OMA has shared with us their proposal for the 425 Park Avenue competition, organized by New York City developer L&L Holding Co to replace the existing, ageing tower with a new state-of-the-art, LEED-certified skyscraper. The competition was awarded to Foster + Partners, as reported earlier. Continue Reading →
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‘Emmen Theater and Zoo Entrance’ by Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep
‘Emmen Theater and Zoo’, designed by Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep, is an unusual cultural building that brings together culture and nature. The building design, which won the first prize in the international competition, will constitute the entrance to a large zoological park of 10 hectares and comprises two main stages with a capacity of 1,150 people in total, an additional stage, exhibition and conference facilities. The building in itself covers 16,000 m2. More images and architects’ description after the break. Continue Reading →
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Architecture students Andreas Tjeldflaat and Gregory Knobloch (University of Pennsylvania) shared with us their design proposal for contemporary prison design. The concept called ’499.SUMMIT’ was designed for Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey. Continue Reading →
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Architects Đordje Alfirević and Ana Čarapić shared their proposal for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Serbia. As a response to the site conditions, their design is positioned in the center of a park with a uniformed impact on the surroundings from every direction.
The circular form establishes a gentle dialog with the environment by means of creating an illusion of neutral form that continuously pulls back, yet on the other hand its compact and abstract volume makes a distinctive and strong landmark. Continue Reading →
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Young architectural studio Urbanplunger was recently awarded third prize in the international competition to design a Night Club Hotel in the dense city of Hong Kong. Their proposal consists of a uniquely suspended building structure described as an “architectural parasite” that leans on neighboring buildings in order to elevate itself above ground. Continue Reading →
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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 →
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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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Krakow-based architects BudCud have shared with us their finalist entry for the international Kiev Islands Master Plan Competition. The proposal suggests the development of a network of existing islands and artificial mirco islands along the Dnieper river, right outside of Kiev, Ukraine, for recreation and nature exploration. Continue Reading →


































