Competition

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about competition

Project • By Jesús Pertuz • Community Centres

Rebolo Eco-Park

Parisian Student’s Winning Entry Chosen from Hundreds of Submissions "Rebolo Eco-Park" designed by Jesús Pertuz of Paris has been selected as the winner of Interface, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TILE) “Reconnect Your Space” competition. The competition invited architects, designers and students to submit their visions for how biophilia can influence the design of a new or existing space, either within interior built environments or outside in cities. Biophilic design incorporates natural elements into manmade environments in order to help people feel and perform better. Rebolo Eco-Park was selected as the most unique, inspiring and purposeful way of reconnecting a space with nature. The winning entry was inspired by Rebolo, a low-income neighborh... More

Project • By ESTUDIO NATTO • Offices

DISA HEADQUARTERS. COMPETITION - FIRST PRIZE

Architects: ESTUDIO NATTO Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Architect In Charge: Elías M. Medina Moreno Architects: Adrián Magdaleno Rodríguez y José Manuel Rodríguez Peña Industrial Engineering: INGENIERIA Y ARQUITECTURA TECHNE 3D Images: DPC 3d Infografía Built Area: 40.465,31 m2 Year: 2012 The project for the new headquarters building of Disa Group seeks to achieve the typical headquarters prominence and become a leading further into architectural landmark for the city in an environment dominated by high-rise buildings (34 storey towers of Santa Cruz, 28-story courthouse future) The floor of the tower, as every square, is perceived in an apparent form by its four corners. The project idea is to material... More

Project • By Atelier Thomas Pucher • Offices

Wimmer Medien Linz

ATELIER THOMAS PUCHER has won the third prize in the international invited competition for Wimmer Medien Business Centre and Urban Development in Linz. The project comprises of 33 600 m2 gross floor area of a mixed use building combined with the new headquarters of the Wimmer Medien. Connecting housing, offices and commercial areas with a huge public space, this project suggests a new central plaza in the city of Linz. The main concept of this project is the creation of a public space that recovers the mystical feeling of the Italian piazzas, offering flexibility to host the most variety of events and activities, like ice-skating, Christmas market or outdoors cinema. This piazza is also a central point for the social life of the building,... More

Project • By ARCHSTRUKTURA • Auditoriums

Istanbul disaster prevention + education centre

Moscow-based studio ARCHSTRUKTURA designed "the tree of edutainment" as an entry for the thyssenkrupp elevator istanbul disaster prevention + education center competition. Scheme proposes 3 staircase cores, public, service and freight elevators cores as main structural elements. structurally design considers seismic conditions of the region – using rotating symmetry of main structural elements, rigid concrete cores and lightweight spacial metal structure. Main circulation provided via escalators, also elevators could be used. Functions are organized around action atrium. Atrium not just empty space – it a kind of threedimensional orientation stage, a place from where one can observe all parts of complex, and look how they are functioning... More

Project • By PNLO • Cultural Centres

Avid Bluprint Philippine National Pavilion Competition

The sights, the sounds, the feeling.   What we aim to show is a modern interpretation of our treasured attractions that invoke different feelings-- of pride, adventure and progression. By treasured attractions we do not only mean traditional aspects, like natural formations and man-made structures. In the bigger schema of things, it is our people that make this place unrivaled. Hence, we would like to showcase the Filipino psyche - fun loving, talented and with great capacity to withstand hardships and improvise.   The design concept is based on the whale shark, a magnificent creature locally called “Butanding”.    The use of the creature’s aesthetic qualities of size, color and texture connotes the Filipinos’ larger than life persona... More

Project • By Pablo Esteban Zamorano • Art Galleries

Lavender Lake Art Factory

First prize in the Lavender Lake art factory competition sponsored by suckerPUNCH. Water Fields:An art factory, an open public space, a beach, a picnic field, a crop garden, a space for the community and for culture, a land open to the water, the city and the arts. the border condition (water-land) of this site made us think about how these limits could react with each other to create something new. an hybrid space product of a simple movement: the inundation of the site, the analysis of a close up view of the canal and the projection of that into the site as a geometry, to translate what used to be water into land but now as a construction of the memory of the canal. the gowanus canal is now a new public space for the city that brings the... More

Project • By MUS ARCHITECTS • Auditoriums

ISMOF - International School Museum of Flamenco

STRUCTURE OF EMOTIONS - FEISTY FLAMCENCO Movements and gestures of dancers are full of expression and tension. Dancers bring the fascinated viewer into an internal world of experience and emotion through the swinging movement of their hips, decorative arrangement of their fingers and smooth vibration of the ornamental frills. Rhythmic and dynamic music transmits the spectator into a world of incredible aesthetic feelings awakening all senses and inflaming the imagination… ….This is how architecture dedicated to the culture of feisty flamenco should look like…. Form Site management and building form reflect the flamenco spirit. Interior and exterior spaces of ISMOF building were created through the sculptural interpretation of the... More

Project • By JADE • Museums

New Taipei Museum of Art

New Taipei Museum of Art JADE with Erick Limanhadi Since 1970s, Yingge Ceramics became part of Taipei and make a different history in Taipiei's heart. The main theme of this area is telling about YINGGE CERAMICS ARTS, including ceramics workshop, Ceramic Art Plaza, and Yingge Ceramic Museum on South West which have important historical point. The strong relationship of each object makes continuous story dan background of the New Taipei City. Starting from ceramic art workshop area it tells us about : the fist place & first step to start making a ceramic art. In this place, people can learn many things about ceramic, material, sense of art and also how to make it. After people learn about ceramic art, they want to make a new ceram... More