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| RIBA 'Architecture for Tourism' award |
| Some unusual public toilets in Cambridge designed by Freeland Rees Roberts, based loosely on a fairground merry-goround, have won the RIBA 'Architecture for Tourism' award for their unique design. |
| published on 03 Oct 2004 at 18:05 | source: Cambridge News |
| Design Competition for National AIDS Memorial |
| The National AIDS Memorial Grove is sponsoring an international design competition to identify an outstanding artistic feature that will memorialize all those who have died of AIDS, and honor those who continue to fight this pandemic. This is a one-stage, open competition intended to solicit ideas for the design of a new memorial feature within the National AIDS Memorial Grove. |
| published on 03 Oct 2004 at 18:43 | source: The National AIDS Memorial Grove |
| DITEC - International Architecture Award |
| DITEC S.p.A. of Caronno Pertusella (MI), a leading manufacturer of automatic entrances, in conjunction with the frames architecture magazine FRAMES, announces the second edition of an international architecture award to encourage the use of automatic components and systems in buildings. The aim of the competition is to pinpoint and reward the best architectural solutions incorporating automatic entrances and/or automatisms for openings, for controlling sunlight and/or other smart automations for controlling fronts and frames. Already implemented projects or projects due to be developed within the expiry date of the competition shall be eligible. |
| published on 03 Oct 2004 at 20:00 | source: inarchitecture.com |
| Cradle to Cradle International Housing Design Competition |
| No matter how you look at it, the C2C Home design and construction competition is different. Design will lead to actual construction. Jurors are Alexander Garvin, Daniel Libeskind, Bill McDonough, Randall Stout, and Sarah Susanka. And homes will be built with a goal of achieving the new standards of sustainability set up in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Registration ends November 15, 2004 and entry deadline is December 15, 2004 |
| published on 10 Oct 2004 at 22:25 | source: Utne |
| "Irish world performing arts village" competition result announced |
| DLB Cordier Architect's entry for the "Irish world performing arts village" competition has been awarded the first place out of 94 entries received for stage one of the competition. Architecture53Seven, Burdon Craig Dunne Henry Architects, Deavy Design Architects, DLB Cordier Architect and Ponlawat Buasri Architect have been shortlisted for stage two of the competition. |
| published on 11 Oct 2004 at 15:40 | source: Archiseek (Ireland) |
| Award winners in AIA Utah's design competition |
| The winners in this year's American Institute of Architecture Utah design competition cover a lot of territory, both geographically and also in form and function. They say a lot about new directions that buildings are taking, about responses to cultural and community mores, about the aesthetics of the built environment in the state. |
| published on 12 Oct 2004 at 04:13 | source: Desert News |
| Frei Otto has been awarded the 2005 Royal Gold Medal |
| The German architect and engineer, Frei Otto, whose pioneering tensile structures and grid shells have inspired architects such as Richard Rogers, Michael Hopkins and Ted Cullinan, has been awarded the 2005 Royal Gold Medal. The Royal Gold Medal for the promotion of architecture was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in 1848 and is conferred by the Sovereign annually on a distinguished architect or person "whose work has promoted, either directly or indirectly, the advancement of architecture." |
| published on 12 Oct 2004 at 04:24 | source: RIBA |
| RIBA Stirling Prize 2004 goes to 30 St Mary Axe - the "Gherkin" designed by Foster & Partners |
| This 40 storey tapering building is already a popular icon on the London skyline, so the jury tended to concentrate upon the degree to which this iconic object did in fact provide a pay-off in terms of facility, ambience and interpretation of the basic mathematics of the project. Other entries shortlisted for the prize included Kunsthaus at Graz by Peter Cook & Colin Fournier, The Spire at Dublin by Ian Ritchie Architects, Imperial War Museum North at Manchester by Studio Daniel Libeskind, Phoenix Initiative Coventry by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard & Business Academy Bexley by Foster and Partners |
| published on 17 Oct 2004 at 09:42 | source: RIBA |
| The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's annual awards - 2004 |
| The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's fifth annual National Design Award for Architecture Design (2004) was presented to Rick Joy & Polshek Partnership. The awards are presented to an individual or firm for exceptional and exemplary work in commercial, public, or residential architectural design |
| published on 22 Oct 2004 at 19:00 | source: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum |