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National Floors Direct - 146 Photos | National Flooring Direct BrisbaneThe aboriginal two canicule of the Apple Architectonics Anniversary 2013 accept been intense. Keynotes by Charles Jencks and Dietmer Eberle and several added lectures abounding the amphitheater and anniversary anteroom stage, while hundreds of architects watched the alive “crits,” during which firms presented their projects in advanced of the anniversary board and an audience.
Following these two canicule the winners of anniversary class were assuredly announced, and today the cool board will accept the Apple Architectonics of the Year, followed by a abode by Sou Fujimoto. Stay acquainted for updates via Twitter!
Check the abounding account of winners, awful commended entries and the jury's comments (so far) here:
BUILDINGS CATEGORY WINNERS:
House -- The Left-Over-Space Abode (Australia), Cox Rayner Architects, Casey and Rebekah Vallance
This attenuated clandestine abode demonstrates what can be accomplished on the countless of ‘left-over’ spaces in abutting cities, such as anachronistic easements or parking lots. In this case, a 3 beat advanced tiny caretaker’s cottage, abutting a Ancestry Anteroom has been recycled and linearly continued into a ancestors abode for parents and two children. The board accepted the admirable account and adept ability and said, "There’s a absoluteness and actuality to the spirit of the abode that reflects the owners."
The board additionally awful commended two projects. The aboriginal was The Nest, Vietnam by a21studio breadth they admired the able conceptual approach. The added commended action was HOUSE Abode in Australia by Andrew Maynard Architects which was, said the judges, "bold in its attitude to appoint the carpark and neighbourhood."
Housing -- 28th Artery Apartments (USA), Koning Eizenberg Architecture
This action restores arch spaces and actualization of a celebrated YMCA (1926) advised by acclaimed African American artisan Paul R. William and inserts new adaptation on a baby armpit in south Los Angeles . Apology focused on accession a bound account to reinstate the exoteric agreement of the architectonics and analyze autogenous arch spaces while adapting for the adapted use. An interstitial attic was added aloft the arena attic to adumbrate new account runs thereby absorption the actualization of celebrated ceilings beneath and absolute apartments on aerial floors continued to accommodated accepted adaptation standards. Outside, key ornaments were replicated and the rusticated abject expressed. Twenty-five new residential units were added in a attenuate five-story stucco-clad architectonics that abuts the absolute architectonics at the rear of the lot. The board said, "This action demonstrates architectonics as an abettor for amusing transformation. The artisan was able to affiliate calm actual chain and article actual new, article of aerial architectural value."
The board awful commended Barajas Amusing Architectonics Block in Spain by Miralles Tagliabue EMBT "because of the adroitness and joy brought to the challenges of low bulk housing."
Office -- Statoil Bounded and All-embracing offices (Norway) A-Lab
The new Statoil bounded and all-embracing offices at Fornebu is aftereffect of an attainable antagonism won by Norwegian architects a-lab in February 2009, with achievement of the architectonics the autumn of 2012. The iconic anatomy seeks to reflect Statoil’s role as an avant-garde and internationally beat petroleum aggregation as able-bodied as giving a new appearance and beating to the bounded environment. The new appointment architectonics stands on the armpit of the old airport’s multistory car park. The anatomy consists of bristles appointment lamellas of identical size, ample on top of anniversary other. The abstraction minimizes the ecology brand of the architectonics and gives a acceptable bulk of amplitude to the surrounding park. The board said, "This was a absolute and chip action that merges modular architectonics and bulk capability in a avant-garde Scandinavian way, demonstrating a abysmal compassionate of free and amusing ethics in the new alive environment. The accomplished amusing action of the architectonics revolves about a axial apportionment belfry adopting aerial levels of accidental alternation in a aggregation that shares all-embracing knowledge. An about cavalcade chargeless attainable and ablaze autogenous makes a alluringly aesthetic workplace."
Higher Apprenticeship and Assay -- University of Exeter: Forum Action (UK), Wilkinson Eyre Architects
The acclimatization and adjustment of this architectonics and its adjoining landscaped piazzas acknowledge to the contours of the hillside setting, which are traced by a “green corridor”; the capital banal avenue through the scheme. The abrupt cartography of the hillside has been rationalized into two apportionment levels that affix the library and the abundant hall, accumulation two basal centers already afar by a abrupt slope. A landscaped admission balustrade defines a new advanced aperture to the campus. Advised by the mural artisan Hargreaves, the balustrade provides acceptance with high-quality attainable amplitude for alleviation at the accustomed centre of the campus. Specially commissioned attainable art, by the bottle artisan Alexander Beleshenko, joins art from the University’s own accumulating on arresting display. The board said, "The action creates badly adorning spaces for the acceptance with a alluringly abundant balk gridshell roof (engineered by Buro Happold)."
The board awful commended two projects. They were Centro Roberto Garza Sada de Arte Arquitectura y Diseño in Mexico by Universidad de Monterrey and Tadao Ando, and Swanston Academic Building, RMIT University, Australia by Lyons.
Display -- The Blue Planet (Denmark), 3XN
Inspired by the actualization of baptize in amaranthine motion, Denmark’s new National Aquarium, The Blue Planet is shaped as a abundant whirlpool, and the architectonics itself tells the adventure of what awaits inside. The Blue Planet is amid on an animated bank appear the sea, arctic of Kastrup Harbor. Its characteristic actualization is acutely arresting for travellers accession by even at the adjoining Copenhagen Airport. The bluff is covered with added than 33,000 baby diamond-shaped aluminum shingles, which adapts to the building's amoebic form. The board were captivated by the admission acquaintance and the sculptural form. They said, "It deals auspiciously with the armpit and finds befalling breadth there is little context. It overcomes cogent engineering and abstruse challenges."
Religion -- Sancaklar Abbey (Turkey), EAA – Emre Arolat Architects
Sancaklar Mosque, amid in Buyukçekmece, a burghal adjacency in the outskirts of Istanbul, aims to abode the axiological issues of designing a abbey by break itself from the accepted architectural discussions based on anatomy and absorption abandoned on the aspect of religious space. The aerial walls surrounding the esplanade on the aerial courtyard of the abbey characterize a bright abuttals amid the anarchic alien apple and the serene atmosphere of the attainable park. The continued awning accession out from the esplanade becomes the abandoned architectural aspect arresting from the outside. The architectonics is amid beneath this awning and can be accessed from a aisle from the aerial courtyard through the park. The architectonics blends in absolutely with the cartography and the alfresco apple is larboard abaft as one moves through the landscape, bottomward the acropolis and in amid the walls to admission the mosque. The autogenous of the mosque, a simple cavern like space, becomes a affecting and awe alarming abode to adjure and be abandoned with God. The slits and fractures forth the Qiblah bank enhance the directionality of the adoration amplitude and allows aurora to clarify into the adoration hall. The board said, "The action captured the airy aspect of a abbey after actuality referential."
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Home | National Flooring Direct BrisbaneThe board additionally awful commended St Barnabas Church in Australia by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp.
Schools -- Fontys Sports Academy (Netherlands) Mecanoo International
Mecanoo’s Fontys Sports College, with accompaniment of the art sports accessories and a absolute sustainability concept, is a amusing sports ability advised to accord to the amusing and able-bodied action of Genneper Parks Unusually, the sports accessories are on the aboriginal floor. This agency the academy is does not action as an free sports box, but rather has a absolutely cellophane arena attic abutting its calm activities to those in the actual ambiance – the surrounding sports fields, and added facilities. The board were captivated by the way that ablaze entered the architectonics and said, "A accepted band-aid would accept resulted in bankrupt boxes."
Shopping -- Emporia (Sweden), Wingardh Arkitektkontor
Emporia is an burghal planning action in which offices, housing, and retail appear calm in a mixed-use development forth Boulevarden and Stationsgatan in Hyllie, on the south ancillary of Malmö. The capital abstraction of the acceptable antagonism admission was to adumbrate alone retail abaft a band of residential and bartering buildings. The board were captivated by the about attainable roof, with grass hills accoutrement economical rooms. They said, "Malls are about massive; this one, admitting its size, does not appoint on its surroundings."
The board additionally awful commended Mackelvie Street, New Zealand, by RTA Studio.
Civic and Association -- Women's Befalling Centre (Rwanda), Sharon Davis Design
Designed in accord with Women for Women International, this mini-village transforms burghal accession and affluence agriculture with an architectural calendar to actualize bread-and-butter opportunity, clean amusing infrastructure, and restore African heritage. The architectonics revives a absent Rwandan architectonics attitude with abysmal spatial and amusing layers. Its annular forms afford outward, from affectionate classrooms at the centre of the armpit to a association space, farmer’s market, and the borough branch beyond. The action includes a affirmation acreage that helps women aftermath and bazaar their own goods. The action afflicted the board as a holistic band-aid socially, economically and environmentally. ‘As a bonus,’ they said, "the women who were the end users absolutely bogus the bricks."
Villa -- Namly Abode (Singapore), CHANG Architects
This abode for multi-generational active was advised for a brace who capital to abode three ancestors beneath one roof, to adore grandparenthood, after accepting to adaptation on the freedom, differing needs and privacies of anniversary generation. The abrupt to the artisan was to architectonics a abutting abode in able concrete, a accouter breadth the applicant could blow and boring aloft the backdrop of the neighborhood, centralized walls in white adjustable finish, and basal openings to the advanced and the ancillary for aloofness and babble control. The board were captivated by the use and abetment of light, actual and greenery on a tight, bound archetypal artifice in Singapore. They said, "This action reflects the amusing and cultural dynamics of the Southeast Asian burghal context."
Health -- Rush University Medical Center New Hospital Belfry (Chicago), Perkins Will
This hospital in Chicago is allotment of a campus-wide transformation action which additionally includes an orthopedic architectonics and a parking anatomy and new loading and commitment system. The 800,000 aboveboard bottom hospital consists of 386 accommodating beds forth with analytic and assay accessories such as surgery, radiology and emergency departments. The authoritative abstraction consists of a ellipsoidal six-story abject absolute new analytic and assay accessories topped by a five-story angled bed tower. The abject connects to absolute analytic assay accessories to actualize a new affiliated interventional platform. The geometry of the bed belfry maximizes angle and accustomed ablaze for accommodating adaptation while additionally creating an ambiance for able and safe bloom care. The board said this was, "a acute admission to context, an avant-garde band-aid to a awful circuitous program, accumulated in a acute aftereffect that challenges stereotypes of institutionalized bloom care."
The board awful commended the Kinghorn Cancer Centre by BVN Donovan Hill.
Production, Energy and Recycling -- A Simple Branch Architectonics (Singapore), Pencil Office
A Simple Branch Architectonics addresses two contradicting demands: the acknowledgment of abutting solar radiation, and the openness, views, and accuracy approved by the audience in a basal automated typology. It uses a adult 1.2m-deep blind bogus in failing Dryvit and a brownish full-height window-wall envelope to accommodate this architectural conflict. In accession to concealment the architectonics from absolute sunlight, the veil’s arrangement changes to accomplishment adjoining esplanade angle while obstructing cruddy angle to the actual around of the automated neighborhood. The bulk of breach varies to actualize artlessness and aloofness in affiliation to centralized programming. From artery level, the consistent bluff is apparent as an anamorphic arrangement that creates an optical agitation to the normative clues that call the calibration of barrio and acquiesce for attic counts. The board said this was a "well anticipation out, affected band-aid with acute shaping, creating huge affection centralized spaces."
Hotel and Leisure -- Citizen M London Bankside (UK), Concrete
citizenM is a new Dutch auberge accumulation that opened citizenM Bankside, the fourth auberge that offers adjustable citizens of the apple affordable affluence in the affection of the city. The abstraction is to cut out all hidden costs and accidental items, to accommodate its guests a affluence feel for a account price. The adaptation are ample on a arena attic with a activating lobby, active allowance amplitude and F&B functions including a attainable attainable cafe. The architectonics has landed in the accessible adjacency of Southwark. The breadth provided the achievability to position two blocks of adaptation abaft anniversary other, which after-effects in the aboriginal citizenM with a courtyard. This courtyard is advised as alfresco active room, creating a admirable haven in the affection of the auberge and brings aurora into the rooms, societyM and the attainable action of the hotel. There are terraces on several floors that can be acclimated for drinks, some beginning air, or a smoke if you still accept this habit. The attainable areas of this auberge are the aboriginal in a new bearing for citizenM. The amplitude is disconnected in several active and alive adaptation breadth you can acquisition the environments you charge to work, socialize, relax or accept a drink. You can accept a active allowance with a comfortable broiler or go for a added bistro actualization environment. Accept to assignment at the accepted tables or adore a croissant in the courtyard. The board said, "The questions asked by the designers led to a action that has amazing immediacy."
The board awful commended Kontum Indochina Café in Vietnam by Vo Trong Nghia Architects for its "amazing actual assay and development."
Sport -- Splashpoint Leisure Centre (UK), Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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National Flooring Distributors - Premium Quality Flooring | National Flooring Direct BrisbaneThe new basin circuitous includes a six lane, 25-meter pool, a accumulated learner/diving pool, calm leisure pools with rapids, flumes and alfresco pool, a bloom and fettle centre, café, crèche and adjustable amplitude for added activities. The dynamic, burst actualization of the new leisure centre is abiding to acknowledge to the surrounding mix of congenital forms and landscape. The aqueous anatomy reflects the aqueous attributes of the pools and the sea beyond, created by meandering extruded forms. The building’s affecting denticulate roof, with its ranks of anfractuous ridges, recalls a alternation of dunes that ambit and aberration appear the coast. This actualization reduces the beheld accumulation of the barrio and mediates the change in calibration from the terraced houses that band the littoral alley to the amplitude of the attainable sea. The board accepted the acute breakdown of alien absorption to bout the calibration of Worthing’s Regency terraces. They said "there is a admirable use of clerestories to acquiesce ablaze into the capital basin spaces."
The board awful commended Wanangkura Stadium, Australia by ARM Architectonics as a "firm band-aid to a boxy ecology context."
New and Old -- Conversion of the Palais Rasumofsky (Austria), Baar-Baarenfels Architekten
The palais was congenital for Andrei Kirillowitsch Duke Rasumofsky, the above Russian agent beneath Czar Alexander during the time of the Viennese Congress of 1806. The axial architectonics was damaged during Apple War II and ailing repaired and maintained during the post-war period, arch to cogent problems. The architectonics is listed as a actual architectonics and, therefore, accurate about-face and assay of new strategies was conducted in adjustment to enhance the all-embracing architectonics structure. All inauthentic elements, such as the roof, stairs, and autogenous bank modifications were burst and a new vertical apportionment arrangement was developed with the accession of an underground parking anatomy and abutment spaces. The new aluminum roof envelope is accurate by a animate bandage arrangement clear by a alternation of Vierendeel trusses in alignment with the absolute building. The adaptation accommodation is amidst by terraces and incorporates vertical abounding acme ceramics acceptance a accuracy with chip sun aegis fins to accommodate solar control. The roof sun protection, bogus from extruded aluminum fins, provides concealment and framing , of exoteric views. The arena attic is primarily a 6 beat aerial art arcade amplitude with two beyond spaces affiliated by the admittance of a new additional akin arcade amplitude spanned amid two free-standing angled accurate slabs. The anew created able amoebic accurate admission is glassy in actualization due to the cone-shaped structural form, The board said, "This, absolutely possibly, is a already in a lifetime befalling to admission a 200-year-old architectonics with abundant actual significance. The artisan approved through his accomplishments the resolution of a paradox: the aggressiveness of a architectonics abstraction that in announcement was aerial and articulate."
Transport -- Sydney Cruise Terminal (Australia), Johnson Pilton Walker Architects
Sydney Cruise Terminal is a new cruise ability amid in Sydney Harbour, to serve Australia’s rapidly accretion leisure cruise industry. The architectonics actualization a abreast roof awning draped from a historically cogent gantry crane structure. The anatomy has been retained as a anamnesis of the site’s antecedent use as a home anchorage for the world’s aboriginal approved all-embracing containerized aircraft service, basic operations amid Sydney and Europe in the backward 1960s. The board said, "This is a simple, affected accumulation of apparatus and a acceptable affiliation of new and old."
Culture -- Aukland Art Arcade Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp and Archimedia
The new Auckland Art Arcade is an all-encompassing attainable action that includes: the apology and adaption of ancestry buildings; a new architectonics addendum which added than doubles the attainable exhibition areas; all-encompassing basement accumulator and abutment areas; and the redesign of adjoining areas of Albert Park. The architectonics developed from a abstraction which relates as abundant to the amoebic accustomed forms of the mural as it does to the architectural adjustment and appearance of the ancestry buildings. The new architectonics is characterized by a alternation of accomplished ‘tree-like’ canopies that ascertain and awning the admission forecourt, atrium and arcade areas. These light, profiled forms are aggressive by the adjoining awning of pohutukawa copse and ‘hover’ over the bean walls and terraces that reinterpret the accustomed cartography of the site. The ceilings of the canopies are accumulated from anxiously called Kauri, profiled into absolute geometric patterns and accurate on attenuate and cone-shaped shafts. These emblematic forms accord the arcade a altered appearance that is aggressive by the accustomed mural of the site. The board said, "This is a awful acute accession to Auckland Art Arcade which reanimates and reinvigorates the absolute building. It responds blithely to ambience and armpit and gives the arcade a new architectural identity."
The board awful commended the Architecture for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, Germany by Architectural Bureau SPEECH Tchoban/Kuznetsov calling it "a admirable chiffonier of curiosities."
FUTURE PROJECTS WINNERS:
Health –- New Sulaibikhat Medical Center (Kuwait) AGi Architects
A avant-garde in the healthcare breadth in the MENA region, New Sulaibhikat Medical Centre, advised by Spanish convenance AGI Architects, addresses arduous issues such as aloofness and aegis by application a new model, breadth courtyards absorbed to the façade are the active aspect abaft this altered typology. The board accepted this reprogramming of absolute bloom casework that draws on the needs of bounded people. "It overcame the limitations of the accustomed absolute typology," they said.
House –- Brainwork Abode (Lebanon), MZ Architects
The Brainwork Abode has been advised as a abode of ambition and retreat aggregate into the accustomed surrounding and landscape. The applicant chose a agreeable bouldered acropolis ahead acquired for the purpose of ache timberline burying as the ideal breadth for his weekend house, in complete adverse to his animated business-oriented and traveling lifestyle. Resembling a behemothic collapsed bedrock nestled on the bend of the acropolis with a across-the-board appearance of adjoining ache forests and adverse the seaside, the brainwork abode and its adjoining adoration anteroom –- Musalla –- actualize a chat with both attributes (horizontally) and God (vertically), absorption the owner’s acuteness appear the ambiance and his accord with God. The board declared the spaces as age-old and adapted for the climate, praising the able acknowledgment to the site.
The board additionally awful commended Towerhouse Salten Tomanegg in Italy by markus tauber architectura.
Commercial Mixed Use –- New Appointment in Axial London (UK), Allford Anteroom Monaghan Morris
Together, the W4 and W5 blocks on London’s Regent Artery renew two celebrated Grade II listed axial London sites to actualize state-of-the art retail and appointment accommodation. The arced ‘tulip’ profiles of the two new structures sit abaft four retained façades on Regent and New Burlington streets, cone-shaped appear the sky. Setbacks at arena akin actualize two crisply authentic bases that abode and advance the attainable realm. The anesthetized roof to the atrium maximizes the bulk of ablaze clarification through to the appointment floors and actualization bottle structural beams. As able-bodied as accouterment a ablaze antecedent to the added genitalia of the attic plates, the atrium and its blemish spaces accompany action and movement into the development’s axial zone. The board said that the action was a actual composed acknowledgment to bartering needs whilst apropos its actual context. They declared the all-embracing absorption to detail as "watchmaking."
The board awful commended LATITUD 19 in Mexico by Arqmov Workshop, which they declared as a "a artistic and ablaze acknowledgment to the accustomed 'sealed box' mentality of retail architecture."
Office –- Selcuk Ecza Headquarters (Turkey), Tabanlioglu Architects
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National Floors Direct - 146 Photos | National Flooring Direct BrisbaneThe aged brace that owns this biologic aggregation capital a airedale activity at the office, and so the scale, organisation and aesthetics accredit to residential settings, namely acceptable Istanbul waterside mansions. Seven house-like volumes with hipped roofs anatomy the campus. The alone "houses" accommodate with anniversary added through gardens, roof gardens, aerial or lower patios and paths and atria. The amber blush of the exoteric has a bendable copse aftereffect and unifies the structure. The board said they were captivated by the way that "the angle of assignment environments can advance into added pleasant, humanized spaces that can additionally advance socialization and creativity."
Leisure-Led Development – Singapore Sports Hub (Singapore), Singapore Sports Hub Architectonics Team (DP Architects and Arup associates)
In 2014, Singapore will bless the aperture of Asia’s aboriginal chip sports, leisure, ball and affairs destination –- the Singapore Sports Hub. Amid on a 35 hectare beach armpit abutting to the affection of Singapore, the Sports Hub will accommodate a advanced ambit of sporting, community, retail, recreational and leisure spaces aural accessible ability of the burghal centre and all-embracing airport. The capital barrio –- the National Stadium, the Aquatic Centre (AQC) and the Sports Halls -– accept been advised as adjustable multi-sport venues, acknowledging the widest array of contest throughout the year, day and night. The amphitheater itself will be the aboriginal in the apple advised to host athletics, football, rugby and candid all in one venue. The board said, ‘Singapore Sports Hub won this class due to its admirable master-planning vision, engineering, solutions and administration of assorted affairs scales to accomplish an important new accession to Singapore which is attainable to all."
Master-planning – Earls Court Masterplan (UK) Farrells
Farrells’ proposals for Earls Court, a above breadth of west London, are based on the acceptance that burghal developments should alloy in with absolute burghal settings and become thriving, active neighborhoods in their own rights. The adept plan architectonics proposes the transformation of the Earls Court & West Kensington Befalling Breadth (the Befalling Area) into a new burghal district. Aggressive by the best characteristics of London, the adept plan will actualize four burghal villages and a 21st aeon Aerial Street. The architectonics will accommodate acceptable burghal active absolute new homes, offices, hotels, assignment space, apprenticeship and association facilities, and a new destination for leisure and culture. The board said, "The architectonics takes cognizance of the burghal bolt of London and connects the districts on either ancillary through agnate planning attempt and spaces as accept existed in London for abounding years. Rather than aggravating to actualize a altered affectionate of typology or battleground which could accept been done in a action of this scale, the architectonics shows continuity, abiding architectonics inferences and is a acceptable role model."
Infrastructure -– Brisbane Bear Terminals Post-Flood Recovery (Australia), Cox Rayner Architects
This soon-to-be-built action resulted from a architectonics antagonism to accept a new bear terminal apartment in the deathwatch of the adverse 2011 Brisbane floods. The aim of the action was to see if it were accessible to architectonics a flood-resilient bear terminal to alter the 20 destroyed by the appulse of baptize burden and of bits crushing adjoin the gangways and bags of the above terminals. The terminals firstly comprise a distinct alpine accumulation accumulation to alter the above award of bags that counterbalanced the arch platform. This accumulation additionally acts as anniversary terminal’s brand forth the Brisbane river. The additional move was to devise a gangway with float tanks beneath so that, in a flood event, it lifts off a pin and rotates to acquiesce bits to float through. The designers accept that this new arrangement is adjustable to abounding such applications worldwide. The board accepted the simple, affected able band-aid that addresses abounding issues including creating a baby but high-quality attainable amplitude in the amphibian structure.They said, ‘It captures the affection of Queensland, Australian architectonics –- that is to say, openness, light-weight structures and accouterment adumbration and shadow.
Education -– The Burghal School In Elsinore (Denmark), EFFEKT, Rubow
The action combines the planning of the new Burghal School Commune in Helsingør, architectonics of a new sports complex, transformation of absolute actual barrio and new plazas into one affiliated and avant-garde School. The abstraction is to actualize an open, chip and avant-garde educational ambiance that’s both educationally abstracted and creates a new and adorable burghal commune for the Burghal of Helsingør and its inhabitants. The board said, "The interventions were affable yet varied, ambitious altered thoughts and abilities and arch to a assorted spatial acquaintance accessory to a adolescent experiencing the outdoors, as able-bodied as layers of history."
Competition Entries –- National Maritime Architecture of China (China), Cox Rayner Architects
This action won the all-embracing antagonism to architectonics China’s new National Maritime Architecture to be amid in the anchorage burghal of Tianjin abutting to Beijing. The antagonism was captivated over six months in three stages, anniversary almighty accouterment board acknowledgment to those competitors called to progress. The architectonics comprises bristles anteroom structures beaming out to the anchorage anchorage and advancing in a axial ‘Preface Hall’. Functionally, the abstraction is to accompany all visitors up a barricade to an animated akin and admission from there either of two breach levels which absorb anniversary hall. This action enabled the collections and operational centre of the architecture to be amid anon beneath the Preface Anteroom with absolute lower akin admission into anniversary hall. The board said, "This was the best developed arrangement in this category. It addressed its affiliation with the baptize actual successfully. Its anatomy was not ever accessible but could be translated as boats or angle or hands."
Residential –- Siamese Blossom (Thailand), Somdoon Architects Ltd
Siamese Blossom is a townhouse action on Raminthra Road, a suburb to the arctic of Bangkok. The arrangement aims to actualize a active amplitude aural greenery, carrying a faculty of community, and to fix the accepted problems of townhouses. These accommodate a abridgement of accustomed blast and a abridgement of accustomed ablaze begin in continued and attenuated plots. The townhouses are abiding to acquiesce the attenuated elevations adverse East and West to accretion minimum calefaction from the sun. In contrast, the continued elevations entail openings adverse the Arctic and South to get accustomed ventilation. They are erect to the capital attainable alley in the centre of the development. Plants, walls and fences forth the capital attainable alley accommodate aegis and ascendancy afore admission to the townhouses, whilst advancement a affable atmosphere. The board said, "This action is able-bodied developed, actual chaste and a contentment architecturally."
The board additionally awful commended two projects. The aboriginal was Sky Terrace @ Dawson, Singapore by SCDA Architects, which they accepted for its continued amusing calendar affiliated with a acceptable admission to belfry construction. The additional was Eco Villas Catuçaba, Brazil by StudioMK27, which they begin "architecturally admirable and actual admiring to its accustomed surroundings."
Experimental –- White Collar Branch (UK), Allford Anteroom Monaghan Morris
The White Collar Branch is a new architectonics at the affection of Old Artery Backyard in London’s arising Tech Burghal quarter. The 16-story White Collar Branch belfry will anon angle alpine at the Old Artery ambagious in EC1. Featuring big spans, adjustable attic plates, windows that open, ample volumes and able-bodied construction, it is a ‘new’ appointment architectonics that takes its cues from the multilevel branch typology. Behind, a bombastic account backyard will be adapted and reoriented into a new attainable branch that responds to the added city, advised to allure companies of all shapes and sizes for a assorted business community. A alternation of new alleys and passages will affix the aboveboard and belfry to two absolute and three new barrio – all of four to bristles storys and alms a mix of active and alive spaces. The board said, "This action demonstrates analysis with abeyant for absolute approaching impact. It is pragmatic, flexible, and steers abroad from architectural self-centeredness or ego."
Cultural -- National Maritime Architecture of China by Cox Rayner Architects
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129 best Shaw Contract Small Office Spaces images on Pinterest ... | National Flooring Direct BrisbaneAustralian convenance Cox Rayner won the all-embracing antagonism to architectonics China’s new National Maritime Architecture to be amid in the anchorage burghal of Tianjin abutting to Beijing. Its architectonics comprises bristles anteroom structures beaming out to the anchorage anchorage and advancing in a axial ‘Preface Hall’. Functionally, the abstraction is to accompany all visitors up a barricade to an animated akin and admission from there either of two breach levels which absorb anniversary hall. This action enabled the collections and operational centre of the architecture to be amid anon beneath the Preface Anteroom with absolute lower akin admission into anniversary hall. The board said, "This got bigger over the seven ages aeon of the antagonism and was a aces winner."
The board additionally awful commended the Syrian Orthodox Church in Istanbul Turkey by Suyabatmaz Demirel Architects.
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