AIA New York Chapter announced the winners of the 2010 Design Awards. Four juries – architecture, interiors, unbuilt work, and urban design – reviewed 425 entries, selecting thirty-four winners. The Design Awards is a prestigious competition held annually by the AIANY to honor excellence in architectural design for projects in New York City and by New York City architects worldwide.

Architecture Honor Award Winners:

Steven Holl Architects / Knut Hamsun Center / Hamarøy, Norway
Steven Holl Architects / Vanke Center – Horizontal Skyscraper / Shenzen, China
Peter Gluck and Partners / East Harlem School / New York, NY
Marble Fairbanks / Toni Stabile Student Center / New York, NY
Thomas Phifer and Partners / Fishers Island House / Fishers Island, NY
Morphosis Architects / 41 Cooper Square / New York, NY
Toshiko Mori Architect PLLC / The Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion / Buffalo, NY

Architecture Merit Award Winners:

STUDIOS Architecture / 200 Fifth Avenue / New York, NY
Handel Architects LLP / New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion / New York, NY
SAA/Stan Allen Architect / Salim Publishing House / Paju Book City, Korea
Philip Wu Architect / 39 East 13th Street / New York, NY
Garrison Atchitects / Koby / Albion, MI
Rafael Viñoly Architects PC / Carrasco International Airport New Terminal / Montevideo, Uruguay

Interiors Honor Award Winners:

Peter Marino Architect / Chanel Robertson Blvd. / Los Angeles, CA
Butler Rogers Baskett / Trinity School – Johnson Chapel / New York, NY

Interiors Merit Award Winners:

Lyn Rice Architects / The New School Welcome Center / New York, NY
Garrison Architects / Slocum Hall / Syracuse, NY
STUDIOS Architecture / Dow Jones Offices / New York, NY
Shelton, Mindel & Associates / Manhattan Rooftop Duplex / New York, NY

Unbuilt Work Merit Award Winners:

Della Valle Bernheimer / R-House / Syracuse, NY
Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C. / Open Paradox / Seoul, South Korea
EASTON+COMBS / Lux Nova / Queens, NY
OBRA Architects / Korean Cultural Center New York / New York, NY
Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects / Transbay Transit Center / San Francisco, CA
H Associates / Chungnam Government Complex / Hongsung, South Korea
Konyk Architecture PC / Urban Aeration / Dallas, TX
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC / Tianjin Hang Lung / Plazaianjin, China
Architecture Research Office / On the Water: Palisade Bay / New York – New Jersey Upper Bay
OBRA Architects / The Great Hall at Grace Farms / New Canaan, CT
Audrey Matlock Architect / Medeu Sports Center / Medeu, Kazakhstan

Urban Design Honor Award Winner:

James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro / The High Line / New York, NY

Urban Design Merit Award Winners:

Architectural Research Office / Five Principles for Greenwich South / New York, NY
Rogers Marvel Architects, PLLC and di Domenico + Partners, LLP / MTA Flood Mitigation Streetscape Design / New York, NY
dlandstudio llc / BQE Trench: Reconnection Strategies for Brooklyn / Brooklyn, NY

Architect: Kohn Pederson Fox
Team Leaders: Paul Katz, FAIA  HKIA, James Von Klemperer, FAIA   Jeffrey A. Kenoff, AIA, Gary  Stluka, AIA, Bernard Chang, Audrey Choi
Awards: AIA New York City Chapter Design Award (2010), MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Award (2007)
Location: Tianjin, China
Estimated Completion: 2014
Size: 1.6 million GSF / 153,000 GSM
Client: Hang Lung Properties

The 2010 AIA New York winners were recently announced (we’ll share the full over view this weekend with you), and this project by Kohn Pedersen Fox received a design award in the Unbuilt category.   Just like the other winning projects, the design showcases New York talent and was chosen for its “design quality, program resolution, innovation, thoughtfulness and technique.”  The project, entitled Urban Market, is for Tianjin, China.  The urban center is a way to reinvigorate the river banks through new uses, such as cultural institutions.  The hope it that the center will grow to establish “a new identity for the city that links its culture to its historic place of commerce.” Read the rest of this entry »

Sydney 2050: Fraying Ground

The Final stage in the process of choosing entries from the national ‘Designs for Australia’s cities 2050+’ competition to be exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale has been announced. A total of 17 proposals were chosen from the shortlist. Most of these will be rendered in 3D for screening in the Australian Pavilion in Venice, while others may be incorporated in a smaller capacity. Read the rest of this entry »

Methanoia Studio developed a 300 seconds movie animation for Zaha Hadid Architects in association with Rooya Group. In this opportunity we are proud to present the video of Stone Towers project, an impresive real estate development in El Cairo, Giza, Egypt.

Anyone blitzing through the annual San Francisco Flower & Garden Show may have been left with the impression that when the Bay Area isn’t planting Japanese maples or potting orchids, it’s installing vertical gardens. The show seemed to be wall-to-wall green wall.

The event did hold a few other discoveries, which we’ll feature in the weeks to come. But make no mistake: Living walls spoke most loudly, if not most eloquently, from the showroom floor in San Mateo. “The Living Room” installation pictured above consisted of 19,000 succulents, said its designers, James Pettigrew and Sean Stout of Organic Mechanics in San Francisco,organicmechanics@att.net. The exterior panels were made by a Michigan company called Bright Green USA, and the plants came from Succulent Gardens in Castroville, Calif., north of Monterey. Inside the structure, carved river rocks were aglow with LEDs.

More at: LA Times Blog

For those of you in San Francisco or Bay Area, here is the full list of lectures from UC Berkeley:

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the College of Environmental Design, the Departments of Architecture, City and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning present a collegewide CED Lecture Series. Lectures are held in 112 Wurster Hall unless otherwise noted and are free and open to all. See Exhibitions for shows of work related to the lecture series.

Here is the design proposal for a footbridge across the Drava river for the Maribor-EPK 2012 Competition by Ja Studio in collaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio.

Here’s a detailed project description from Ja Studio:

The city of Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia and it is getting ready to become the European Capital of Culture in 2012. As part of the three catalyst projects to revive the historic riverfront of the city, the city of Maribor host a competition to design a 150 meter long footbridge for walking and cycling on the location of a demolished historic bridge. Ja Studio’s proposal was an effort to re-visit the idea of the bridge as a multi-functional urban surface that resolves its geometry between the structural issues of crossing and spanning and the functional opportunities that may potentially arise from these structural necessities. Read the rest of this entry »

Five finalists have been selected in Google’s Model Your Town Competition, and now the winner is to be selected by the public. Below are a few of my favourites:

Town: Donostia – San Sebastian, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Team Members: Pedro Domecq Aguirre, Eneka Mujika Munduate, Gabriel Garcia Magriña, Jan Wesbuer, Fermin Sarasate Garcia

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For those of you in the Bay Area, here are two must-see lectures with Calyfornia College of Arts:

Lecture by Byron Kuth and Elizabeth Ranieri (Kuth/Ranieri) »
Presented as part of CCA’s Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, April 12, 7 pm

Lecture by Adriaan Geuze (West 8) »
Presented as part of CCA’s Architecture Lecture Series
Monday, April 5, 7 pm

Arhitektura d.o.o. received second prize for their proposal for a competition sponsored by the city of Maribor in Slovenia within the European Capital of Culture, with a bridge that spans 120 meters in one leap. Read the rest of this entry »