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Cooking Sections has been named to the Turner Prize's 2021 shortlist

2021-05-17T20:59:00-04:00

This year’s Shortlist for the 2021 edition of the Turner Prize has been announced, featuring a diverse array of artists from around the UK that includes former Wheelwright winner Daniel Fernández Pascual.

Pascual, who together with Alon Schwabe forms the collective Cooking Sections, was cited by the prize’s jury for the pair’s investigations into food systems that incorporate a wide range of mediums, evidenced by a recent sculptural exhibition at the Tate as well as the studio’s ongoing CLIMAVORE project, which turns an underwater dining table into a low-tide community eating area for residents of Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

Featured in the second issue of Archinect's print publication Ed Issue 2, The Architecture of Disaster, Cooking Sectionsdiscussed their project CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones

Cooking Selections has been in the vanguard of a multidisciplinary practice engaged in what the Tate calls “social change through art” that has shaped this year’s competition comprised entirely of...

Canadian Governor General's Medalists, Turner Prize shortlisters, and Wheelwright Prize laureate Anna Puigjaner are among this week's many winners

2016-05-23T14:06:00-04:00

At the start of every week, we highlight some of the most recent news in competition-winning projects, commissions, awards, shortlists, and events on the newly redesigned Bustler from the previous week that are worth checking out.

Here's recap #109 for the week of May 16-20, 2016.

Napur Architect to design Budapest's new Museum of Ethnography in competition reboot

Deemed as one of Europe's largest museum projects, the ambitious Liget Budapest Project is gradually piecing itself together, now that the architects for the multi-structure project have been selected. Most recently, Hungarian practice Napur Architect is the new winning designer of the Museum of Ethnography, while Sauerbruch Hutton and BIG won second and third place, respectively.

RAIC announces the 2016 Governor General's Medalists

Canadian architecture firms who recently completed a project have a chance to compete in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's and Canada Council for the Arts' notable Governor Gener...

Turner Prize shortlist announced

2016-05-13T10:21:00-04:00

Anthea Hamilton, Michael Dean, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde have been selected to compete for the £25,000 prize. Hamilton has been included for her work that focuses on fetishism, while sculptor Dean was chosen for pieces made from salvaged materials. The winner will be announced on 6 December after an exhibition of works.

Read more about last years surprise winner Assemble (the collective themselves being most surprised):

Assemble wins Turner Prize, becoming first architects to win "UK's most prestigious art prize"

2015-12-07T16:20:00-05:00

The 18 members of London-based Assemble were named winners of the 31st Turner prize on Monday night, receiving their £25,000 prize from the Sonic Youth co-founder and artist Kim Gordon at an awards dinner broadcast live on Channel 4 from Tramway, Glasgow. Assemble are the first non-artists, in the strictest sense of the word, to win the prize. They were nominated for their work tackling urban dereliction in Toxteth, Liverpool...

Assemble, the architecture-ish collective known for their direct action urban interventions, has just won the prestigious Turner Prize. Working "across the fields of art, architecture and design," they are the first non-artists, in the strictest sense, to win the prize, and the first whose work so directly contends with the urban environment.

Specifically, Assemble was praised for their work in Toxteth, Liverpool, that involved using design to improve the living conditions and the houses of a derelict area called Granby Four Streets.

"[Assemble] draw[s] on long traditions of artistic and collective initiatives that experiment in art, design and architecture," the judges stated. "In doing so they offer alternative models to how societies can work. The long-term collaboration between Granby Four Streets and Assemble shows the importance of artistic practice being able to drive and shape urgent issues.”

With their Granby Four Streets project, Assemble created a showroom to display product...

Assemble crafts its own model, becomes the first architecture studio to be nominated for Turner Prize

2015-08-19T15:16:00-04:00

Founded five years ago, Assemble forged their reputation using otherwise valueless materials (demolition waste, reconstituted foam) and places (the abandoned gas station, the nook beneath a highway overpass) to develop ingenious temporary venues [...] Their practical vision has more to do with how buildings are used than with their grandeur; and it is often the users, as much as the architects, who steer the projects.

Assemble has been gaining a lot of attention recently for the inventive, recession-friendly approach to architecture. From converting an abandoned gas station into a cinema to placing a folly under a highway overpass, they're discovering new and unexpected modes (and locations) for architecture, without even having a licensed practitioner on board.

This October, Assemble will participate in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. And they're the first design studio to be nominated for the Turner Prize!

Lean Construction Institute named as 2013 Turner Prize recipient

2013-11-05T20:27:00-05:00

The National Building Museum and Turner Construction Company recently announced Lean Construction Institute as the recipient of the 11th Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction. The annual Turner Prize recognizes advances or high achievement in the process of construction.

To mark the occasion, LCI co-founder Greg Howell, executive director Dan Heinemeier, and board chair Victor Sanvido will discuss the benefits of lean construction in their presentation, "Faster, Better, Safer: Lean Design and Construction" on Dec. 4.