The winner and two runners-up of the Philips Livable Cities Award have started their projects. You can follow the progress of the recipients – from Yemen, Argentina and Uganda – as they document their process on their blog and video diary. The Philips Livable Cities Award is a “global initiative designed to generate innovative, meaningful and achievable ideas to improve the health and well-being of city-dwellers across the world”. The awardees received grants that will allow them to bring their ideas to life, improving the livability within their local communities.

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Courtesy of Populous

Following Populous’ recent success with the redevelopment of the home of the British Formula One Grand Prix, Silverstone, the ground breaking ceremony for the next Populous Formula 1 project, the 4.7km Velociudad Speedcity circuit, recently took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 16th. More images and brief project description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of A4 estudio

Architects: A4 estudio
Location: Guardia Vieja Street, Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Project Team: Leonardo and Juan Manuel Codina Filice
Collaborators: Paola Merette, Eleonora Corti, Eugenia García, José Fornes, Mariana Poppi, Gabriela Modolo, Carlos Zanonni, Louis Calvet, Mario Gonzalez, Laura Benegas
Completion: 2011
Spa Area: 597 sqm
Hotel Area: 2,180 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of A4 estudio

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Courtesy of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires

Architects: Roberto Ferreira & Arquitectos Asociados (RFArq)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photographs: Courtesy of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires

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Courtesy of Bruno Bianchi, Damian Bojko, Etcheverry Nelson, Ricardo Etcheverry, Fabbri Juan

This project proposal for the Ex-Communications Battalion 121, which won the first prize in the National Ideas Competition, stems from the idea of bringing the Rio Parana to the city district. Following a study of plastic forms generated by the river in Rosario, its vegetation, and topography, Bruno Bianchi, Damian Bojko, Etcheverry Nelson, Ricardo Etcheverry and Fabbri Juan sought to reproduce the essence of its main aspects, interspersed with the layout of the city and the buildings of the pavilion. Thus, river and city merge into the site, integrating the landscape, cultural, productive, sports, and housing, in a single place possible to generate an engine of development in the area concerned. More images and project description after the break. read more »

© Curro Palacios Taberner

Architects: Estudio BaBo
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Team: Francisco Kocourek, Francesc Planas Penadés, Marit Haugen Stabell
Collaborators: Marcos Buceta, Marco Fumagalli
Construction: DAC S.A.
Structure: Ing. Carlos Calissano
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 265 sqm
Photographs: Curro Palacios Taberner

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© Walter Salcedo-Franco Piccini

Architect: Arzubialde Arquitectos, Arq. Franco Piccini
Location: Caña de Ámbar 1465-Rosario (Sta. Fe-Argentina)
Client: Ministerio de Educación de la Prov. De Santa Fe- Región 6ta / Referente Flavio Gianetti.
Constructor: Adobe S.A.
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Walter Salcedo-Franco Piccini

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Courtesy of ESTUDIO AISENSON + SMF

ESTUDIO AISENSON + SMF shared with us their first prize winning proposal for the “National Contest of The Apple of the Lights and his Environment.” The construction of a set edilicio in the Apple of the Lights is one of the historical sites of major importance in Buenos Aires. They believe that a look that shoud leave a contemporary stamp in the Apple of the Lights, which has been consolidated across diverse centuries of our history, cannot but to be based in recognizing the preexistences, the patrimonial value of the set and each of his parts and in formalizing the simultaneous need to join to the set and to be outlined as intervention. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

Courtesy of Lucio Morini Studio

Architects: Lucio Morini + GGMPU
Location: Córdoba, Argentina
Client: Government of the Province Cordoba
Collaborators: Julia Garayoa, Adrián Castagno, Verónica Gordillo, Diego Andres Gómez, Mariana Pelliza, Guadalupe Daher, Cecilia Villareal, Luciana Antonucci, Agustín Elies
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 21,380 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Lucio Morini Studio

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© Arq. Walter G. Salcedo

Architects: Franco Piccini, Carlos A. Piccini
Location: Pergamino, Argentina
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 365 sqm
Photographs: Arq. Walter G. Salcedo

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© Lula Bauer / BVW Arquitectos

Architects: BVW Arquitectos / Matias Beccar Varela, Ariana Werber
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 156 sqm
Photographs: Lula Bauer / BVW Arquitectos

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© Daniela Mac Aden

Architects: Estudio BaBO
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 330 sqm
Photographs: Daniela Mac Aden, Federico Kulekdjian

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© Luis Abregú

Architects: Vanguarda Architects
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project area: 502 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Luis Abregú

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rendering

Field Architecture‘s goal for Bodega Bauer was to create an architecture informed by the same particularities of the earth which are embodied in the wine of the region. Siting and materiality are guided by the subtleties of sun and wind exposure, climate, the unexpected nuances of each season, and the presence and absence of water and shade.

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© Urban Media

With a main focus on establishing  a relationship between the social, the ecological and the economic together in one building, Urban Recycle Architecture.Studio won the Copa Arquitecture 2011 Contest, organized by Architecture for Humanity, Liga FOS,Fu.de and Nike. For this relationship to be successful, they decided on a building with multiple functions, a rectangular design and metallic structural system of fast construction and high strength. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© FILM-OBRAS DE ARQUITECTURA

Architects: FILM-OBRAS DE ARQUITECTURA (Carlos Fernández, Jorge Isaías, Gabriel Lanosa, Claudio Maslat)
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project area: 105 sqm
Project year: 2006 – 2009
Photographs: Courtesy of FILM-OBRAS DE ARQUITECTURA

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© Santiago Cordeyro Arquitectos

Architects: Santiago Cordeyro Arquitectos - Pablo Güiraldes
Location: Patagonia Sur, Argentina
Construction coordinator: Javier Fernández
Design team: Jeannine Hary, Francisco Susmel, Javier Zabalaga, Julieta Vilaplana, Alejo Gonzalez Malharro
Project area: 3,500 sqm
Project year: 2008 – 2010
Photographs: Santiago Cordeyro Arquitectos

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© Alejandro Peral

Architects: Andres Remy Arquitectos
Location: Villa Devoto, Argentina
Design team: Andrés Remy, Carlos Arellano, Hernán Pardillos, Julieta Rafel, Lilian Kandus
Interior design: Andrés Remy, Julieta Rafel, Diego Siddi, Martin Dellatorre
Project area: 550 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Alejandro Peral

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© Alejandro Peral

Architects: Andres Remy Arquitectos
Location: Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Construction: Andrés Remy , Hernán Pardillos
Design Team: Andrés Remy, Hernán Pardillos, Lilian Kandus, Diego Siddi, Gisela Colombo
Construction Management: Hernán Pardillos, Andrés Remy
Landscape Design: Leandro La Bella, María Celeste Iglesias
Lighting Design: Mauricio Meta
Engineer: Carlos Dolhare
Project area: 660 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Alejandro Peral

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© Cristobal Palma

Architects: Adamo-Faiden / Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collaborators: Giuliana Nieva, Iván Fierro, Jualien Hosansky, Marie Taillafer de Laportaliere, Carolina Molinari
Structural Engineering: Carlos Margueirat
Site Area: 203.7 sqm
Project Area: 182.6 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Cristobal Palma

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