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Australian Institute of Architects Announces 2015 National Architecture Awards
The 2015 winners of the Australian Institute of Architects’ National Architecture Awards have been announced at a ceremony in Brisbane.
Overall, 42 projects received 46 awards in 14 categories, including commercial, public, and interior architecture. Winners were selected by a jury from the Chapter Architecture Awards, held earlier this year.
Read on after the break for a list of the winners.
Chalet, Val D’hérens / Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes
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Architects: Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes
- Year: 2013
Is Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Status Under Threat?
"A spectre," writes Kevin McKenna for The Guardian, "thought happily to have been exorcised from the heart of beautiful Edinburgh, is stalking the city’s old wynds and crevices once more." To put it more bluntly, the "formal recognition of [the Scottish capital] as one of the world’s most beautiful cities is under threat, amid a battle for the soul of its most historic quarter." As the UNESCO inspectorate moves in to determine whether the city's World Heritage Status should be renewed McKenna laments, through a series of case studies, the potentially bleak built future of one of Britain's most loved urban centres.
Provinciehuis of North-Brabant Renovation / KAAN Architecten
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Architects: KAAN Architecten
- Area: 28000 m²
- Year: 2015
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Professionals: Advies- en Ingenieursbureau van de Laar, DWA, MTD Landschapsarchitecten, Stam + De Koning
Great Wall Yunmo Winery / a+a Anderloni Associates
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Architects: a+a Anderloni Associates
- Area: 14500 m²
- Year: 2015
Glass Art Gallery & Residence / Jun Murata
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Architects: Jun Murata
- Area: 99 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: DN Lighting, Nippo
Residence in Hawthorn / Alexandra Buchanan Architecture
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Architects: Alexandra Buchanan Architecture
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Beacon Lighting
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Professionals: Adams Consulting, Seventy7 Projects
schmidt hammer lassen to Expand ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
schmidt hammer lassen architects has been commissioned to expand their ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark. The architects are expected to collaborate with American artist James Turrell, who will be designing two installations for the expansion's 1200-square-meter subterranean gallery: "The Sphere" and "The Dome." The €30 million expansion is being referred to as "The Next Level," symbolizing the museum's intent to "bring the museum into the world elite of modern art museums." The museum recently embarked on a similar collaboration that involved artist Olafur Eliasson, who designed "Your Rainbow Panorama."
Pixel Wall / HKU Department of Architecture
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Architects: HKU Department of Architecture
- Year: 2015
Video: Amanda Williams On Color(ed) Theory
In an effort to spark new ideas for "zero value landscapes," Amanda Williams has been painting abandoned houses in Chicago's South Side with a "palette of culturally coded, monochromatic colors" to "explore how academic and theoretical definitions of color map across veiled language used in American media/popular culture to describe racially charged city spaces... Think a female Gordon Matta-Clark parading around as a Black Josef Albers," says the artist.
Watch the video above, commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Biennial and produced by Spirit of Space, to learn more.
North Vancouver House / Scott & Scott Architects
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Architects: Scott & Scott Architects
- Area: 150 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Zaneen
Madrid Río Wins Harvard's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
Madrid Río, a 120-hectare linear park that transformed the banks of Madrid's Manzanares River, has been awarded the Harvard Graduate School of Design's 12th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Designed by Burgos & Garrido, Porras & La Casta, Rubio & Álvarez-Sala, and West 8, the public park completed its final phase this year - 10 years after being announced as winner of project's international competition.
“The decision to award Madrid Río the Green Prize in Urban Design was motivated by the jury’s desire to highlight the potential for thoughtfully planned and carefully executed mobility infrastructures to transform a city and its region,” commented jury chair Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Harvard GSD. “The extent to which the project harnesses the deployment of new infrastructures as an opportunity to repair and regenerate the city through carefully articulated design interventions is particularly valuable within the context of contemporary urbanization globally.”
Covalco Offices / INAI.Paul Vazquez
- Year: 2014
Interview with Benedetta Tagliabue: Looking at Buildings as if They Were Decomposing and Becoming New Sketches
Over the past quarter-century, EMBT has emerged as one of the most influential practices in Spain, remaining as thought-provoking under the sole direction of Benedetta Tagliabue as it was before the tragic death of her inspirational husband and co-founder Enric Miralles. In this installment of his “City of Ideas” column, Vladimir Belogolovsky visits Tagliabue at the firm's studio in Barcelona to talk about the role of experimentation and curiosity in their work.
Torre del Molino Housing / Estudio Castellitti-Bertoni Arqs & Asoc.
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Architects: Estudio Castellitti-Bertoni Arqs & Asoc.
AD Interviews: Vicente Guallart / Moscow Urban Forum
During the 2015 Moscow Urban Forum, city experts from different regions and countries united to exchange practices, projects, and trends. The event fueled discussion on the city of Moscow, which is currently working on its expansion plans, new transport infrastructure, and a series of urban initiatives that are having a positive impact on the quality of life in the city.
Kengo Kuma Designs Sculptural Pavilion in Paris
Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled its latest project for the Galerie Philippe Gravier in Paris. Entitled Yure, a Japanese expression for a nomadic habitat moving in the wind, the project is made from identical wooden pieces, seeking to blur the lines between art and architecture with its organic structural geometry.