Yes is more: an archicomic on architectural evolution – Bjarke Ingels presents his extraordinary architecture in cartoon-form

Selecting the most outstanding projects in sustainable construction from several thousand submissions will be the challenging task of more than fifty leading experts on sustainability. The jury members for the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition include architects Bjarke Ingels (Denmark), Keller Easterling (USA) and Michel Rojkind (Mexico) – all independent experts of international stature engaged in the sustainable development of society, building processes, construction materials, and building projects.

Entries in the USD 2 million competition are evaluated using five “target issues” to define sustainable construction. Three of these stem from the triple bottom line of balanced social, environmental and economic performance. The two remaining issues pay homage to contextual and aesthetic impact, along with innovation and transferability. A series of five jury panels will meet in June/July 2011 in each of the five world regions: Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

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© Glessner Group with artist Guido Torres

Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos + ESRAWE Studio
Location: Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
Project Area: 629 sqm
Design Year: 2009
Construction Year: 2009-2010
Renders: Glessner Group
Photographs: Guido Torres & Rojkind Arquitectos

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Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos / Michel Rojkind + ESRAWE Studio / Hector Esrawe
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Project team: Rojkind [Tere Levy, Agustín Pereyra, Raúl Araiza, Carlos Alberto Ríos, Isaac Smeke Jaber, Enrique F. de la Barrera] / ESRAWE [Ricardo Casas, Basia Pineda, Ian Castillo, Karianne Rygh, Alejandra Castelao, Jorge Bracho]
Program: Japanese Restaurant
Client: Dr. Katsumi Kumoto Kawasaki
Project Area: 629 sqm
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2010
Images: © Glessner Group & ESRAWE Studio

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This villa is located in plot #67 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos
Project Principal: Michel Rojkind
Project leader: Agustin Pereyra
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Project team: Juan Carlos Vidals (3D massing) Alejandro Biguria, Moritz Melchert, Mónica Orozco, Phillip Jung, José Moreno, Laura Rodriguez , Roberto Gil Will, Tere Levy, Alan Rahmane
Structural Engineer: Juan Felipe Heredia
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009-2010
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox

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Architects: Rojkind Arquitectos + BIG
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Client: Patronato Tamayo
Constructed Area: 3,500 sqm
BIG Architects
Partners in Charge: Bjarke Ingels & Andreas Klok Pedersen
Project Team: Pauline Lavie, Maxime Enrico, Pål Arnulf Trodahl
Rojkind Arquitectos
Partner in Charge: Michel Rojkind
Project Team: Agustín Pereyra, Monica Orozco, Ma. Fernanda Gómez, Tere Levy, Isaac Smeke, Juan José Barrios, Roberto Gil Will, Beatriz Díaz, Joe Tarr
Structural Engineer: 
Romo y asociados
Landscape Design: 
Entorno taller de paisaje
Graphic Design: 
Ernesto Moncada
Images:
 Glessner Group – Germán Glessner

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Architect: Rojkind Arquitectos
Principal in Charge: Michel Rojkind
Project Leaders: Agustín Pereyra, Paulina Goycoolea
Project Team: Moritz Melchert, Tere Levy, Isaac Smeke, Tomas Kristof, Francisco Gordillo, Andrés Altesor, Juan Pablo Espinosa
Program: Laboratories, Offices, Auditorium, Tasting area
Client: NESTLÉ
Nestlé Supervision: Flavio Guerrero, Cristian Moreno
Contractor: SLCI Engineer Jose Solis
Facade Engineering: VYCISA [Juan Pablo Casillas, Cybelle Hernandez]
Structural Engineering: Juan Felipe Heredia
M.E.P.: Quantum Design
Furniture: Esrawe Diseño / Arne Quinze
Carpets: Interface
Constructed Area: 700 sqm
Design Year: 2007
Construction Year: 2009
3D Massing: Juan Carlos Vidals
Landscape: Rojkind Arquitectos
Photographs: ©Paúl Rivera

A new building for Nestlé by Rojkind Arquitectos. After their impressive Chocolate Museum, they got the commission to design a new facility on the city of Querétaro, that includes laboratories, offices, and auditorium and a tasting area.

One of the design constraints came from the fact that the center of Querétaro was declared as World Heritage by the UNESCO on 1996. So, the new building was required to have a portico with arches. Rojkind faced this by re interpreting both the portico and the arches, by excavating a series of  intersected spheres from orthogonal buildings,  excavations which repeated conform an open and continuous space.
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MAD recently organized a collaborative masterplanning project in South West China. Ten young international architects were invited to take part in an urban experiment, to design a new city centre on a scenic natural site close to the city of Guiyang. The participating architects were: Atelier Manferdini (USA), BIG (DENMARK), Dieguez Fridman (ARGENTINA), EMERGENT/Tom Wiscombe (USA), HouLiang Architecture (CHINA), JDS (DENMARK/BELGIUM), MAD (CHINA), Mass Studies (KOREA), Rojkind Arquitectos (MEXICO), Serie (UK/INDIA), Sou Fujimoto Architects (JAPAN).

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