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Initial Design Team Shortlist Announced for Worldwide New Construction A/E Design Services

2012-12-07T12:30:00-05:00

The Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has shortlisted eleven design firms for the Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Worldwide New Construction A/E Design Services solicitation.

The shortlisted firms are:

BNIM Architects
Ennead Architects
Mack Scogin / Merrill Elam Architects
Miller Hull Partnership
Moore Ruble Yudell
Richard + Bauer Architecture
Shop Architects
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Steven Holl Architects
Studio-Gang Architects
Weiss/Manfredi Architects

RIBA International Award Winners 2012

2012-06-25T16:58:00-04:00

In the previous Bustler post, we just published the 2012 RIBA Award Winners, announced recently by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Here are now also the twelve buildings which have received RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence.

Mock Firms International Skyscraper Competition 2nd Place Proposal

2011-06-17T02:33:23-04:00

The Mock Firms model aims to help facilitate the formation and function of simulated architectural design firms by collegiate and secondary school students. Entering in its 4th year, the Chicago-based Mock Firms Architectural Competition is already highly regarded on the landscape of student-based design competitions.

Students Brian Ng, Michael Zhang and Grant Cogan of The Danish Institute for Study Abroad and California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo have taken second place in Chicago Architecture Today’s 2011 International Mock Firm Skyscraper Design Challenge with their skyscraper proposal: “Reconcile: The Stensta Tower”

Below is their concept proposal brief:

Skyscrapers today represent social inaccessibility and commercial obsession, completely disengaged from any sense of ethical responsibility. How can the tower, a source of unaccepted scrutiny in Sweden, become good for the people?

In reigniting the social question of architecture, how can the tower reconfigure itself into something that reconciles sites of conflict, catalyzing social sustainability?

The biggest challenge with designing a skyscraper for the city of Stockholm is the “towerphobia” of Scandinavia. Any protrusion in the low, homogenous skyline of Stockholm is seen as a display of power; in the past, the ...

RIBA International Award Winners 2011 Announced

2011-05-19T15:27:41-04:00

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 13 buildings which are receiving RIBA International Awards for architectural excellence later today. [...] All winners are eligible for the RIBA Lubetkin Prize awarded to the best international building by an RIBA member the presentation.