Eu mies award 2017 shortlist
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Östermalm's Temporary Market Hall
After a period of 128 years, the sale of fresh produce has returned to its original location on Östermalm’s Square in the form of a temporary Market Hall, designed by Tengbom. Not only has the temporary market hall brought new life to the area, but been such a success that after only a few weeks, business is going better than in the old Market Hall.
Östermalm’s Square was home to a thriving market trade until the municipality banned the sale of fresh produce outdoors in order to reduce health risks. In 1888 market trade moved in to the newly completed Market Hall on an adjacent site and the square lost its original function. With the erection of a temporary Market Hall directly on the square we are able to contemplate an alternative urb... More
Timmerhuis
For Rotterdam's Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that accommodates municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. The building's composition of smaller cells creates an impressive, complex form when viewed from Coolsingel, one of Rotterdam’s main arteries, and allows for subtlety and adaptability as the new building meets the Stadstimmerhuis (a municipal building, from 1953), which surrounds it on two sides.
By Sebastian van Damme © OMA
The Timmerhuis’s innovative structural system generates maximum efficiency and versatility both in construction and in program: units can adap... More
Housing Development Rasu Namai
Location: PavilniaiRegional Park, dead-end. A slope, covered in tall trees. 4 historical ammunition vaults.
Idea: lowered + elevated
The buildings in the higher part of the plot are elevated on slender columns in order to „catch the sun“ and leave the walls of historical vaults undisturbed. Meanwhile the buildings down the slope are lowered and provided with the yards on the creek bank.
The houses are clad in wooden planks of different textures.
Structure
8 ELEVATED houses are designedalong the street in the southern part of the plot. These buildings are set between the retaining walls of the ammunition vaults or placed above their cornices. These buildings are paired around outside staircases. The houses are elevated to ensur... More
Project • By AL_A (Amanda Levete Architects) • Museums
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
This Wednesday, 5 October 2016, the EDP Foundation will officially open MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology - on the Tagus River in Belém, Lisbon, with a 12-hour public programme featuring exhibition openings, educational events, performances and music happenings.Housed within two buildings and spanning a vast outdoor site, MAAT will explore contemporary culture through visual arts, new media, architecture, technology and science. It will comprise the elegant new kunsthalle designed by AL_A, the architecture practice headed by British architect Amanda Levete, and the recently renovated Central Tejo power station. The new museum complex is located on the EDP Foundation Campus, which is at the heart of an exciting urban revitali... More
Project • By Alvaro Siza Vieira • Museums
Nadir Afonso Art Museum
The Nadir Afonso Foundation,built in the city of Chaves, in a terrain located on the right bank of the Tâmega river, had its detailed planning elaborated within the ambit of the Polis programme.
The area destined to the building is located at the place of Longras, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior,and was established in the plan as a rectangle parallel to the riverbed,inside the future marginal park, between the new footpath/bike laneparallel to the 5 de Outubro avenue(northwest), the Dr. Mário Soares avenue(northeast), the new street layout parallel to the Longras street (southwest) and the river (southeast).
The main floor of the foundation building is placed over a concrete platform, 351,50 height, supported by walls perpend... More
Project • By Assemble Project • Housing
Granby Four Streets
Assemble's work in Granby is part of an on-going collaboration with a group of residents who took control of their neighbourhood following years of managed decline and failed regeneration schemes. They reclaimed their streets through collective action and an accumulation of small-scale creative acts that extended from their homes into public space.
Assemble started working with this group in 2012, supporting their bid to take control of the empty houses on their streets and use them to drive further change. Our work there spans a range of projects and roles, acting variously as designers, builders, artists and organisers. It is difficult to say where authorship begins and ends – it’s an on-going process that we are part of, alongside ma... More
Project • By Rudy Ricciotti • Memorials
Rivesaltes Internment Camp Memorial
A witness to some of the twentieth centuries darkest moments - the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Algerian War of Independence - the Camp de Rivesaltes occupies a unique and important place in French history. A former military camp, a camp for Spanish refugees, the largest internement camp in Southern France in 1941 and 1942, an internement camp for German prisoners of war and collaborators, and the primary relocation centre for Harkis and their families… its history is unique.
In order to tell this story, a mémorial designed by architecte Rudy Ricciotti and the agency Passelac & Roques, opened its doors on 16 October 2015. Built on the former block F of the camp, in the middle of the existing buildings, the mémorial, measuring 4,0... More
Project • By Tabanlioglu Architects • Libraries
BEYAZIT STATE LIBRARY
LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS
Beyazıt State Library is the oldest and the largest library in Istanbul, founded in 1884 as the "Kütüphane-iUmumi-iOsmani". The Library is located in Beyazıt Square, as a part of Beyazıt II Complex adjacent to Beyazıt Mosque - the oldest surviving imperial mosque in the city. The square is connected to the spine of the historical peninsula, Divanyolu, and is one of the most vibrant spaces in the old part of the city.
The restoration of the State Library has involved the sensitive re-organisation of the interior and careful restoration of the building fabric with its prominent multi-domed roof.The State Library was originally the soup kitchen and Caravanserai of a complex that also had a kitchen, a primary schoo... More
Project • By OMA • Cultural Centres
Fondazione Prada
It is surprising that the enormous expansion of the art system has taken place in a reduced number of typologies for art's display. To apparently everybody’s satisfaction, the abandoned industrial space has become art’s default preference -- attractive because its predictable conditions do not challenge the artist’s intentions -- enlivened occasionally with exceptional architectural gestures. The new Fondazione Prada is projected in a former industrial complex too, but one with an unusual diversity of spatial environments. To this repertoire, we are adding three new buildings -- a large exhibition pavilion, a tower, and a cinema -- so that the new Fondazione Prada represents a genuine collection of architectural spaces in addition to its ho... More
Project • By NL Architects • Individual Buildings
Kleiburg
23-Feb-2017
Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high.
Kleiburg is located in the Bijlmermeer, a CIAM inspired residential expansion of Amsterdam designed in the sixties by Siegfried Nassuth of the city planning department. De Bijlmer was intended as a green, light and spacious alternative for the -at that time- disintegrating inner city.
The Bijlmer was designed as a single project. A composition of slabs based on a hexagonal grid. An attempt to create a vertical garden city.
Traffic modalities were radically separated; cars on elevated roads and bicycles and pedestrians on ground level. They would no longer share the sa... More