Emerging Architecture.This year's ar+d awards show a host of new talent (and one or two names that we have celebrated before). The jury's emphasis this time was on materiality, tectonics, thoughtfully explored in all inhabited continents. ********** This issue celebrates the fifth annual cycle of the ar+d awards, which were started by The Architectural Review The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine published in London since 1896. Articles cover the built environment which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism as well as theory of these subjects. and the distinguished Danish architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. firm d line to hail the work of relatively young architects and designers, who have (on the whole) yet to be well known and are usually at the start of their careers. Both this year and last, we have been most grateful for the sponsorship of Buro Happold, the international consulting engineers, whose support has enabled us to extend the awards, and their associated activities. (1) All work submitted must have been built or manufactured projects and theoretical speculations are not acceptable. However important these may be, it is equally vital to celebrate innovative and thoughtful uses of real construction--imagination realized in volume, light and materials. Awards are international, and are open to anyone (within the age limit) for work that ranges from crockery and furniture to urban design and landscape. The age limit for entrants to the ar+d awards has been set at 45 because in many countries, before that, architects and designers have little possibility of finding their own particular expression, or even making buildings that they can call their own. Teams are of course allowed to enter their work, but their leaders must be within the age limit. We received over 700 entries from 55 nations and all continents except Antarctica. (2) Countries ranged from Bangladesh to Brazil, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. to Norway. This year's jury was truly international too. Members were distinguished practitioners and thinkers: Shigeru Ban Shigeru Ban (坂茂, Ban Shigeru; born 1957 in Tokyo, Japan) is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper (Tokyo), Ahmed Bucheery (Bahrain), Francoise-Helene Jourda (Paris), Farshid Moussavi Farshid Moussavi (Born 1965 in Shiraz, Iran) is an internationally recognized Iranian born architect. Educated at Harvard, the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, and the University of Dundee, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in (London) and Michael Sorkin Michael Sorkin (1948, Washington, D.C. - ) Michael Sorkin, is the President/ Founder of Terreform in New York City, a nonprofit organization devoted to both practical and theoretical projects at all scales with a special interest in the city. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ). As AR Editor, I was chairman. Messages With such a jury, and so many strong personalities, it was sometimes difficult to reach agreement, though in the end the results were acclaimed unanimously. Jury members worked very hard to cover the huge amount of work before them. Francoise-Helene Jourda urged that we should try to find work that would 'send messages to young architects about the diversity of practice and the range of design'. Shigeru Ban argued that 'developing countries should be encouraged'. All were agreed that we should not try to premiate by category, but to choose the best of what was before us. In the end, we chose four award winners: three schemes were awarded special commendations, and eight further ones were commended. The prize money of [pounds sterling]10 000 has been divided equally between the four winners. Following Jourda's suggestion, we chose a great range of types of architectural design and production. We found, broadly, that we ended up with two very different sorts of work. One kind includes pieces that push the limits of architecture and design--for instance the bus station by NIO NIO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nicaraguan Coroba Oro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. at Hoofddorp's Spaarne Hospital (p38), and Laurie Chetwood's house for his own family (p52). The other kind of work looks more conventional but is in fact just as challenging forms, spaces and materials in traditional construction that are handled inventively and in exemplary ways: for instance by GPY GPY Geophysical Year in the community building in Los Silos. Tenerife (p46), and by Hiroshi Sambuichi in his potters' building at Hagi in Japan (p72). Looked at in another way, we had a spectrum of architectural invention that ranged from landscape to urban design. Pierre Thibault's Winter Gardens in Quebec (p50), was a land art piece, a line of fire in the white ice of a frozen lake in the silent winter wilds of Canada; it contrasted geometric artefact See artifact. with the organic forms of wild nature. A somewhat similar entry, at least in spirit, was the Meeting Place by Bruckner & Bruckner on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. (p74): a moving and abstract memorial to the troubled history of the two countries, and a gesture of hope for present conciliation conciliation: see mediation. to continue and be enhanced. The cemetery at Sanremo by Amoretti & Calvi (p60) is another memorial landscape work, though of more conventional kind. Yet it shows how we can make a place that carefully respects and enhances existing landscape, while providing a dignified setting for the rites of passage: of mourning and remembrance, of change and continuity. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Small Perhaps in this landscape group belongs the gazebo gazebo Lookout in the form of a turret, cupola (small, lanternlike dome), or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. Few late-18th- and 19th-century rustic gazebos survive, but 17th-century turrets built up in an angle of the garden wall are not uncommon. for Helsinki Zoo by Ville Hara Ville Hara (born 1974) is a Finnish architect. He studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Belleville and graduated as an architect in 2002. on Korkeasaari island in the spectacular natural harbour of the Finnish capital (p42): here, an abstracted sculpture in which you can climb to see the splendid views of city, islands, sea and sky becomes itself an important part of the marvellous seascape. At the opposite (urban) end of the spectrum of projects. NIO's bus station at Hoofddorp (p38) is another kind of abstract sculpture that offers shelter with a form (a sort of blob) that is usually anti-urban--yet which, in its position in the middle of roads in front of the hospital, makes perfect sense, while offering a notion of place in an otherwise dreary area. Equally responsive to location is GPY's community centre in Tenerife (p46) that relates to the scale of the traditional plaza on which it stands, while offering quite new and radical relationships between the square and the landscape beyond, and new opportunities for lively civic occasions. Another distinguished contribution to a fine existing urban setting is formed by Mario Cucinella's two little abstract pavilions in Bologna's Piazza Re Enzo (p71), which shimmer against the grand historic buildings without in the least detracting from them. In a sense, Loma's reworking of the Vlotho castle (p66) is similar to Cucinella's. Here, a series of clearly new interventions have been made within and onto the historic remains, both enhancing their qualities and making the castle much more able to be part of the everyday life of the town. Between landscape and city, we celebrate a group of small buildings. By the nature of practice, most of these are houses, as individual private houses are often the ways in which architects get their first personal commissions. But to start with the two little buildings that are not domestic: Hiroshi Sambuichi's Miwa pottery manufactory (p72), and the distillery at Pecaya in Venezuela by Rafael Mattar Neri (p70). The Japanese building is an intense exercise in simplicity and proper use of materials. The Venezuelan one is equally simple, but it responds to the poverty of the community it serves by legalizing the traditional production of spirit. I was sad that this little building was the only one we managed to acclaim that furthered Ban's proposal that 'developing countries should be encouraged'. (In fact, over the whole five years of their existence, the ar+d awards have celebrated many works from poor places, and I have picked out a couple more for publication this year--the crematorium cre·ma·to·ri·um n. pl. cre·ma·to·ri·ums or cre·ma·to·ri·a A furnace or establishment for the incineration of corpses. crematorium Noun pl -riums or by Gurjit Singh Gurjit Singh Hans (born March 9, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Indo-Canadian former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Ali Singh. He is the son of wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh and even teamed with his father in his first professional wrestling match against Atsushi Matharoo in Surat, p76, and Jae Cha's little chapel in Costa Rica Costa Rica (kŏs`tə rē`kə), officially Republic of Costa Rica, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,016,000), 19,575 sq mi (50,700 sq km), Central America. , p83.) The five houses celebrated this year range from Chetwood's wild and exuberant celebration of the profusion of contemporary materials and their formal and spatial opportunities (p52) to Makoto Yamaguchi's austere gallery near Tokyo (p58) in which the beautiful and grand surrounding forest is focused and intensified in the heart of the building. The other Japanese house, by Sambuichi (who collects both a commendation and a high commendation this year, though the jury had no idea he was doing so), is equally responsive to its very different setting, the edge of the moat at Shizuki castle (p55): it opens and closes (almost like a plant) in response to changing seasons. Equally responsive to the seasons (and indeed much else) is the house near the Great Wall of China by EDGE (p68), which blends furniture and building, landscape and artefact in a dwelling that can change radically spatially following familial and social needs, and those of the often severe climate, which is sometimes very hot and from time to time very cold. On the coast of Chile, where there are virtually no seasons, and the climate is usually benign. Barclay & Crousse (p63) have made a house (oddly next door to the one a quite different ar+d jury voted to commend in 2001). It celebrates the curious climate and its very strange site, high over the cold Pacilic, and it transforms our perceptions of sun, water, cliff and horizon, interior and exterior. Materiality Thoughtful response to climate and topography, so clearly shown in the houses, is characteristic of all the work that has been given prizes and been commended in the 2003 cycle. And so is materiality: all work shown here demonstrates thorough understanding of materials, their tectonic qualities and the effect of these on our consciousness. This fundamental (and so often ignored) aspect of architecture is shown in a very wide range of experiments, from the ways in which plastics have been manipulated by NIO (p38) to the excellent re-use of cedar shuttering by Sambuichi in the potters' building (p72); from Hara's experiments with twisted laminated timber (p42) to Neri's thoughtful re-use of immemorial IMMEMORIAL. That which commences beyond the time of memory. Vide Memory, time of. mud brick Noun 1. mud brick - a brick made from baked mud brick - rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material technology (p70); from Bruckner & Bruckner's deeply moving little monument, which is permeated with understanding of the sensuous qualities of stone, wood and glass (p71), to Cucinella's shining and glittering pavilions (p71) which so cleverly use glass and plastic to add magically in our time to an ancient masonry-made city. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Though the ar+d awards seem perhaps to emphasize tectonics this year, it does not mean that this is the only measure by which we judged the work. 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