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NL Architects’ winning cultural stage proposal will activate the Port of Amsterdam as its unique configuration is suited for a variety of activities.   Situated on the Haparandada near the IJ River, the flexible and movable base will accommodate different forms of art such as film, fashion, sculpture, dance, etc.  “The versatility of the assignment is the ultimate challenge for Architecture: how can one single spatial given host all these functionalities in a credible way?” explained the architects.

More about the winning proposal after the break.

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Seeing to port of Amsterdam as being in “a ... (Read more...)

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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

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This is the winning scheme for a international competition to design a new office development on the river front in Leeds, UK. The competition was run by the UK magazine The Architects Journal.

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Commentary

‘The Loom’ is the apparatus for weaving strands of local business into ... (Read more...)

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, whose National Tourist Route was a finalist for the 2009 Building of the Year Awards, has recently been awarded first prize for an invited competition to design a mountaineering center.  Situated in Norway, the center possesses an expressive geometry that is an artificial interpretation of the site’s mountainous backdrop.   Covered in a uniform surface, the angularity of the form breaks the large mass into a more contextual and scalable entity.   The design intends to give the “existing house a special character that conveys the content with a unique and existing expression” giving the center of Åndalsnes a “one of a ... (Read more...)

First Place / The Second Sun

MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the Lake Michigan remaining from the cancellation of Calatrava’s Spiral Tower, have recently announced it’s winners. See them after the break.

First Place
The Second Sun / Alex Lehnerer, Team Leader, Meghan Funk, Lyndsay Pepple / Chicago, USA:

Second Place
Return to Paradise / Giacomo Bongiorno, Team Leader, Thomas Bormann, Djamel Kara / Paris, France:

Third Place
Lot 400 / ... (Read more...)

bad architects group winning collage

A few months ago, the Guggenheim Museum exhibited Contemplating the Void in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary.  After receiving 200 submissions, curators from the museum selected five winners.  We’ve shared different proposals with you previously on AD, and today, we bring you Bad Architects Group’s winning Void Codition[ed].  In German, void or “Luftraum“, literally translates to “air-space“. By conditioning the given air, which is already present in the void, the architects create the possibility to access the space as is without interrupting how it currently exists.  The proposal “adds another dimension or layer to ... (Read more...)

One of our favorites, CEBRA, (and their collaboraters JDS, SeARCH and Louis Paillard) shared their latest winning competition entry.  Situated in Aarhus, Denmark, right in front of the harbor, the 21.500 m² project features mixed dwellings types and commercial space.   The project receives its jagged heights to allow better views toward the ocean and better daylight conditions, and the tops and bottoms are shifted so that views between the volumes become possible.  This breakdown of the mass creates the potential for an “iconic” building for the harbor area, and one that, due to its form, creates its own skyline within itself. ... (Read more...)

One of our favorites, CEBRA, (and their collaboraters JDS, SeARCH and Louis Paillard) shared their latest winning competition entry.  Situated in Aarhus, Denmark, right in front of the harbor, the 21.500 m² project features mixed dwellings types and commercial space.   The project receives its jagged heights to allow better views toward the ocean and better daylight conditions, and the tops and bottoms are shifted so that views between the volumes become possible.  This breakdown of the mass creates the potential for an “iconic” building for the harbor area, and one that, due to its form, creates its own skyline within itself. ... (Read more...)

First Prize – Tamás Lévai, Ágnes Jószai

The Maribor Municipality (Slovenia) and the jury members under the auspices of the International Association of Architects announced the winners and award holders of the open international competition for the new UGM / Maribor Art Gallery. The Competition Committee received over 200 attractive entries from around the world proposing solutions for the new, 14,000m2 UGM including 8,000 m2 of gallery premises, a Children’s Museum, an Architectural Centre and a Creative Industry Centre, museum library and retail.

See the winners and honourable mentions after the break.

First Prize
Tamás Lévai, Ágnes Jószai / ... (Read more...)

Swedish architects We Are You were recently awarded 1st price in a competition for their proposal “Have a Nice Day” for a new student residential house in Toronto, Canada. You can see more images, a video, and the architect’s description after the break.

The Have a Nice Day building consists of mainly two parts. A public part with access for everyone and a student housing part for the students. Rather than making a convetional student housing project with the floors isolated from each other we have chosen to create a single space flowing from floor to floor throughout the student ... (Read more...)