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Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the Jesolo Magica shopping mall and office complex located in town of Jesolo, Italy. The project was divided into two zones that situated half way between Jesolo town center and waterfront.
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Project: Long Barn Studio
Author: Nicolas Tye Architects
Location: Bedfordshire United Kingdom
Awards: RIBA, National Award 2009
RIBA, East Best Commercial Project 2008
Bedfordshire Association of Architects, Best Commercial Project 2009
Photography: Nerida Howard

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Submission deadline: 5:00 pm, 9 September 2009
To provide a better understanding to prospective exhibitors on the captioned events and criteria of submission, you are cordially invited to a briefing session scheduled for 26 August 2009 (Wed) at 7:00pm at the HKIA premises.

In the interim, please email your questions to info@hkszbiennale.org or tara@hkia.net . The Steering Committee members and Curatorial Team will address your concerns and general enquiries at the briefing session.

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Built in the brutalist style of architecture of the 1970’s, the house was subsequently renovated several times following a more traditional approach to house design especially by converting large open spaces to a more cellular room design. The renovation reopened the ground floor so that it became an open loft-like space from front to back (the house is about 70? long). By installing a new fully glazed wall at the rear garden side of the house, it was possible to extend the sense of the outdoor space through to the interior. This takes advantage of the house’s ravine setting by providing more opportunities to see and experience the natural landscape of the ravine from within the house and yet maintains privacy as the kitchen window is almost 30 feet above the public road.

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The Dutch have been fighting the rising and falling tides for centuries, building dikes and pumping water out of areas that are below sea level. Now, rather than fight the water infiltrating their land, the Dutch will use it as part of a new development called ‘New Water‘, which will feature the world’s first floating apartment complex, The Citadel. This “water-breaking” new project was designed by Koen Olthuis of Waterstudio in the Netherlands, and will use 25% less energy than a conventional building on land thanks to the use of water cooling techniques.

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Eight teams were recognized as finalists of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom. Finalists submitted designs ranging from an outdoor classroom for children in inner-city Chicago, learning spaces for the children of salt pan workers in India, safe spaces for youth in Bogota, Colombia, a bamboo classroom in the Himalayan mountains.

The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge was hosted by Architecture for Humanity and principal partner Orient Global in collaboration with a consortium of other partners around the world. This truly global initiative invited the architecture, design and engineering community to collaborate directly with students and teachers to rethink the classroom of the future. Designers entering the competition were given a simple mandate: collaborate with real students in real schools in their community to develop real solutions.

More than 1,000 design teams from 65 countries registered for the competition. Over a four-month submission period hundreds of ideas were generated around the world.

Each submission was rated on feasibility, sustainability, innovation in learning and overall design quality by a team of interdisciplinary online jurors. After three rounds of reviews, more than 400 designs were narrowed to a shortlist of 52. On July 2nd, 2009, an international panel of jurors reviewed the designs at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival and selected eight entries as finalists for the competition. In September, one of these teams will be awarded US$ 5,000 and the selected partner school will receive up to US$50,000 to realize their design.
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Whale Beach House, designed by Rachel Neeson and Nick Murcutt, has recived the Wilkinson Award for Residential Architecture, in the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2009 NSW Architecture Awards. This is the second win in three years for Neeson Murcutt Architects, and the couple now join an elite grup of architects to receive the award more than once, Glenn Murcutt, Australia’s best known architect, holds the record at six wins.

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The Architectural League’s Young Architects Forum is an annual competition and series of lectures and exhibitions organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee. The Forum was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum.

Participants in the program are chosen through a portfolio competition that is juried by distinguished architects, artists and critics, and the Young Architects Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past participants in the Young Architects Forum, is responsible for developing the program’s theme and selecting competition jurors. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, the competition draws entrants from around North America. The lecture series and exhibition by winners of the competition provide a lively public forum for the discussion of their work and ideas. Winners’ designs will also be illustrated in a catalogue to be published by Princeton Architectural Press.

LECTURE SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 14
6:30 p.m.
Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima, Bureau E.A.S.T, Toronto and Los Angeles
Frida Escobedo Lopez, Mexico City
Ivan Juarez and Patricia Meneses, ex.studio, Mexico City and Barcelona

Thursday, May 21
6:30 p.m.
Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, Fake Industries, Brooklyn
Phu Hoang, Phu Hoang Office, New York City
Sung Goo Yang, Ether Ship, Boston

All lectures will be held at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City. Tickets are required for admission to League programs. Tickets are free for League members; $10 for non-members. Members may reserve a ticket by e-mailing: rsvp@archleague.org. Member tickets will be held at the check-in desk; unclaimed tickets will be released fifteen minutes after the start of the program. Non-members may purchase tickets online here, beginning one week before the program until six hours before the program start. Purchased tickets are available for pick-up at the check-in desk and are non-refundable. For more information on our ticketing policy, click here; for general information, email info@archleague.org or call 212.753.1722 x13. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.

EXHIBITION
The Young Architects Forum exhibition will open to the public on the first evening of the lectures on May 14th at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue, New York City, and will remain on display through July 17th. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday (closed Thursdays) from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. Admission is free. The exhibition will also be open on the evenings of the lectures.

THEME
The competition theme, “Foresight,” created a basis for entrants to compose their portfolios and critically evaluate their work. This year’s committee posited that architecture is a profession of ideas—giving architects the means both to respond to problems and to project solutions. Entrants were asked to consider how architectural ideas might resonate beyond professional boundaries—particularly for younger practices who are more apt to consider cross-fertilizations from other disciplines and to incorporate new tactics and techniques into their work. Further, entrants were encouraged to address how to align the ambitions and capacities of architecture with the needs and desires of a diverse and changing world.

JURY
Paola Antonelli
Teddy Cruz
Nader Tehrani
Calvin Tsao

and the Young Architects Committee
Mark Gage
Ana Miljacki
Julio Salcedo

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Project: Majori Primary School Sports Hall
Architects: Substance
            Arnis Dimins, Brigita Barbale
Collaborators: Krisjanis Leitis, Guna Priede, Ieva Dimante
Location: Jurmala, Latvia
Client: Jurmala City Council
Project: 2006
Constructed: 2007 / 2008
Building – 305 m2
Shed – 3252 m2
Spectators’ stands – 306 seats
Photos – Substance, Martins Kudrjavcevs, Maris Lapins

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Project: Meadow Creek House
Architects: Eggleston | Farkas Architects
                John Eggleston
                Allan Farkas  
Location: Washington, U.S.A.

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Project: TOO49
Architect: 16A
           Tatsuya Ogawa
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Image Credits: Satoshi Asakawa ZOOM

TOO49 is a six-story housing complex with 43 studios and 6 two-bed-room units.
Proposed in this project is the prototype to stack courtyard houses in not-too-close connection with surrounding contexts. With the slates’ aging, this out-of-scale block will grow into a landmark to sympathize with the blending well with the surrounding area.
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Archiprix International 2009 recently announced the winners of the world’s best architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture graduation projects.

The international jury convened in Montevideo, Uruguay and reviewed 218 submissions from 66 countries, nominated 24 finalists, and selected 8 winners. The jury comprised Salvador Schelotto (Dean farq, UdelaR, Uruguay), Mario Schjetnan (Mexico), Anne Lacaton (France), Juan Herreros (Spain), Sou Fujimoto (Japan).

The winners are:

Markerpark
The final plan for the Markermeer
by Sander Lap
Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, – Rotterdam, Netherlands

MArchitecture
Stacking pencil buildings by using MA
by Ryo Kitazawa
Tokai University, Department of Architecture and Building Engineering – Kanagawa, Japan

09_deeply rooted tree
Architecture School in Velluters Old Town, project in 3 scales: urban, project, process
by Pasqual Herrero Vicent
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Valencia, Spain

Tokyo Littoral Art Center
A proposal for floating art facilities
by Kazuaki Hattori
University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering – Tokyo, Japan

Regional Museum of Mine Site: North of Chile
Abandoned mines and their imprint on the territory
by Tomás García de la Huerta
Universidad del Desarollo, Arquitectura – Santiago, Chile

Deviational Space
Relying on the architect to reinvent dynamism
by Espen Folgerø
Bergen School of Architecture – BAS, – Bergen, Norway

MAJA TURG: a market for Tallinn
Preserving the market hall structure in a new formula
by Max Rink
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture – Delft, Netherlands

Metropolitan Markets
The Shanghai MetroMarket Network
by Matthew Murphy
University of Edinburgh, Dept of Architecture – Edinburgh, Scotland

All winning projects will be featured in Arch Tracker in the following days

The field chapel dedicated to Swiss Saint Nicholas von der Flüe (1417–1487), known as Brother Klaus, was commissioned by farmer Hermann- Josef Scheidtweiler and his wife Trudel and largely constructed by them, with the help of friends, acquaintances and craftsmen on one of their fields above the village. The interior of the chapel room was formed out of 112 tree trunks, which were configured like a tent. In twentyfour working days, layer after layer of concrete, each layer 50 cm thick, was poured and rammed around the tentlike structure.

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The exhibition In Situ: Architecture and Landscape draws from the rich collection of The Museum of Modern Art to examine the diverse attitudes towards landscape over the last 100 years. Featuring approximately 60 drawings, models, and videos, projects include single houses that frame the landscape, designs for buildings based on the surrounding landscape, urban gardens that compose “nature” within the city, and parks that transform former industrial areas into new attractions. The exhibition closes with three cemeteries whose designs demonstrate that our relationship to landscape often transcends our quotidian needs. The exhibition is on view in The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor, from April 8 to September 14, 2009. It is organized by Andres Lepik, Curator, and Margot Weller, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

In recent decades, landscape has taken on an expanded definition in architecture. In the first half of the twentieth century, the architectural avant-garde celebrated autonomy from nature, and architects devised utopian schemes for creating urban realms ex novo. More recently, however, the challenges of a threatened environment and rapidly expanding cities have fostered a revised understanding of landscape. Harmony between the spatial, social, and environmental aspects of human life has become a priority in political thought, and this has had profound reverberations in both architecture and landscape design. Landscape—no longer understood merely as nature untouched—now encompasses complex interventions by architects and landscape architects in urban and rural surroundings.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Fallingwater, Edgar J Kaufmann House (1934-1937) in which architecture becomes part of a dramatic setting in the nature, and Mies van der Rohe’s Wolf House (1925-27), built atop a prominent ridge of Gubin overlooking the Neisse River Valley, are among the earliest examples in the exhibition. Other examples that demonstrate a similar profiting relationship between architecture and landscape are Edward Larrabee Barnes’ Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (1958-61), Emilio Ambasz’s Casa de Retiro Espiritual in Spain (1976-1979), and Diller + Scofidio’s Slow House project (1988-90). Hans Hollein’s Vulcania (1994-2001), Tadao Ando’s Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum in Osaka (1989-1994) or Toyo Ito’s Relaxation Park in Torrevieja, Spain (2001-2006) all seem to merge with their surroundings. Roberto Burle Marx’s lively landscape design for Saenz Pena Square (1948) and Duque de Caxias Square (1948) in Rio des Janeiro bring nature back into the densely populated city. These examples show his painterly style, mixing biomorphic abstraction with tropical planting into a new geometric language for urban gardens.

A contemporary approach for urban parks is the Southeast Coastal Park in Barcelona (2000-2004) by Foreign Office Architects. Inspired by seaside dunes, the parks gentle peaks swell to accommodate two open air-auditoriums. One of the famous competitions for the transformation of former industrial areas into “an urban parc for the twenty-first century” with new attractions is the Parc de la Vilette of 1982-83. Bernard Tschumi and Zaha Hadid had both developed highly complex concepts to create a new space for recreation, sports, and culture in which nature is included as one layer among many others. Cemeteries have also been a traditional exercise to combine architecture and landscape. This is represented in examples from Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Woodland Crematorium (1935-1940), Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo Cemetery (1971-1984), and Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos’s Igualada Cemetery (1985-1996).

In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
April 8, 2009 – September 14, 2009
MoMA New York
The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

Project: Arena Zagreb
Client: Lanište d.o.o.
Area: 90,340m2
Year: 2008

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