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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Iconic architecture, Skyscrapers
Earlier this month, we featured the winners and honorable mentions of the 2011 Skyscraper Competition. Today we are pleased to share with you 15 finalists that include underground cities, vertical farms, bio-fuel power plants, and contemporary skyscrapers that would redefine the city of Paris. Other proposals use laminated wood as building material, propose hydro-thermal high-rises, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, ESD design, Green architecture, Skyscrapers, Taiwan
A Polish architectural student Stanislaw Mlynski has received the Bronze Prize for the Ecological Wall competition organized by National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT) School of Architecture. He proposed to create structural wall using organic waste containers. The arrangement of elements, as well as the shape have potential to create shelters for animals, gather water, [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Competition
Arquideas informs that the registration period for the Tourist Accommodation Prototype (TAP) Santorini 2011 academic competition is open. Presentation: The objective of the current contest is to contribute with new ideas for a Tourist Accommodation Prototype (TAP), taking as example of its location the singular setting of the Santorini’s coast line and the Nea Kameni [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Finland, Random pattern, Wood
BIG (DK) + Pirmin Jung Engineers for Wood Constructions (CH) + AOA Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd (FI) + Vahanen Engineers (FI) + Stora Enso (FI) is the winning team to design a prototype wooden construction system for a pilot project in Kouvola, Finland that will serve as a showcase for the sustainable use of timber [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Competition, Netherlands, Skyscrapers
Every year, the internationally renowned eVolo Skyscraper Competition takes place. 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. This year, Benjamin Feenstra and Jelmer Frank Wijnia, two young Dutch designers, won an honorable mention. Their entry; The ‘On [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Competition, Events/News, New York, USA
Last month, we’ve introduced the Dare to Design competition held by Crystal Stone, which gave designers the chance to submit ideas for the stone presentations at the Home Design Show and Artist Project NY exhibits. Well, how was that? Did you join it? It is the time now to visit the showcase at the Architectural [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Competition, Events/News, Israel
International Award organised by the Architecture Israel Quarterly (AIQ) magazine, in collaboration with the European Union, and the Association of Engineers and Architects in Israel. Open: Architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and researchers are invited to submit works planned or written since 2007. Jury Chaired by Siamak G. Shahneshin and Lui Levi Galati, founders and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Events/News, Skyscrapers
WINNERS OF THE 2011 SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION ORGANIZED BY EVOLO MAGAZINE IN NEW YORK CITY 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 [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Foster + Partners, Hong Kong
After the year-long public consultation in Hong Kong, Henry Tang, Hong Kong’s chief secretary and chairman of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, announced that Foster + Partners‘ ‘City Park‘ conceptual masterplan has been selected for West Kowloon Cultural District. The project is considered to be the largest cultural initiative in the world today. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Competition, Green architecture, Hinton Cook Architects, Power station, UK
Hinton Cook Architects has designed the Biomass Power Station. The approach was taken to create an attractive building, which will sit comfortably within its surroundings, is sensitive to its Green Belt location and will act as an exemplar of architectural and environmental design. + Project description by Hinton Cook Architects THE SITE Situated in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: 3XN, Architecture Award, Competition, Concert Hall, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Ireland, Performing Arts Center, Theater
Danish architectural practice 3XN is one of two finalists in the prestigious competition to design Dublin’s new National Concert Hall. The competition was initiated in 2008 and the shortlist of renowned architects was soon narrowed down to two competing teams lead by Danish Architects; 3XN and Henning Larsen Architects. It is quite unique that two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: 3XN, Architecture Award, Competition, Random pattern, Sweden
3XN has won the competition to design the new Swedbank international headquarters in Stockholm. The new Headquarters will be one of Sweden’s most modern and innovative office buildings – focusing on transparency, Scandinavian simplicity and dynamic social environments. Behind the project is the Danish Architect 3XN in collaboration with Humlegården Fastigheter, representing the property owner [...]
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