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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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The Neues Museum in Berlin is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation announced today. The building is a reconstruction, blending old and new, by UK architect Sir David Chipperfield. The ‘Emerging Architect Special Mention’ award goes to Ramon Bosch and Bet Capdeferro for the Collage House in Girona, Spain. The award ceremony will take place on 20 June at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. [More info and images after the break.

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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 »

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
Link out: Click here
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

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

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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UNStudio, in collaboration with DP Architects, has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus.

Located on a site of 76,846 m2 and close to both Changi airport – Singapore’s principal airport – and the Changi Business Park, the SUTD will be Singapore’s fourth and most prestigious university. The Singapore University of Technology and Design will offer four key academic pillars: Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD), Engineering Product Development (EPD), Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) and Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD). The SUTD will be a driver of technological innovation and economic growth, with the new campus acting as both a catalyst and a conveyor for advancement, bringing together people, ideas and innovation. More info and images after the break. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

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
http://remixarchitecture.tumblr.com/