2012 MoMA PS1 YAP Runner-Up: ‘Coney Inland’ by Cameron Wu

Posted on March 5, 2012

In February, HWKN’s ‘Wendy’ design proposal won the 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (YAP). One of the other four creative designs that competed against the winning design is Cameron Wu‘ proposed ‘Coney Inland’ — an architectural strategy which formally unifies and spatially modulates the challenging MoMA PS1 courtyard site.

A series of developable surfaces (cones and cylinders) and their base structures normalize the contingencies of scale and shape of the three courtyard spaces, while their legible transformations register the idiosyncratic nature of the overall site geometry. Continue Reading →

SOM Wins Master Plan Competition for Beijing Bohai Innovation City

Posted on February 29, 2012

In an international design competiton for the rapid development of satellite cities along Chinese high speed rail corridors, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) Beijing Bohai Innovation City master plan has just been named the winning submission. Continue Reading →

Igloo Village Kakslauttanen

Posted on February 28, 2012

While some of us are thrilled for the mild winter, others lament the lack of snow. For the latter, might we suggest a trip to Igloo Village Kakslauttanen in the Arctic Circle in Finland. In wintertime, accommodations include snow igloos and glass igloos – yes, igloos! Continue Reading →

‘Greenhouse Transformer’ by PRAUD

Posted on February 28, 2012

Organizers Emerging New York Architects (ENYA) just announced the winners of the design ideas competition, The Harlem Edge / Cultivating Connections. One of the finalist entries was the proposal ‘Greenhouse Transformer’ by Dongwoo Yim and Rafael Luna of Boston firm PRAUD. The concept received an Honorable Mention.

View the competition brief here. Continue Reading →

2012 Pritzker Prize Goes to Wang Shu

Posted on February 27, 2012

Chinese architect Wang Shu is the 2012 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. The 48 year old architect whose practice Amateur Architecture Studio is based in Hangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, was announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize. The formal award ceremony will be held in Beijing on May 25.

In announcing the jury’s choice, Pritzker elaborated, “The fact that an architect from China has been selected by the jury, represents a significant step in acknowledging the role that China will play in the development of architectural ideals. In addition, over the coming decades China’s success at urbanization will be important to China and to the world. This urbanization, like urbanization around the world, needs to be in harmony with local needs and culture. China’s unprecedented opportunities for urban planning and design will want to be in harmony with both its long and unique traditions of the past and with its future needs for sustainable development.” Continue Reading →

‘Métamorphose’ Sports Complex in Lausanne by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners

Posted on February 26, 2012

gmp • Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners win competition for a sports complex and urban re-design in Lausanne.

In association with Jean-Baptiste Ferrari et Associes SA, the architects gmp • von Gerkan, Marg and Partners have won the “Métamorphose – Prés-de-Vidy” project competition for a sports complex and a new urban layout of the surrounding area, west of Lausanne. Continue Reading →

‘Fragile Shelter’ by Hidemi Nishida Studio

Posted on February 25, 2012

This project is a temporary shelter in the wild winter forest. Designed by Hidemi Nishida Studio, it leads people to gather, and number of events happened there. Sometimes, local student makes a party at there and sometimes local kindergarten children came there and had a lunch. This is a cozy base for winter activities.

Location : Sapporo Art Forest, Sapporo Hokkaido Japan
Date : Jan. 2011
Size : 20m x 2m
Materials : Wood, Plastic Screen, Stove
Construct : Hidemi Nishida, Akira Nagase, Genki Fujita
Photograph : Anna Nagai, Hidemi Nishida

Call for Proposals: Design Exchange Toronto Canada and McGill University

Posted on February 25, 2012

Curators Effie Bouras, PhD, of Mechanik Design Office and Professor Ghyslaine McClure, P.Eng, of McGill University are seeking completed building projects and research that engage innovative approach to seismic design for an exhibit that will be held at DX during the months of Sept/Oct 2012.

Buildings, as we have been reminded by too many recent catastrophic earthquakes, are complex dynamic systems, oftentimes, aesthetic consideration is put on hold in favor of cost and engineering restraint; with this in mind, we are seeking proposals that surpass conventional approaches, ones that do not sacrifice a design aesthetic for conventional structural solution. Continue Reading →

‘Montblanc House’ by Studio Velocity

Posted on February 24, 2012

Studio Velocity designed the Montblanc House in Okazaki, Japan.

The following is a project description from the architects:

“The plan of a house with a small beauty shop on the first floor. A house for a family of four: the young couple running the shop, their 3 year-old girl, and their newborn.

The site, surrounded by neighboring houses in 3 directions, is in a quiet residential area. Most houses in the area have only 2 stories and one is able to see the mountains far away. Continue Reading →

‘Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture’ by David Adjaye and FAB

Posted on February 21, 2012

Construction will begin this week on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC designed by architect David Adjaye. Adjaye Associates teamed up with American architects The Freelon Group and Davis Brody Bond to win the design competition for the museum back in 2009, under the collaborative name Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup (FAB).

Sited beside the National Museum of American History and the Washington Monument, the museum will accommodate more than half of its volume below ground. Bronze plates will cover the tiered exterior of the building, perforated in patterns that reference the history of African American craftsmanship.

The museum is scheduled to open in 2015, and you can see the original competition-winning proposals for it in our earlier story. Continue Reading →

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