Urban Land Institute Unveils Winners of 2009 Awards for Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Posted: Friday, July 03, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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These Are the Winners of the Seastead Design Contest
Posted: Thursday, July 02, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Michael Maltzan’s Inner-City Arts Campus Awarded with 2009 Rudy Bruner Award
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Tacoma Art Museum Shortlists Selected Design Firms
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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O’Donnell & Tuomey Architects Win Student Center Competition in London
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Prestigious Architecture Award for DSDHA’s Møller Centre in Cambridge
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Designing in Teheran Competition Shortlists Six Projects
Posted: Monday, June 29, 2009 | ↓ 7 comments
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SARA New York Announces 2009 Design Awards Winners
Posted: Monday, June 29, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Winners of d3 Natural Systems Competition 2009 Announced
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Allsteel’s Stride Wins Best of NeoCon 2009
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Winners of Australian 2009 NSW Architecture Awards
Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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BIG to Design Tallinn’s New City Hall
Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Du(b)ailities - Winners of Dubai 2A Students and Young Architects Competition
Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Commerce Design Brussels Announces 2009 Jury Grand Prizes
Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Global Street Food Exhibition Opened at Vitra Design Museum
Posted: Friday, June 19, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Kindergarten Sighartstein – Can You Hear the Grass Growing?
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Steven Holl-Designed Knut Hamsun Center Opens in Norway
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Summer Exhibition Opens Tomorrow at Sheffield Architecture School
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2009 | ↓ 3 comments
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OMA and Urbanus Win Shenzhen Crystal Island Competition
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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RIBA Lubetkin Prize Shortlist Announced
Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Ideas Competition for the Bering Strait Project Announces Winners
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Architects are Looking for Work
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Complete their Swedish “Mirage”
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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TOPOTEK 1 Selected for Imperial War Museum North Exterior
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Re-Inventcities Competition Announces Results
Posted: Sunday, June 14, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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3LHD Architects Win Competition for a Business Center in Zagreb
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Marcus Prize for Architecture Goes to Chilean Architect Alejandro Aravena
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Award Winners
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Zaha Hadid Architects Win Cairo Expo City Competition
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Cardin + Ramirez Win Montréal Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium Competition
Posted: Monday, June 08, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Re:Vision Dallas: Standard’s Co-op Canyon Receives Honorable Mention
Posted: Monday, June 08, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Winners of Canada’s Highest Architectural Awards Published
Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Andes Sprouts Society Competition - the Jury Vote Results
Posted: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Be an Official NeoCon ‘09 Citizen Blogger
Posted: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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zerOgroup/Unique wins ‘PRAÇA DO NATAL’ Competition in Brazil
Posted: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Weiss/Manfredi Complete Work for Taekwondo Park Master Plan
Posted: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Re:Vision Dallas Competition Announces Three Winners
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 | ↓ 14 comments
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University Building Wins Top 2009 Australia Regional Architecture Award
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Dublin Grounds of Remembrance Dedicated on Memorial Day
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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ADEPT Architects and Schønherr Landscape Win H+ Planning Competition
Posted: Monday, June 01, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Rensselaer Student Awarded Top Scholarship for Young African-American Architects
Posted: Saturday, May 30, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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AIA Selects the 2009 Recipients of the Small Project Awards
Posted: Friday, May 29, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Los Angeles Architectural Awards Announced Today
Posted: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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The Ordos Prize Launches
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | ↓ 4 comments
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Trouble with Paradise: Bahamas Design Challenge Winners Announced
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | ↓ 109 comments
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Australasian Student Design Awards Announce Winners
Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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2009 RIBA Award Winners Announced
Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Imagining Recovery Winners Announced
Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Samoo Architecture PC co-Designs Winning Project, Taekwondo ‘One’, Design-Build Competition
Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Foster + Partners wins Stockholm Slussen masterplan competition
Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Melbourne’s Roof Top Garden Competition Awards Botanical Traditions
Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel’s Design Selected for New Hotel Tower in Frankfurt
Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Lord Norman Foster awarded Prince of Asturias award
Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects’ Malmö Courthouse Completes
Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Metropolis Next Generation Prize for French Wind Turbine Design
Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Husk Insulation Wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Middle School Students Win School of the Future Design Contest
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi by Asymptote Architecture Nears Completion
Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Libeskind Wins $20B Seoul Master Plan Competition
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | ↓ 19 comments
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(Non)-Winners Announced for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award 2008-2009
Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | ↓ 78 comments
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House re-Growth Competition Announces Winners
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Blackburn’s Secret Landscape Garden by Studio Weave with MESH Partnership
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Best Landscape Architecture Projects Received ASLA 2009 Professional Awards
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Top Sustainable Construction Projects Honored with Global Holcim Awards 2009
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Herman Miller Honored with Design For Recycling Award
Posted: Friday, May 08, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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re Growth pod competition shortlist announced
Posted: Friday, May 08, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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New Practices San Francisco Announces Six Winning Firms
Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Thyssen!@%$#%@Krupp!?! If those were the winners…
Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2009 | ↓ 18 comments
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Bustler Events Update
Posted: Thursday, May 07, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Winners Announced for ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award 2008-2009
Posted: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 | ↓ 91 comments
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NL Architects’ Proposal for Adaptive Reuse of Amsterdam Silos
Posted: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Student Team from MIT Wins the $100K, 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Posted: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Child of the Sun” Included in Upcoming Guggenheim Exhibition
Posted: Monday, May 04, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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5th Annual Pug Awards Ask to Vote on Toronto’s Architecture
Posted: Friday, May 01, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Gensler Awards 2009 GAAINS Scholarship Recipients
Posted: Friday, May 01, 2009 | ↓ 2 comments
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Winners of the 10th National Design Awards Announced
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Dominique Perrault to Design the New City of Sofia
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ↓ 9 comments
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Impromptu Arquitectos Win Housing Competition in England’s North
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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BIG and Michel Rojkind Win Cultural Competition in Mexico
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ↓ 1 comment
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Snøhetta’s Oslo Opera Wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2009
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Andes Sprouts Society Competition Publishes Jury Shortlist
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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Bustler Events Update
Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | ↓ post a comment
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EcoFaeBrick Wins Global Social Venture Competition with Cow Dung Bricks
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Vote now for the RIBA Journal/Schüco Stirling of Stirlings
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Winners of ASAI’s Architecture in Perspective 24 Competition Announced
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EPA’s P3 Award Winners Celebrate a Green Future
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Five Past ADC Young Guns in the Spotlight
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RDA Awards Three Grants for Houston Built Environment
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Dreamgrove.org Nominated for Webby Award
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National Children’s Museum Unveils Building Design by Pelli Clarke Pelli
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Finalists of Cardboard Chair Design Student Competition Unveiled
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Entries to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Published
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Winner Chosen in Northwich Vision Cultural Center Competition
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Billes Architecture Home Design Competition Has 5 Student Winners
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AIA Select 17 Recipients for the 2009 Housing Awards
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First Winners Announced for Pennine Lancashire ‘Square’ Designs
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Winning Entries of FormShift Vancouver Announced
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Joint Winner of Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Complex International Competition
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Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Awards for Excellence: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) competition. This year, the competition also included the announcement of two special award winners. The Awards for Excellence competition is widely regarded as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.

The winners were announced today during an Awards for Excellence ceremony hosted in London by ULI EMEA, which serves nearly 2,600 members across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India.

The awards recognize the full development process of a project, not just its architecture or design. The criteria for the awards include leadership, contribution to the community, innovations, public/private partnership, environmental protection and enhancement, response to societal needs, and financial success.

The 2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence winning projects were selected from among 39 entries representing 17 countries. The winners (owners and/or developers in parentheses) are:

Akaretler Row Houses/W Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey (Akaretler Turizm Yatirimlari A.Ş.). In the heart of the business and hotel district of Istanbul, the original Akaretler Row Houses were built in 1875 by the order of Sultan Abdülaziz as an annex to Dolmabahçe Palace for the accommodation of palace staff. The historic renovation of these houses led the revitalization of an abandoned district now featuring office space, retail and residential areas, and the W Istanbul Hotel. Its ideal location allows a minute’s walk to a variety of museums, theaters, and restaurants.

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2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence: Akaretler Row Houses/W Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey (Photo: incubo78 (Back in Town))

Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland (Radora Developments Ltd.). Elm Park is a low-energy-use, high-density, mixed-use project comprising a private hospital, a hotel, offices, apartments, housing for seniors, plus cafés and sandwich bars, all in a richly landscaped parklike setting on eight hectares (20 acres). The initial plans called for a minimization of energy demand, which was achieved by capitalizing on the benefits of building orientations, using natural light and ventilation, and creating a large public landscape.

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2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence: Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland (Photo: _karma)

Hilton Tower, Manchester, U.K. (the Beetham Organization). At 169 meters (554 feet) and 48 floors, this is the U.K.’s tallest mixed-use building and a spectacular addition to Manchester’s skyline. The 4,600-square-meter (50,000-sq-ft) development comprises 219 luxury apartments and a 279-bed Hilton Hotel on a site of less than 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres). This iconic project creates a visual connection between the city’s south and the center.

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2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence: Hilton Tower, Manchester, U.K. (Photo: Lee251073)

Leoben Judicial Complex, Leoben, Austria (BIG-Services, Immobilienmanagementgesellschaft des Bundes mbH). A new approach for a penal system, this complex includes a court building and an integrated prison for 200 inmates. It serves as a model of design for the Austrian penal system with its open design, which creates a sense of transparency. It is all designed with a focus on human dignity while satisfying all safety requirements and giving the city a new and beautiful building.

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2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence: Leoben Judicial Complex, Leoben, Austria (Photo: pregewerner)

Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark (Hoepfner and Danish Oil Company). Mountain Dwellings was designed to be two-thirds parking and one-third living. Rather than constructing two separate, adjacent buildings, it was decided that the two functions needed to be merged to create a symbiotic relationship. This project offers a multistory parking structure as the foundation for 80 housing units integrated into one ten-story building with optimized solar orientation, natural ventilation, and on-site rainwater collection used in the landscaped roof garden areas.

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2009 ULI EMEA Awards for Excellence: Mountain Dwellings, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo: seier+seier+seier)

The Special Award winners were chosen in recognition of their unique scope and context; exceptionally large scale; and exemplary practice in terms of design, sustainability, and community engagement.

The Special Award winners are (owners and/or developers in parentheses):

American University in Cairo New Campus, Cairo, Egypt (AUC). The university’s new campus is located at the center of New Cairo City, about 40 kilometers (20 miles) east of the current campus in downtown Cairo. It is designed to be a tool and stimulus in itself for learning and to anchor community development around the university. The 105-hectare (260-acre) virgin desert site has been developed into 200,000 square meters (2.2 million sq ft) of energy-efficient housing and academic, administrative, and student life facilities.

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2009 ULI EMEA Special Award: American University in Cairo New Campus, Cairo, Egypt (Photo: ACM)

Liverpool One, Liverpool, U.K. (Grosvenor). A transformational £1 billion ($1.6 billion), 17-hectare (42-acre) mixed-use development in the Liverpool city center, Liverpool One is an open development that retains many of the street patterns long familiar to shoppers and visitors to the city. However, through comprehensive redevelopment, the city center now has 160 retail shops, 23,000 square meters (250,000 sq ft) of leisure space, a two-hectare (5-acre) park, apartments, hotels, and a new bus interchange. This open development creates a link between the west and east sides of the city while revitalizing the city center, which has suffered from underinvestment and decline in recent decades.

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2009 ULI EMEA Special Award: Liverpool One, Liverpool, U.K. (Photo: Commons Wikimedia)

The competition is part of the Institute’s Awards for Excellence program, established in 1979, which is based on ULI’s guiding principle that achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognized and rewarded.

Over the years, the Awards for Excellence program has evolved from recognition of one development in North America to an international competition with multiple winners. In 2004, the program added the ULI Awards for Excellence: Europe, which later expanded to include entries from the Middle East and Africa; in 2005, the program added the ULI Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific, and the Global Awards. Throughout the program’s history, all types of projects have been recognized for their excellence, including office, residential, recreational, urban/mixed-use, industrial/office park, commercial/retail, new community, rehabilitation, and public projects and programs.

The 2009 ULI Awards for Excellence: EMEA winners were selected by a jury of land use development and design experts. Members were Ian D. Hawksworth, managing director, Capital & Counties, London; Patrick Albrand, managing director, Hines France, Paris; Max Barclay, head of communications and internal operations, Stronghold Invest AB, Stockholm; Luca de Ambrosis Ortigara, partner, Realty Partners SRL, Milan; Andrew Gould, chief executive, Jones Lang LaSalle England, London; Hakan Kodal, president and chief executive, KREA Gayrimenku/Real Estate, Istanbul; and Karsten von Koeller, chairman, Lone Star Germany, and non-executive director and member of the investment committee, W.P. Carey LLC, Frankfurt.

“These are wonderful examples of success that showcase creativity, innovation, and long-term thinking,” jury chair Hawksworth said. “Perhaps now more than ever, the ULI Awards for Excellence program reminds us of the key difference that responsible design and development can make in terms of longevity and overall community sustainability.”

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The Seasteading Institute has crowned the winners in its first Seasteading Architectural Design Contest. The Contest, which ran from February 1st to May 1st, invited participants to design the floating city of their dreams. The winning design was awarded a $1000 grand prize, and there were four additional $250 prizes for specific categories.

Seasteads are permanent, stationary structures specifically designed for long-term ocean living. Entrants into the contest were provided with a 3-D model of TSI’s patent-pending base platform, on which they built creative architectural designs for a new society of ocean pioneers. The specifics of the design, aesthetics, and intended use were entirely up to each designer.

Entrants ranged from amateur 3D designers to professional architects and architecture students. 41 qualified designs were entered, including sports arenas, medical facilities, universities, hotels, and residences. The designs were judged by a panel of TSI staff, volunteers and board members.

The Winning Designs:

$1,000 Grand Prize: The Swimming City by András Gyõrfi (Runner Up: Seagull Hotel by Matias Perez)

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Grand Prize: The Swimming City by András Gyõrfi

$250 Prize for Aesthetic Design: SESU Seastead by Marko Järvela (Runner Up: Entwined Dragon Seastead by Patrick Kenny)

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Prize for Aesthetic Design: SESU Seastead by Marko Järvela

$250 Prize for Personality: Rendering Freedom by Anthony Ling (Runner Up: The Arch by Rory O’Hagan)

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Prize for Personality: Rendering Freedom by Anthony Ling

$250 Prize for Best Picture: Oasis of The Sea by Emerson Stepp (Runner Up: La Gallerie de la Mer by Hakeem Bux)

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Prize for Best Picture: Oasis of The Sea by Emerson Stepp

$250 Prize for Community Choice: Refusion by Team 3DA (Runner Up: Micro City Community by Ettore Mele)

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Prize for Community Choice: Refusion by Team 3DA

Winners will receive a cash prize, along with free admission to the 2nd annual Seasteading conference, a free membership with TSI, and a commemorative piece of merchandise with their design on it.

Here are some more exciting competition entries:

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#39, Designer: Kai Kostack

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#33 - Resort, Designer: László Szabó

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#35 - Hotel/resort, Designer: I Nyoman Sunartha and Yansen Oktanius

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#37 - Cultural center, Designer: Mark McQuilten, Robert Davidov and Ben Attrill

A few designs did not comply with the contest rules but could still serve as valuable inspiration for future design endeavours:

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Designer: Nolan Loh and Miles Loh

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Designer: Farhan Erooth

The wealth of creative talent that was brought to bear for this contest has provided TSI with a wonderful vision for the future of seasteading. “I am awed by the creativity and effort put into these entries, which portray a compelling and beautiful vision of a new way of life.” says Executive Director Patri Friedman.  “Before something can be built it must be imagined and expressed, and these imaginative models express the possibilities for seasteading.”

Images: Seasteading Institute

 

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The Rudy Bruner Foundation has chosen the Inner-City Arts project, a downtown Los Angeles education facility which provides art instruction to a large population of at-risk children and youth in LA, as one of five finalists for the 2009 Rudy Bruner Awards. The project, designed by LA-based architect Michael Maltzan together with garden designer Nancy Goslee Power, received the Gold Medal Award for Urban Excellence.

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The Inner-City Arts project in downtown Los Angeles by Michael Maltzan and Nancy Goslee Power (Photo: Iwan Baan)

Further finalists of the 2009 awards are Hunts Point Riverside Park (Bronx, NY), Millennium Park (Chicago, IL), St. Joseph Rebuild Center (New Orleans, LA), and The Community Chalkboard and Podium: An Interactive Monument to Free Expression (Charlottesville, VA).

Building a new arts campus, which began with an abandoned 10,000 square foot auto body shop in the heart of Skid Row, captured architect Michael Maltzan’s imagination. It was the fall of 1993, and Inner-City Arts became the first project for the new office that Maltzan was opening at that time, and his first pro bono project. He persuaded his colleague, garden designer Nancy Goslee Power, to volunteer her services as well.

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Photo: Iwan Baan

With an eye to using architecture and design as agents for social change, Maltzan and Power created a campus where every space is a “teachable moment,” from the way the buildings are designed, arranged and used, to the way nature is invited in to what used to be a concrete jungle. And what fired up Maltzan and Power’s own creativity was looking at artwork presented by the children when asked to envision what their ideal Inner-City Arts campus would look like.

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Photo: Iwan Baan

Built in three phases over 15 years, the one acre campus was conceived as a contemporary open-air village, an indoor/outdoor tradition perfectly suited to the Southern California climate. The buildings and classrooms are arranged around a landscaped central plaza. The “campus as village” fosters a way of living, working and relating that informs the larger city that surrounds the school. Each child has his or her own work: performance, ceramics, dance, painting, sculpture, animation. But the group gathers as a community to interact in the public space of the central courtyard. “The responsibility to both of those things,” says Maltzan, “to yourself as an individual, to expressing yourself, making your work, to living a creative life - but also to have a responsibility to your role within the larger community. This is an important lesson.”

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Photo: Iwan Baan

Each building has its own character and function. The original building was a 1930s bow-string truss shell, a huge open space with no interior divisions. Working in collaboration with architects Marmol Radziner and Associates, the design features large glass openings and roll up doors that open onto the central plaza, echoing the original auto shop doors. The light industrial quality of the original structure and the surrounding neighborhood set the tone for architecture overall. Most of the ceilings are left raw, open to the rafters.

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Photo: Iwan Baan

This neutral palate allows the buildings to serve as a canvas for the students’ artwork, a background to the work that is being created on the campus. The materials Maltzan uses are taken from the neighborhood: chiefly stucco, and construction grade wood and concrete. According to Maltzan, “If you look around Skid Row, the building and context are made from the most prosaic of materials. Often people have the idea that buildings become architecture because the materials are expensive, fancy. Here, the lesson is that it isn’t the quality of the materials, but the way you use them, the way you bring your creativity and thinking to the design that can make something transformative out of something very humble.”

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Photo: Iwan Baan

White is the dominant paint color, with orange as an accent. With security and graffiti being major issues in the neighborhood, the idea of white exteriors was radical. But Maltzan believes the community will respect the architecture and the Inner-City Arts’ mission it embodies.

At first, the new buildings seem to have always been there. But after a moment, one realizes that they are quite different. Many of the structural angles are pushed intentionally below or beyond the normal 90 degrees. The buildings open up like Japanese origami, with light entering through the folds and cuts. The ceramics building rises from the plaza in a three-story tower that is visible from the entire surrounding area. “In this new phase,” says Michael Maltzan, “I was trying to create more transparency through the gates and with the height of the ceramics studio, while still maintaining security.”

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Photo: Iwan Baan

The new Rosenthal Theater, funded by Philip and Monica Rosenthal of Everybody Loves Raymond, is the final piece of the puzzle, the campus’ most urban element. The building is mostly square, but is also shaped by the irregular street grid. Functionally, the theater is an extremely flexible “black box.” The lighting grid extends almost throughout the entire ground floor, with the control booth on the second level. The stage, seating and curtains can be positioned anywhere: thrust, in-the-round, traditional proscenium arch, multiple stage, etc. In a roving performance, the entire space can be activated - including the upper parking lot and the proclamation platform on the exterior stairway. The acoustics were carefully engineered, with sound isolation, triple-insulated glass and a large skylight that can be blacked out.

At the beginning of the design process, Inner-City Arts founder Bob Bates asked the children to draw images of their vision for the new campus. They drew palms, oranges, and other fruit trees. The boys also drew volcanoes, which inspired the children’s fountain. These children’s drawings gave garden designer Nancy Power many of her ideas for the plaza. Because of the glaring sun, she imagined a sheltered oasis like the courtyards in Italy or Southern Spain. “Gardening is one of the great arts that can alter the environment,” says Power. “Under the dappled light of trees, we can create a cool room and a calm environment. A quiet space is particularly important for inner-city kids who sometimes suffer from nature deficit disorder.”

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Photo: Iwan Baan

The palm trees offer shade and attract birds. A constructed dry creek bed (that the children can fill with water) represents a California arroyo, lined with native oaks and alders. The boulders and sycamores that shade the outdoor staircase create the image of a canyon from one of the nearby mountain ranges. Agaves and other native plants offer multiple exotic shapes for the kids to draw. At the forefront of the wave of planting kitchen gardens in schools, the landscaping now includes grapes, tomato, cilantro, chard and sunflowers. “My interest in the project grew over the years,” says Power, who first got involved in 1993, the same year as Maltzan did. “This is part of teaching the kids how to eat well, and where their food comes from.” The plaza garden includes a labyrinth and, with a total of 30 trees, constitutes an urban forest.

Arrayed surrounding the internal plaza courtyard and within the confines of the urban street grid, the separate campus structures relate to each other in a complex geometry. “As you move through the campus your mind accumulates this subtle series of spatial relationships,” says Maltzan. Movement is the animating force behind the architecture. The structures vary in height and angle. The planes and lines of the new buildings align with, or gesture to, the existing buildings. In addition to serving as an armature for the student’s art, the campus and buildings function as the arts education center’s biggest learning tool. The environmental graphics, bold and deeply integrated with the architectural concept and design, are from Ph.D, the LA-based graphic design firm that has worked with Maltzan on Inner-City Arts since the first phase.

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Photo: Iwan Baan

As is also true for the larger city, the way that students relate to each other and their surroundings at Inner-City Arts actually creates the campus. It is not just that many individuals have gathered - it is the way those individuals interact. The entire campus is intended to create that sense of responsibility and interaction. Particularly with the expansion, the campus also has an important role in relation to the rest of the city. It is an urban community center and agent for change, a positive force in that neighborhood. “If there is something that the campus communicates, that people take with them,” says Maltzan, “I hope that people get that architecture is not only great form, but the way we structure our relationship to the way that we live in the city, and to find forms that can evolve as the city changes is important and is essential for the city to continue to emerge.”

The expanded campus can now serve 16,000 students annually and train 1,800 classroom teachers each year to use the arts as a tool in teaching academic subjects, extending its reach beyond the campus and reforming education in Los Angeles. In addition to the original Mark Taper Center / Inner-City Arts Building, the campus includes The Rosenthal Theater, the W.M. Keck Foundation Ceramics Complex, a Parent-Teacher Resource Center, a Grand Courtyard, the Alissa Michelle Tishler Children’s Garden, The Hinchliffe Building, and a Visual Arts Complex (which includes a painting and drawing studio and the DreamWorks Animation Academy at Inner-City Arts). The total cost of the expansion is $10 million, raised through private individuals, foundation and government grants.

Inner-City Arts was officially opened in October 2008 and is located at 720 Kohler Street (at 7th Street) in downtown Los Angeles.

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The Tacoma Art Museum in Washington state received 95 submissions in response to its recent call for design concepts to redesign the museum’s plaza and perimeter and create a landmark civic space that enlivens downtown Tacoma. Submissions were received by individuals and firms from Tacoma, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Richmond, VA, and New York.

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Tacoma Art Museum received 95 design concepts to redesign the museum’s plaza and perimeter and create a landmark civic space that enlivens downtown Tacoma.

The shortlist of finalists are BCRA (Tacoma, design team led by David Wright), the design team led by E. Cobb Architects, which includes Alchemie and Arup (Seattle, Vancouver, Sun Valley, worldwide), Johnson Architecture and Planning LLC (Seattle, design team led by Ben Gist), Mithūn (Seattle and San Francisco), NBBJ (Seattle and worldwide), and Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen & Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture (Seattle).

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Photo: Bryanna Plog

The museum’s Plaza Redesign Task Force, made up of Tacoma Art Museum Trustees and knowledgeable community members, met on June 22 to review the submissions and determine finalists for the interview stage of the selection process. Task Force chair Steve Barger noted: “We were pleased and gratified by the great response to our project. The submissions showed impressive creativity and a wide variety of approaches. The selection process was arduous. We now look forward to meeting the finalists for interviews on July 9.”

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Photo: Lara Swimmer

Director Stephanie A. Stebich added: “That we received submissions from across the country speaks to the museum’s vision of being a national model for regional museums. We will spend this summer working to select a finalist after the interview phase and other due diligence. After Board approval this fall, we look forward to introducing the community to the selected firm to provide their input into our design.”

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About 75 interested parties attended the May 18 two-hour walk-through with Director Stebich, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art Rock Hushka, and the Plaza Redesign Task Force. They toured the museum’s plaza, parking area, and perimeter spaces. Many questions were posed and notes were posted on the museum’s blog. The museum created a public online forum at http://TacomaArtMuseumPlaza.blogspot.com/. The forum, moderated by Mr. Hushka, allowed for questions and perspectives specific to the plaza redesign process and scope to be shared by all potential designers during the submission period.

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Irish architecture firm O’Donnell & Tuomey has won the RIBA-organized design contest for a new $35.6 million student center at the London School of Economics.

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Winning design for the new student center at the London School of Economics by O’Donnell & Tuomey

The shortlist included well-known practices like David Chipperfield, 3XN, de Rijke Marsh Morgan, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.

Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey said: “We are delighted to win this opportunity to build a significant building in London, the city of our second schooling in architecture, at the center of the street-based campus of the London School of Economics. We hope to make a special building for the students’ union, one that derives from and contributes to the characteristics qualities of the LSE.”

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These finalists designs made it to the shortlist:

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Shortlisted: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

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Shortlisted: 3XN

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Shortlisted: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

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Shortlisted: David Chipperfield Architects

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Shortlisted: de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM Architects)

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RIBA recently selected The Study Centre at The Møller Centre in Cambridge, UKas a regional winner of the prestigious annual RIBA architecture awards. The Study Centre was opened in 2007 and designed by London-based architects DSDHA. Winners of the Regional and European Awards are put forward for the Stirling Prize for Architecture, which is announced in October.

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The Møller Centre for Continuing Education & Churchill College Music Centre by DSDHA (Photo: Cristobal Palma)

The Architects Journal commented that “Among the expected front runners [for the Stirling Prize] are DSDHA’s Møller Centre, Eric Parry Architects’ St Martin-in-the-Fields revamp, Bennetts Associates’ New Street Square, Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Deal Pier Café, and the Castleford Bridge by McDowell + Benedetti”

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(Photo: Cristobal Palma)

The Study Centre and Music Recital Room at The Møller Centre was developed as a collaborative learning environment, a flexible space that can be used in a variety of ways and quickly adjusted from one format to another. A group could have a formal presentation, followed by small breakout work groups, followed by working around the space using graphic artists, role-play or theater for experiential learning or to develop new business ideas, models or strategies.

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To ensure that the new space supported the needs of end-users, there was extensive consultation with existing clients to determine their requirements for conference, meeting and training space over the next ten years, taking into account future changes in technology and the demand for highly flexible space that can be adjusted throughout the course of a day as a program develops.

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For the architects, the challenge was to create a building that answered these needs but would also sit alongside an existing meeting facility and in between the 1960s Churchill College and the Hans Larsen designed Møller Centre. DSDHA created a design of formal simplicity, with a glazed exterior which complements the adjacent buildings, reflects the exceptional landscaping of Churchill College, and filters views into the interior. Internally, timber linings soften the sharp geometry and bring the exterior landscape inside.

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Gillian Holdom, Director of the Møller Centre said: “We are delighted to win this award. Since the new development opened two years ago, the space has been very popular with clients and has been used in many different and exciting ways. It is a tribute to the vision of our clients, our staff here and to the architects who translated our ideas into reality.”

 

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In December 2008, Italian fashion brand United Colors of Benetton launched the international competition Designing in Teheran to develop a design for two multistory buildings in Iran’s capital city of Teheran. Designers were called to integrate the new structures in the local urban and commercial setting while taking in account cultural and technical aspects. The two new towers will house Benetton offices, as well as retail space.

From the competition brief: “Teheran in Persian means “going downwards”. Indeed, the ancient city was first established on an upland plateau before gradually developing downhill in subsequent years to become the metropolis it is today. Expansion of the city was rapid and uncontrolled, but unlike in other cases of massive development, the wealthy population moved out of the old town, whilst the poorer classes remained there. The city now has over 11 million inhabitants and is the country’s main industrial, political and socio-cultural centre. [...] The Designing in Teheran contest seeks to stimulate innovative ideas that will convey these messages of modernity and attention to the architectural and environmental quality of the retail spaces in a constantly evolving metropolis.”

The jury, comprised of Odile Decq, Cino Zucchi, Makio Hasuike, Tobia Scarpa, Luis Pereira Miguel, Tatiana Sambo, and Michele Zanella, now selected three designs for tower A and B, before going on to proclaim one winner for A and one for B.

These are the three selected winners for Project A:

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Project A Selected #1: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz

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Project A Selected #1: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz

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Project A Selected #1: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz

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Project A Selected #1: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz

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Project A Selected #1: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz


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Project A Selected #2: Mario Cottone

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Project A Selected #2: Mario Cottone

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Project A Selected #2: Mario Cottone

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Project A Selected #2: Mario Cottone

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Project A Selected #2: Mario Cottone


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Project A Selected #3: Giuseppe Iodice

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Project A Selected #3: Giuseppe Iodice

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Project A Selected #3: Giuseppe Iodice

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Project A Selected #3: Giuseppe Iodice

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Project A Selected #3: Giuseppe Iodice


These are the three selected winners for Project B:

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Project B Selected #1: Yana Radeva

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Project B Selected #1: Yana Radeva

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Project B Selected #1: Yana Radeva

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Project B Selected #1: Yana Radeva

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Project B Selected #1: Yana Radeva


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Project B Selected #2: Maarten Scheurwater

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Project B Selected #2: Maarten Scheurwater

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Project B Selected #2: Maarten Scheurwater

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Project B Selected #2: Maarten Scheurwater

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Project B Selected #2: Maarten Scheurwater


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Project B Selected #3: Nuno Rosado

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Project B Selected #3: Nuno Rosado

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Project B Selected #3: Nuno Rosado


Images: Designing in Teheran

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The Society of American Registered Architects New York Council just announced the winners of the 14th Annual Professional Design Awards.

The Friends of the Highline have been awarded the Medallion of Honor.

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The new Highline Park in New York City (Photo: 1hr photo)

The jury said: “For not only did they succeed in preserving an historic structure; they have created a new public “park in the sky” which has spurred the rezoning of West Chelsea, precipitating it’s transformation from a barren industrial wayside to a verdant, vibrant and popular cultural, commercial and residential area.”

The New Cooper Union Academic Building designed by Morphosis has been awarded the Visionary Architecture Award.

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The New Cooper Union Academic Building by Morphosis (Photo: Morphopedia)

“This building is not only groundbreaking in its design and use of new materials and technology; Morphosis has created a new paradigm for academic buildings that engage the environment both within and without. The design and structure embody a new spirit of collaboration, which is beginning to be evident in the professions and is physically expressed in the intermingling of architects, engineers, and artists who will inhabit this new structure.”

One Bryant Park designed by Cook+Fox and developed by the Durst Organization has received the Project of the Year Award.

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One Bryant Park by Cook+Fox (Photo: Wade Zimmerman)

“This building is the physical manifestation of the Durst’s commitment to the public and their environment. The public’s relationship with this structure is beautifully choreographed whether they originate from Grand Central or Times Square or Bryant Park itself. The developers commitment to the environment is recognized by this buildings LEED Platinum rating and the fact that it is currently the largest green building in the United States at 2.2 million Square feet.”

Here’s the complete list of 2009 Design Awards Winners:

Medallion of Honor: Friends of the High Line

Visionary Architecture Award: The Cooper Union Academic Building

Project of the Year: 1 Bryant Park

Award of Excellence:

  • Housing - 40 Bond Street - Herzog & de Meuron: Design Architect; Handel Architects: Architect of Record
  • Commercial - Standard Hotel, New York - Polshek Partnership Architects LLP
  • Interior Design - Science Department Renovation and Addition - Murphy, Burnham & Buttrick - Mary Burnham
  • Interior Design - Enterprise Community Partners – Stephen Yablon - Stephen Yablon Architect
  • Educational - Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse III School of Public Communications - Polshek Partnership Architects
  • Rehabilitation/Remodeling - Apartment & Garden - A+I Architecture PC – Brad Zizmor
  • Rehabilitation/Remodeling - Yale University Art Gallery Kahn Building Renovation - Polshek Partnership Architects
  • The Arts - Birdhaus - The Office of Carol JW Kurth, AIA Architect, PC - Carol JW Kurth
  • Student - Brooklyn Waterfront Museum – Yeinny Daza

Award of Merit:

  • Housing - North Sea Residence - Shelton, Mindel & Associates - Jessica Fowler
  • Housing – 304 Spring Street - Zakrzewski + Hyde Architects - Stas Zakrzewski
  • Educational/Institutional - University of Michigan Biomedical Science Research Building - Polshek Partnership Architects
  • Educational/Institutional - Newseum/Freedom Forum World Headquarters - Polshek Partnership Architects
  • Interior Design - Fortune 100 Co - Mancini Duffy - Peyton Cochran
  • Interior Design - Hudson River Residence - Shelton, Mindel & Associates - Jessica Fowler
  • Rehabilitation/Remodeling - Beacon Institute - Gensler - Joseph Brancato
  • Urban Design Studies - NABA Masterplan - Wendy Evans Joseph - Wendy Evans Joseph Architecture
  • Student - Museum of the Brooklyn Waterfront - Hsiang-Jen Chuang - New York City College of Technology

Award of Honor:

  • Housing - The Satori - Scarano Architects, PLLC – Robert Scarano
  • Educational/Institutional - Weill/Cornell Medical College, Weill Greenberg Center - Polshek Partnership Architects
  • Interior Design – Toku - Bentel & Bentel Architects - Carol Bentel
  • Interior Design - North Sea Pool House - Shelton, Mindel & Associates - Jessica Fowler
  • Interior Design - Central Park West Residence - Shelton, Mindel & Associates - Jessica Fowler
  • Interior Design - NY Mets Exec/Admin Offices - Mancini Duffy - Peyton Cochran
  • Rehabilitation/Remodeling - Spector Group LI Offices - Spector Group - Marc B Spector
  • Rehabilitation/Remodeling - Artist’s Studio - Vaidya Stolz Architects – Alexander Stolz
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