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Since 1981, the Architectural League of New York has invited young architects and designers to submit their theoretical or built work, which can be executed in any medium, to the Architectural League Prize Competition. The portfolio competition carries a legacy in contemporary architecture in that many now-well-known architects received the award early in their careers — like Billie Tsien, Steven Holl, Neil Denari, Frida Escobedo Lopez, Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, and several more. North America-based designers who are out of school no more than 10 years are invited to submit their work. Entrants had to consider how the 2019 theme of “JUST” applies to their approach to architectural practice, whether that's through experimental research, design advocacy, or advancing speculative and applied techniques in the discipline. According to the Architectural League, “JUST explores architectural action with the understanding that a multiplicity of coexisting and contradictory attitude...

Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Marcus Prize . Awarded every two years by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, the $100,000 award recognizes architects deemed to be "on a trajectory to greatness" with a cash prize and supported design studio. Bilbao follows Jeanne Gang, who was selected in 2017 for her proven, exceptional practice. Selected from a pool of nominees from 14 countries and five continents, Bilbao was chosen because her work "has something for everyone," said jury member Matt Messner. “Along with complex social and cultural considerations, her work is formally and materially rich. She is an organizer, instigator and thought leader in her native Mexico, as well as around the world through her teaching and practice,” he added. Mackenzie Goldberg via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2IPOBld

Time is running out to get your firm’s projects submitted in the world’s largest awards competition for architecture and building-products! The 7th Annual A+Awards is inviting final entries in all submission categories , with the extended entry deadline set at May 10th, 2019 . Without further ado, here’s the link to the dedicated awards page, so you can begin drafting your entry for this year’s program: Enter the 2019 A+Awards Architizer’s acclaimed A+Awards program was born in 2012 on the back of one key belief: that great architecture is for everyone. Firms and projects of all sizes and types and welcome to enter, with more than 250 awards available for every sector. What’s on offer for the winners? The opportunity to be published internationally in the next edition of “ The World’s Best Architecture “, an annual compendium by Phaidon, a beautifully designed A+Awards trophy, and exposure to Architizer’s professional community of more than 7.5 million! Loft Panzerhall...

Docomomo US has announced 10 winners in the 2019 Modernism in America Awards, which is the only national program that celebrates the people and projects working to sensitively and productively preserve, restore, and rehabilitate U.S. modern architectural heritage. From architecture to preservation advocacy, the 2019 winners exemplify new approaches to “livable modernism, a once-in-a-lifetime effort to modernize one of the country’s most iconic landmarks, projects where vision and community coalesce, and the collaborative nature of art and design”. They'll be recognized at Design Within Reach's Third Avenue Studio in New York City on June 19. Read more about the winners below. DESIGN AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE Des Moines Catholic Pastoral Center (Des Moines, IA) Justine Testado via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2ZPEQJh

Thanks to social media, more people than ever now consume architecture every day through their feeds. However, their attention is fleeting — with millions of architectural ideas flowing across the web, each designer has just a brief moment to make an impact. This means one image or drawing needs to possess the power to tell a whole story on its own, in seconds. For any designer, producing a viral drawing might just kickstart their career. But what exactly makes an architectural drawing special? Enter The One Drawing Challenge. Launching this summer, Architizer’s global architectural ideas competition poses a simple question: Can you create a single drawing that tells a powerful story about architecture? The task is as follows: Create one drawing that communicates your architectural proposal and the experience of those that would inhabit it. It can be located anywhere in the world and be at any scale. It can take the form of a plan, section, elevation, perspective or sketch. As lo...

eVolo Magazine  is pleased to announce the  winners of the 2019 Skyscraper Competition . The Jury selected 3 winners and 27 honorable mentions from 478 projects received. The annual award established in 2006 recognizes visionary ideas that through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments. The  FIRST PLACE  was awarded to METHANESCRAPER designed by Marko Dragicevic from Serbia. The project is a vertical city-district in Belgrade that serves as landfill with recycling capabilities. The recipients of the  SECOND PLACE  are Klaudia Gołaszewska and Marek Grodzicki from Poland for the project AIRSCRAPER . This proposal envisions a city-like skyscraper that cleans air of heavily polluted urban settlements. CREATURE ARK: BIOSPHERE SKYSCRAPER designed by Zijian Wan ,  Xiaozhi Qi , and ...

First Place 2019 Skyscraper Competition Marko Dragicevic Serbia Abstract Basing its foundations on the outlines of the Belgrade city, the new infrastructure generated on the left bank of the Danube river aims to establish a balance in hypothetical context of environmental and social imbalances by forming a new socio-industrial element in the form of a new city district. This new urban structure, District 3, can be defined as an anticipated context of overpopulation and mass urbanization, where the complex of vertical landfill systems serves as a response to the ever-growing amounts of disposable waste, shortage of natural resources and usable space, transforming informal Belgrade structures into the mechanism of material, economic and societal recycling. Statement For the first time in human history, we can say that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities and urban areas, caused by the process of urbanization and the rise in global population growth. This con...

Second Place 2019 Skyscraper Competition Klaudia Gołaszewska, Marek Grodzicki Poland The task of adapting cities to the impacts of air pollution is of great importance – megacities with their dense population, high traffic congestion and increasing CO2 emissions face major air pollution problems. Beijing is an alarming example of this problem. On certain days the city becomes nearly ‘uninhabitable’ due to dangerous levels of pollution. Around 1 million premature deaths per year, is a clear manifestation of this. Can architecture solve or help to alleviate the problem? Can we take one step further from Le Corbusier’s house as a machine for living, towards the skyscrapers as a machine for survival? Air pollution Airscraper is a skyscraper that is sleeved around a chimney structure that has the potential to tackle the air pollution problem. The inner round, empty, tall and smooth tube utilizes the stack effect and sucks the polluted air from the surrounding and cleans it thro...

Third Place 2019 Skyscraper Competition Zijian Wan, Xiaozhi Qi, Yueya Liu United Kingdom   At multiple times in history and over different periods, the blue planet successfully breeds diversity of species at every inch on land and has experienced a level of natural climate change variability. The complex components of the ecosystem are undergoing constant changes, while a dynamic balance is getting harder to maintain. Seeing the latest period of rising global surface temperatures is without precedent indecent years, as well as the conflictive relationship between human activity and habitat degradation, the conservation of wildlife should not be ignored. In general, the entire ecosystem on earth is experiencing a hard time. If society continues the current trend of apathy, we are doomed towards a very bleak future. Our concept of this vertical nature reserve equipped with a central research station is inspired by the classification of climate groups on earth. Refe...

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Jonathan Delcambre United States Titled “The Vertical Sustainable City,” the supertall skyscraper concept is an expression of the opportunities and constraints urbanistic contexts present to architects. Juxtaposing the idea of a sprawling, urban development, the vertical shape of the tower is a direct response to minimizing the structure’s footprint. The ground floors house commercial areas framed within a vertical mall concept, with a Food Production area directly above where residents and visitors are treated to a vertical, urban farm. Traditionally, agriculture is trucked into cities from rural areas, but this tower posits a farm-to-table experience where food can be grown, harvested, and consumed on-site in a single, vertical structure. Having access to the vertical farm are residences in the upper half of the tower that also feature access to drone landing pads. There, electric and solar-powered drones can dock at or near the el...

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Zhichen Gong, Yong Chen, Tianrong Wu, Yingzhi He, Congying He China Background The world is witnessing the highest level of displacement on record. According to UNHCR, by the end of 2016, 65.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violation. That was an increase of 300,000 people over the previous years, and the world’s displaced population is still at a record high. Also, during the year, 10.3 million people were newly displaced and the speed of new displacements was equal to 20 people every minute. Under such circumstances, how to resettle the innocent people in war, not only by providing temporary camps, but also by enabling them to continue their lives in familiar environments and maintain normal function of society is the project of the propose. Idea We propose to build a skyscraper along the border between two ...

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Fábio Ferreira Neves Switzerland Graubünden is the largest and one of the mostbeautiful cantons in Switzerland. Entirelymountanious, it has manymarkable structures on the mostspecial and not easlyacessible places. Theyused to befortressesfrom the 13th and 14th century whichwereprogressivelyabandoned. Nowadays, theseruinscrown somedistintictive topographie location of the SwissAlps and due to the difficultaccess, remainforgotten. Known as a perfect place for winter sports, Switzerland has manyspecial and longhikes to do in summer as well.The design workswiththeseelements, a family of reusedfortressesalong the trails. Concept To be able to protect the ancient structures, somemonolithic roofs are addedtobring a new life to theseruinedfortress. Itsexistingstone walls, frame the floor of the new volumes. This adition covers, protectthe oldruins and providenewshelters for the hikers. The new landmarkshave an important impact thatguide t...

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Jae Min Jo, Geonuk Yun, Kyungjun Park, Hobin Bae, Jiyeon Kim, Weonkyung Cho, Ganghui Lee South Korea The project began with the belief that skyscrapers, a collection of architectural and high-tech technologies, could be an alternative to solve the Earth’s environmental problems. In this sense, we have been trying to take an architectural challenge to preserve glaciers that are melting as a result of global warming. Site Our project destination was focused on Greenland’s continental ice sheet to propose a structure that prevents the melting of glaciers. Especially, it is intended to prevent the melting of glaciers formed between canyons. Glacier is exposed to the air at the area where it connects to the sea, resulting in faster melting. Furthermore, the melting rate is further accelerated by Crevasse and Moulin which are formed by flowing down water. We would like to prevent the loss of glaciers through proposing a structure that wo...

These setbacks toughened her demeanour. [...] Her toughness soon gave her a reputation for being a “difficult woman”. Following an intense period of building in the 1950s, De Silva’s contracts dried up, while [Geoffrey] Bawa’s rocketed. Ismeth Raheem, an architect who worked closely with Bawa in the early years, recalls De Silva telling him on several occasions: “I was dismissed because I am a woman. I was never taken seriously for my work.” While Minnette de Silva's influence can be seen in the more progressive architecture in Colombo in her native Sri Lanka, “her contribution to architecture has been only belatedly – and sometimes begrudgingly – acknowledged,” writes Shiromi Pinto in The Guardian.  Throughout her career, de Silva wasn't taken seriously as an architect, and her studio and her surviving built works remain in a precarious state 20 years after her death. However, close associates like architect C Anjalendran are ensuring that her work isn't forgotten....

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Amanda Gunawan, Joel Wong United States The future of cities With continuous expansion, will cities reach a looming point of plateau where its growth starts to hinder its efficacy? In the first place, why do we live in a city? What makes living in a city so attractive? It is simply a hyper-efficiency consisting of a working system that is the result of the combinatory forces of great infrastructure and density, working tangentially to support growth. This growth makes a city abundant in opportunities but what then happens to a system whose demand and supply forces becomes imbalanced? There becomes an oversupply of inhabitants and a lack of infrastructure supporting it and vice versa- the state that most “great” cities are headed. Over-pollution and over-population will occur and efficacy becomes compromised with growth. When the drawbacks of automation start to outweigh its benefits, where do we go next and in what direction? Post-...

Honorable Mention 2019 Skyscraper Competition Adam Fernandez France Badgir (In Persian literal translation:bâd « wind » + gir « catch ») is a traditional element of Persian architecture used from centuries to create natural ventilation and to refreshinside the buildings, more particularly in the living room area. These wind towers are vertical ducts looking as large chimneys allowing to capture and to direct the winds towards the interior of buildings. We can see them in important quantity in the desert area of the center of the country. The interior of the tower is vertically separated into several ducts to allow the circulation air descending flow (bringing freshness) and air ascending flows (expelling hot air) currents thanks to the differential atmospheric pressures created. The concept is simple: reuse this traditional process by integratingturbines to generate electricity and to turn this tower into a wind turbine. Higher is the tower, easier it’s to c...