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THE EMERGING ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2013

Turkey Architecture News - Dec 01, 2013 - 19:07   3522 views

14 Star Architects of Tomorrow

Edging into the wider architectural firmament, with projects from locales?as diverse as Bloomsbury and the Himalayas, the celebrated architects of this years awards are the stars of tomorrow.

Over 350 entries were whittled down?to four winners who share the prize fund of £10,000. There are also 10 Highly Commended schemes.

Now in their 15th year, the Awards continue to astonish judges with their range and resourcefulness. Only built work is eligible for submission as architecture cannot simply be confined to paper or computerised theorising, but is a compact with society to build well?and to build responsibly.

Offering a compelling snapshot of design activity from around the world the winning schemes are a powerful incentive for others to go out and do even better.

 

WINNER
Museum for Architectural Drawing
; A former brewery in Berlin is converted into an exquisitely finished museum devoted to architectural drawings and shows just as much attention to detail as the images it displays.

ARCHITECTS: SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov

LOCATION: Berlin, Germany

 

WINNER
Bunker 599; A bisected pillbox on the bank of a dyke opens a way through the sometimes impenetrable memories of war to a future of broader horizons.

ARCHITECTS; RAAAF, Atelier de Lyon

LOCATION; Diefdijk 5 - Highway A2, Holland

CLIENT: Municipality Culemborg | DLG (The Dutch Service for Land and Water Management)

 

WINNER
Lullaby Factory; A secret world is revealed that cannot be seen except from inside and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes. Weaving an urban narrative, this steampunk soundscape reanimates a neglected corner of a children's hospital.

ARCHITECTS; Studio Weave with Structure Workshop, AB3 Workshops and Jessica Curry

LOCATION; Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

 

WINNER
Pitch Black; Currently housed in the MAK archive, Vienna, this installation celebrates the gorgeous grotesque. Exploring a world of bio-computational replicants, these glinting arachnoid fabrications exhibit an idiosyncratic formal language.

ARCHITECTS; Hernan Diaz Alonso

LOCATION; Gallery exhibition displaying a range of projects that vary in scale (Vienna, Austria 2007/2008).

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Health Sciences Faculty, San Jorge University; The new university complex offers a landscape of  white scales breathing light  on the outside and a big room open to the sky on the inside, evoking the whiteness  and hermeticism of traditional Iberian architecture.

ARCHITECTS; Taller Básico de Arquitectura

LOCATION; Zaragoza, Spain

CLIENT; Zaragoza’s San Jorge University

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Observation Tower; Marking the transition from town to surrounding forest landscape, a 23.5m wooden tower in Hemer, Germany, works as a microcosmic embodiment of structural and architectural ingenuity.

ARCHITECTS; Birk Heilmeyer & Frenzel Architekten

LOCATION; Hemer, Germany


HIGHLY COMMENDED
Jianamani Visitor Centre; Nestled within sacred Buddhist grounds, a visitor centre adopts a traditional square Tibetan plan augmented by a network of observation decks that choreograph vistas of the Jianamani.

ARCHITECTS; Atelier Teamminus

LOCATION; Yushu, Qinghai, China


HIGHLY COMMENDED
Makoko Floating School; This pilot project for a floating school in Lagos, Nigeria, was built for the community of Makoko where 100,000 people live in houses built on stilts. The A-frame structure provides a scalable and adaptable platform for wider social provision.

ARCHITECTS; NLÉ

LOCATION; Lagos, Nigeria

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Rubido Romero Foundation; An existing farmhouse is renovated to provide space for lectures, exhibitions, counselling and community activities. The approach sensitively unites old and new elements of rural Spain in a dialogue that articulates a convincing new whole.

ARCHITECTS; Abalo Alonso Arquitectos

LOCATION; Galicia, Spain

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse; Lyrical interplay of volume and material provide a new formal language for traditional Chinese architecture. With a contemporary sensibility, this modern teahouse project in Yangzhou provides a setting for one of China’s most culturally significant rituals, the tea ceremony.

ARCHITECTS; HWCD

LOCATION; Yangzhou, China

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED

Education Centre; Re-conceptualising vernacular precedents in rural Rwanda, Nyanza Education Centre reimagines local material palettes and craftsmanship to realise an exceptionally sober and dignified building, resonating with place, time and culture. 

ARCHITECTS; Dominikus Stark Architekten

LOCATION; Nyanza, Rwanda

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Cemetery Hall; With poetic thoughtfulness towards program and place, Cemetery Hall in Japan emerges from the forested hills of Sayamaya with an emphasis on natural materials, handling of light, and the expression of a connection with nature. It is a project which is so delicately designed that it resembles a tranquil garden of the dead.

 ARCHITECTS; Hiroshi Nakamura

LOCATION; Sayama, Japan

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Student Apartments, Oceanographic Observatory; Enveloped within a dusky pink concrete screen, this coastal apartment block for students and researchers on short term secondment is an inspired realisation of façade design, despite it’s modest program.

 ARCHITECTS; Fernandez & Serres

LOCATION; Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED
Chengdu Sky Courts Exhibition Hall; A new exhibition complex in Chengdu explores the internalised form of the traditional Chinese courtyard house. Broken up into a series of differently scaled halls wrapped around seven courtyards, the structures create a range of open spaces within the deep floor plan.

ARCHITECTS; Howeler & Yoon

LOCATION; Chengdu, China

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