March 11

WAF in Barcelona – Call for Speakers

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It’s still early to book a flight to Barcelona (you have time until next November), but in case you have what it takes you can already apply as a speaker for the next World Architecture Festival, in the most architecturally vibrant city in Spain. WAF is a festival where architects from all over the world meet, lots of awards are given and companies can also promote their products. Interactivity is one of the key factors the organizers highlight on their website. Read more

February 26

[I Hate Rendering] Folding Scraper by b4architects

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Today we’re officially launching I Hate Rendering, one of the new categories we already anticipated a few days ago.
Far from any nostalgic view, and well aware of the huge contribution of modeling and rendering to the spreading and understanding of architecture, this section (with the fundamental aid of your comments!) aims at starting a wider and shared reflection on representational methods, too often suffering from the fascination/slavery to the newest technology. It is meant to somehow balance the weight of what is substantially a very efficient instrument – the computer, the rendering process – and what instead is the personal expressive and communicational skills of every designer. A section that is thus completely dedicated to sketches as a primary vehicle between the world of “ideas” and the “real” world, in which our words will be few and images will communicate.
In this spirit we today present you b4architects studio’s “hand” and their Folding Scraper, winning project of the 2007 “Poto:type” competition in Vancouver, Special Prize from the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria- Silver Interarch Medal and Honorary Diploma at XII Sofia – Interarch ’09 triennial.


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September 30

Chelmsford Salvation Army Citadel Corps wins two RIBA East Spirit of Ingenuity Awards

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Materials courtesy of Hudson Architects, all photos © Keith Collie

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Hudson Architects’ Salvation Army Citadel Corps Chelmsford, Essex has won two awards in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East Region Spirit of Ingenuity Awards 2009, which  recognise ingenuity, design excellence and innovativeness of architecture in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. The building has won  the Community Architecture Award as well as receiving the top accolade the East of England Building of the Year Award 2009.

Laura Foster, Head of The Norfolk Charitable Trust, sponsors of the Community Architecture Award said: “We are delighted to sponsor the Community Architecture Award and we congratulate the winner, The Salvation Army, and Hudson Architects. The building not only  reflects two sides of the mission, providing an assembly hall for worship and recreational  facilities for a wide range of community outreach activities, but also used pioneering modern methods of construction in a cross laminated timber panel system, which allowed the building  frame to be erected in just 24 days!”

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Constructed entirely of timber and cloaked in an undulating zinc roof, the new £2 million Salvation Army Citadel Corps in Chelmsford provides 900 sq m new accommodation for the mission on the site of its former premises, which it has occupied since 1974.

The new centre reflects the two sides of the mission, providing an assembly hall for worship as well as recreational facilities for the wide range of community outreach activities that The Salvation Army provides, such as an old people’s day centre, youth activities and toddler care. The building’s plan recognises that these two aspects are interconnected whilst offering flexibility and separation to permit activities to function simultaneously. An indoor sports hall, outdoor play area, lounge, kitchen and foyer with reception café facilities are arranged around a 310-seater worship hall, with administration offices located on the first floor.

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May 25

2009 Riba Awards announced

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After the Italian Gold Medal for Architecture, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards, RIBA Awards for architectural excellence. 97 winning projects are in the UK, 6  in the rest of the EU. The RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist will be drawn from the 103 RIBA Award winners.

Curve, East Midlands, project design by Rafael Vinoly Architects, photo © Peter Cook

Curve, East Midlands, project design by Rafael Vinoly Architects, photo © Peter Cook

The RIBA Award-winning buildings range from an Observatory at Kielder in Northumberland to the Liverpool One regeneration and retail masterplan, from a private house at Dungeness to Wexford Opera House in South East Ireland. Health centres, notably for Cancer, are well represented here as are retail buildings in their many forms, including John Lewis in Leicester and the Reiss and Monsoon headquarters in London. Seaside buildings and regeneration projects also feature in various guises. The architects whose work has been honoured this year range from small practices to large, international ones. There are also some multiple winners such as Allies and Morrison (4 awards), Hawkins/Brown (3 awards), BDP (3 awards), Niall Mclaughlin Architects (4 awards) and Penoyre & Prasad (3 awards).

Castle Hill Hospital, Yorkshire, project design by HLM Architects, photo © Ian Bruce

Castle Hill Hospital, Yorkshire, project design by HLM Architects, photo © Ian Bruce

RIBA President Sunand Prasad said about the 2009 RIBA Award winners:

“The RIBA Awards are a thermometer to indicate the state of health of British architecture and for 2009 the results are good: both quality and quantity have been maintained. This year’s list accurately reflects both the diversity, and the workload of UK architecture, with more schools and health buildings than usual winning awards.  It is particularly heartening to see more schemes that are about regenerating our cities, towns and countryside.  These awards, which are judged on a regional basis, reflect and reward the good things that are going on all across the UK, and they also form the basis of what promises to be another interesting year for the RIBA Stirling Prize.”

The 97 UK buildings that have won an RIBA Award are:

Scotland    Beatson Institute New Cancer Research Facility    Reiach & Hall Architects

Scotland    Drummond House – The Shed    LJRH Architects

Scotland    Moore Street Housing    Richard Murphy, Elder & Cannon, JM, Page/Park

Scotland    North Glasgow College    RMJM

Scotland    Pollock Civic Realm    Archial Architects Ltd

Scotland    The Potterrow Development    Bennetts Associates

Scotland    The Printworks    Cameron Webster Architects

Northern Ireland    Fallahogey House    McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd

Northern Ireland    The Knockbreda Centre    Penoyre & Prasad/TODD Architects Read more

May 18

Gold Medal for Italian Architecture: Winners announced + Exhibition opening

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The Milan Triennale, in co-operation with PARC, has just announced and awarded this year’s Gold Medals and Special Mentions for Italian Architecture. Every three years the Award promotes the most interesting and recent projects built in Italy and the authors who made them possible. The Gold Medal is also an exhibition about the protagonists who, through their achievements, have helped to spread contemporary architecture as a tool for civil and environmental quality. The Medal is conceived to take into consideration a larger audience and the relationship among designer, client and enterprise. The Award has become an important measure of the state of national architecture.

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Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas – Zenith Music Hall – Strasburgo, Francia 2008 Photo © P. Ruault

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April 29

Winner announced for the EU Prize For Contemporary Architecture – MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD 2009

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Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo by Snøhetta – Photo © Jiri Havran

The European Commission and the Fundaciò Mies van der Rohe announced today that the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo, Norway by Snøhetta is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
The Jury also awarded the Emerging Architect Special Mention to STUDIO UP/ Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic, STUDIO UP for Gymnasium 46° 09′ N / 16° 50′ E, Koprivnica, Croatia. Read more

April 13

Pritzker Prize to Peter Zumthor

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Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize. Read more

April 9

Park and Children’s Recreation Centre
by StudioUAP at Corviale, Rome

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IQU INNOVAZIONE E QUALITA’ URBANA EuroP.A. 2009 PRIZE

LAND AND STUDIOUAP AWARDED
PARK AND CHILDREN’S RECREATION CENTRE AT CORVIALE – ROME

The project for the renovation of the Public Park and the new Children’s Centre next to the Corviale Housing in the outskirts of Rome, designed by LAND Srl and StudioUAP, has been awarded as the best initiative for the Innovation and Urban Quality Section of the Fifth edition of the IQU PRIZE (www.euro-pa.it). Read more

February 25

Puma City awarded by Travel + Leisure

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Travel + Leisure magazine announces its 2009 Design Award winners. Among the awarded projects there’s also Puma City, designed by Lot-Ek (the one we posted here) winner for the Best Retail.
The 2009 jury members included Calvin Klein, Lisa Phillips, Adam Tihany, Edwina von Gal, Laurie Beckelman, Michael Bierut, and Bernard Tschumi. Read more

November 25

Venice Architecture Biennale ends and breaks visitors record

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This last Architecture Biennale has closed as the most successful ever:
- 129,323  visitors, with a daily average of 1,827 (total of last edition: 127,298);
- 2,360 accredited journalists (+20% on the preceding edition), 85 television channels from around the world;
- 910 articles published by periodicals throughout the world (793 in the preceding edition);
- a record number of National participations (56) and collateral events (24);
- 25,000 international guests from the world of architecture took part in the four days of inaugural vernissage. Read more

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