Every Monday, we highlight some of the most recent competition-winning projects, commissions, and awards on Bustler from the previous week that we think are worth checking out.
Check out Recap #16 for the week of June 30-July 3, 2014:
Zaha Hadid wins the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year Award 2014 *
Starting from 76 nominations to seven Category winners, Zaha Hadid is the first woman and also the first in the Architecture category to win the widely recognized Design Museum's Designs of the Year Award 2014 with her Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan. Over 18,000 users participated in the Designs of the Year's first online Social Vote, which designer Dave Hakkens won with Phonebloks.
* Read about the controversy surrounding Hadid's win here.
stpmj’s winning DRIFT pavilion for the upcoming Centennial Festival of Riverboats in Louisville, KY
Decked out in 8-foot diameter white balloons, DRIFT by Brooklyn-based stpmj will add a festive note at the Centennial Festival of Riverboats taking place in Louisville, Kentucky on October 15, 2014. stpmj team members Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim won first place for the pavilion in the festival's international design competition.
Sixty nominees announced for the INSIDE World Interior of the Year 2014
INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors revealed 60 nominees -- including the Camper Showroom/Office by Neri&Hu Design and Research Office above -- who will compete for the high-caliber World Interior of the Year 2014. Nominees will go head-to-head against each other through live presentations and debates during the event this October in Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.
The winner of AIA Portland’s STITCH competition offers ideas for future city development
As Portland, Oregon continues to grow, the competition looked for inventive solutions that will create new public urban spaces and "re-stitch" two neighborhoods back together. chadbourne + doss architects was chosen out of over 40 submissions with their entry "Five Bridges".
Shortlists unveiled for the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2014
In one of RIBA's recent announcements, four shortlists for the President's Awards for Research 2014 were unveiled. In the universal quest for architectural innovation, the awards promote the significance of research in the architectural profession and acknowledge outstanding research projects by students, academics, and practitioners.
YAP MAXXI 2014 finalist entry PICNICTOPIA takes picnicking to a new level
Designed by PKMN Architectures + Ciclostile Architettura, PICNICTOPIA was one of five finalists in the YAP MAXXI 2014 competition, the Italian edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architecture Program (YAP) for a temporary sustainable outdoor installation to host summer events. The team's proposal looked to the summer pasttime of picnicking for its ziggurat-like design.
See previous recaps here.
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It's really time to change the criteria on which these awards are based. Hadid's Baku for example completely ignores the socio-political context of the project as well as Hadid's lack of concern for human rights on other projects.
Imagine giving Albert Speer a posthumous Pritzker.
I think folks like Leon Krier would like to give him one. I'll stick with Julia Morgan thank you very much.
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