The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The Architect’s Newspaper are today launching the Los Angeles Clean Tech Corridor and Green District Competition. The competition asks architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, students and environmental professionals to create an innovative urban vision for Los Angeles’ CleanTech Corridor, a several-mile-long development zone on the eastern edge of downtown LA.
No other city has been as enthusiastic as Berlin in experimenting with modes of living. From mass housing to highly individualistic visions of living and extreme communal regimes, Berlin has long pushed the boundaries of what it means to live together. New organisational forms of dwelling, combined with alternative implementation methods, are currently challenging the roles of both architect and local authority in the process of delivering dwellings for the city.
The design of educational facilities serves as a major focus for architects and the communities in which they live and work. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that there were 95,726 public schools in the United States in 2005, nearly 10,000 more than in 1995. And even in the current economic downturn, the American Institute of Architects indicates that the design and construction of schools represents the driving force of designs fees for architecture firms in the United States.
OpenHAUS and DARCH invites design professionals and design students to create an ‘Advertisement for Architecture’. The most outstanding of these entries will be exhibited at the award winning Surry Hills Library and Community Centre in Sydney, Australia for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2010, 20 October to 7 November 2010.
Britain’s Energy Coast Cumbria and Magnus Homes invite submissions to a two-stage, International Open Design Competition for a circa GBP £10m mixed-use development on a prominent site overlooking Whitehaven Harbour. The 2,600m2 site occupies a fantastic setting adjacent to Whitehaven Harbour and represents one of the most impressive current development opportunities in Cumbria.
The Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an open international competition to design a permanent yet flexible, free standing group of kiosks in Meridian Square, Stratford, London, for use before, during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
NAMELESS, a New York-based practice shared with us their project ‘Playcloud’, for which they won the 2010 BSA Unbuilt Architecture Awards for Art Pavilion. See more images and architect’s description after the break.
Institutional Architecture from all over the world in our fourth selection of our previously featured projects. Enjoy them all after the break!
Arcam / René van Zuuk Architekten The Architecture Centre Amsterdam (ARCAM) needed a significantly larger accommodation. Therefore a wonderful location close to the Oosterdok was allocated to this promotional institute. In the vicinity of Renzo Piano’s New Metropolis was a small pavilion also designed by him that was going to be demolished. The columns and some of the floors needed to be integrated in the new design (read more…)
Atelier Hollein shared with us their latest project in Shenzhen, China. It’s a high-rise office building for which they received one of first prizes in the 4in1 Tower Competition in 2009. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break.
The proximity to Guaíba Lake provides the site a physical and visual landmark, which makes it one of the most significant areas of the city of Porto Alegre. The view of the historic center of the city along with the rich landscape that opens up from the highest point of the area makes Morro Santa Teresa a strategic spot for formulating innovative proposals that take into consideration urban scales at the street, neighbourhood and city levels.
A significant part of the conference will be dedicated to discussions among speakers, faculty, and students, and is intended to amplify and interrogate the presentations. The conference is coordinated and led by Dagmar Richer, Chair of the Department of Architecture and Christian Otto, Professor of Architectural History. For details and participant abstracts, click here.
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The photo above was taken by Fred.Z. in Beijing, China. Check the other four after break.
Architect Adrian Lo shared with us his proposal for the New Links New Kwun Tong Design Ideas Competition (see all the results here) in Hong Kong. The competition invited local professionals and the general public to submit ideas and concepts with innovative designs for the two pedestrian link systems in Kwun Tong for reference and implementation.
See more images and architect’s description after the break.
Material Intelligence is a one-week intensive design and prototyping workshop to be held in New York City during the week of August 16-20.
Affirmative Architecture is a two-day symposium convened by Dr Martyn Hook of the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. The event seeks to define an emergent trend amongst young architects to re-engage with the ability of architecture to make life better.
New Casino in Montrond-les-Bains in France design by DATA ARCHITECTES, Leonard Lassagne + Colin Reynier. Rather melt into the landscape is characterized by a quiet, unassuming beauty: it is relatively low, consisting of six volumes as “performed” in the meadow adjacent to the beautiful city park and linked by faults transparent, d a tone combining the clarity of glass and perforated metal skin lacquered. While lightweight, it does not attack the landscape, does not enter into competition with the adjacent buildings and does not disturb the cows grazing nearby. He instead offers a serene architecture that offers framed views of the 360 degrees of the horizon near.
The unique Mock Firms model aims to help facilitate the formation and function of simulated architectural design firms by collegiate and secondary school students. This year’s challenge is for student-firms to conceive, coordinate, construct and even commercialize a tall building project for Stockholm, Sweden which will be interactively judged by top industry professionals against a field of their peers. For more info please visit www.mockfirms.org or email info@mockfirms.org, Registration deadline is January 15, 2011. Submission deadline is April 22, 2011.
Architectural Team: Fletcher Crane Architects / Toby Fletcher, Ian Crane and Sam Stevens Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood/Gary Elliott, George Georgiou Building Environment and Services Engineer: Skelly and Couch/Mark Skelly, Matthew Chantzidakis Quantity Surveyor: Quantem Consulting/Dan Watson Landscape Architects: Whitelaw Turkington/Ian Turkington