustainability of lighting projects, regardless of the manufacturer or the brand of lights used in the project. More Info after the break.

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Remix Architecture aim is to build a know-how on running alternative, open license-based two-phase architectural competitions. Participants of the first phase are required to submit their works under Creative Commons licenses – this allows in the second phase to feel freely inspired by and reuse others’ designs without critical legal restrictions.

Remix Architecture intends to develop a methodology to organize such competitions while examining its sociocultural, economical and political aspects and necessities. As a result we would prepare this methodology so it can be tested later in real life conditions and become a starting point of a open license driven public building processes.

More info:
remixarchitecture@gmail.com
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C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition for the new Kristiansund Opera and Culture Centre in Norway. Earlier this summer, the Danish firm was awarded a shared first prize with Space Group (Norway) and Brisac Gonzalez (UK) in the competition, but now the jury has finally selected C. F. Møller Architects as winner. More info and images after the break.

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Located on the border with the United States, the cultural duality of Ciudad Juarez makes for an authentic case study of a divided city, with it’s counterpart, El Paso. It is a context with dramatic socioeconomic segregation of a predominately young population where strong economic dynamism, linked to a strong assembling industry, is permeated by insecurity and violence. Its strategic geographic position has both great advantages and disadvantages. It occupies an extensive low-density urban area, the result of an accelerated process of expansion and the absence of an urban center.

The XXII Arquine Competition calls for participants to develop ideas for an architectural intervention in an emblematic part of the city: a Media Park, directed toward young people that contributes to breaking the environment of violence and frustration by activating the semi-abandoned polygon in the PRONAF Zone (National Border Program of Mexico) created in 1961. The projects should create an environment for free and safe interactions that can also be a space for culture and learning. Some of the references for this competition include the library-park in Medellin or the MIT Media Lab within their respective contexts. [More info after the break] Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Wiel Arets Architects has been named winner in the competition for the IJhal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The IJhal will be Amsterdam Centraal Station’s pedestrian centric area for gastronomic, retail and leisure facilities, for passengers and city residents alike. [More info after the break]

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Nüvist Architecture & Design, an Instanbul based practice, has revealed their entry to the Izmir Opera House Competition, which they call “Artistic Foyer”. More info and images after the break.

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Sucker Punch and the Museum of Comic and Cartoon are organizing an open international ideas competition for a new home for the Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art, MoCCA. The MoCCA was established in 2001 and is based in the soho area of manhattan in New York City. [More info after the break.]

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THE CHALLENGE
In the last years Chile has turned into a leading society in the field of industrial wine production but above all, in the development of the best wine cellars in the world, having successfully merged occidental science and technology with traditional grape growing. Chilean wines assume that it must serve to contemporary taste, while still be an object of design that not only enters through the eyes but through its body that has a sensibility and a unique mixture of flavours. Consistently, Chile has contributed to improve wine style beyond its frontiers, from the simplest flavour design to the most sophisticated, turning into an example of avant-garde harvesting in the world. [More info after the break]

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If you’re a designer, recent graduate, student or talented young gun, now is your chance to shine and bring your work to a wider audience, including experts at Autodesk. As part of our new competition, we’ll be supporting some of the best talent in UK design visualization, with the winner receiving a high-end graphics card worth over £1,000 from our friends at ATI. [More info after the break.] Leer el resto de esta entrada »

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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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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/

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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