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Shuhei Endo Architect Institute:
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Matsumura
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Shuhei Endo Architect Institute:
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Matsumura
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Jae Cha Architect: Church, Urubo,
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Jae Cha Architect: Church, Urubo,
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Klein Dytham Architecture: Pika Pika
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Klein Dytham Architecture: Pika Pika
Pretzel, Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Katsuhisa Kida
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Sauerbruch Hutton Architects: GSW
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Sean Godsell Architects: Single
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Aires Mateus e Associados: Student
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Rick Joy Architects: Rubio Avenue
Studio, Tucson, Arizona. Photo: James McGoon
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Rick Joy Architects: Rubio Avenue
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Toni Peltola, Rauno Lentinen, Pekka
Mäki: The Finnish Embassy, Berlin, Germany. Photo: Jussi
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Daniel Dethier Architects: Single
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Pierre Thibault Architects: The
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Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk: Viewpoint
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Klein Dytham Architects: Bartle
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IDEO London - Sam Hecht: Watercycle
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João Mendes Ribeiro: Habitação de
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Kaufmann_Kaufmann_Architektur: Fred,
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And the Winners Are: ar+d Emerging Architects
AwardsCategories: Awards
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Winner
Plan on seeing much more
from these talents -- and we can say we-knew-them-when. (19
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One of the youngest international design
competitions is the ar+d emerging architects award -- open to
the 45-and-under set. The competition was established in 1999
by The Architectural
Review, the
London-based magazine, and d line
international, a
Danish manufacturer of architectural stainless steel hardware
headed by architect Knud Holscher.
As explained by
Peter Davey, Editorial Director and Editor of The
Architectural Review, the age limit of 45 was chosen because
'it is often very difficult for architects to express their
particular vision: education and apprenticeship is so long,
and in the early part of the last decade it was so difficult
to get work because of the economic depression.'
The
international jury was hard-pressed to select winners for the
ar+d awards 2000 from more than 700 entries from over 60
countries. In the end, it was decided that the £10,000 prize
should be divided among three winners, and that 12 entries
would be cited with High Commendations.
Davey, a
non-practicing architect, chaired the jury that included Will
Bruder (USA); Odile Decq (France); Adalberto Dias (Portugal);
Erick van Egeraat (The Netherlands); and Christoph Ingenhoven
(Germany).
According to Davey, there were four
'underlying principles' considered by the jury in choosing
winners and commendations: courage… people who had something
new to say; those most capable of changing the world with the
least input of resources; concern for appropriate materiality;
and perhaps most importantly…winning and commended schemes had
to offer the potential of enhancing human existence. 'Although
very different, all the schemes recognized by the jury show
ways of making the world a better place to live in,' he wrote
in his editorial commentary.
The entry deadline for
the 2001 ar+d emerging architects awards is September 18.
Click for: Eligibility/Jury and Entry
Form.
THREE SHARE TOP
PRIZE
Shuhei Endo
Architect Institute: Springtecture H, Shingu-cho, Hyogo,
Japan
Shuhei
Endo
A
public park restroom made of galvanized corrugated metal.
Jury: Deeply impressed by the liveliness and freshness
of this little building in a park… It makes a memorable moment
in the landscape, and forms a landmark out of public
lavatories, a normally embarrassing building type which is
usually suppressed visually.
Jae Cha Architect: Church, Urubo,
Bolivia
Jae
Cha
A rural
church partly designed on site, and built by the congregation.
Jury: Moved by the quality of space of the little
church…simplest of materials – timber and modern translucent
polycarbonate sheeting… manages to conjure an intense feeling
of the numinous… extraordinarily powerful, and shows an
exemplary relationship between architect and community.
Klein Dytham
Architecture:
Pika Pika Pretzel, Tokyo, Japan
A temporary 'wall' around a construction site
made of inflated high-tech fabric with 'webs' of translucent
fabric that glow from interior lights at night. (Pika pika is
the Japanese for shiny.)
Jury: Impressed by the
invention and economy of the idea, by the transfer of
technology, and by the wall's wit.
12 HIGH COMMENDATIONS
Sauerbruch
Hutton Architects London/Berlin: GSW Headquarters, Berlin, Germany
New headquarters
for Berlin's largest housing association integrated into the
remaining fragments of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
cityscape (the area had been decimated by bombs in World War
II, then left in 'limbo' because of the Wall).
Jury:
Impressed with the originality of the scheme's strategy for
energy efficiency… The plan is narrow to maximize daylight use
and natural ventilation; the facade is carefully shaded to
reduce solar heating in summer, and a 'wind roof' assists
natural ventilation… In winter, the mechanical ventilation
system feeds back heat from exhaust air to the central plant.
Sean Godsell
Architects: Single Family House, Victoria, Australia
Sean
Godsell
Embedded into the side of a sand dune, the concept of
a traditional veranda is expressed by an external skin of
large louvers; the louvers, sliding screens, and windows help
blur the line between exterior and interior year 'round.
Jury: The potential for change, both externally and
inside… The qualities of light generated by the abstracted
veranda.
Aires
Mateus e Associados: Student Housing, Coimbra, Portugal
Manuel
Rocha de Aires Mateus
A concrete and wood student hostel on a
triangular corner includes a quiet, open courtyard.
Jury: Elegant… A lesson in reserve and clear planning…
One of the real delights - the way the white concrete blocks
of the blank walls contrast with the warm wood of the
permeable ones… individual student rooms have tall windows
with shutters made of the same wood as the cladding…
environmentally friendly and elegantly dramatic, for as the
shutters are opened and closed, the changing patterns of the
building reveal its inner life.
Rick Joy Architects: Rubio Avenue
Studio, Tucson, Arizona
Rick
Joy
Re-working and re-evaluating traditional building
techniques to create a simple structure of rammed earth.
Jury: Clearly commands control of space and light and
materiality in a way appropriate for its latitude and climate…
an impassive exterior and the whole life of the affair turned
inward… an amazing focus of calm in the desolation of the
American strip.
Toni Peltola, Rauno Lentinen, Pekka Mäki: The
Finnish Embassy, Berlin, Germany – VIIVA Arkkitehtuuri Oy, Helsinki;
Pysall-Ruge Architects, associate architect
Toni
Peltola
The
new Scandinavian compound on the edge of the Tiergarten, where
it shares space with the legations of the other four Nordic
countries; a glass-clad volume layered within an outer screen
of larch slats.
Jury: Impressed by the reticence and
dignity of the prismatic building… noble progression of
spaces… light is controlled with great subtlety… impressed by
the fact that the government had the bravery to give such a
prestigious and nationally important job to a young team of
architects after an open competition.
Daniel Dethier Architects: Single
Family House, Jehanster-Verviers, Belgium
Daniel
Dethier
The
house is intended to counteract problems caused by modern
society and technology, clad in insulated glass with a steel,
turf-covered roof. Industrial methods create a volume with
minimum surface area. The foundation makes little impact on
the surrounding orchard.
Jury: Moved by the attempt to
create a modern primitive hut, trying to generate symbiosis
between the mechanical technology of the late twentieth
century, and the growing ecological awareness of the new
times.
Pierre
Thibault Architects: The Québec City Carnival Ice Palace,
Québec, Canada
Pierre
Thibault
A
temporary public space that allowed visitors to explore a
variety of ice worlds from ancient glaciers to the modern
city.
Jury: Light, both artificial and natural,
constantly modified the place and added to its mysteries… each
thematic space opened to the surrounding city, contrasting
abstraction with reality, ice and stone.
Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk: Viewpoint
Platform with Sight Apparatus, Sognefjell, Norway
A tourist spot
that avoids typical and unsightly tourist control mechanisms
like fences and asphalt.
Jury: Intensity of feeling
expressed in the simplest tectonic terms… a modest but
monumental circular concrete platform [with] a simple but
fascinating sight apparatus.
Klein Dytham Architects: Bartle Bogle
Hegarty Office, Tokyo, Japan
The only interior project (out of many) to be
honored, a U-shaped meeting space is finely crafted piece of
polished Japanese lacquer furniture designed to move when the
company does.
Jury: A calm, finely crafted piece of
furniture… carefully considered lighting… space [is] made more
intense when it is enclosed by its silver curtains.
IDEO
London:
Watercycle Pavilion, Greenwich, London – Sam Hecht
The little Thames
Water all-glass pavilion is part of an exploratory
environmental control system for the adjacent Millennium Dome.
Jury: Wanted to celebrate the pavilion's environmental
thinking (both symbolic and actual) as much as its
transparency.
João Mendes Ribeiro: Habitação de Territórios (Land
Dwelling) Stage Set
João Mendes
Ribeiro
A
stage set that changes from a city to a bed, a street to an
elevator, and more.
Jury: A remarkable exercise of
architectural skills… ingenuity and versatility of the
strategy and the economy of means with which it was resolved.
Kaufmann_Kaufmann_Architektur: Fred, Reuthe, Austria
– Leo Kaufmann
A
proposal for temporary and mobile housing.
Jury:
Everyone fell for Fred… He (or it) has a cheeky personality,
which seems capable of adaptation to almost any social and
topographical location… much more elegant and unobtrusive than
existing caravan (trailer) parks.
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