Posts tagged “competition”
We Have a Winner!
My Friend Nick O’Neill just won the 2007 BD/Zumtobal photography competition with the entry above. You have to take the photos with a disposable camera and then send it in o the organisers before its developed, the results can be great. There were some other good photos there too so its worth checking out all [...]
Superspatial
I just posted for the first time on Superspatial a collaborative weblog (myself and kosmograd so far) and jumping off point for urbanism of all kind. Posting on urbanisation issues will really focus there. We have entered a couple of competitions already so if you are interested in joining in then please get in touch. [...]
Otaniemi Expansion
A new island forms the centrepiece of an expansion of the Otaniemi campus of Helsinki university in Espoo. The competition won by NRT Architects is for office and teaching space for 1500 people with a further 700 residences. Its a major addition adn improvement to the campus which already contains some world class Architecture.
Stirling Prize Shortlist 2007
One of the more prestigious and well rewarded Architectural awards The Stirling Prize Shortlist is as follows; America’s Cup Building, Valencia by David Chipperfield Architects Casa da Musica, Porto by OMA Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden by Foster + Partners Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar by David Chipperfield Architects The Savill Building, Windsor by [...]
Hanasaari
(image from Arkkitehtitoimisto ALA Oy) ALA just won the design competition for the new urban plan of Hanasaari. As can be seen from the graphic the new housing blocks are going to make a real statement from the sea, with large balconies and an extended wave like form or possibly boat hulls. This development will [...]
Europan 9
The Competition for every aspiring starchitect, and everyone else, just launched again Europan9 is here. European urbanity, sustainable city and new public spaces are the main themes. Finnish Europan has some interesting sites in Espoo, Vantaa (both in greater Helsinki) and Kotka on the South East coast which is redeveloping. Is there a potential tie-in [...]
Greater Helsinki Vision 2050
A new international competition for planning Helsinkis’ future has been launched. It’s scope and scale is massive and it’s not often you get the chance to reimagine a Capital city like this. The Competition briefing information alone is a great repository of information about Helsinki and indeed the Baltic. Visit greaterhelsinkivision for details also see [...]
Gazprom City Controversy
On the 1st December RMJM won the gazprom city competition in St.Petersburg. But an interesting development was that the Architects walked off the jury before the winner was announced. Norman Foster and Rafael Viñoly walked off the jury that chose RMJM’s designs for the massive Gazprom City development in St Petersburg. The two stars joined [...]
You win some and you lose some
As an Architect you win some and you lose some, I took part with my office in a design competition for Aviapolis Tower which we lost. Davidsson won, and the winning entry image is top left. Its an interesting development mainly because of its height. At about 100 metres high it puts this project at [...]
europan8fi
Finnish Europan Winners announced yesterday and they have even managed to build a couple unlike some places!
Warsaw Museum II
The Museum of History of Polish Jews by Lahdelma & Mahlamaki is having some problems see the Archinect page about it. The masterplan is up for debate and the issue of Authenticity in Museums comes under scrutiny again. The building is to be somewhere in the Warsaw ghetto and may have a reconstruction of a [...]
Stirling Prize 2005 Winner
Scottish Parliament wins the Stirling prize 2005 which goes to show how much I know (see last post for my prediction!). Anyway a worthy and probably right winner as I think it fulflls the purpose of the prize the best out of the contestants.
Contrast
This Saturday the winner of the 2005 Stirling Prize will be announced, while this article in the Guardian, interviews the people of Europes largest Housing estate which is about to be knocked down. My money is on the Lewis Gluckmans Gallery.
Stirling Prize 2005
Up today the 2005 shortlist is, BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany – Zaha Hadid Architects Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland – O’Donnell + Tuomey The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh – EMBT / RMJM Ltd McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey – Foster and Partners Jubilee Library, Brighton, Sussex – Bennetts Associates with Lomax Cassidy + [...]