Selected News from Selected Architects

John Hill
26. mayo 2014
The heart of the World-Architects platform is the Profiles of Selected Architects – over 2,500 offices that are carefully chosen according to criteria of professionalism, uniqueness, and quality of design.

*Our new Daily News section will supplant the need for this biannual roundup, since we’ll be able to share news about member firms in a more timely fashion.

Awards

Aidlin Darling Design: 2013 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Award for Interior Design; AIA 2014 National Honor Award for Interior Architecture for Bar Agricole

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris: Civic Trust Award for Chobham Academy

ARM Architecture: National Architecture Award (Australia), The Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage, National Award for Interior Architecture, National Commendation for Public Architecture and National Commendation for Urban Design for Hamer Hall; The Emil Sodersten Award for Interior Architecture and The Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for Perth Arena (with CCN – Joint Venture Architects)

Behnisch Architects: AIA 2014 COTE Award for John & Frances Angelos Law Center(pictured below)

Belzberg Architects: AIA 2014 National Honor Award for Architecture and for Interior Architecture for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Behnisch Architects: John & Frances Angelos Law Center. Photo: David Matthiessen

C.F. Møller Architects: Civic Trust Award for Aalborg Waterfront

Cox Architecture: National Architecture Award (Australia), National Commendation for Commercial Architecture and National Commendation for Sustainable Architecture for One One One Eagle Street; National Awards for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing and National Commendation for Sustainable Architecture for Constance Street Affordable Housing; National Awards for Urban Design for Flinders Street Revitalization (pictured below)

Dattner Architects: ULI 2013 Global Award for Excellence for Via Verde – The Green Way(with Grimshaw)

Deborah Berke & Partners: ULI 2013 Global Award for Excellence for 21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati

DE-SPEC: NYC&G Innovation in Design Award in Architecture category for Perry Street Loft

Cox Architecture: Flinders Street Revitalization. Photo: Angus Martin

Diamond Schmitt Architects: Best of Show Award and Design Excellence Award from Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) for Centennial College Library and Academic Facility; Design Excellence Award from OAA for Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence (with Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects)

Eskew+Dumez+Ripple: AIA 2014 Architecture Firm Award (pictured below)

gmp - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: 2013 ULI Germany Leadership Award in Special Prize category to Meinhard von Gerkan

Govaert & Vanhoutte: Civic Trust Award for Fortification route Ypres

GRAFT: Federal Design Award Ecodesign 2013 in Service category for Solarkiosk

Eskew+Dumez+Ripple studio. Photo: Courtesy of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple 

Handel Architects: ULI 2013 Global Award for Excellence for Territoria 3000

Henning Larsen Architects: Civic Trust Award for Campus Roskilde

HASSELL: National Architecture Award (Australia), National Commendation for Commercial Architecture and National Commendation for Urban Design (with Fitzpatrick + Partners) for Brookfield Place (pictured below)

HM White: ASLA/NY 2014 Design Award for Midtown Manhattan Sky Garden

Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects: AIA 2014 National Honor Award for Interior Architecture for Marc by Marc Jacobs Showroom (with HLW International)

HASSELL: Brookfield Place. Photo: Peter Bennetts 

Jensen Architects: James Beard Outstanding Restaurant Design Award (76 Seats and Over) for Shed

JGMA: Driehaus Award for Architectural Excellence for the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy

J. MAYER H. and Partners: Civic Trust Award for Metropol Parasol (pictured below)

KCAP: ULI 2013 Global Award for Excellence for HafenCity Hamburg (New downtown City district)

KPF: ULI 2013 Global Award for Excellence for Hysan Place

J. MAYER H. and Partners: Metropol Parasol. Photo: David Franck

Lyons: National Architecture Award (Australia), National Award for Public Architecture for Swanston Academic Building

Michael Sorkin Studio: 2013 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Award for Design Mind

ODA: 2014 SARA/NY Design Award for 241 Fifth Avenue and Pandora Kitchen

Olson Kundig Architects: AIA 2014 National Honor Award for Architecture for The Pierre(pictured below)

SOM: AIA 2014 Honor Award in Regional/Urban Design for Son Tra Peninsula Strategic Vision Plan; AIA 2014 Honor Award in Regional/Urban Design for Denver Union StationNeighborhood Transformation

Olson Kundig Architects: The Pierre. Photo: Dwight Eschliman

Stanton Williams: Civic Trust Award for Britten-Pears Archive

Studio Gang Architects: 2013 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's National Design Award for Architecture Design

superkül inc | architect: Design Excellence Award from Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) for Stealth Cabin

Wilson Architects: National Architecture Award (Australia), National Award for Interior Architecture and National Award for Public Architecture for Translational Research Institute (with Donovan Hill)

WEISS/MANFREDI: AIA 2014 Honor Award in Architecture for Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center;
Wall Street Journal’s Best of 2013: Architecture to Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania (pictured below)

WXY: AIA 2014 Honor Award in Regional/Urban Design for the East River Blueway Plan

WEISS/MANFREDI: Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Photo: Albert Vecerka/Esto

Competitions/Commissions


3XN: Selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland

Ann Beha Architects: Selected to design The New Britain Museum of American Art Expansion in New Britain, Connecticut; Selected for a major rehabilitation of the chancery facility and campus at the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece

ARM Architecture: Winner of Joondalup City’s Architectural Design Competition with concept design for the Joondalup Performing Arts and Cultural Facility

Bjarke Ingels Group - BIG: Winner of competition for the Museum of the Human Body (with A+Architecture, Egis, Base, L’Echo, Celsius Environnement, & CCVH) in Montpellier, France (pictured below)

Brooks + Scarpa Architects: Selected as part of design/build team for new Angle Lake Light Rail Station in Seattle, Washington

BIG: Museum of the Human Body. Visualization: BIG

CDR Studio: Winner of Figment competition for annual pavilion on Governor's Island (pictured below)

gmp - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: Selected for rehearsal building for “Ballet am Rhein” in Düsseldorf, Germany; Winner of competition for three office towers near the southern railway station in Shanghai, China; Winner in international competition for a new children’s hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland (with JB Ferrari)

HENN: Winner of competition for Wenzhou High-Rise, China

KCAP: Winner of shared first prize in Eteläpuisto Park Tampere competition, Finland

Matiz Architecture & Design: Selected for expansion of The Sante Fe Opera in New Mexico

CDR Studio: Figment pavilion. Visualization: CDR Studio

Mecanoo: Winner of competition for Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw, Poland (pictured below)

ODA: Selected for Parcel C as part of Phase 2 of Hunters Point South development in Long Island City, New York

Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA: Winner of competition to design Axel Springer’s new media center in Berlin, Germany; winner of competition to design the Pont Jean-Jacques Bos in Bordeaux, France

Snøhetta: Selected as architect (with Dialog) to design New Central Library in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

UNStudio: Winning design in competition for Baumkirchen Mitte in Munich, Germany; Selected for design of the Lyric Theatre in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong (with AD+RG); Winner in competition for remodeling of the Hanwa Headquarters office tower in Seoul, South Korea

Mecanoo: Royal Łazienki Museum. Visualization: Mecanoo

Completed Buildings

Davis Brody Bond: National September 11 Memorial & Museum, museum opened May 21, 2014 (pictured below)

gmp - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: Basketball Stadium in Dongguan, China; Arena da Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil

HENN: EULE Knowledge Workshop in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

Latz + Partner: Willy-Brandt-Platz in Bremerhaven, Germany

Davis Brody Bond: National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Photo: Jeff Goldberg/Esto

Miurashin Architect+Associates: Okada Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (pictured below)

ROGERSPARTNERS Architecture+Urban Design: Henderson-Hopkins School, Baltimore, Maryland

Shigeru Ban Architects: Tamedia Office Building, Zürich, Switzerland

UNStudio: Kutaisi International Airport in Georgia

Miurashin Architect+Associates: Okada Museum of Art. Photo: Takumi Ota

Exhibitions

Aidlin Darling Design: Site & Senses: The Architecture of Aidlin Darling Design, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, December 21, 2013 – March 2, 2014

Denton Corker Marshall: Works – Small Buildings | Large Buildings | Non-Architecture at OCT Art & Design Gallery in Shenzhen, China, October 19 – November 24, 2013

Wulf Architekten: Wulf Architekten - Rhythmus und Melodie at Wechselraum, Stuttgart, May 5 – June 6, 2014

Wulf Architekten - Rhythmus und Melodie. Photo: Archigraphie Steffen Vogt

Monographs

CCS Architecture: Eat Live Work: CCS Architecture, Images Publishing, December 2013

Mitchell/Giurgola Architects: Building for 21st Century Science: Mitchell J Giurgola Architects, Artifice Books, February 2014

Nabil Gholam Architects: Eastwest: Nabil Gholam Architects, Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2013

Richard Meier & Partners Architects: Richard Meier Architect: Volume 6, Rizzoli, February 2014

Schneider & Schneider: Schneider & Schneider – Reaction, Creation, PSA Publishers Ltd., May 2014

Shatotto: Rafiq Azam Architecture for Green Living, Skira, December 2013

Steven Holl Architects: Urban Hopes: Made in China by Steven Holl, Lars Müller Architects, February 2014

W Architecture and Landscape Architecture: Structuring Confluence, ORO Editions, October 2013

Wulf Architekten: Wulf Architekten - Rhythmus und Melodie, Niggli, May 2014


See the first roundup of Selected News from Selected Architects from November 2012, the second from May 2013, and the third from November 2013.

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