Top Contenders For Brick Award Revealed
The final stage is underway in the hunt for the best brickwork in Britain and the rest of the world.
Hundreds of companies have entered this year’s prestigious Brick Awards, one of Britain’s most widely respected design competitions.
Shortlisted in Category “2008 Best International Project”: McCullough Mulvin Architects: Office Building - Dublin
Now they have been whittled down to a shortlist by a judging panel chaired by this year’s Royal Gold Medallist for architecture Edward (Ted) Cullinan. And they represent the very best in design and construction using brick. Among those through to the final round, the stunning craftsmanship on show at London’s St Pancras station, work on the Imperial College, a school in the States, and even a private house in Moscow.
“The calibre of entries this year has been absolutely astonishing,” says Katherina Lewis of the Brick Development Association (BDA). “This award just goes to show what an outstanding building material clay brick is.”
The annual Brick Awards, run by the BDA, provide the definitive showcase of what brick can do.
Anyone can enter, whether they are architects/designers, building owners, developers, house builders, specialist brickwork contractors or brick manufacturers. The only stipulation is that for all the awards – aside from the worldwide category – the project must feature clay brick and pavers made by BDA members.
There are 12 category awards, each seeking excellence in different aspects of design and construction. Among the categories, best private housing development, best commercial building, innovative use, best craftsmanship and best international project.
Then there’s one overall winner: the BDA Building of the Year – Supreme Award. This goes to the project judged the finest overall. Each of the 11 domestic winners is automatically entered.
In all then, 13 trophies are up for grabs, along with more than 50 prestigious certificates.
The benefits don’t end there. The architect/designer, brick maker and brickwork contractor are all acknowledged. There is media coverage for the winners from the BDA, top magazines and the other sponsors. The winners can also use the awards in their marketing and advertising.
The 2008 Brick Awards will be presented at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel in London on 5 November. It promises to be a big night to remember.
Best Private Housing Development
Woodland Terrace (London N2), The Gallery (Cambridge), Tachbrook Triangle (London SW1), The Barge Arm Development (Gloucester), The Coach House (Fontmell Magma), Islington Wharf (Manchester), Stannon Street (Poundbury).
Best Public Housing Development
Broad Road (Sale), Corpus Christi Jesuit Community (Bournemouth), St James Mews (Brighton).
Volume Housebuilding Award
George Wimpey, Miller Homes, David Wilson Homes.
Best Commercial Building
The Arc (Nottingham), New Music Latymer Upper School (London W6), 28-29 George Street (London W1), Hair Salon (Belfast), Cadbury Trebor Basset Dining Block (Bournville).
Best Public Building
Trinity Hall Wychfield Student Residences (Cambridge), The Bluecoat (Liverpool), New North Community School (London W1), Wedgwood Museum & Visitors Centre (Bavlaston), Student Accommodation Linacre College (Oxford), Imperial College Princes Gate Mews (London SW7).
Best Refurbishment Project
Cadbury Trebor Basset Dining Block (Bournville), Stelios Ionnou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies (Oxford), Fabric (Leicester), Middlewood Hospital (Sheffield), The Roundhouse (London NW1).
Best Landscape Project
Lakeside Terrace Barbican Centre (London EC2), Cranes Farm Road (Basildon), 18-20 Waterford Lane (Lymington).
Sustainability Award
The Barge Arm Development (Gloucester), New Head Office Fitzpatrick Contractors (Hoddesdon), Queensway Development (London SE15), Post 16 Building (Milton Keynes).
Innovative Use of Brick and Clay Products
The Wise Project (Powys), Hair Salon (Belfast), Sacriston Community College (Chester-Le-Street).
Best international Project
Iveragh Renewal Project (Killorglin, Co Kerry), Breastcheck Clinic (Cork), Office Building (Lincoln Place, Dublin), Private House (Sputnik, Moscow), Fuse (Lennox Street, Dublin), Houses in Killiney (Co Dublin).
Best Craftsmanship Award
New Houses at Hayes (Newbury), St Pancras Central ( London N1), Student Accommodation Linacre College (Oxford), Sacriston Community College (Chester-Le-Street), The Lovelace Mausoleum (East Horsley).
Worldwide Brick
Office te Kiefte (Borne, Netherlands), Loc Lakeai Opleidingen (Hardenbourg, Netherlands), Appartementen Complex deHoef (Alkmaar, Netherlands), Estafette Sport Complex (Vennep, Netherlands), Office for SAHRDC (New Delhi), John S Martinez Prek-8 School (Connecticut USA).
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Historic Hotel Wins 7th Annual CINTAS contest
CINCINNATI, OH, August 27, 2008 – The finest restroom in America is in the five-star Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee - says the Internet public who cast online ballots in the 7th annual “America’s Best Restroom” contest presented by Cincinnati-based Cintas Corporation, a provider of restroom hygiene products and services.
Photo: Hermitage Hotel
“The important message here is restroom hygiene matters - for good health and good business,” said Cintas Senior Marketing Manager Keith Hartman. “Cintas is proud to honor The Hermitage Hotel, and we congratulate all of our participants this year.”
The 2008 contest attracted nominations from a wide cross-section of businesses, including restaurants, hotels and casinos. Five finalists were selected based on exceptional hygiene, style and open access to the public.Ten of thousands of votes were cast at the program’s web site, which produced the following results:
Photo: Hermitage Hotel
The Hermitage Hotel received the coveted “America’s Best Restroom” plaque of recognition from Cintas during a special presentation today, and secured its place in the “America’s Best Restroom Hall of Fame” found at http://www.bestrestroom.com.
“From the architecture and room furnishings to exceptional customer service, The Hermitage Hotel has an uncompromising commitment to excellence,” said Greg Sligh, Hermitage Hotel President and Managing Director. “This philosophy defines everything in the hotel – including our distinctive Art Deco men’s room, which has long been known as Nashville’s most unique and elegant restroom. It is an honor for this whimsically distinctive facility to be recognized nationally as well.”
The men’s restroom, located outside the Oak Bar on the hotel’s lower level, maintains the 5-star elegance of the hotel, which was designed in 1910 to symbolize Nashville’s emergence as a major Southern city. The Art Deco restroom, which was remodeled in 1930, features lime green and black leaded-glass tiles, lime green fixtures, an authentic terrazzo floor and a two-seat shoeshine station. Since that time, the restroom has been the setting for music videos, business and political negotiations, as well as, believe it or not, wedding photos.
Photo: David Wright Photography
The Cintas Corporation created the Best Restroom Award in 2001 to honor businesses across the country that maintain exceptional hygiene, with style, in their public restrooms. Previous winners have included restrooms at Notre Dame University; The Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi; Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; the Fort Smith, Arkansas Airport; Wendell’s Restaurant in Westerville, Ohio and, in 2007, Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio.
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People’s Choice Food Drive through Sept. 6 to determine People’s Choice Award
For six hours in Pearlridge Center, Haiwaii’s largest indoor shopping center in Aiea near Honolulu, 13 teams of local architects and allied design and engineering professionals “canstructed” giant structures made entirely out of canned foods in the islands’ third annual Canstruction competition.
Members of the public are now encouraged to participate in the People’s Choice Food Drive by visiting Canstruction and bringing canned food donations to support Hawaii’s hungry families. Completed structures will be on display for voting through Saturday, Sept. 6.
After a blind judging, architects John Black, AIA and Joy Davidson, AIA, event co-chairs, announced the outstanding creations.
Jurors’ Favorite canstruction project: “Aloha Means Goodbye to Hunger in Hawaii” [Aloha Tower] by Belt Collins
These structures will compete at the national level with winners from over 100 local Canstruction competitions across the U.S. and Canada.
Jurors included attorney and novelist Tony Clapes; Joe Farrell, AIA, principal of Architects Hawaii; Richard Malmgren, president of RCM Construction Corporation; and Kathy Merrill Kelley, principal of interior design firm Merrill & Associates.
The final award will be determined by the public between now and Sept. 6 via the People’s Choice Food Drive. The structure that receives the most votes from members of the public (one can equaling one vote) will be named People’s Choice Award winner.
On Sunday, Sept. 7, the structures will be “de-canstructed” and the food delivered to the Hawaii Foodbank.
Canstruction is a national community service program created by the Society for Design Administration on behalf of the design and construction industry. The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Honolulu Chapter presents the annual Canstruction competition in Hawaii. Canstruction is also sponsored by Pearlridge Center, C & S Wholesale Grocers, Honblue and Meadow Gold Dairies.
Competing teams include Actus Lend Lease/Hickam Community Housing, Allana Buick Bers, Belt Collins, Design Partners/Castle & Cooke, Durrant Media Five, Ferraro Choi & Associates, Fung Associates, Group 70 International, Kiewit Building Group, Parsons Brinkerhoff, U.S. CAD Hawaii/Next Design, Urban Works and WATG.
Since 1926, The American Institute of Architects, Honolulu Chapter has served its membership and the community by promoting design excellence in Hawaii’s built environment. The organization’s education programs promote leadership and professionalism among its membership of approximately 800 architects and allied building professionals, and educate the public about architecture and the value of quality design.
WINNERS
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The Curry Stone Design Prize, administered by the University of Kentucky College of Design, is awarded every year to breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and the world we live in. Jurors for this year’s prize are journalist John Hockenberry, internationally acclaimed architect David Adjaye, designer Renny Ramakers; prize founder Clifford Curry; and Michael Speaks, international design scholar and dean of University of Kentucky’s College of Design.
“The prize finalists selected this year personify the spirit of ingenuity and resourcefulness that designers can bring to solving the world’s most formidable challenges,” said David Mohney, Prize Secretary and Curry Stone Chair in Design at the University of Kentucky. The prize winner receives an award of $100,000; up to four finalists receive $10,000 each. Finalists are selected from a pool of nominees submitted by leaders from the architecture and design communities.
The prize finalists, who will be officially unveiled on Sept. 13, 2008 at the 11th International Venice Architecture Biennale are:
Shawn Frayne, 27, inventor of the Windbelt, the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator. The technology, which is light enough to hold in your hand, has enormous potential to help people in poor communities power lamps, run small vaccine refrigerators and charge cell phones for pennies a day. Frayne was inspired to create the Windbelt after a visit to a village in Haiti where residents rely on costly kerosene and diesel for lack of an electrical grid.
Shawn Frayne demonstrates how the Windbelt can light WLEDs.
Wes Janz, 55, architect and associate professor of architecture at Ball State University in Indiana and author of the forthcoming book, “One Small Project.” Janz’s practice focuses on “leftover places” – the world’s slums and settlements where people build shelters from scavenged materials – as sites of innovation and inspiration for architects committed to using their craft for social good. In collaboration with his students and local communities, Janz has constructed shelters and pavilions in Argentina, Sri Lanka and elsewhere from found materials such as mud and rubble from demolished buildings.
Wes Janz: “One person. One architect. One small project. Repeat.”
MMA Architects, whose principals, Luyanda Mpahlwa, 49, and Mphethi Morojele 45, are reshaping South Africa’s post-apartheid architectural landscape. MMA’s innovations include an ingenious design for low-cost homes in a shantytown outside Cape Town, with timber frame and sandbag infill construction that can be built for $6,900. The design, which borrows from indigenous mud-and-wattle building techniques, is energy efficient and requires little to no electricity or skilled labor to construct. MMA will complete 10 such houses by the end of the year with volunteer help from local women in the community.
Luyanda Mpahlwa explains the design of his 10×10 house.
Marjetica Potrč, 55, an artist and architect who works closely with impoverished communities to devise sustainable solutions to quality-of-life dilemmas. A six-month stay in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela, resulted in her design for a “dry toilet” which collects human waste and converts it to fertilizer. More recently, she has spent time in New Orleans examining the revival of homegrown sustainable practices such as rainwater harvesting, which helps collect storm water runoff, restores wetlands and prevents flooding.
Marjetica Potrč’s Caracas:House with Extended Territory, 2003, building material, power and communications infrastructure.
Antonio Scarponi, 34, an architect based in Venice, Italy whose interdisciplinary projects use architecture, multimedia arts and design to “jam” conventional social orders and illuminate the social and political lines that unite and divide us. His 2007 interactive project, “Dreaming Wall,” was a digitally generated billboard installed in an historic Milanese square that displayed randomly chosen real-time text messages sent from across the world.
Antonio Scarponi’s Dreaming Wall is a tool of cultural, simultaneous and random collective communication.
“The Curry Stone Design Prize rewards and encourages innovative uses of design to transform the everyday lives of people in Kentucky and around the world,” said Michael Speaks, dean of the College of Design. “The idea is to reward great design – urban design, architecture, graphic and product design – but also, and perhaps more importantly, to expand the very notion of design itself. Design is a means of acting in and transforming the world and the Curry Stone Design Prize rewards design that does just that.”
About the Curry Stone Design Prize
The Curry Stone Design Prize recognizes exceptional designers based on individual merit and the potential to bring their ideas to fruition. The prize focuses on emerging design ideas that contribute to the vitality of the world community. These designs may improve the human spirit, increase awareness of the environment, or respond to an area of need, whether to provide shelter and clean water or address climate change and humanitarian crises. The prize is part of a $5.5 million gift to the University of Kentucky College of Design from alumnus Clifford Curry and his wife H. Delight Stone of Oregon. As the principal architect for William Colson, Curry helped pioneer modern-day retirement developments as affordable and livable communities.
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AUGUST, 2008, Chicago, Illinois—The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., announce sixty-six (66) new distinguished buildings selected this year in the Museum’s prestigious “American Architecture Awards®” program for 2008.
Established over 10 years ago, the awards program honors and celebrates the most outstanding new accomplishments for new architecture designed and built in the United States by leading American and international architecture firms practicing in the USA.
CAMINO NUEVO HIGH SCHOOL
Los Angeles, California, Architects: Daly Genik
THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART
Kansas City, Missouri, Architects: Steven Holl Architects, Associate Architects: Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell
156 WEST SUPERIOR CONDOMINIUMS
Chicago, Illinois, Architects: The Miller|Hull Partnership, Associate Architects: Studio Dwell Inc.
“The American Architecture Awards” have become the foremost, prestigious awards program for public recognition for Excellence in Architecture in the United States both nationally and internationally. The Awards identify the new cutting-edge design direction, urban philosophy, design approach, style, and intellectual substance in American Architecture today.
The Chicago Athenaeum, founded in the historic city where modern architecture was first realized by Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe, is the only Museum of Architecture and Design in the United States and functions internationally as one of the foremost museums dedicated to both architecture and industrial design.
MEDEU SPORTS CENTER
Almaty, Kazakhstan, Architects: Audrey Matlock Architect
THE NEW YORK AQUARIUM
New York, New York, Architects: Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP.
ALEXANDRIA EGYPT MASTER PLAN
Alexandria, Egypt, Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
For “The American Architecture Awards” 2008, the Museum received hundreds of submissions from the best and most renowned design firms in the United States and international firms working in the US.
The submissions ranged from new corporate headquarters, skyscrapers, institutions, sports and transportation facilities, airports, urban planning projects, retail stores, hospitals, sacred spaces, and private residences and multi-family housing designed by architects in their countries of origin or abroad for both built and unbuilt projects alike, as of January 1, 2006.
TYROL TOWER
Wörgl, Austria, Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
THE NEW BEIJING POLY PLAZA
Beijing, China, Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
SALT POINT HOUSE
Salt Point, New York, Architects: Thomas Pfifer & Partners
The Awards Program is also open to all international architecture offices and U.S. firms with projects outside the United States, as well as international architecture firms building in the US.
This year’s jury for awards took place in Athens, Greece with the participation of noted Greek architectural practitioners, educators, government leaders, and architecture journalists serving as jury members including:
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco, California, Architects: LMN Architects
MONTECITO RESIDENCE
Santa Barbara, California, Architects: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART
Ann Arbor, Michigan, Architects: Allied Works Architecture, Associate Architects: I.D.S.
Sixty-six (66) buildings in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, DC., Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Additionally, the jury selected skyscrapers and large-planning projects in Austria, Egypt, France, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, The People’s Republic of China, and the United Arab Emirates.
Projects selected include new corporate headquarters, schools and universities, government buildings, memorials, libraries, art museums, foundation headquarters, transit projects, retail facilities, hospitals, residences, and single-family homes.
TRANSBAY TRANSIT CENTER: TERMINAL AND TOWER
San Francisco, California, Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
SANTA MONICA CIVIC CENTER PARKING STRUCTURE
Santa Monica, California, Architects: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners Associate Architects: International Parking Design
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CASE MEDICAL CENTER CANCER HOSPITAL
Cleveland, Ohio, Architects: Canon Design
Skyscrapers and office buildings were selected this year by the Greek jury, signaling an ever-growing European concern for smaller more intimate building types, an awareness of energy conservation and sustainability, and profound respect for the built and human environments as well as abstract shapes that twist, bend, spin, and defy gravity.
All awarded projects can be found on-line at The Chicago Athenaeum’s website at http://www.chi-athenaeum.org.
“Now in its second decade as perhaps the most significant awards from for new distinguished buildings in the United States, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd., together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, have organized this annual Museum program, “The American Architecture Awards,” as a way in which to draw significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious American architecture offices and design firms,” states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine.
“The wide geographic distribution of these awards attests to the importance of the program,” Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine adds. “There is no one, single program that brings together the latest cutting-edge international architecture today as one cohesive universal representation or platform for American design. Our Museum is honored to provide a focus that allows an exploration and analysis for current stylistic directions and philosophical thinking that is apparent in contemporary design today.”
BEIJING FINANCE STREET
Beijing, PRC, Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
TREE HOUSE
Wilmington, Delaware, Architects: Sander Architects, LLC.
NASHVILLE PUBLIC SQUARE
Nashville, Tennessee, Architects: Tuck-Hinton Architects, Associate Architects: WRT, LLC., Landscape Architects: Hawkins Partners, Inc.
“The program has a unique educational mission and public profile with the intent of promoting and celebrating the latest, most cutting-edge international design to a national and international audience,” Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine continues.
The awarded projects for 2008 and other selected works will form an exhibition, “New American Architecture” to open at SESV Santa Verdiana (piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti 27) in Florence, Italy in November, 2008. The exhibition and awards presentation is organized by the Municipality of Florence and the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. After, the exhibition travels to The European Centre’s new Contemporary Art + Architecture Centre in Athens.
In 2009, the exhibition will start a national tour in the United States.
The 2009 deadline for submissions for “The American Architecture Awards” is FEBRUARY 1, 2009. Get more information on this competition here.
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The International Concrete Design Competition for Students is a biennial ideas and design competition for students in architecture, engineering, design and affiliated disciplines. It aims at promoting innovative design attitudes related to the use of concrete as a material and a technology. It is organized and funded by a consortium of European cement and concrete associations and open for students subscribed in an educational institute in one of the participating countries.
Here’s the list of the winning projects 2008:
AZ972 - Layering
Italy (Joint Winner)
Paolo Borghino - Politecnico - Architettura, Turin
BV007 - Luminous Concrete
Belgium (Joint Winner)
Berten Vandael - PHL - Architecture, Diepenbeek
CG842 - Fantasy Helps Explore Reality
Italy (Honourable Mention)
Andrea Garzulino, Elena Ciapparelli, Viola Bertini - Politecnico Architettura, Milano Bovisa
CJ980 - Solarconcrete
Germany (Joint Winner)
Barbara Grassl - Technische Universität, München
CS938 - Concrete Filter
Spain (Second Prize)
Marcos Belmar, José Maria Martinez, Santiago Varela Rizo - U. Politécniza, Alicante
DC288 - WHON...
Spain (First Prize)
Diego Cayuelas Garcia - ULPGC, Las Palmas Gran Canaria
EH307 - agriConcrete
Turkey (Joint Winner)
Ege Özgirin, Halidun Senkal - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul
EM023 - Noise-Environmental Pollution Barrier
Italy (Joint Winner)
Eleonora Massaccesi, Stefano Cerolini - Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
ET187 - Museo De La Madeira
Spain (Third Prize)
Eduardo Tajuelo del Rosai - E.T.S. Arquitectura, Madrid
FI802 - Inflatable Concrete
Ireland (Third Prize)
Daniel Patterson, Sasha Smolin - Queens, Belfast
FX018
Germany (Joint Winner)
Felix Wurst - Leibniz Universität, Hannover
GC013 - Current Living
Ireland (Honourable Mention)
Scott Todd, Richard Andersen, Darren Andrew Cameron - Queens, Belfast
GO427 - Gas Meets Concrete
Turkey (Joint Winner)
Zeynep Erdinc, Ahmet Irfan Ertis, Emre Can Korkmaz - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul
GR275 - Moiré
Netherlands (Honourable Mention)
Gertjan Rohaan - TU, Eindhoven
JY007 - ComfortCapsule Concrete
Germany (Joint Winner)
Yü Chen, Juliane Greb - RWTH, Aachen
KO911 - Reactive Concrete
Turkey (Joint Winner)
Kadir Öztürk - Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir
KT215 - Thermoscape
Germany (Joint Winner)
Gereon Töpper, Benedikt Krienen - RWTH, Aachen
LK111 - Optical Fiber Concrete
Germany (Honourable Mention)
Lukas Kasten - Universität, Kassel
LR311 - mosscrete
Ireland (Third Prize)
Lucy Riordan - DIT
MR198 - Reverse Effect
Italy (Joint Winner)
Fatma Aliosman, Alper Kanyilmaz, Tolga Tutar, Ayse Bozkurt - Politecnico Architettura, Milano & Lecco
MS225 - Möbius Stage
Norway / Sweden (Honourable Mention)
Joakim Haglund, Albin Holmgren, Ullrica Johansson - Chalmers, Göteborg
NL154 - Sense of Scale
Netherlands (Joint Winner)
Gertjan Rohaan, Karmen de Maaré, Rikje Maas - TU, Eindhoven
OO717 - CONKEVLAR
Belgium (Honourable Mention)
Hans Ooms - PHL - Architectuur, Diepenbeek
PP413
Belgium (Joint Winner)
Wouter Dreessen - PHL - Architectuur, Diepenbeek
RA493 - Wearable Concrete
Ireland (First Prize)
Roisin Aherne - UCD, Dublin
RL384 - Mom when it rots, can we dig it up and see the bones?
Belgium (Joint Winner)
Radim Louda - ISACF La Cambre, Brussels
RR603 - Rotating Concrete
Netherlands (Honorable Mention)
Wouter Notenbomer - TU, Delft
SC794 - Singing Concrete
Netherlands (Honourable Mention)
Thorsten Schneider - TU, Eindhoven
SO321 - How did it come to be and how will it change in the future?
Norway / Sweden (Joint First Prize)
Ase Flindall - Bergen Arkitektskole, Bergen
SZ595 - Urgent Performance
Norway / Sweden (Joint First Prize)
Frederik Sund - Bergen Arkitektskole, Bergen
TU000 - Sakura Concrete
Netehrlands (Joint Winner)
Ryoko Ikeda - TU, Delft
TV531 - ConcreTex
Norway / Sweden (Third Prize)
Thuy Vu - Bergen Arkitektskole, Bergen
XO815 - FA.MO[U]SS
Germany (Honourable Mention)
Daniel Gross, Benjamin Kinzinger, Jürgen Utz - Universität, Stuttgart
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The Architects of Mourik Challenge Prize has been awarded to Dutch Royal Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) interior architecture student Jan Willem Terlouw.
The Architects of Mourik celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2005. In that year, working with the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag, The Netherlands, they decided to create an annual challenge prize for final year students of interior architecture.
Three candidates were nominated out of 22 submissions. The competing candidates were selected for their ability to create designs that worked well imaginatively over the full range of building scales. The basis of Jan Willem Terlouw’s designs is the mutual compatibility of (interior) architecture and multimedia. According to the judging report his bathhouse design is an outstanding example. It transforms the idea of the roman thermal bath into a modern bathhouse.
‘One of the most remarkable features of the plan is the way it appears to ‘grow’ new bathroom design out of existing work. Old and new thereby acquire their own specific characteristics, while responding in a strongly integrative way to each other through some fine details in the passageways.’
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The Jurors of AIP 23, hosted by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, have made their selections and the Members’ Choice voting is closed. The following is a selection of the sixty jury selected images for AIP 23…
Hugh Ferriss Award: Frank M Costantino
Formal Category Award:
Terry Brown Juror Award:
Informal Category Award:
Saleh Uddin Juror Award:
Jon Kletzien Juror Award:
More citations:
The Architecture in Perspective 23 Exhibition Catalogue will be premiered at the AIP 23 Exhibition Opening, September 4th, Montana State University, kicking off the 2008 ASAI conference.
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Following in the footsteps of previous winners, Jamie Fobert Architects, FAT and dRMM, Plasma Studio impressed the jury by its international built work following its win of Building Design’s Young Architect of the Year Award in 2002. NGA marks the next stage in the innovative practice’s development that has seen experimental and challenging built designs characterized by their use of vicarious architectural form to create surfaces that shift and fold. The jury however also recognized the practice’s confidence and assurance, especially in their design for one of the floors of Madrid’s Hotel Puerta America, alongside Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel, which made it clear they were able to take on the scale of projects the NGA can lead to.
The Plasma Studio designed 4th floor of the Hotel Puerta America Madrid, Spain
The jury stated “We already knew that Plasma were strong and adventurous architects. Recently completed projects, supported by enthusiastic client references, demonstrate that they can realise their ideas in substantial buildings, while working to demanding briefs.”
The award, which is in its fourth year, seeks to make connections between young practices, who have previous built experience, and those who make the decisions in the built environment, commercial developers.
Plasma Studio stated “We are delighted to have won NGA. Unlike most awards that focus solely on design excellence, the NGA is scrutinizing the whole range of architectural production. As such it stands out as an important benchmark for us at a time of leaping forward.”
Plasma Studio founders: Holger Kehne and Eva Castro
MIPIM also saw the launch of the Next Generation Architects Directory, profiling Plasma Studio, previous award winners and the short-listed practices. It is set to be an invaluable guide for developers seeking to commission strong, visionary architecture, something that has been successful in previous years.
Jamie Fobert of Jamie Fobert Architects states: “Winning Next Generation Architects was great for the practice. Since last year the practice has celebrated the opening of a new patisserie for Konditor & Cook in the ground floor of the Gherkin and a new flagship boutique in Paris for Givenchy, the first of the fashion house’s stores to benefit from a new design concept which will be implemented worldwide. The award has also helped open doors to several exciting residential projects as well as collaboration with developers Native Land to create a pavilion on the Southbank.”
Criteria for Selection
• A committed and coherent approach to design
• Talent, sensitivity, ability to inspire, conceptual acuity, architectural skill
• Potential to work on large commercial projects
• Evidence of ability to deliver projects on time and to budget.
Eligibility
The award is open to British-based architects whose practice was founded after 1 January 1998. All candidates must be professionally certified, and cannot have designed a commercial building (completed or under construction) larger than 100,000 sq ft.
2008 Jury
Rowan Moore, Director of The Architecture Foundation (chair)
Nick McKeogh, Director, Pipers
Amanda Baillieu, Editor, BD
Jon Emery, Hammerson
Ian Simpson, Ian Simpson Architects
Jeremy Gardner, JLL
2008 Next Generation Architects brochure
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The Royal Institute of British Architects is delighted to announce that a shortlist of seven designs for the River Douglas Crossing near Preston in Lancashire has been chosen by an expert judging panel. The international design competition attracted an outstanding response, with 110 designs received worldwide. Entries were received from architects in Hong Kong, Japan, USA, Australia and Malaysia as well as the UK and Europe.
The seven shortlisted practices are:
