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Europan 9 was launched this month.
The competition that launches a thousand dreams of your face in El Croquis, Europan has launched and given aspiring urban designers everywhere three sites in the UK to choose from: an enticing green field next to Milton Keynes, a canal-side bit of Stoke now sadly without the potteries shown in one fantastic image, or a Sheffield site with the lovely name of Skye Edge. The jury includes Peter St John, Christine Hawley, and the wonderful Neave Brown, alongside one of the Urbed directors, the head of architecture at MK council and an Amsterdam planner, among others.
The Europan competition definitely impresses by its bigness: in 2005 Europan 8 offered 19 simultaneous national competitions on 74 different European sites – each nation set its own jury.
Europan addresses young architects aged less than forty years and intends the realisation of the winning designs. No wonder the competition is seen as a serious chance to launch an architectural practice!
The implementation of the prize winning projects is still difficult but at least Europan entrants can expect a professionally organised competition resulting in exhibitions and publications - what else shall we require?
The competition that launches a thousand dreams of your face in El Croquis, Europan has launched and given aspiring urban designers everywhere three sites in the UK to choose from: an enticing green field next to Milton Keynes, a canal-side bit of Stoke now sadly without the potteries shown in one fantastic image, or a Sheffield site with the lovely name of Skye Edge. The jury includes Peter St John, Christine Hawley, and the wonderful Neave Brown, alongside one of the Urbed directors, the head of architecture at MK council and an Amsterdam planner, among others.
The Europan competition definitely impresses by its bigness: in 2005 Europan 8 offered 19 simultaneous national competitions on 74 different European sites – each nation set its own jury.
Europan addresses young architects aged less than forty years and intends the realisation of the winning designs. No wonder the competition is seen as a serious chance to launch an architectural practice!
The implementation of the prize winning projects is still difficult but at least Europan entrants can expect a professionally organised competition resulting in exhibitions and publications - what else shall we require?
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rocioromero
i guess that means "portacabin", in italian, right?
These are the first pictures of an extraordinary concept scheme for a mammoth mile-high tower in London capable of housing more than 100,000 people.
Drawn up by Popularchitecture, in collaboration with Fluid Engineers and Pha Consul M&E specialists, the giant skyscraper would be three times larger than anything ever built in the capital and would create 12 new ‘villages’ in the sky.
As well as homes, the 1,500m-tall tower has also been designed to contain all the infrastructure needed for such a large population, including schools, hospitals, shops and pubs.
At the centre of the structure would be a ‘vast internal void’ lit by circular openings every 20 storeys. Each of these ‘holes’ would be used as either public squares or for specialist activities such as ice skating, botanic gardens or swimming pools.
Practice founder Tom Teatum admits the scheme’s scale is verging on ‘almost unbelievable proportions’ but insists there are developers who are interested, ‘in particular because of minimal land value in relation to accommodation’.
He said: ‘Occupying a scale far beyond anything that currently exists in London, the tower would allow the city’s population to expand without significant impact to the architectural fabric on the ground.’
The practice also envisages the possibility that a whole series of the towers could be built.
£100,000 award honours urban design pioneer Jacobs
The Rockefeller Foundation in the US has announced the creation of a $200,000 (£100,000) award, to be called the Jane Jacobs Medal, which will recognise individuals who have made a significant contribution to thinking about urban design.The medal – which will focus specifically, but not exclusively, on work in New York City – will be dished out annually to two people: one who has made a lifetime contribution and another who is at the start of a promising career.
Jacobs – who died last year and was a towering figure in urban design circles – was a young unknown in 1958 when she received a $10,000 grant from the foundation to write what would become her world-famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
New Yorker architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, who is on the jury for the medal, said: ‘Jane Jacobs’s way of seeing things has really held sway over the last 20 years, and that’s all to the good.’
Nominations for the awards can be submitted via the Rockefeller Foundation Web site until 2 March at www.rockfound.org.
portakabin in italian could be "prefabbricato" more or less..
that tall cylindrical thing looks like something out of an asimov novel, ihc
http://www.travel-earth.com/dprk/pyongyang/pyongyang-day2.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/35/100571773_ec21b93bac_o.jpg
330 meter high, this thing blows my mind. Brutalist design which fascinate through it's scale alone, but why on earth does North Korea need a hotel that big?
they actually have a huge bearing weight - im not sure how
the clue is in the solid side panels - hiding a mini truss no doubt
"The Battersea Power Station site is set to be transformed into a dynamic newentertainment and events, cultural and commercial focus for London. It will become a platform for innovation, a place of inspiration where new thinking and new ideas will thrive."
more...
these must be the best treehouses in the world! they look like gypsies caravans inside!
check it out, freespirit spheres
anyway, no hanging around here...
via: unbuilt
although, it wasn't done today as it's not that sunny...
do you have a link to that, ihc?
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http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15910
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also, to the right of that first artists impression is a really skanky sainsbury store. looks terrible...
New Czech National Library - Competition win for Future Systems
Future Systems has won the international competition to design the new £46 million National Library in the Czech Republic capital of Prague.
The scheme will give the practice’s Czech-born founder Jan Kaplicky the chance to build his first major project in his native country. Future Systems are known in the UK most recently for having rebuilt the Bullring in Birmingham as a wavy blue and silver spotted affair.:nausea:
Chosen ahead of 740 entries from around the world, the firm’s winning design was inspired by ‘sea creatures’ and has been described as a ‘whimsical, undulating’ structure.
The new library in Letna Park, which will be covered in thousands of champagne-yellow-coloured tiles, is expected to open its doors in 2011.
The Retreat : Contemporary house RV.
If you saw this this holiday caravan from the UK's Retreat Homes in North America it would be called a trailer or recreational vehicle. What it really is, is a contemporary mobile home with a private decked courtyard no less.
the real advantage of this house having a chassis is that it overcomes many planning obstacles - thinking of sock!
also, czech library? will it be tinky winky or lala that gets the head librarian job?
Heritage?
As an ironic take on the value of heritage, architects Jackson Clements Burrows Architects in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. replaced what they saw of something of little heritage value yet protected by local planning guidelines, with a glass box with an 'imprint' of the former shack.So we have a glass house witha 1:1 photograph of a weather boarded shack. The planners said that it fulfilled the role of the original conservation order, in that it maintained the memory of what was gone before.
via: core 77
raster gallery
Make unveils huge Croydon tower scheme – images
MAKE has revealed the first images of its huge four-tower scheme in the heart of Croydon, south London.The project in Cherry Orchard Road for developer Menta, will create more than 100,000m2 of new office, retail and residential space and will be instrumental in transforming East Croydon station into one of the capital’s ‘leading commuter transport hubs’.
The focal point of the development will be a new urban park which, the developer hopes, will ‘complement and help bring forward the rejuvenation of’ the station.
A spokesman for the developer said: ‘The development is still in its early stages, but is likely to include a new station plaza with shops, restaurants and bars at ground level, uniting existing bus, taxi and tram services with East Croydon Station.’
loads of nice photos and even a little video of this deck house on the plataforma arquitectura site. check it out.
Some very nice architecture... a couple of samples below.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/04/spiralling_into_summer.html
Aurland Lookout, Aurland
Principal Architects: Todd Saunders &
Tommie Wilhelmsen
We won first prize to an invited competition for a look out in Aurland. This project is apart of a National program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department. The pictures actually say more than a thousand words. Finished December 2005. Official opening June 2006.
http://www.saunders.no/pro_03_01.html
Steven Holl Architects’ light-filled Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - The addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) opening in June, runs along the eastern edge of the museum campus and provides a counterpoint to the original 1933 Beaux-Arts building. Five lenses of glass walls emerge from the ground and create a luminous, undulating interplay between architecture, landscape and art.
stevenholl.com
doh!
India's richest man builds 60-storey home
Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.
the big pour
this is a lot of concrete poured in one goFor a moment, I didnt realise that the horizontal bars are filled in. Would have bee dangerous if not !
more pics and text at the link, btw