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Architects: DDG
- Area: 70000 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Dornbracht, Gaggenau, Admonter
XOCO 325 / DDG
Faena Forum, Faena Bazaar and Park / OMA
The Stealth Building / WORKac
DS+R, Calatrava Among Winners of 2016 Leading Culture Destinations Awards
The winners of the 2016 Leading Culture Destinations Awards have been announced. Presented this past weekend at a ceremony in London, the LCD Awards are given annually to recognize the success of “museums, art organizations, and cultural destinations from around the world [that] are investing in iconic architecture, cross-sector collaborations, [and] audacious programming […] to diversify the experiences offered to visitors and establish their global reputations.”
This year, awards were presented in four categories: Leading Cultural Destination of the Year; Best New Museum of the Year (for museums opened in the past 15 months); Best Soft Power Destination of the Year (a new award for 2016, given to destination who exhibit 'excellence, relevance, transparency, accountability and sustainability'); and the Traveller’s Award for Best Place to Visit.
The overall winner for 2016 was Diller, Scofidio + Renfro’s Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Continue reading to see the full list of winners.
Tree Top Residence / Belzberg Architects
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Architects: Belzberg Architects
- Area: 1290 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Boffi, Delta Light
Kaplan Family Pavilion at City of Hope / Belzberg Architects
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Architects: Belzberg Architects
- Area: 650 m²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Dissimilar Metal Design, Meridian Precast, NewMat, NewMat Stretch Ceiling + Wall Systems, NuVista
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Professionals: Green Dinosaur
Artist Studio in Sonoma / Mork-Ulnes Architects
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Architects: Mork-Ulnes Architects
- Area: 3200 ft²
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: AlumaTherm, Defauw Design + Fabrication
Bill R. Foster and Family Recreation Center / Cannon Design
- Area: 98500 ft²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: Artmart Corporation, Counsilman/Hunsaker, Equitrac Corporation, Laird Plastics, Novacolor
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Professionals: Dewitt & Associates Inc., Cousilman/Hunsaker
7 Projects Announced as Winners of AIA National Healthcare Design Awards
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected seven recipients of the 2016 AIA National Healthcare Design Awards, given to the year’s best projects in healthcare building design and healthcare design-oriented research. Projects were selected for displaying “conceptual strengths that solve aesthetic, civic, urban, and social concerns as well as the requisite functional and sustainability concerns of a hospital.”
The award is given in four categories: Category A: Built, Less than $25 million in construction cost; Category B: Built, More than $25 million in construction cost; Category C: Unbuilt, Must be commissioned for compensation by a client with the authority and intention to build (No projects were selected in this category this year); and Category D: Innovations in Planning and Design Research, Built and Unbuilt.
Read on for the list of winners.
Four Outstanding Housing Projects Win 2016 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards
Four housing projects have been awarded the 2016 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. Given by The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Housing Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the award is given to projects that “offer examples of important developments in the housing industry.”
“Each of these developments are innovative housing opportunities offering seniors and families alike a place to thrive,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “These winners prove that affordable and accessible housing can become part of the fabric of any neighborhood and reinforce the principles of inclusiveness and opportunity.”
The prize is given to projects in four categories: Excellence in Affordable Housing Design; Creating Community Connection Award; Community-Informed Design Award; and Housing Accessibility - Alan J. Rothman Award. Read on for a brief description from each of the winners.
How the AIA's Committee on the Environment Can Ensure Its Own Obsolescence
This article by Kira Gould was originally published by Metropolis Magazine as "The Case for COTE's Obsolescence."
Recently the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment published, for the first time, a comprehensive report about the winners from the debut year (1997) through 2015: “Lessons from the Leading Edge.” Its lead author, a current COTE advisory board member, Lance Hosey, set out to review two decades of Top Ten winners as a group to see how performance is changing over time, how the winners size up (scale, cost, type), and more.
The result is a compelling report. It reveals that these high-performing projects skew small. That performance gains and metrics, particularly real-time performance metrics, are improving each year. That the leading projects tend to be expensive. On average, they come in at $537 per square foot. “The cost data shows us that we need more compelling examples of lower-cost, higher performance projects,” Hosey says. Clearly, more exemplars at greater scale, type, and cost variation would be beneficial to both the profession and the market.
Tamalpais Residence / Zack de Vito Architecture + Construction
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Architects: Zack de Vito Architecture + Construction
- Area: 4012 ft²
- Year: 2016
Pierre Lassonde Pavilion at the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec / OMA
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Architects: OMA
- Area: 14900 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Agnora, Canam, Guardian Glass, MULTIVER
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Professionals: Technorm Inc., Bouthillette Parizeau, Teknika HBA, Buro Happold, CHP Inc., +7
Albion Street Residences / Kennerly Architecture & Planning
- Year: 2016
Troll Hus / Mork-Ulnes Architects
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Architects: Mork-Ulnes Architects
- Area: 17500 ft²
- Year: 2016
AIA Names Top 10 Most Sustainable Projects of 2016
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected the top ten sustainable architecture and ecological design projects for 2016.
Now in its 20th year, the COTE Top Ten Awards program honors projects that protect and enhance the environment through an integrated approach to architecture, natural systems, and technology.
A recently released study, entitled Lessons from the Leading Edge, reports that design projects recognized through this program are “outpacing the industry by virtually every standard of performance.”
The 2016 COTE Top Ten Green Projects are:
8 Octavia / Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
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Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects
- Year: 2015