GDS Architects Win 2nd Phase of Cheongna City Tower Competition
After winning Phase 1 of the design competion for the supertall Cheongna City Tower (formerly known as Tower Infinity) in Incheon, South Korea, international practice GDS Architects has now also taken the Fist Prize in the invited competition (Phase 2) to do the project through design development.
Organized by BolognaFiere and Archi-Europe, the great contest Saie Selection 2011 has highlighted 24 projects on the theme “ Innovating, Integrating, Building Highly innovative and sustainable buildings” We have chosen to give more details on the four First Prizes of young architects, in four different categories.
CLIP-IN DOOR: Innovation and elegance for your interior doors
The CLIP-IN DOOR is a door fitted with a revolutionary hinge applied onto the glass pane in such a way as to be practically invisible.
ISLAND CEILINGS: METAL CANOPY
The nature of metal allows greater opportunities for services to be engineered into Metal Canopies. However, different opportunities present themselves for the flat Metal Canopies compared to the Convex and Concave Metal Canopies. LED spotlights can readily be integrated into Flat Metal Canopies, whilst Convex and Concave Metal Canopies can play with their geometry to co-ordinate with lighting, conceal projectors.
Dow improves Lambda of STYROFOAM products by 0.002 W/mK
STYROFOAM™ Extruded Polystyrene (XPS) insulation, a product invented by Dow over 60 years ago and which is regularly specified for a wide range of building projects all over the world, has advanced in the thermal performance to meet new demands.
The new solar modules developed by SCHOTT Solar and Solland Solar: Solland Solar MWT Solarmodul
In nature, plants convert sunlight into energy. The new solar modules developed by SCHOTT Solar and Solland Solar resemble the structure of a leaf. The invention falls back on a process that has already been optimised by nature. Sunlight is captured even more efficiently and used to generate high energy output.
Garage doors make it possible to give a house a terrific eye-catching element with very little effort. Garage doors today are not only available in many fresh and decorative colours, but also in modern or more traditional wood patterns. Moreover, you have the option of choosing an absolutely individual, unique piece—a designer door from Normstahl with sophisticated motifs or glass sections in tune with your personal vision.
VIEWGLASS: Photo quality designs in glass can be customised for interior
VIEWGLASS is determined to revolutionize the integration of artwork in building environments. Through the application of photo quality artworks and designs with safety glass, unique design opportunities and solutions are enabled both structural and decorative, with VIEWGLASS.
QUANTUM GLASS™ active glass solutions
The architecture of tomorrow will be created from dynamic, intelligent materials. QUANTUM GLASS™ active glass solutions provide the perfect example of this trend in action.
We have the pleasure of announcing that the first Intermediate Prize of the Archi-World® Academy Awards 2011-2013 has been won. The winner is Hugon Kowalski with his project "Watertower for Sudan".
His project has been selected by Blueprint Magazine and will be published in their magazine as his prize.
Would you also like to have the opportunity to win a Intermediate Prize?
Then register now on www.awacademy.org
ArchiWorld (www.archiworld.eu), worldwide network for architects counting today over 200.000 architect members and BAU 2011 (Messe München) are launching today the first Archi-World® Academy Awards 2011/2013 that will involve:
• 1.200 schools of architecture around the world for students in architecture
• 300.000 students in architecture
• 150.000 new graduated architects
• 12 renowned Star Architects
• 200.000 professional architects
The contest: The Archi-World® Academy Award is a two years (2011/2013) lasting contest giving young architects and architects of tomorrow coming from the entire world the chance to present their best projects or concepts in the field of energy savings. No other architecture contest on such wide scale as ever been organized before.
The Jury:
President of the contest is Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa from Helsinki (Finland)
Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa
Helsinki (Finland)
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid Architects
London (UK)
F-H Jourda
Jourda Architectes
Paris (France)
Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels Group
Copenhagen (Denmark)
J-M Jaspers
M. & J-M. Jaspers - J. Eyers & Partners
Brussels (Belgium)
Francine Houben
Mecanoo Architecten
Delft (The Netherlands)
Daniel Libeskind
Studio Daniel Libeskind
New York (USA)
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma and Architects
Tokyo (Japan)
Mario Cucinella
MC A
Bologna (Italy)
Christoph Ingenhoven
Ingenhoven Architects
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Jain Bijoy
Studio Mumbai
Mumbai (India)
Ma Yansong
MAD Architects
Beijing (China)
Andrey Bokov
President Union of Architects Russia
Director of MosProekt 4
Moscow (Russia)
The Prize:
12 best projects will be selected by the Jury. Each member of the Jury will welcome a winning participant for a traineeship period of 4 to 6 months. The following best 1000 projects and ideas will be published on the ArchiWorldAcademy.org website enabling architects from all over the world to find the best trainees for their agencies.
International Exposure:
The information will be spread throughout our media partners (architectural magazines, specialized press, 1.200 architecture schools in the world, Archi-Europe, Archi-Students and Archiworld portals, our joint partner etc.).
Time scale: Presentation of the contest: for all architecture students around the world, the contest was officially launched during the Bau 2011 Exhibition (Munich, 19 January 2011)
Entries are open, click here and can be submitted until October 30th 2012.
Intermediate Awards (Industrial partners Award & Media/press Award)
Two intermediate prizes will be organized:
The Media/press intermediate prize will be awarded in October 2011 by a selection of leading architecture magazine partners (final list to be completed).
The Industrial intermediate prize will be awarded in October 2012 by leading industrial partners (final list to be completed).
Awarding ceremony:
The prestigious awarding ceremony will take place during BAU 2013 Exhibition (Munich, January 2013).
Please find here the winners of the Saie Selection contest 2011!
Architects
1st prize BRICK
Title of the project: RIVP Student Residence
Architects:LAN Architecture
The driving idea guiding our project stems from the challenge of responding to the necessity for urban integration and creating optimum comfort for the residence's occupants in a convivial and intimate environment.
Title of the project: Student housing in ETSAV. 57 apartments
Architects: HArquitectes + dataAE
The housing project proposes a collective patio with vegetation that is covered with an atrium using low technology systems from the Greenhouse prefabricated technology.
Title of the project: Val D'Oca Wine Center
Architects: CAFÈARCHITETTURA
The project aims to create an osmotic point between public and private spheres, where the farmer meets the customer and the agricolture is straight and efficiently connected with the market.
Title of the project: London Center for Urban Agriculture
Student: Tim Nørlund Jensen
The concept is to grow, process and distribute food within the city. Thereby we can prevent misuse of the planets area and resources, minimize energy consumption and secure a stabile food supply.
