Design: VOLTOLINI architectures sarl & Jean Paul Chabbey architectes SA. A building for “events and spectacles”. Held in between two concrete blocks, the lobby and main hall open up towards a perspective of the valley. From the interior the windows frame the contours of the Alpine landscape.
Design: David Chipperfield Architects. The ten-storey office building is located in a diversely built area on Moganshan Road near Hangzhou’s tranquil Shuyhan Park.
Overall winner – Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL, London, UK, by Ian Ritchie Architects ; Lifetime Achievement Award for architect / engineer Santiago Calatrava.
Design: BURO II & ARCHI+I, architects. Comprehensive upgrade of a social housing company outdated buildings. Emphasis was put on healthier homes, rational and more efficient use of space, lower energy consumption and low maintenance costs.
Design: Moriyama & Teshima Architects
UTM, the second-largest campus of the University of Toronto, is set on a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River, surrounded by a mature forest, approximately 33 km west of Downtown Toronto.
Design: Archohm Consults. The JPN Museum is a gateway framing the centre placed as a wedged-shaped monument with a massive arch carved out of the mass; its 9-metre height and 20-metre ambitious span are clearly attempts to push the limits of structural design and construction.
Design: h2o architectes. This interior design and refurbishment project takes place in a 1960’s housing block built out of finely finished armed concrete. Unchanged since its construction, the ancient apartment followed a relatively classical distribution
Design by Page, architects – This US residence is inspired by the spectacular landscape of northern New Mexico and by the prospect of living in nature in a way that creates a constant and memorable connection to the mountains, the sky, the air and the climate of this extraordinary place.
Design by Dupuis Design architects – This modern Californian-style residence plays with transparency with its customized bay windows looking out to the ocean. The play between light and transparency are everywhere thanks to the windows and the materials used.
Architects: ArchiBlox. The Avalon House embraces the cliffs of the Avalon beach to the north overlooking one of Sydney’s famous surf breaks. The off-the-rack home is enveloped by sublime landscape and scenery in this splendid location.
Design: Burwell Deakins Architects. New learning space, one of a number of new student hubs across UCL’s Bloomsbury campus. The facility provides dedicated, open access social and collaborative learning areas, as well as a variety of student and academically orientated spaces.
Design: Woods Bagot, architects. This precinct is one of the few anchor projects in the Christchurch Blueprint that will be utilised on a daily basis by both Christchurch citizens and visitors and therefore must be meaningful to both audiences.
There is almost only one month left for young architects and designers from all around the world to take part in the biggest competition for architects worldwide: 700 contestants from 73 different countries.
Design: Metropole Architects. With the site giving an expansive ocean view, the design was able to respond with a “Wingspread” type architecture that appears to float over the indigenous dune vegetation, making the most of the comprehensive beach and sea views.
Design: Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planner. The Master Plan outside Beijing represents a visionary experiment in planning a new social model of agricultural living and working rooted in a local focus that suggests ways beyond the increasingly unsustainable march of globalization.
Non Architecture competition: The “Training” competition aim is to develop a design proposal for the sport facility typology – physical activity and/or sports entertainment: create innovative and unconventional projects
Design: Haworth Tompkins, architects with Arup. The Britten Studio is a smaller space than the Concert Hall and will accommodate mainly recitals and orchestral rehearsals. The construction of the auditorium, including the roof, is of concrete to ensure a very low background noise level so that the full dynamic range of the music can be appreciated.