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Following a corporate about the future of the restructure, World Architecture contemporary city. Festival has been reunited with WAF Awards are a critical LOOKING BACK The Architectural Review, celebration of the best work where the Festival was born being carried out by practices and launched in 2008. This large and small, known and IN ORDER TO reunifi cation has been a pleasure, unknown, from across the since the AR has been a staunch world. The live presentation and media supporter of the Festival, judging programme is always LOOK FORWARD and is now publishing this special complemented by a thematic supplement, celebrating the conference, which this year 2014 event and its awards, and is based on that Singaporean looking forward to WAF 2015 anniversary. in Singapore this November. So we will be looking back at This publication is a mixture how we have thought about the of review and preview, plus future, and how we are thinking interviews with previous WAF about it today. I hope to see many winners, and a short history of old friends and potential new architecture in Singapore over ones at the Suntec Centre in the past 50 years. November, and look forward to The reason for the latter is to the enjoyable task of shortlisting mark Singapore’s independence our Award entries in early June. as a sovereign state, and the On a fi nal positive note, extraordinary eff ort of will and WAF London, our fi rst satellite of planning which informed the regional event, will take place at thinking of the country’s founding the University of Westminster fathers. In a sense, the planning from 24 to 27 June as part of the of the country has been a highly London Festival of Architecture. concentrated form of making We will be exhibiting all the a building or a city quarter, shortlisted entries and running but with the added imperatives a three-day talks programme. of national economy, Admission will be free. For more demographic analysis and information on this and all resource availability/allocation. elements of the Festival, go to Generating a new country www.worldarchitecturefestival.com involves myriad decisions and too many infl uences to identify ¡¢£¤ ¥¦§¨© in any simple way. But there Programme Director, Above: Paul Finch is a relationship between the World Architecture Festival chairing the 2014 WAF Super Jury synthetic thinking that has been Editorial Director, with Richard Rogers. required (for example in relation The Architectural Review WAF 2015 will take to a very successful national place in Singapore housing programme), and the from 4 to 6 November work entered for the WAF

Awards. The best buildings, landscapes and future projects demonstrate a clarity of diagnosis and prognosis which can be understood rapidly – helped of course by drawings and images. The constituent physical elements of any great city, its buildings, infrastructure, rivers, lakes, parks and gardens are the building blocks we review and celebrate at WAF each year – and this will be the fourth event in Singapore, which could be regarded as being an experimental ground for thinking

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JULIE EIZENBERG RICHARD ROGERS USA UK

Julie Eizenberg is a partner Richard Rogers is a globally in Los Angeles-based renowned architect, urban Koning Eizenberg, known designer and principal for its imaginative, of Rogers Stirk Harbour + empathic, site-speciﬁ c Partners. Winner of the and people-orientated RIBA Gold Medal and approach to design. the Pritzker Prize.

ENRIC RUIZ-GELI ROCCO YIM SPAIN HONG KONG

Enric Ruiz-Geli is the Based in Hong Kong, principal of award-winning Rocco Yim is principal of practice Cloud-9 Studio Rocco Design Architects. in Barcelona. This cutting- The practice works edge experimental practice extensively in Hong Kong is known for projects and Guangdong province such as Media-ICT and and recent projects include El Consorci in Barcelona. the Guangdong Museum.

PETER RICH SOUTH AFRICA

Based in Johannesburg, Peter Rich is an architect, educator and founder of Peter Rich Architects, dedicated to the creation of authentic contemporary African architecture.

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The Chapel is a community space such as conferences, weddings, surrounded by gardens. Inside, THE CHAPEL, in a new urban ward on the exhibitions or simply to have a single white space is animated HO CHI MINH CITY, outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City a coﬀ ee and a snack. Located by brightly coloured curtains VIETNAM in Vietnam. The surrounding on a small plot of land, the and natural materials. Modest area lacks a communal focus, Chapel takes the form of a in scale and execution, this A21 STUDIO therefore, the Chapel is designed simple lightweight steel portal project nonetheless shows to be the place for people, frame clad in white painted the transforming potential especially younger people, to metal sheets, so from a of architecture within a participate in social activities distance it resembles a chapel, marginalised community.

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FINALISTS SUPER JURY BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group A-Lab The Carve, Oslo, Norway EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Richard Rogers Danish Maritime Museum Neri&Hu Design and Yalikavak Marina Complex Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Fearon Hay Architects Research O ce Department of Architecture, Julie Eizenberg Te Kaitaka ‘The Cloak’ Rethinking The Split House The University of Hong Kong Koning Eizenberg Architecture HDR Rice Daubney Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp The Pinch Peter Rich Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Liberty Place, Sydney, Australia Singapore Sports Hub Design Team Peter Rich Architects ADEPT Dalarna Media Library Chroﬁ Lune De Sang Sheds Singapore Sports Hub Rocco Yim Vo Trong Nghia Architects AGi architects Mcdowell + Benedetti Rocco Design Architects Restaurant, Son La, Vietnam La Ascension del Senor church Scale Lane Bridge Enric Ruiz-Geli Vo Trong Nghia Architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Fearon Hay Architects Cloud 9 House For Trees Chobham Academy Dune House, New Zealand

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Originally a storage facility for decor, complemented with an reinforce a warehouse aesthetic. MOTT32 family heirlooms forgotten by inspired collection of forgotten Accessibility to the site for JOYCE WANG wealthy Chinese immigrants, heirlooms, colonial-style diners was also a di cult issue STUDIO Joyce Wang Studio combined furnishings and antique Chinese to tackle for the practice, due this history into their propaganda. The bar draws to a long snaking route, but this contemporary design. The inﬂ uence from a traditional meandering path now creates MOTT32 restaurant creates a Chinese apothecary, while ropes, a more hidden and exclusive blend of industrial New York chains and wood reference Hong arrival experience into this design and classical Chinese Kong’s ﬁ shing history and mysterious basement space.

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FINALISTS SUPER JURY JURY COMMENT Joyce Wang Studio MOTT32 FHAMS Tama Hotel Phnom Penh Chris Lee ‘From small details One Plus Partnership Cine Times Tower [D22H22] Founder and Principal, to the complete design, MPH Architects + Architectus Clive Wilkinson Architects Asylum, Singapore everything has been in association Sustainable Industries The Barbarian Group Eric Carlson thoughfully considered Education Centre – Tonsley Tafe Joyce Wang Studio Director, Carbondale, France and was a stand-out candidate Sawako Kaijima IDC Space : Xintiandi Penthouse David Kohn for this important award’ research and display space for the studio mk27 Cultura bookstore Principal, David Kohn Architects, UK International Design Centre Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University

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The AGGV’s permanent renovating the existing additions, the surrounding neighbourhood, ART GALLERY OF collection is housed in a historic the proposal creates a brand allowing visitors to engage the GREATER VICTORIA mansion and series of Modernist new structure, re-imagining gallery at all hours and from 5468796 additions in an established the gallery as a village of small all directions. Expansive glass residential area of Victoria. pavilions engulfed by the inspired walls expose the interiors ARCHITECTURE + The existing facility appears landscape cascading through the of the pavilions, creating an NUMBER TEN impenetrable, its vibrancy site. A choreography of gardens external animation and renewed ARCHITECTURAL concealed behind brick and and new public spaces weaves the engagement between the concrete. Rather than simply property back into the fabric of gallery and its surroundings.

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FINALISTS SUPER JURY JURY COMMENT Farshad Mehdizadeh Architects Leigh & Orange Kai-Uwe Bergmann BIG ‘A compelling fusion of old Isfahan Dreamland Commercial Center Extension of The People’s Hospital Michael Rayner and new elements that will 5468796 Architecture + number of Futian, Shenzhen, China Cox Rayner Architects brilliantly reanimate an TEN architectural group Ian Moore ArchitectsThe Olive Grove Maria Warner Wong existing arts institution’ Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Sweco Architects WOW Architects Gustavo Penna Arquiteto & Associados Linköping Central Station Peter Cook CRAB Studio Freedom Of The Press Monument EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Vo Trong Nghia Architects Antakya Museum Hotel FPT Technology Building AECOM Design & Planning Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and North-West Cambridge Masterplan Arup Associates Skyfarm Sanjay Puri Architects Agashiyan

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The design of Australia’s National issues of sustainability, forest of one endangered species NATIONAL Arboretum was selected via an biodiversity, and public but is, more importantly, a seed ARBORETUM international design competition environmental concern, 100 bank for the future. Forests are CANBERRA, following the devastating Forests is a strategy, a arranged via a grid across the Canberra bush ﬁ res of 2003. The programme and an ongoing event, undulating topography, AUSTRALIA winning concept, 100 Forests, not a design based chieﬂ y on orientated to align with a civic TAYLOR CULLITY comprises forests with 100 of the aesthetics. 100 Forests not only axis created by Canberra’s LETHLEAN world’s most endangered tree provides unique experiences, the masterplanners Walter Burley- species. Emerging out of very real pleasure of being enveloped in a Gri n and Marion Mahony

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FINALISTS SUPER JURY JURY COMMENT Ta Landscape Architecture Shma Morph 38 Condominium Henry Steed Director, ICN ‘Addressing serious global A.mazing Vertical Garden Sweco Architects International, Sinagpore challenges of sustainability and Cox Rayner Architects Flinders Physic Garden, Novartis, Basel Herbert Dreiseitl Director, biodiversity this immensely Street: Reviving Main Street Turenscape Slow Down: Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab, thoughful project conceives of Taylor Cullity Lethlean Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park Atelier Dreiseitl, Austria landscape design as rich, ongoing National Arboretum Canberra Taylor Brammer Landscape Jason Pomeroy Founding Principal, trajectory that embraces the future’ BLVD International Architects Top Ryde City Living Pomeroy Studio, Singapore Waterfront Landscape Park along Cox Architecture Jim Stynes Bridge Jana Crepon Landscape Architect AiYi River in Yinchuan EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Inside Outside, Netherlands Cox Rayner Architects Zorlu Center Gri th University: Rescuing the Declining Campus AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 11 SPECIAL PRIZE WOOD EXCELLENCE SPECIAL PRIZE SMALL PROJECT

ALEX MONROE THE PINCH STUDIO DEPARTMENT OF DSDHA ARCHITECTURE, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

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FINALISTS FINALISTS Andrew Burges Architects Flanagan Lawrence Acoustic Shells Nakayama Architects Pittwater House Krynauw Nel Associates SCALETTA Atelier Arcau Earth Wind and Fire MALAPA, Hominid Fossil Site Cover Marge Arkitekter UArchitects: Misak Terzibasiyan and and Visitors’ Plaform Strömkajen Ferry Terminals Emile van Vugt School ’t Hofke DSDHA Alex Monroe Studio GroupGSA Sydney Harbour BVN Donovan Hill Regional Terminal Fox Johnston Cook Park Amenities Ferry Wharves Upgrade at Christchurch Airport Wowhaus Kiosks in Shells Hiep Nguyen The Tent for Sparrow Hills Hiep Nguyen Salvaged Ring Gray Puksand Loreto Archives Centre a21studio Salvaged Ring

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LAW AND CENTRAL INTERIOR, ADMINISTRATION, HEYDER ALIYEV VIENNA UNIVERSITY CENTRE, BAKU OF ECONOMICS AND HUFTON + CROW BUSINESS CRAB STUDIO

WINNER WINNER

FINALISTS JURY Sweco Architects AB MPH Architects + Architectus Kristina Julia Bacht Skyttelbron Shuttle Bridge in Lund Sustainable Industries Education Amy Crof GPAA University of Paris IV- Centre – Tonsley Tafe Terry Farrell Sorbonne's Clignancourt Centre Bjarne Hammer Woods Bagot National Australia David Jenkins Bank, 700 Bourke St, Melbourne Ken Schluchtmann BVN Donovan Hill ASB North Wharf Calvin Tsao a21studio The Chapel Zack McKown Architron Design Consultants Sdn Bhd Casa Lapis

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The World Building of the Year for 2014 was fi ve architects and ‘trying to stay normal, the Chapel, a delightful, delicate, luminescent it is hard for us to do a lot of projects’. fi ligree of colour, light and shade, which As its success suggests, Vietnam has a provides a social oasis in Ho Chi Minh City in vibrant architectural culture, and Toan Vietnam. Designed by A21 Studio, it was the Nghiem refers to a small exhibition at the fi rst Asian winner of WAF’s supreme prize end of 2014 which showed how a number of and shows in particular the remarkable Vietnamese architects are ‘working in new e orescence of architecture in Vietnam: ways using old materials and developing new several fi nalists and category winners, as well concepts’. The Chapel makes use of easily as the triumphant team in 2014’s student available and workable materials, including charrette come from that country. some from a building the client demolished. WAF’s best feature, thinks A21’s Toan In turn this helped to determine the Nghiem, are the presentations, ‘the most architecture: the size of the steel members exciting thing. They give you a chance meant there had to be an internal structure, TOAN NGHIEM to explain your project. For all other which becomes the defi ning design feature, a A21 STUDIO competitions you just submit images. metal ‘tree’ which comes to the ground in one WINNER 2014 The presentations make WAF very, very slender column but whose branches – and special’. Refl ecting on their triumph in their shadows – cast a kind of tracery across THE CHAPEL, 2014 – they have had several fi nalists and the whole space. Other projects they have HO CHI MINH CITY, a Category Commendation the previous year shown at WAF use timber – notably a coff ee for a similarly subtle private house – ‘at the shop designed for a local carpenter, which VIETNAM fi rst [category] jury I could see their faces uses his stock of scrap wood, reinterpreting and react to them. For the super jury how the pieces are put together to reduce I was also on the stage [with the jurors] weight and extend the possible span. and couldn’t see their faces’, but ‘their WAF provides a window into this dynamic questions got to the point quickly’. but little known architectural culture – This sort of sociability is a key part of and an opportunity for its members to A21’s approach to architecture and becomes interact with their peers. As Toan Nghiem Previous winners of the explicit in the Chapel. It is, says Toan says, in Vietnam, ‘we do not have much World Building of the Year Nghiem, a ‘response to modern society contact with other architects’ and ‘WAF talk to Jeremy Melvin about in which people fi nd it very hard to gives us a chance to meet them and see communicate with each other’. Here, their projects ... I like architecture and I WAF’s global reach and its attracted and intrigued by the inherent want to hear about contemporary things’. impact on their careers architectural qualities of the building they For WAF’s participants the feeling is mutual. can come together for formal events like conferences and weddings, or gather informally for coff ee and a chat. Its success as a piece of architecture depends on its popularity in use, and in these terms, he adds, it is ‘working well’. Winning has obviously raised their profi le, but their design practice makes them wary of looking for work outside Vietnam. There, explains Toan Nghiem, ‘we understand the materials, the people and the environment ... we develop our ideas by going to a site, reading books about it and getting to know the culture of the site’. Singapore, he adds, has a similar climate, ‘but the architecture is very diff erent’. This ‘gives us something to consider’ in expanding potential of their own work, though if they were off ered a job outside Vietnam ‘we would have to consider whether we could understand the culture of the place’. Set up as recently as 2009, with

‘WAF provides a unique opportunity for its members to interact with their peers’

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WAF ‘attracted us to submit to participate ‘At a time when external in the global culture of architecture’, says pressures and rapid Richard Francis-Jones while reminiscing about the fi rst Festival in Barcelona in 2008. information exchange make His fi rm Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp has it hard to see much in depth, entered every year and achieved the ultimate WAF off ers the opposite’ accolade of World Building of the Year in 2013 with Toi O Tamaki – the city art gallery for Auckland, New Zealand. Using ‘beautiful, golden’ Kauri forges one This project displays some of FJMT’s level of that connection; another comes from underlying architectural interests and the visual a nity between the ‘trees’ of the indicates the contribution they can make building and the pohutukawa trees in the to contemporary architectural discourse. adjacent park – a sense reinforced by the It combines a turn-of-the-century ‘heritage’ new wing’s transparency. These interplays RICHARD FRANCIS-JONES building with new space characterised by between cultures, as well as nature and FRANCIS-JONES distinctive trees made from the native Kauri culture, continue in the gallery’s activities. wood with a volumetric, three-dimensional The traditional building provides traditional MOREHEN THORP roof which ‘sits lightly on its shafts’. exhibition space, where the new wing is WINNER 2013 The simple juxtaposition of old and new ‘conceptually without walls’, requiring ways CITY ART GALLERY, introduces a sense of duality which relates of presenting works that mitigate Western to the ‘bicultural character of New Zealand’, exhibition conventions. But even in the AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND explains Francis-Jones, with the traditional traditional galleries there are ambiguities. building representing the colonial heritage The colonial era painter Charles Goldie while the new explores ‘some deep made a series of ‘super-realistic portraits of metaphors in Maori culture’. That in turn Maori chiefs’, and as Francis-Jones explains, exemplifi es his ambitions for all his projects ‘the image is very important in Maori culture’ to ‘fi nd what is special about a place, and as it is believed to hold some of the aura how we can refl ect that’ in the design. of what it represents, ‘so the display of the Well aware of the ‘huge risk of portraits is very signifi cant’. superfi ciality in addressing a bicultural At a time when ‘external pressures and identity’, Francis-Jones looked to create a rapid information exchange’ make it hard subtle and multi-faceted relationship with to ‘see much in depth’, WAF, argues the specifi cs of the place and with the Francis-Jones, off ers the opposite. broader natural history of New Zealand. ‘We can present our work and explore others’ work ... hearing people present their projects and the questions about them’ allow us to ‘understand it, its eff ectiveness and quality’. He enjoys contrasting his work with others, ‘seeing it side-by-side gives us something to aspire to’. Though rooted in a sense of regionalism, Francis-Jones points out, ‘we really try to look fresh in every project we do’. Personal themes run through his work, ‘the use of natural materials like stone and wood, metal and glass’ but ‘we are interested in using materials in new ways, composites and coatings’. With his regionalist credentials, he enjoys how WAF shows ‘the strength and relevance of regional architecture’, but adds ‘it’s redefi ning what’s regional’. And then there are the presentations. Putting them together is ‘really important, you have to focus on what it is about this project, why it is interesting and relevant’. Critique, Francis-Jones adds, ‘underpins architectural education’ and the presentations ‘are like going back to college, where you debate discuss and critique ... participating makes a huge diff erence’.

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Winning WAF in the inaugural year of 2008 discussions with other architects’ that WAF was ‘amazing ... like the Oscars’, recalls engenders. It leads ‘architects to account Yvonne Farrell, co-founder with Shelley for themselves, to think about meaning, McNamara of the Irish fi rm Grafton materials, art and rigour’ rather than self Architects, whose Luigi Bocconi University promotion. WAF is becoming, ‘somewhere in Milan was the fi rst World Building of the to celebrate architecture for what it can give, Year. It was a signifi cant step in their rise like a think tank’. Proving themselves and to fame as a practice – ‘it’s a big title’ their ideas in front of their peers was ‘very Farrell adds, which ‘sits smoothly on encouraging’, and gave Grafton confi dence Grafton Architects’ CV’ – but even more to continue to develop their approach to signifi cant in their evolution as architects architecture at a larger scale and on a wider and their ability to make cultural statements fi eld. They won projects in Toulouse and in the medium of architecture. Peru, both places where they could test their After a run of ‘small projects in Ireland’, concept of the uniqueness and value of every YVONNE FARRELL their ‘big project in Italy’ was an opportunity place. In Peru, for example, the design GRAFTON ARCHITECTS to ‘test our cultural values outside our native ‘makes you aware where you are, 12 degrees country’; values rooted in the a nity their south of the Equator’, and each contributes WINNER 2008 education at University College Dublin to the sense that architecture can heighten LUIGI BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, inculcated in them for Italian cities – awareness of specifi c local qualities as MILAN, ITALY ‘so many of our [architectural] values stem enhancements and qualifi cations to from Italy’, Farrell adds. Luigi Bocconi gave architecture’s underlying, rational purposes. them a ‘chance to build in Milan, with a ‘As well as being informed’, Farrell interprets brilliantly written brief’, and site ‘on the edge Juhani Pallasmaa’s advice to architects, between the university and city’. They read ‘you have to stand in certain spaces and Milan through Aldo Rossi’s eyes as a realise that they do something else’. ‘rationalist city’, explains Farrell, where That ‘something else’ over and above ‘craft-based functions and forms add to the rationalism and function, is what WAF clarity of rationalism’. identifi ed in the Luigi Bocconi Building. They wanted their design to ‘add to Milan’s repertoire of fantastic rationalist buildings ... ‘Winning WAF in the to understand the city’ and its underlying patterns of building and space, use and form. inaugural year of 2008 was Using the common local Ceppo stone – amazing, like the Oscars’ ‘geological concrete’, Farrell calls it – induces an austerity which ‘holds the city at bay’ but carving spaces into it, where rough Ceppo gives way to white Lasa marble, invites the city to enter. Architecture, she says, ‘is a silent language which speaks, and we wanted our building to speak to Milan’. They were justifi ably enthusiastic about their project and the ideas it evokes, but WAF presentations are only 10 minutes long. ‘Fun, but gruelling’ Farrell calls it, ‘you have to focus on key issues ... producing 10 minutes of distilled thought is a philosophical exercise and so much more than a “promo’’.’ She and Shelley McNamara were holed up in their hotel room with ‘scissors and sellotape’ to ‘strip back to the essence of the project’. It was worthwhile. ‘The presentations are a practising architect’s version of the student crit ... You have to stand among your peers, present your thoughts and prove the value of your ideas to yourselves.’ That, Farrell believes, shows some of WAF’s value to the architectural community. ‘It allows thinking and practising architects to come together on an international stage’, she says, remembering ‘the sense of community and

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Euphoria was the overwhelming emotion by the Moors to Spain and from there to which motivated Peter Rich to enter the America ... we’re bringing the greatness of Mapungubwe Visitors Centre to WAF in Africa to the world’, he adds, mentioning a 2009. ‘We were really excited by how the new commission he has to design a museum building ended up,’ he remembers, adding, near a site of 150,000-year-old human ‘it was a miracle that it got there’ after all footprints, themselves proof, he argues, sorts of political and practical di culties that human culture as well as the biological including an unskilled workforce. Coming species comes out of Africa. Working with from South Africa, ‘the edge of the world, we colleagues Tim Hall and Michael Ramage on wanted to share it with a broader audience’. research programmes into earth design and That audience was very impressed: it won sustainable practice aims to refi ne an ‘African Building of the Year. But at the point of entry vernacular ... a heritage of the disempowered’. ‘we had no notion of winning ... ’, though the Entering WAF from the ‘edge of the world’ fi rst presentation to the Category Jury went was one way of achieving recognition. Rich PETER RICH well, even if it was ‘like being back at school’. speaks of the ‘incredible importance’ of LIGHT EARTH DESIGNS ‘The room was packed’, the panel landing the Building of the Year because of ‘inspirational’ and asked ‘very astute the ‘unequalled credibility’ of the awards WINNER 2009 questions’. His colleagues knew the project programme. On top of that WAF has a ‘broad MAPUNGUBWE but were unprepared for the power of his cross section of people to meet and talk to’ VISITORS CENTRE, presentation. ‘ ere did you pull that and share the ‘quality of each others’ work’ ... from?’ they asked. But it evidently captured you’re always asking ‘what’s he got up his SOUTH AFRICA imaginations. ‘We even made an Australian sleeve?’. Above all, it is ‘specifi cally about cry’, Rich remembers. architecture’, rather than, for instance, It is an extraordinary project. Set close politics or sustainability. And as ‘the only to the River Limpopo and the border with venue that provides that, it’s fabulous!’ Zimbabwe, it marks and interprets a landscape inscribed with signifi cance to ‘Rich speaks of the incredible various cultures. It is more than a world heritage site. ‘The President is awarded the importance of landing the Order of Mapungubwe,’ explains Rich, and Building of the Year because for many communities in Africa the period of the unequalled credibility of its most intense occupation, the 9th-12th centuries, was a time when African of the awards programme’ commerce and culture reached far beyond its shores. But so fraught are the political implications of who occupied which piece of land fi rst, that Rich and his colleagues concentrated on nature rather than culture as a source of inspiration. Initial ideas sprang from the idea of a cave as nature’s cradle for humankind, that led to the Catalan vault as a formal model. Creating them was an iteration between theoretical maths and practical experimentation on site and the results exceeded expectations. ‘The freestanding vaults billowed like sails,’ Rich remembers, and a small boy suggested that it was as if they had ‘planted a seed and let it grow’. So successful was the motif that they have continued to develop it for other projects, including a British-funded cricket pavilion in Rwanda. Prime Minister David Cameron summoned Rich and several colleagues to discuss it over dinner. ‘He understood the [diff erent-sized] vaults as a bouncing cricket ball’. More signifi cantly, Rich’s work with Catalan vaults brings them, with a little added engineering knowhow, ‘back to Africa. They originated in North Africa, were taken

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 17 SINGAPORE IN CONTEXT DEPENDENCE AND INDEPENDENCE SINGAPORE ARCHITECTURE SINCE 1965 From tropical Modernism to ecological skyscrapers, Singapore architecture reﬂ ects the city state’s dynamism and energy, writes Patrick Bingham-Hall

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en I fi rst came to Singapore, in the early through and above cantilevered clusters 1980s, I stayed at the Ra es Hotel for S$30 of o¤ ce fl oors. This form of construction a night. The mattress sagged, the fl oorboards appeared to be a simple and logical creaked, and the only cooling device was a application of the theories and occasional rickety old ceiling fan. One morning I went for buildings of the Japanese Metabolist a walk in the warm drizzle along the seashore, movement to the necessities of the tropics, over fl at, muddy, deserted isles of grass and as I was to discover, the previous two recently reconstituted a kilometre beyond the decades of Singaporean architecture had original beachfront. Over thirty years later, oscillated around this fundamental approach. those muddy grasslands have been paved, Many of the buildings were far less timid decked and branded, the timid skyscrapers than the towers on Shenton Way, and as of the nascent city have disappeared behind Metabolism had been possibly the most a continuous wall of corporate glass, and the purposeful (particularly in the context of incomparably conspicuous edifi ce of Marina New Asia) and (dare one say?) futuristic Bay Sands looms above all. A shopping mall, of all the sprouts of Brutalism, its a convention centre, a casino and a fi ve-star repatriation from Tokyo to Singapore hotel, Marina Bay Sands serves as the symbol seemed quite sensible to me. of Global Singapore: a city now routinely As the Singapore of the 1960s and 1970s graded as Alpha Plus, on the tier beneath had not yet succumbed to the e¤ cacy of New York and London, and the peer of Paris, comprehensive air conditioning, the Hong Kong and Tokyo. architecture relied upon robust massing The undemonstrative high-rise buildings of to provide shade, promote ventilation and the early 1980s business district were strung minimise weathering. The architects were out along Shenton Way, heading south-east all local – Alfred Wong, Timothy Seow, from the (then) mouth of the Singapore River, Archurban, Design Partnership, Architects and I quietly thought they looked rather Team 3, and the Public Works Department – comfortable in their rainy steamy context. and a handful of the best buildings from Two buildings, the DBS and the CPF that era survive as well-maintained white Buildings (completed in 1975 and 1976), were elephants, like the Jurong Town Hall. Others, clearly defi ned by a concrete core that rose like the DBS and PUB Buildings, and the

2 1. The hotel Marina Bay Sands by Moshe Safdie serves as a symbol of Global Singapore 2. Commercial skyscrapers tower over low-rise vestiges of the past 3. Purple-painted metal trees soar up out of Gardens by the Bay by Grant Associates with Wilkinson Eyre

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NTUC Conference Hall, were re-clad, and communal pride for the new Singapore retrofi tted, and architecturally invalidated. was remarkably tentative (not to say cautious Some, downmarket and dilapidated, like the and conservative), until the completion of the People’s Park Complex and the Golden Mile, dramatically overscaled Marina Bay Sands in still cling to life. And many, like the Futura 2010. Then the landscape changed, literally. Apartments and the National Theatre, Marina Bay Sands is a curious piece of disappeared forever. architecture, designed (incredibly enough) by Walls of glass had yet to make an Moshe Safdie, whose previous claim to fame appearance, and even when the architectural was the capsule housing for the Montreal procurement process was irrevocably altered Expo, way back in 1967. Marina Bay Sands in the mid 1970s, the earliest buildings by should possibly be referred to as an artefact, the newly desirable foreign architects were because its architecture doesn’t really make demonstrably ‘massed’ with clearly sense, thus emphasising its value as an object. articulated components. And the fi rst of the The form is enigmatic and seemingly devoid ‘foreign’ buildings, the OCBC Centre (1976) of reason, its length was arbitrarily truncated by IM Pei, was possibly the best. With three at its southern end, its architectural parti was rectangular banks of o ces plugged into sourced from the structural expressionism and protruding from an unrelieved vertical of the late 1950s, and its two public faces are concrete slab wrapped by granite panels, completely schizophrenic: the eastern facade the tower was a fi nely polished tribute, and is articulated by resort-style balconies spilling (as it turned out) testimonial to a semi-heroic with bougainvillea, while the western era: a fl ame of architectural expression lit elevation is sheathed with mirrored glass. But by the spirit of independence. The subsequent its appearance is beguiling and captivating great leap forward of the 1970s – when when seen from a distance, and is nothing less Singapore’s leaders took the plunge, than awe-inspiring when viewed from below. prioritised a relentless pragmatism, and went The neighbouring Gardens by the Bay (2012, for Alpha Plus – decreed an architecture that by Grant Associates with Wilkinson Eyre) was global not local, and by the 1980s any have been likewise venerated, and the most aesthetic concessions to the tropical context memorable feature – an oxymoron that just had become irrelevant, if not downright somehow works – is a gigantic clump of counterproductive. Ethereal abstractions purple-painted metal trees. A trail of foreign of glass and aluminium now held sway, along ‘starchitects’ (most of the usual suspects) with that curiously pan-Asian predilection have trekked through Singapore over the last for stolid Postmodern Neoclassicism. Paul decade without leaving much to embellish Rudolph snuck below the radar and produced their reputations, but it would be churlish – two buildings, The Colonnade (1985) and and possibly libellous – to list the failures. The Concourse (1994), which were structurally Will Alsop, however, chalked up one notable expressive and tropically attuned, but the success with his Clarke Quay revitalisation of architecture of the downtown and the 2006, where the site and the brief were made Orchard Road area was smartly tailored, to order for his exuberant and knowingly fashionable and discreet to the point of ephemeral capriciousness. anonymity. And so it remained. Singaporean architecture itself, by which Many buildings though, had to be I mean local architectural practice, has remarkable as they were commissioned to travelled a rocky road. The enthusiastic be remarkable, or as current parlance would experimentation that accompanied the have it, ‘iconic’. Singapore is in possession nation’s independence was brusquely of an especially worthy set of colonial terminated by government policy in the 1970s, monuments – indeed the precinct adjoining and a fallow period (and generation) ensued. the Padang could lay claim to the best A forlorn excerpt from a speech in 1978 by preserved of all the imperial colonies – but Sim Hong Boon, President of the Singapore the architecture that set out to be emblematic of an independent Singapore has only recently begun to compete. In terms of society, culture ‘The construction appeared and infrastructure, the networks of public housing (HDB) apartments in the New Towns to be a simple and logical that fanned out from the city from the early application of the theories and 1970s have been the mark of the city-state’s occasional buildings of the success, but prosaic suburban architecture was never going to dazzle the travel guides. Japanese Metabolist movement The process of establishing a pictorial identity to the necessities of the tropics’ 4

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4&5. Lush vegetation enlivens the Singapore Parkroyal hotel by WOHA 6. Aimed at recasting a run-down riverside site, Clarke Quay has a sense of convivial urbanism. Delicate canopies give a distinct identity to climate modiﬁ cation and enhance experiential quality 7. Jurong Town Hall reﬂ ects an early preoccupation with Brutalism

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‘Asian cities comprise a very refl ected and enhanced the image of a shading and social reintegration are surely newly sophisticated Singapore. reinstating an architecture that articulates diff erent paradigm to 20th- That turn-of-the-century aesthetic, the its massing and porosity, an architecture century Western cities that ‘tropical modern’ look, was only transitory – that concedes to the demands of its tropical provided all the templates used although it is still perpetuated in a cycle of context and eschews the false comforts that ever-diminishing returns by most of those lurk behind the walls of glass. In an especially to date, so the architecture, the who followed – but the tangible achievements heartening sign of the times, the ubiquitous planning and the environment of recent Singaporean architecture are to be corporate practices now appear to be taking had to be considered anew’ measured in other terms. Asian cities now their cues from local innovations, rather than comprise a completely diff erent paradigm to global fashions. Yet a collective cloak of Institute of Architects, tells the story: ‘The the 20th-century Western cities that provided cautiousness – a consequence of the 1970s future for architects depends on how we can all the templates utilised to date, so the putsch – lingers as a caveat to the rosy glow adapt to the new situation … the days of architecture, the planning, and above all, of Singaporean can-do. Maybe the time has individualistic approach and practice are the environment, had to be considered anew. come for Singaporean architects to turn the now a thing of the past’. The majority of local By virtue of its remorseless process of doleful acquiescence of 1978 on its head and architects were to be employed in corporate post-independence enrichment and the declare that ‘individualistic approach and fi rms – who more or less implemented the implementation of a citywide infrastructure practice’ is a thing of the future. designs of designated foreigners – or in the that actually worked, Singapore was the fi rst departments for public works and housing. cab off the 21st-century rank. The next ‘great William Lim, Tay Kheng Soon and Tang Guan leap forward’ is being taken by prescient local Bee continued to fl y the fl ags of individuality, architects (how can transient visitors from but they were awarded very few sizable the north really understand the tropics?) projects, and the focus turned to the only and various key projects have addressed the available marketplace, the private house and need for sustainability and a renewed desire the occasional condominium. Kerry Hill and for sociability. Ernesto Bedmar – two expatriate architects The Pinnacle@Duxton (2009, by Arc Studio who fused a refi ned and elegant Modernist with RSP) emphatically reversed a malaise touch with a love of all things tropical – were that had crept into the quality, and indeed to be the most infl uential, and by the early the role, of public housing. Ninety per cent 1990s a distinctive Singapore style had begun of Singapore’s residents live in HDB to bloom in the enclaves of the newly wealthy. apartments, but the increasingly a¦ uent The architects who were to fl ourish in that populace was now demanding something decade were untroubled by the swankier than serried rows of concrete marginalisation of their predecessors, as they capsules. And the Pinnacle@Duxton now had a relative abundance of small-scale delivered, rising as a mighty reiteration of commissions and were not looking for (and that most sensible Metabolism-comes-to-the had no experience of) larger projects. The tropics vision of an earlier time. At a smaller budgets verged upon the extravagant, and scale, the fi rms of ip:li and Chang Architects private houses were designed as mini-resorts, have displayed a desire to revive the intimacy which instilled a degree of competence and of a Singapore disdained by the global city confi dence that would take the best of the masterplan, with a series of houses whose architects much further. The economic details and pleasures refute the passing of downturn of 1997 had little impact upon this time. WOHA, the one-time poster boys for momentum, and quite possibly guaranteed its Singapore ‘cool’, turned out to be deadly credibility, as developers turned to the serious architects who prefer to work at the architects (and their recently acquired largest possible scale, and have not fl inched reputations) to revive the stalled cash fl ow. from the responsibilities and consequences 9 This course of events breathed life back into of their projects. Possibly their most 8. (Opposite) Daniel local architecture, and the principal players interesting Singapore buildings, certainly Libeskind was let loose for could now be regarded as a ‘golden in terms of 21st-century urban protot§ es, these residential buildings generation’. They paid little heed to the are the Parkroyal on Pickering hotel and at Refl ections, Keppel Bay rhetorical tangles of form and theory that had the School of the Arts. 9. Hindu temples preoccupied their semi-redundant A conscientious island-wide re-greening refl ect the vibrancy of predecessors in order to confront the specifi c process – part of a self-su¨ ciency programme Singapore’s historic multi-cultural milieu challenges and embrace the possibilities necessitated by the impending realities of the of a newly emergent Asia. Three fi rms in 21st century – is taking us back to the past, particular – SCDA, WOHA, and W Architects and it may well be that the Singapore of the – made an eff ortless transition from boutique future will look much like the city I fi rst houses to condominiums to public projects, visited over thirty years ago: only more so. and their aesthetic (and their pragmatism) The new prerogatives for natural ventilation,

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WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Kennedy Associates Architects Emre Arolat ‘This was a project that embraced AGL Lakeside Pavilion Founding Principal, history and modernity, and created Astudio Emre Arolat Architects, Turkey a dialogue in the process. It has Spotlight Youth Space Charu Kokate created maximum e ect with a21studio Principal, Safdie Architects, minimum materials and has The Chapel Singapore produced an unexpected change Astudio Akihiko Hamada of pace in its urban context. TOKKO Youth Space SEO, Nikken The opportunity has been taken Studio Gang Architects Sekkei, Japan to recycle and rethink materials WMS Boathouse at Clark Park and site, and the architect has found poetry in the mundane’

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The new Danish Maritime New walls at a distance around A sloping zigzag bridge spanning DANISH MARITIME Museum is a subterranean the old dock maintain its the entire dry dock navigates MUSEUM museum built around a dry dock structural integrity and place visitors to the main entrance. BIG-BJARKE adjacent to Kronborg Castle the museum in the space This creates a dynamic tension of Hamlet fame. For a century between the new and old dock between old and new as visitors INGELS GROUP this historic site was a shipyard walls, essentially wrapping it descend into the museum bustling with vessels and around the existing dry dock space overlooking the majestic machinery, and the dry dock like a doughnut. A series of three surroundings above and below that now forms the centrepiece two-level steel bridges span the ground, while Denmark’s of the museum’s underground dry dock, serving as short-cuts to maritime history unfolds in building is a legacy of this yard. diﬀ erent sections of the museum. a leisurely, continuous motion.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Chiaki Arai Urban and Architecture Foster + Partners Emre Arolat ‘We found this project very speciﬁ c Design Akiha Ward Cultural Centre Lenbachhaus Museum Founding Principal, and sophisticated while also being Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Mecanoo Emre Arolat Architects, Turkey provocative. It is a very powerful Bankstown Library and Library of Birmingham integrated Charu Kokate answer to the challenge presented Knowledge Centre with the Repertory Theatre Principal, Safdie Architects, to architects when given an ancient Sanjay Puri Architects ABDR Architetti Associati Singapore piece that can preserve the soul of a Bombay Arts Society Opera Florence Akihiko Hamada place, in how it uses the dry dock not Zaha Hadid Architects Elliott + Associates Architects SEO, Nikken Sekkei, Japan only as an envelope but as one of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza OSU Postal Plaza Gallery main ﬁ gures of the overall design’ Fender Katsalidis Mirams Flanagan Lawrence Architects Garangula Gallery Acoustic Shells

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TE KAITAKA THE CLOAK FEARON HAY ARCHITECTS

Auckland Airport is undergoing a major transformation. ile this involves new consideration of terminals and infrastructure, it also considers the creation of an urban environment in the surrounding landholding. Te Kaitaka ‘The Cloak’ has been established in the heart of this growing district. Auckland International Airport sought to create a sculptural built form sited on the corner of two of these recently upgraded streets, one heavily tra c based and one focused on the pedestrian. The brief was simple – a ﬂ exible space for hosting events, meetings and introducing the strategy and opportunities behind the developing precinct. The response is a structure to address the street, conﬁ gured to engage and shelter the pedestrian and shaped to act as a counterpoint to its larger neighbours. The architecture used the freedom of its scale to explore sculptural and structural directions and brings together rich layering of material, texture and form to express cultural and WINNER national values.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Samoo Architects & Engineers Banu Uçak ‘An impressive process and Buk Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Director, Building Information experimentation with form and Patterson Associates Centre, Turkey materials, leading to a bold and Botanic Gardens Centre, Ho Sweet Woon striking tectonic statement in a Christchurch Principal, Forum Architects, bland business park environment ’ Singapore Rory Olcayto Acting Editor, The Architects’ Journal, UK

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 27 COMPLETED BUILDINGS HEALTH HIGHER EDUCATION & RESEARCH

CHRIS O’BRIEN LIFEHOUSE HDR RICE DAUBNEY

Lifehouse represents the realisation of the late Professor Chris O’Brien’s vision for the creation of an integrated cancer facility on the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) Hospital campus in Sydney. The facility aims to redeﬁ ne the cancer patient experience and become a centre of excellence. This vision is about many things – a genuine patient-focused facility, broad- based holistic treatment in a world-class clinical environment with integrated research programmes. Parallel non-clinical therapies and facilities such as ‘The Living Room’ provide a unique patient experience. The facility serves both private and public patients and functions as a not-for-proﬁ t institution set on a public hospital campus.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Anuar Aziz Architect Chris Bosse ‘This building redeﬁ nes cancer SOCSO Rehabilitation Centre Principal, LAVA, Germany/Australia treatment by focusing on the patient Hames Sharley Michael Heenan experience. It combines architecture Whyalla Regional Cancer Centre Principal and CEO, AJ+C, Australia and art with medical science, Kevin Kwang Yang Sim logistics, technical equipment Principal, New Space Architects, and complex building technology Singapore focused on patient care’

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Dalarna Media Library at Dalarna heart – where orientation and The variation of sound levels DALARNA MEDIA University is organised as a ‘spiral the quest for information take and the diﬀ erentiation of LIBRARY of knowledge’ identifying a new place. The spiral of knowledge activities creates a versatile ADEPT library culture that inculcates creates a varied study library that is rich in spatial a wide range of experiences. The environment allowing the experiences. The building has natural terrain of the surrounding students to move about in the its own distinct character that landscape continues as a ramp heart space of the library or united library and multi-media that spirals up through the to withdraw to more quiet and functions to create a synergy with central atrium of the library – its calm areas along the facade. the existing university complex.

COMMENDED WINNER

COOK ROBOTHAM ARCHITECTURAL BUREAU ABEDIAN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BOND UNIVERSITY

FINALISTS JURY Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Zaha Hadid Architects MPH Architects + Architectus Murat Tabanlioglu Aula Medica Jockey Club Innovation Tower Sustainable Industries Education Tabanlioglu Architects, Turkey BVN Donovan Hill Zaha Hadid Architects Centre – Tonsley Tafe Justine Hervey Australian Plant Bank Library and Learning Centre, Nikken Sekkei Editor, Architecture New Zealand Woods Bagot Deakin University, University of Economics The 82 Bank Learning Center Chiu Man Wong Burwood Highway Frontage Building Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios GPAA Principal, WOW, Singapore Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau Manchester School of Art University of Paris IV-Sorbonne’s Law and Administration, Vienna Lyons Clignancourt Centre JURY COMMENT University of Economics & Business Medical Science 2, Aedas ‘Layering of functions around Cox Rayner Architects University of Tasmania Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University spiral circulation creates a Gri th University Administration Information Building unique amphitheatre concept’

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In the north of Vietnam, Son La use of local resources including RESTAURANT, SON province is an area of untouched workers and materials, such as LA, VIETNAM forests and beautiful mountains. bamboo and stone. To adapt to the VO TRONG NGHIA Son La restaurant, with a tropical climate, the building is capacity of 750 guests, is the ﬁ rst composed of eight separate stone ARCHITECTS facility of a new hotel complex buildings and an open-air bamboo near the city centre to exploit dining hall to provide both the area’s potential as a tourist contained air-conditioned rooms destination. The project maximises and comfortable exterior dining.

COMMENDED WINNER

XI’AN WESTIN MUSEUM HOTEL NERI&HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Verse Design Aedas International Nicola Leonardi ‘The architects have displayed a Restaurant and Teahouse at Narada Langham Place, Guangzhou Editor-in-Chief, The Plan, Italy considerable sensitivity and ability Resort and Spa Qixian Mount De Matos Ryan Serina Hijjas in managing to feature traditional Foundry of Space Orchard Spa Principal, Hijjas Katsuri, Vietnamese architecture against KC Grande Resort & Spa-Hillside Bates Smart Architects Kuala Lumpur a contemporary backdrop. Group8asia Singapore Crown Mahogany Room Julien Veyron The design draws from the context DOTS Nikken Sekkei Principal, Atelier Arcau, France of the open tropical environment RSP Architects Planners & The Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto and chooses the local materiality Engineers a21studio of bamboo and stone as the main Holiday Inn Express, Clarke Quay The Tent structure, making it a sustainable yet poetic statement’

30 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL COMPLETED BUILDINGS HOTEL & LEISURE HOUSE

House for Trees, a protot ical also function as storm-water are crowded together. The site HOUSE FOR TREES, house within a tight budget of basins for detention and is a landlocked block accessed HO CHI MINH CITY, $156,000, aims to bring green retention, therefore helping to only by a small pedestrian lane. VIETNAM space back into the city, reduce the risk of ﬂ ooding in the Resonating with this urban accommodating high-density monsoon climate. The house is tissue, the house is designed VO TRONG NGHIA dwelling with large tropical trees. located in Tan Binh district, one as an accumulation of small ARCHITECTS Five concrete boxes are designed of the most densely populated fragments. Surrounded by t ical as ‘pots’ with trees on their tops. residential areas in Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese row houses, House With thick soil layer, these ‘pots’ City, where many small houses for Trees stands out like an oasis.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY Andrew Maynard Architects De Matos Ryan Next O ce Ko Shiou Hee Moor House Garden House Shariﬁ -Ha House Principal, K2LD, Singapore Farshad Mehdizadeh Architects 70F architecture HOME 2.0 Hyunjoon Yoo Architects Tue Hesselberg Foged Abadan Residential Apartment P+0 Architecture Ssangdalri House Principal, E ekt, Denmark Cox Rayner Architects & Twofold Narigua House Charles Wright Architects Catherine Slessor Editor, Studio Aperture House Andrew Burges Architects Stamp House The Architectural Review, UK Vo Trong Nghia Architects Pittwater House Neri&Hu Design and Research O ce + Sanuki Nishizawa Architects Unit One Design The Overlapping Land/ JURY COMMENT Binh Thanh House Private Library House-Cluny House ‘House for Trees is a generous and Architron Design Consultants Karand Group 70F architecture ecologically sensitive response Casa Lapis Shams Villa Villa Stamerbos to the intensity of urbanisation’

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The Carve is an unconventional views and the outdoor spaces of panoramic elevator and open-air THE CARVE, 15-storey apartment building the apartments around a raised, bridges, this green foyer acts as a OSLO, NORWAY on Oslo’s waterfront. The fi rst covered garden. The residential buff er zone, which every resident A-LAB eight fl oors are designated as complex rests on 1,000 sqm of passes through on their way o ce space, topped off with common, open areas, and a home. The project is like a a residential programme. garden terrace elevated above giant inhabited ziggurat, with The mixed-use t ology compacts street level creates a sense of terraces cascading down to the fl exible o ce spaces in an distance from the corporate meet the podium of the eight- e cient machine and optimises world underneath. Fitted with a storey o ce block below.

COMMENDED WINNER

EAA-EMRE AROLAT ARCHITECTS VICEM BODRUM RESIDENCES

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Cox Rayner Architects MKPL Architects Seven Crescent Mark Dytham ‘This project represents a new Constance Street Public Housing Mercurio Design Lab Iliv Founding Principal, typology of building housing on top ADN BA Dogarilor Apartment Building CORE Architects Klein Dytham Architects, Japan of an o ce building with a liveable WOHA Six50 King Karen Forbes carved-out space 15 storeys up Goodwood Residence, Singapore Group8asia Singapore Professor of Art, that provides amazing views across GLR arquitectos Magma Towers Striped Living ECA, University of Edinburgh, UK the city to the mountains and sea’ CM Architecture NoXX Apartment bureau proberts SILT Aamer Taher LAUD Architects Pte Ltd Oxley Allford Hall Monaghan Morris / Principal, Aamer Architects, Unit One Design Maccreanor Lavington Singapore Rhombus Savannah College William Street Quarter of Art and Design SCADpad Wsp Architects Suhe Center

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RETHINKING THE SPLIT HOUSE, SHANGHAI, CHINA WINNER NERI&HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE The magical lane houses, which were once the dominant fabric that made urban Shanghai the intoxicating place that it was in the 1930s, are now slowly being demolished, taken over by high-density developments all over the city. Neri & Hu was commissioned to reconstruct a dilapidated lane house in the historic Tianzifang district, with the aim of transforming it into three separate apartment units. The strategy was to rethink the t ology of the lane house, which involved keeping the basic split-level formation and adding spatial interest through new insertions and skylights to accentuate the original architectural integrity while reconceptualising it for a contemporary lifestyle.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT OMA De Rotterdam Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Jenny Lovell ‘This project is a timely critique of Wowhaus Documentary Film Centre Regent Street Block W4 Associate Professor, The Chinese the loss of culturally signiﬁ cant Foster + Partners Sweco Architects Simonsland University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong urban fabric. It demonstrates the Lenbachhaus Museum Textile Fashion Center Lars Autrup power of architecture to address a Vo Trong Nghia Architects SANALarc Head of Projects, Realdania broader agenda beyond commodity, Factory O ce Renovation Sishane Park Foundation, Denmark ﬁ rmness and delight’ SCDA Architects MPH Architects + Architectus Khoo Peng Beng National Design Centre Sustainable Industries Education Principal, Arc Studio, Singapore Hackel-Kaape Trimonis Centre - Tonsley Tafe Architekten Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp O ce building Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

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Liberty Place is not a singular articulate assemblage of elements but also embodies signiﬁ cant LIBERTY PLACE, tower but a rich interplay of (ground plane, street walls, architectural and environmental SYDNEY, three slender architectural tower elements and landscape). innovation. The development AUSTRALIA forms inspired by the unique The architectural forms create successfully balances qualities of a unique Sydney site. a dynamic public space and considerations of urbanism, FRANCIS-JONES The development unites public, reinvigorate a previously heritage and sustainability MOREHEN THORP corporate and hospitality run-down mid-city area. with commercial requirements architecture into a cohesive Liberty Place not only animates to create a rich and thoughtful environment. Collectively, it is an and celebrates the public domain, architectural expression.

COMMENDED WINNER

BVN DONOVAN HILL IN ASSOCIATION WITH JASMAX ASB NORTH WHARF

FINALISTS JURY Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Nikken Sekkei, Mitsubishi Jisho Tabanlioglu Architects Michael Wiener 240 Blackfriars Sekkei and NTT Facilities Selcuk Ecza HQ Principal, Gensler, Singapore Hijjas Kasturi Associates Grand Front Osaka OMA Sonny Chan Sdn 348 Sentral Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Shenzhen Stock Exchange Director, CSYA, Singapore Lyons 41X, healthouse @ krokslätt Sweco Architects Australian Institute of Architects Batlle & Roig Architects Sweco Building Stockholm JURY COMMENT Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Massimo Dutti Headquarters 3XN ‘The project sensitively achieves Alconbury Incubator Woods Bagot National Australia Swedbank Headquarters the creation of a public space Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Bank, 700 Bourke St, Melbourne KSM Architecture in a very urban context through Centra Metropark Aedas International Vishranthi O ce placing and manipulating multiple Sandcrawler building interventions’

34 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL COMPLETED BUILDINGS OFFICES PRODUCTION, ENERGY & RECYCLING

LUNE DE SANG SHEDS, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA WINNER CHROFI

Lune de Sang is a unique inter-generational venture that will see a signiﬁ cant former dairying property in northern NSW transformed into a sustainably harvested forest. The structures, both for working and habitation, are endowed with a sense of permanence. They have been conceived as ruins in the landscape; ancient concrete and stone structures that have been unearthed and retroﬁ tted for comfortable habitation with crisp glass and steel details. The ambition is an elemental and atavistic architecture. Structures that may appear to be a rediscovered ruin from the day they are built. As both a precise modern abstract material but also ancient in its quality, concrete serves as a universal material that can be read in multiple ways and deployed for both structure and enclosure.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Atelier Arcau Earth Wind And Fire Jenny Lovell ‘The jury commended the project, Ryuichi Ashizawa Architect Associate Professor, The Chinese expressing appreciation for the & Associates Factory On The Earth University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong elegance and poetry present in the OMA G-Star Raw Hq Lars Autrup craf that managed to transform Nikken Sekkei Haneda Chronogate Head of Projects, Realdania simple sheds into extraordinary Ross Barney Architects Foundation, Denmark architecture that form a sensitive OSU South Campus Chiller Khoo Peng Beng engagement with the landscape. Cox Rayner Architects Principal, Arc Studio, Singapore Its multi-generational design Sir Samuel Gri th Centre horizon distilled into timeless JJ Pan & Partners, Architects forms and durable materials is & Planners TSMC Fab 15 also what made it outstanding’

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LA ASCENSION DEL SENOR CHURCH AGI ARCHITECTS WINNER

This building completes the Parish Centre started 15 years ago and its empowerment as a focus of community activity for a neighbourhood of around 20,000 inhabitants. Responding to Pope Francis’s calls for the Catholic Church to focus on the ‘least favoured’, the project aims at strengthening the Parish Centre as a centre for meeting and fraternisation. The project is also extremely sensitive to current economic circumstances, so the architects chose materials and construction techniques dictated by economy and sustainability. The building rethinks the role of religious architecture in society and what it can oﬀ er, while endowing the district with distinct identity to help combat the sense of anomie so common in suburban expansion areas. According to the architects ‘this church is very close to the community, reaching the transcendental through existing social problems and needs. Our goal has been to open the space for community use, making it more human’.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT 70F architecture Tan Cheng Siong ‘Although modest in scale and Moravian Church, Amsterdam Principal, Archurban Architects despite a low budget AGi succeeded Armon Architects & Town Planners Planners, Singapore in creating a delicate atmosphere Abraham’s Well Manuelle Gautrand with sophisticated detail. The K2LD Architects Principal, Manuelle Gautrand, building expresses a conﬁ dent and Christ Methodist Church France considered response to its context’ Czarl Architects Kevin Owens Wat Ananda Metyarama Director, Wilson Owens Owens Thai Buddhist Temple Architects, UK

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CHOBHAM ACADEMY ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS

Conceived pre-Olympics and used during the 2012 Games (as both a gym and a security hub), Chobham Academy continues to work hard as a linchpin educational and civic campus on the eastern edge of one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects. The All-Ages school which opened to more than 1,300 students aged 3-18 in September 2013 serves Leyton, Stratford and the emerging community of the post-Games Park, both in and out of school hours. Designed as part of a strong new urban grain whose pattern is refl ective of existing London streets, a central fi ve-storey drum marks the apex of a new grand axis. The drum faces the emerging community as well as the existing community and at the same time acts as the fulcrum for three connected buildings. A full-height atrium overlooked by open galleries on each fl oor defi nes the drum’s centre. The infant school occupies a two-storey rectilinear block to one side of the drum, with its own entrance. WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT MKPL Designs Pte Ltd Banu Uçak ‘An accomplished piece of Branksome Hall Asia Campus Director, Building Information architecture and urban design Vo Trong Nghia Architects Centre, Turkey that will allow a new quarter of Farming Kindergarten Ho Sweet Woon London to develop into a genuine Ronald Lu & Partners Performing Principal, Forum Architects, place. Furthermore, its universal Arts Block, King George V School Singapore building approach suggests a long UArchitects: Misak Terzibasiyan Rory Olcayto life while the interior provides pupils and Emile van Vugt Acting Editor, with a rich spatial experience’ School ’t Hofke The Architects’ Journal, UK Perkins + Will William Jones College Preparatory High School

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YALIKAVAK MARINA COMPLEX EAA-EMRE AROLAT WINNER ARCHITECTS

Yalikavak is one of the lagoons on the south-western coast of Turkey which is becoming a popular destination for blue voyages along the Turkish Riviera. Instead of a generic design that can easily become an alienated object for this place, an architecture derived from the local character – interpreted as composition of masses with diﬀ erent heights, merging with landscape and with the sea – has emerged as a way to be integrated with place. Alongside the masses that follow a grid structure in plan, at ical additions such as a linear wall and tower accompany the complex. In the tradition of ancient cities Kos, Rhodes and Siena, clad in a single material, travertine is used to render the whole complex which sees itself as a newcomer, but a familiar one, rather than a hard-shell foreigner.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Aedas Banu Uçak ‘The qualities of low-key, Center 66 Director, Building Information sophisticated tactility set this Benoy Centre, Turkey project apart, allowing pedestrians Chengdu IFS Ho Sweet Woon to experience the harbour and coast studio mk27 Principal, Forum Architects, without imposing a retail-style Cultura Bookstore Singapore aesthetic on the experience’ Erginoğlu and Çalışlar Architecture Rory Olcayto Gaziantep Prime Mall Acting Editor, Shopping Centre The Architects’ Journal, UK Benoy Westgate

38 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL COMPLETED BUILDINGS SHOPPING SMALL PROJECTS

THE PINCH DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

The Pinch is a library and community centre in Shuanghe Village, Yunnan Province, China. The project is part of a government-led reconstruction eff ort after an earthquake in September 2012. The University of Hong Kong decided to sponsor the design and implementation of a new library building which would serve to activate the community and provide a physical memorial for the event. The site of the library is against a 4m-high retaining wall. The design spans across this level diff erence and acts as a bridge between the rebuilt village and the new memorial plaza. Emphasising its location in a remote mountain valley, the design responds visually to the space of the valley, off ering stunning views across a dramatic double curved roof. The structure itself rises to a peak, a poignant monument to the earthquake and rebuilding eff ort.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Flanagan Lawrence Gray Puksand Colin Seah Principal, Ministry ‘An elegant project that Acoustic Shells Loreto Archives Centre of Design, Singapore demonstrated research Krynauw Nel Associates a21studio Simon Allford Principal, AHMM, UK into a material, a building MALAPA, Hominid Fossil Site Cover Salvaged Ring Vasu Virajslip system, making an urban place and Visitors’ Plaform Nakayama Architects Principal, VaSLab, Vietnam that has answered a vital need DSDHA SCALETTA Rob Gregory Associate Editor, for enclosure, congregation Alex Monroe Studio Marge Arkitekter The Architectural Review, UK and culture in a remote and Fox Johnston Strömkajen Ferry Terminals Nabil Gholam Principal, earthquake-stricken zone’ Cook Park Amenities Group GSA NG Architects, Lebanon Wowhaus Sydney Harbour Ferry Kiosks in Shells Wharves Upgrade

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 39 COMPLETED BUILDINGS SPORTS TRANSPORT

Located on a 35-hectare developments with their be a dynamic lifestyle destination SINGAPORE waterfront site close to the heart surrounding precincts are for the people of Singapore, SPORTS HUB of Singapore, the newly opened focused on a speciﬁ c major with facilities for use throughout SINGAPORE Sports Hub provides a wide sporting event, with less the year. It is a state-of-the-art range of sporting, retail and consideration given to long-term sports venue, air-cooled, and SPORTS HUB leisure spaces and facilities use. Singapore Sports Hub designed with a movable roof DESIGN TEAM within easy reach of the city breaks this mould – its principal and retractable seating to centre and international airport. focus is to provide venues for support the widest range of Often large stadiums and sports world-class sporting events and sports and leisure events.

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LUANDA WMS BOATHOUSE MULTISPORT AT CLARK PARK PAVILION STUDIO GANG BERGER ARCHITECTS ARCHITECTS

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT P&T Architects and Engineers Erik L’Hereux ‘Designed with a nation’s health, Hong Kong Velodrome Principal, Pencil O ce sustainability and legacy in mind, QLAB Singapore/USA Singapore Sports Hub represents NTFSH Gymnasium Paul Stoller innovative engineering on all levels S Pin Architect Principal, Atelier Ten, UK and shows a new approach to The Concrete Cloud, Bayan Club Carlotta Zucchini an integrated sports, leisure and Art Editor, The Plan, Italy entertainment district. The project exempliﬁ es the successful fusion of architecture and engineering’

40 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL COMPLETED BUILDINGS SPORTS TRANSPORT

This innovative swing bridge underdeveloped landscape of The project consists of three SCALE LANE over the River Hull opened to the east bank and provides a new elements: a 57m opening BRIDGE, the public in June 2013, and now route connecting existing cultural foot/cycle bridge, a new public KINGSTON-UPON- oﬀ ers the unique and memorable attractions. The black steel space created at the west experience of riding on the bridge over the muddy tidal bank approach and a temporary HULL, UK bridge while it opens. Located in river has a distinctive and tough sloping path and landscaped MCDOWELL + Kingston-upon-Hull, the bridge character appropriate to the area situated at the east bank BENEDETTI connects the city centre and old context and to Hull’s industrial approach which is scheduled town conservation area to the and maritime heritage. for future development.

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REGIONAL TERMINAL AT CHRISTCHURCH AIRPORT BVN DONOVAN HILL IN ASSOCIATION WITH JASMAX

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Studio 44 Architects Erik L’Hereux ‘The jury commended the project Olympic Park Railway Station Principal, Pencil O ce for its creation of a delighful Foster + Partners Singapore/USA public space on a rotating bridge, Queen Alia International Airport Paul Stoller connecting two sides of an industrial Sweco Architects Principal, Atelier Ten, UK river, while taking on a bold dramatic Skyttelbron, Shuttle Bridge in Lund Carlotta Zucchini form that complements the industrial Art Editor, The Plan, Italy character of the neighbourhood’

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 41 COMPLETED BUILDINGS VILLA SMALL PROJECTS

DUNE HOUSE, NEW ZEALAND FEARON HAY WINNER ARCHITECTS

The house is located on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, an hour’s drive north of Auckland. The site sits within a natural dune zone adjacent to a long white sand beach. The brief called for a second home: not a full-time home but more than a holiday getaway. The architecture needed to be as responsive as possible to coastal lifestyle but also respond to an awareness that areas behind and adjacent to the property were becoming progressively built out and developed. The house is nested into the dunes – the lower level is almost completely hidden by its sunken integration into the landscape. A central open-plan living space sits between a terrace and protected courtyard. The terrace opens to the beach while the courtyard creates privacy and gives a sense of sanctuary to the street behind.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Fearon Hay Architects Nicola Leonardi ‘The project turns its back on Dune House Editor-in-Chief, The Plan, Italy the normal approach of a villa, RTA Studio Serina Hijjas combining a challenging plot with Emerald Blu s House Principal, Hijjas Katsuri, a very smart response – using the Irving Smith Jack Architects Kuala Lumpur opacity of the skin to act as a veil o SET Shed House Julien Veyron that creates a sense of mystery EA Miñana & Associates Principal, Atelier Arcau, France for the villa as well as to protect Villa Marina the villa interior from the harsh coastal winds’

42 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL LANDSCAPE

The design of Australia’s National public environmental concern, arranged via a grid across the NATIONAL Arboretum was selected in an 100 Forests is a strategy, a undulating topography, orientated ARBORETUM international design competition programme and an ongoing event, to align with a civic axis by CANBERRA, after the 2003 Canberra bushﬁ res. not a design based chieﬂ y on Canberra masterplanners Walter The winning concept, 100 Forests, aesthetics. It not only provides Burley-Gri n and Marion Mahony AUSTRALIA comprises forests with 100 of the unique experiences, the pleasure Gri n. With their colour, form TAYLOR CULLITY most endangered tree species. of being enveloped in a forest of an and textures, they provide a LETHLEAN Emerging out of very real issues endangered species, but is a seed striking backdrop and engage of sustainability, biodiversity and bank for the future. Forests are at an urban scale with the city.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Ta Landscape Architecture Shma Morph 38 Condominium Henry Steed Director, ICN ‘Addressing serious global A.mazing Vertical Garden Sweco Architects International, Sinagpore challenges of sustainability and Cox Rayner Architects Flinders Physic Garden, Novartis, Basel Herbert Dreiseitl Director, biodiversity, this immensely Street: Reviving Main Street Turenscape Slow Down: Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab, thoughful project conceives of Taylor Cullity Lethlean Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park Atelier Dreiseitl, Austria landscape design as a rich, ongoing National Arboretum Canberra Taylor Brammer Landscape Jason Pomeroy Founding Principal, trajectory that embraces the future’ BLVD International Architects Top Ryde City Living Pomeroy Studio, Singapore Waterfront Landscape Park Cox Architecture Jana Crepon Landscape Architect along AiYi River in Yinchuan Jim Stynes Bridge Inside Outside, Netherlands Cox Rayner Architects EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Gri th University: Rescuing Zorlu Center the Declining Campus AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 43 COMMERCIAL MIXED USE FUTURE FUTURE PROJECTS COMMERCIAL MIXED USE COMPETITION ENTRIES CULTURE EDUCATION EXPERIMENTAL HEALTH HOUSE INFRASTRUCTURE LEISURE MASTERPLAN OFFICE RESIDENTIAL

FUTURE PROJECTS 44 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE FUTURE PROJECTS COMMERCIAL MIXED USE

The brief was initially deﬁ ned between the building and its organisational system for ISFAHAN DREAMLAND to ﬁ nd a solution for the facade surroundings while decreasing the interior as well as the COMMERCIAL of the existing structure. The construction costs. This is made exterior of the building and CENTER proposed project responds possible through an architecture introduces terraces and to neighbouring functions and that is adaptable to the context horizontal slabs which on FARSHAD activities, keeping in mind the and architectural character of one hand connects the plaza MEHDIZADEH potential and existence of the the city of Isfahan. The fractal to the roof and on the other ARCHITECTS built structure, which results growth and reproduction of combines the inside and in a higher level of interaction cubic modules generates an outside spaces of the complex.

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500 BROADWAY KONING EIZENBERG

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TAKSON PLAZA RONALD LU & PARTNERS

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Atelier Arcau TFP Farrells Chris Wong ‘This is a highly contextual Rive Droite Qianhai Mixed-Use Founding Principal, sensibility of reusing a Aedas Development CW Architects, Malaysia malfunctioning existing Hengqin International Haptic Architects Mikael Stenqvist structure in an innovative Financial Centre Straume Town Centre Principal, White, Sweden and powerful way’ Studio Cachoua Torres Camilletti SPARK Kiong Huat Chng Hong Kong Arcology SkyScraper Vanke Jiugong Mixed-Use Director, Far East Organisation, Aedas Development Singapore Mapletree Minhang Business City Tabanlioglu Architects & VivoCity Halaskargazi Mixed Use Blank Architects Wellness Centre

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 45 FUTURE PROJECTS COMPETITION ENTRIES CULTURE

The AGGV’s permanent renovating the existing additions, the surrounding neighbourhood, ART GALLERY OF collection is housed in a historic the proposal creates a brand allowing visitors to engage the GREATER VICTORIA mansion and series of Modernist new structure, re-imagining gallery at all hours and from 5468796 additions in an established the gallery as a village of small all directions. Expansive glass residential area of Victoria. pavilions engulfed by the inspired walls expose the interiors ARCHITECTURE + The existing facility appears landscape cascading through the of the pavilions, creating an NUMBER TEN impenetrable, its vibrancy site. A choreography of gardens external animation and renewed ARCHITECTURAL concealed behind brick and and new public spaces weaves the engagement between the GROUP concrete. Rather than simply property back into the fabric of gallery and its surroundings.

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UDARNIK CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS , MOSCOW BLANK ARCHITECTS / JOHN MCASLAN + PARTNERS/ RALPH APPELBAUM ASSOCIATES

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT GM Architects Ronald Lu & Partners David Keuning ‘The winning project is creative, A Museum of Civilisations Redevelopment of Island School Architectural Editor, new respects the old and the use Form4 Architecture Student Mark, The Netherlands of the material references the Tongyeong Concert Hall Return – The Storage of Natural Life Bob van Bebber existing garden but not literally Form4 Architecture Form4 Architecture Director, Boogertman and Partners, or metaphorically’ Glass Butterﬂ y Sanguine Lily: 1916 Centenary South Africa Tabanlioglu Architects & NSMH Chapel at Glasnevin Cemetery Michael Kokora ITO Passage & Public Square Perkins+Will Partner – Architect OMA, PHL Architects Shanghai Planetarium USA/Hong Kong Orange Shelter Project SPARK Shanghai Shibei Hi-Tech TFP Farrells Limited Z15 Service District Plot 4

46 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE PROJECTS COMPETITION ENTRIES CULTURE

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS MONUMENT GUSTAVO PENNA ARQUITETO & ASSOCIADOS

The Freedom of the Press Monument is a gesture in glass. Crystal clear, solid, but as delicate as freedom itself. It represents a perennial fi ght and refl ects the culture of the Brazilian people. Emerging from the site is a translucent dynamic shape, a literal beacon that represents the need for advancing facts and the truth. The brief also includes an International Press Centre for Brazil’s federal capital, conceived as a symbolic home for all journalists. The Monument is composed of two elements: the fi rst is a box with translucent structural glass panels supported by tie rods, fasteners and metal trusses that together form the external image of the building. Enclosed by concrete walls an underground space contains specifi c facilities for multimedia projections, meetings, exhibitions and ceremonies.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Tianhua Architecture Planning Tan Cheng Siong ‘The structure is a simple, Bergama Cultural Centre & Engineering Principal, Archurban Architects understated yet clever response Tabanlioglu Architects Renovation of Tianjin Textile Mill Planners, Singapore to a politically charged issue’ Dakar Congress Centre Amz Arquitetos Manuelle Gautrand Sanjay Puri Architects Sugar Mill Chapel Founding, Principal Hindu Temple Eleena Jamil Architect Manuelle Gautrand, France SSH Jaber Al Ahmad Cultural Centre The Bamboo Playhouse Kevin Owens EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Director, WilsonOwensOwens MAU Religious Complex Architects, UK Archiland Consultant International Nanjing Light House

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 47 FUTURE PROJECTS EDUCATION EXPERIMENTAL

Vietnam is experiencing rapid space, increased pollution and green university building that FPT TECHNOLOGY development as its economy extreme temperatures. The FPT counters these problems as well BUILDING moves from an agricultural to an University Technology Building as instils sustainable practices VO TRONG NGHIA industrialised society. Cities are located just outside Hanoi will be in future generations. The project growing at such speed that the teaching the next generation of is part of the ﬁ rst stage of a ARCHITECTS infrastructure is unable to keep engineers and technicians who larger masterplan to convert pace and environmental stress is will play an important role in the university to a globally becoming very apparent through developing Vietnam’s sustainable competitive environmentally energy shortages, reduced green future. The aim is to create a conscious university.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Studio mk27 Fernando Menis ‘Its innovative design stood out Children Square Iguatemi Principal, Menis Arquitectos, Spain both for its bold vision to transform Boogertman + Partners Architects Sawako Kaijima the future of its environment and Karura Forest Educational Centre Assistant Professor, Singapore its passive functionality that caters EAA-Emre Arolat Architects University of Technology and to a present need to reduce the METU Research Center Design, Singapore building’s energy dependence’ Sanjay Puri Architects Paul Monaghan SDS School Principal, AHMM, UK Tezuka Architects Spiral School

48 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE PROJECTS EDUCATION EXPERIMENTAL

SKYFARM ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS AND ARUP ASSOCIATES

In conjunction with the Expo Milan 2015, Skyfarm is a concept design proposal for a vertical farm, facilitating the cultivation of crops in a multi-storey structure within high-density areas. The farm’s structure is built following the tensegrity principle, using bamboo elements to defi ne the spatial system and delineate its circular shape, while also allowing for maximum geometric fl exibility. The open structure guarantees direct light at any level for the natural growth of crops. Rainwater is collected via a tank on the rooftop and distributed down the structure by gravity. The water services each level, where the food is produced using a system which combines conventional aquaculture – the farming of aquatic animals, such as fi sh – with hydroponics, in a symbiotic environment that recycles all its elements.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Orproject Fernando Menis ‘Skyfarm represents a thorough, Bubbles Principal, Menis Arquitectos, Spain believable and beautiful project’ Desitecture Sawako Kaijima Flux City Assistant Professor Singapore Architecture Project University of Technology and Design, IDE [Instant Domestic Enclosure] Singapore Project Paul Monaghan Principal, AHMM, UK

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 49 FUTURE PROJECTS HEALTH HOUSE

The project endeavours to existing medical centre, a new shapes tying it to the surrounding EXTENSION OF integrate world-class hospital International Medical Centre and urban landscape. A series of THE PEOPLE’S services, medical research and a new International Medical gardens connected by the HOSPITAL OF the surrounding community in Exchange Centre – are arranged elevated spine continue the the urban park environment. along an irregular site running healing process and provide FUTIAN, A minimum of 1,000 beds will be from north to south and linked entrances to major medical SHENZHEN, CHINA provided on the completion of the by an elevated multi-level spine. departments and supporting LEIGH & ORANGE renovated hospital and its new The new Medical Centre amenities. Daylight enhances extension. Three elements – an comprises simple rectilinear a natural healing atmosphere.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT AGi architects Cameron Bruhn ‘An impressively ambitious Cardiac Research & Editor-in-Chief, and speciﬁ c response to Rehabilitation Center Architecture Australia, Australia a di cult site, which was Surbana International Consultants Lyndon Neri very clear diagrammatically’ and Broadway Malyan Asia Principal, Neri&Hu, China Health City Novena Liam Wee Sin President, UOL, Singapore

50 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE PROJECTS HEALTH HOUSE

THE OLIVE GROVE IAN MOORE ARCHITECTS

Located on a rural site in the Hunter Valley, two hours’ drive north of Sydney, this house is sited on the lower slopes of a steep hillside and is approached from below through an olive grove. First views of the house are of the underside of an elevated platform, which dictated special consideration be given to this ﬁ fth elevation. Conceptually it is a perfect 12.3 metre x 12.3 metre square plan, divided into an asymmetrical pinwheel layout, reﬂ ected in the asymmetrical hipped roof. This roof has then been inverted to form a tapering base to the underside of the elevated platform. The tapered form and inclined steel structure meet the natural ground line to form the smallest possible footprint for the house on the slope. The house has a prefabricated steel structure, allowing easy transport and erection on the remote site.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Omer Arbel O ce Strom Architects David Basulto ‘We commend the way the house 62 _2594 house The Quest Cofounder and Editor in Chief, is set against the sloping site, and SPARK Allen Jack+Cottier Architects ArchDaily, Chile we applaud the house’s dramatic Crescent Villa Three Chimneys House Rahel Belatchew Lerdell presence in its environment. Mole Architects Principal, Belatchew Arkitekter, We also liked the simplicity of its The Houseboat Sweden form and its sustainable features’ Domaine Public Architects Rene Tan House in Tulum Founding Principal, Domaine Public Architects RT+Q, Singapore Folding House

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 51 FUTURE PROJECTS INFRASTRUCTURE LEISURE

A station’s location is a powerful and new. The double force fi elds t ologies, and is given continuity LINKÖPING target point in the city, which charge greater areas with vigour over both land and water. CENTRAL STATION generates fl ows of people and and ensure a more solid and By shaping the underside as SWECO attracts trade, services, housing sustainable growth energy, a cross vault, visual contact is and business, located close to creating over time and in multiple provided, both in the direction ARCHITECTS public and sustainable transport. directions a more centralised city. of the river as well as from one The new station serves two The bridge is designed as a riverbank to the other. An outer destinations – a ‘staple’ over the modern viaduct, its vault shape sphere of perforated steel is both river that clips together the old relating to classic station refl ective and transparent.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Tabanlioglu Architects Osamu Morishita Lee Kut Cheung ‘This was an ambitious project with Astana Train Station Architect & Associates Managing Director, RSP, Singapore a clear concept to use infrastructure EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Next Generation Container Port Darryl Chen as a vehicle to change a city, Cukurova Regional Airport Complex Corgan Partner, Hawkins\Brown, UK improve the public realm and create Nordic – O ce Of Architecture PVG Shanghai Airport Satellite Clive Lewis a new sense of place. This piece Istanbul Grand Airport Concourse Principal, Arup, UK of thoughful urban infrastructure ABDR Architetti Associati + Yassir Farrells will have a positive impact on the Khalil Studio New High Speed Vision for Gatwick city of Linköping’ Railway Station of Casablanca

52 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE PROJECTS INFRASTRUCTURE LEISURE

The archaeological fi ndings public programme of an The hotel, a placeless building ANTAKYA discovered in an excavation archaeological park and the t e defi ned by its own MUSEUM HOTEL on the project site in Antakya private hotel becomes a major programmatic codes, turns EAA-EMRE AROLAT close to St Pierre Church (an input in the design process. itself inside out to deal with important Christian pilgrimage The fi ndings discovered during the specifi c characteristics of ARCHITECTS site) directed the client, who was the excavations and the physical this unique place. Programme planning to build a fi ve-star hotel, and sociological characteristics of elements are considered as to build a museum-hotel on the Antakya act as primary sources individual units spread over the site. The dichotomy between the of contextual information. site under a protective canopy.

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POTATO HEAD CANGGU BEACH CLUB HOTEL STUDIO MK27

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Menis Arquitectos VaSLab Koh Talu Island Resort Cameron Bruhn ‘Hilton were lucky to have found Bürchen Mystik Rocco Design Architects Editor-in-Chief, Architecture this site, this client, this architect. Ronald Lu & Partners Moganshan Gowin Golf Manor, Australia, Australia The judges did not expect to see District open space, sports centre and Hangzhou, China Lyndon Neri construction shots – but were of library in Area 74, Tseung Kwan O New Wave Architecture-Lida Principal, Neri&Hu Design and course delighted’ HWCD Fahua Longshan Cultural Almassian / Shahin Heidari Research O ce, China Tourism Project Polour Rock Climbing Hall Liam Wee Sin EAA-Emre Arolat Architects ARKIND Summer Homes President, UOL, Singapore Gocek Holiday Village MZ Architects Wall Stadium Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Hyatt Serenity Coast

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 53 FUTURE PROJECTS MASTERPLAN OFFICE

The vision for north-west University of Cambridge. It will and the fi rst phase of the NORTH-WEST Cambridge is to create a new accommodate growth in the extension is now under way. CAMBRIDGE district and extension to the city, university and related research The design builds upon the richly MASTERPLAN centred on a mixed academic and postgraduate facilities, layered, collegiate urbanism and urban community. It will attract and retain staff for that has evolved in Cambridge, AECOM DESIGN be a place that is sustainable, these, and relieve pressure on creating two new college clusters, & PLANNING long-lasting and ambitious, Cambridge’s housing market. walkable neighbourhoods, a off ering a high-quality life to Planning permission for the generous public realm, together enhance both the city and masterplan was granted in 2013 with research and lab areas.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Benoy Troppo Architects with Lee Kut Cheung ‘The masterplan is a highly DreamCenter Masterplan Taylor Cullity Lethlean Managing Director, RSP Singapore competent response to an Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Weddell’s First Neighbourhoods – Darryl Chen enlightened client brief, with Ga Mashie Urban Design Concept Partner, Hawkins\Brown, UK a well resolved sustainability and Farrells CPG Consultants Pte Ltd Clive Lewis landscape strategy, and incorporates Royal Albert Dock Masterplan Xiamen Zhongshan Park Station Principal, Arup, UK a socially sustainable mix of uses. Archiland Consultant International Transit-Oriented Development The project stood out for its Sino Singapore Tianjin Eco City environmental sustainability SPARK and cultural sensitivity’ Taizhou Wanglinyang Island

54 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL FUTURE PROJECTS MASTERPLAN OFFICE

AGASHIYAN SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS WINNER

This o ce building although not very tall, in its context will become the tallest building in the entire precinct. Situated amid low-rise development in the rapidly urbanising city of Ahmedabad, the project exploits new rules for increasing density, necessitating a tall structure in a location where previous rules allowed a maximum height of 36 metres. New development rules allow the buildable area to be four times the plot size and height controls have been increased to a maximum of 75 metres. The concept revolved around the creation of spaces similar to low-rise development with organic streets between them, interspersed with landscaped spaces within a high-rise tower. O ce spaces at each level are therefore fragmented with smaller spaces with three to four level elevated organic streets that vary on each level linking them together.

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates IGLO Architects David Basulto ‘The design has a strong personality 1021 West Hastings ICI Plant & Headquarters Co Founder and Editor in Chief, with creative use of semi-corridors WSP Architects Benoy ArchDaily, Chile and public spaces. It o ers a fresh, Baidu Research & Development Qian Tan O ce Park Rahel Belatchew Lerdell alternative approach to prevailing Headquarters, Beijing Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Principal, Belatchew Arkitekter, o ce building standards worldwide’ Aedas Scotland Yard Sweden Bravo Group Pazhou Form4 Architecture Rene Tan Mixed-Use Project The Innovation Curve Founding Principal, RT+Q Ozer+Tulgan Architects Singapore Garanti Bank Regional Headquarters

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 55 FUTURE PROJECTS RESIDENTIAL

Located on a steeply contoured undulating steep slopes, the In response to the searing heat, THE VILLAGE site this residential project houses step diagonally or dwellings face north to seek SANJAY PURI creates apartments that cascade frontally and merge with the site. out cooling shade, and run-oﬀ ARCHITECTS down along the existing contours Constructed largely from dark water is channelled to storage allowing each one to open into a basalt stone freely available in tanks. Designed in response to series of sheltered terraces and the local area, the design aims context and climate, The Village gardens. Each apartment feels to create a holistic, sustainable is a thoughtful design solution like an individual house nestled environment with minimal that creates homes which become in the hilly terrain. Echoing the physical intervention. an almost organic part of the site.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY 5468796 Architecture 3XN Elliott + Associates Architects Lucinda Tay 62M Grove Towers RJ Marfa Studio Director, Eight Inc, USA Nabil Gholam Architect Tabanlioglu Architects Domaine Public Architects Frazer McDonald Eco-Tourism Resort Incek Lof Riviera – Reshu ing the Director, Glasgow School of Art Tabanlioglu Architects Aedas Neighbourhood in Singapore Doha Tower Mongkok Residence BES Engineering Corporation Marco Goldschmied Farrells MKPL Architects Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Director, Spark, UK Earls Court Housing Nanyang Grove Faculty Housing Fox Johnston Domaine Public Architects Yazgan Design Architecture Wentworth Park Competition Glover 57 Ons Incek Residences

56 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL BARS & RESTAURANTS CIVIC, CULTURE & TRANSPORT CREATIVE REUSE DISPLAY EDUCATION & HEALTH HOTELS OFFICE RESIDENTIAL RETAIL

INSIDE ARCHITECTURE AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 57 INSIDE ARCHITECTURE BARS & RESTAURANTS

Originally a storage facility for decor, complemented with an reinforce a warehouse aesthetic. MOTT32 family heirlooms forgotten by inspired collection of forgotten Accessibility to the site for JOYCE WANG STUDIO wealthy Chinese immigrants, heirlooms, colonial-style diners was also a di cult issue Joyce Wang Studio combined furnishings and antique Chinese to tackle for the practice, due this history into their propaganda. The bar draws to a long snaking route, but this contemporary design. The inﬂ uence from a traditional meandering path now creates MOTT32 restaurant creates a Chinese apothecary, while ropes, a more hidden and exclusive blend of industrial New York chains and wood reference arrival experience into this design and classical Chinese Hong Kong’s ﬁ shing history and mysterious basement space.

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AURIGA SANJAY PURI ARCHITECTS

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Wowhaus Rossana Hu ‘A wonderful series of Central Writers House (CDL) Principal, Neri&Hu, China rooms with a rich texture De Matos Ryan Matteo Thun and narrative, creating a Christopher’s Covent Garden Principal, Matteo Thun & Partners, movie-like and theatrical Asylum Creative Italy environment for the diners’ Johnnie Walker House, Seoul Paul Matthew Wiste Distillery Regional Director of Development Manhattan Bar and Design: Asia Paciﬁ c at Jumeirah studio mk27 Riviera Bar

58 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL CIVIC, CULTURE & TRANSPORT

The design of Cine Times traces palette. Free fl owing walls sweep at various lengths, creating CINE TIMES back to the roots of fi lmmaking. through the space, symbolising the appearance of a movie ONE PLUS In an age where movies are rolls of fi lm with thin breaks set and allowing visitors PARTNERSHIP rapidly changing with new reminiscent of the breaking and to imagine themselves as the technologies, One Plus reunifying of the rolls during star of the movie they are about Partnership set out to subtly the editing process. Specially to see. On the fl oor, grey stripes remind visitors of the original designed LED spotlights fi ll cut the space into various shapes black and white pictures of the every void and hang in multiple and sizes, contrasting the vertical 19th century with a monochrome directions from the ceiling splits in the walls.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT One Plus Partnership a21studio Alberto Miceli Farrugia ‘Theatrical use of materials Nanchang Insun The Chapel Partner, Architecture Project, Malta and lighting to create a highly International Cinema FHAMS Joyce Wang dramatic sequence of spaces ’ SCDA Architects The Sodoh Higashiyama Kyoto Principal, Wang, Hong Kong National Design Centre One Plus Partnership Amy Frearson BVN Donovan Hill in association Cine Times Deputy Editor, Dezeen, UK with Jasmax Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 59 INSIDE ARCHITECTURE CREATIVE REUSE

The Sustainable Industries into a single contemporary site. The internal layout provides SUSTAINABLE Education Centre (SIEC) – The new facility is an example of a variety of spaces for student INDUSTRIES Tonsley Tafe project is an adaptive reuse on a major scale, learning, and glazed partitioning EDUCATION CENTRE initiative of the South Australian as 90 per cent of the existing steel is used throughout to maximise government to reduce operating structure has been retained and the display of work. The TONSLEY TAFE costs of the TafeSA’s Building a new ﬂ exible education facility internal design surrounds MPH ARCHITECTS + and Construction Trade Training has been created to provide two intersecting streets that ARCHITECTUS IN programmes. The scheme sets opportunities for innovation and separate the public areas from ASSOCIATION out to consolidate ﬁ ve campuses displays of students’ work. the teaching and learning spaces.

WINNER COMMENDED

NERI&HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE DESIGN REPUBLIC DESIGN COMMUNE

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Park + Associates Alberto Miceli Farrugia ‘The project is a great demonstration Architect’s o ce at Kim Yam Road Partner, Architecture Project, of thoughfully considered adaptive Marc O Riain (CIT) & Malta reuse on a major scale’ Neil Tobin (RKD Architects) Joyce Wang Architecture Factory Principal, Wang, Hong Kong gpy arquitectos Amy Frearson FIT! The Canary Islands Tourism Deputy Editor, Dezeen, UK and Innovation Factory

60 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL DISPLAY

Sawako Kaijima’s research as well as an exhibition gallery independently lowered and IDC SPACE : and display space for the for displaying some of the most raised, creating an undulating RESEARCH AND International Design Centre exciting ongoing IDC research eff ect across the ceiling. DISPLAY SPACE FOR is situated at the heart of the work. The space features a ceiling This fl exibility continues, Dover Campus of the Singapore installation comprising 6,000 with partitions, posters, THE INTERNATIONAL University of Technology and custom-designed lighting and and exhibition panels also DESIGN CENTRE Design. A showcase space for the display components, based suspended from the ceiling SAWAKO KAIJIMA IDC, the 13m x 16m area hosts an on a patent-pending SUTD/IDC so the space can quickly be o ce, a small protot ing lab design. Each light can be reconfi gured for multiple uses.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Hallucinate Design Taiwan DaE International Design Joey Ho Principal ‘Futuristic, technologically Line Soul Exhibition Career Zi Garden / Tangquan Tea Principal, Joey Ho Design, brilliant and intuitive’ Mission & Associates Club in Huizhou Hong Kong Sales & Exhibition Centre Cheryl Durst of Zhong Shan Vanke Baiyue President, International Interior Wan, China Design, Association, USA Taiwan DaE International Lim Keong Wee Design Career Founding Principal, PAC, Singapore Zen Resort & Spa Sales & Exhibition Centre

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 61 INSIDE ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION & HEALTH

The Abedian School of or for ‘crit’ sessions. A series of individual to identify with ABEDIAN SCHOOL Architecture is located on the informal working environments the nature of their activity OF ARCHITECTURE, Bond University campus designed are framed by curving concrete and choose an environment that BOND UNIVERSITY in the 1980s by Arata Isozaki. walls, lining the central street suits. Throughout, colourful, CRAB’s building is a long, airy that gently rises up the hilltop irregular and playful furniture COOK ROBOTHAM structure split over three levels site. Cave-like rooms described can be conﬁ gured in various ARCHITECTURAL articulated by a series of rooms as ‘scoops’ are nestled within the ways, resulting in an interior BUREAU that can be used as casual concrete walls and contrast with that is an idiosyncratic and meeting spaces, work spaces airy, well-lit spaces, allowing the episodic journey.

WINNER COMMENDED

ARCHITECTURE FACTORY MARC O RIAIN (CIT) & NEIL TOBIN (RKD ARCHITECTS)

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Lekker Architects Woods Bagot Sandeep Khosla ‘Adds a sense of theatre to Cove 2 South Australian Health and Medical Principal, Khosla Associates, India an education environment’ ADEPT Research Institute Sylvia Leydecker Dalarna Media Library Matsuya Art Works Principal, 100% Interior, Germany Nikken Sekkei Toshin Satellite Preparatory School Layton Reid Concert hall renovation, President, Interior Educators Tokyo National University Council, UK of Fine Arts and Music

62 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL HOTELS

Tama Hotel, located on the 22nd a homely environment. Smaller, and the other a casual TAMA HOTEL , ﬂ oor of the Phnom Penh Tower, ﬁ ve square metre rooms are arrangement of booths and sofas PHNOM PENH TOWER has been designed for overseas contained in a row of tiny wooden designed to be a working lunch FHAMS business visitors. An open huts behind the bar, while larger, space or an area for meeting concept celebrates the creation more traditional rooms provide clients. Wood and metal create of a sense of mixed community, views out across the Cambodian an intimate atmosphere in the and workspace and comfortable capital. The restaurant has been dining spaces, while the rooms settings suited for both long and separated into two distinct zones, employ modern, clean-cut and short stay guests help to create one a more formal dining area tactile stylings.

WINNER COMMENDED

THE TENT A21 STUDIO

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Architect 49 Rossana Hu ‘Displayed a youthful Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok Principal, Neri&Hu, China energy towards the future Matteo Thun of hotel design’ Principal, Matteo Thun & Partners, Italy Paul Matthew Wiste Regional Director of Development – Design: Asia Paciﬁ c at Jumeirah

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 63 INSIDE ARCHITECTURE OFFICE

This radically simplifi ed o ce structure rises from the existing table is a pearlescent white, THE BARBARIAN concept imagines an endless table oak fl oor with pony walls with a clear epoxy coating. GROUP that physically connects everyone supporting the table, which Initially drawn by hand and then CLIVE WILKINSON in the o ce to each other. is lifted to fl y over the pathways moulded in a physical model, the With a highly constrained budget, in the o ce. This results in plywood supporting structure ARCHITECTS the architects adapted an existing arches with grotto-like spaces was thereafter entirely shaped o ce space for a fl exible underneath which can by computer-aided design. In its community of 125 to 175 people. accommodate a variety of fi nal form, the table is made up The endless table’s plywood amenities. The top surface of the of 870 unique plywood panels.

WINNER

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT HASSELL Vo Trong Nghia Architects Eve Edelstein ‘Makes highly inventive ANZ Tower, Sydney Factory O ce Renovation President, Innovative Design use of disregarded Spaces Architects Neri&Hu Design and Research O ce Science, USA materials to sculpt space’ Architect’s o ce Flamingo O ce Cameron Bruhn Park + Associates Hyunjoon Yoo Architects Editor-in-Chief, Artichoke, Architect’s o ce at Kim Yam Road HUB&SCL Australia Haptic Architects Arkwright Woods Bagot National Australia Torben Østergaard BVN Donovan Hill in association Bank, 700 Bourke St, Melbourne Principal, 3XN, Denmark with Jasmax ASB North Wharf Erginoğlu&Çalışlar Architecture Eight Inc Sahibinden.com DonorsChoose.org Headquarters

64 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL RESIDENTIAL

A three-storey penthouse set in Joyce Wang Studio sought Wood-grain etched concrete, XINTIANDI the heart of Shanghai’s Xintiandi to manipulate the form of Corten steel and walnut timber PENTHOUSE district, this private residence traditionally hard materials, line the walls, fl oors and ceiling JOYCE WANG STUDIO boasts some of the best lake and the dining area sits within in reference to the warehouses and skyline views in the city. a nest-like environment created of old Shanghai, and geometric A cantilever staircase winds by fi ve kilometres of metal graphic patterns are created around the double-height atrium cabling woven between the on the fl ooring as one material and as one ascends the stairs balustrade so the family can enjoy joins another in order to zone the stunning view unfolds. the intimacies of their home. the various areas of the home.

WINNER COMMENDED

CHU LIN ROAD APARTMENT MANOR STUDIO

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT A ect-t Architecture Project Mike Sti ‘Located in the heart of the Cavendish Heights Residence Stanhope Garden Flat Founding Principal, Sti Shanghai Xintiandi district, WOW Architects | Warner Wong Arent+Pyke in collaboration with + Trevillion, UK the design reﬂ ects the warehouses Design Chiltern House TFAD The Avenue Scott Walker of the region with a beautifully Ganna Design Head of Interior Design, Hassell, crafed industrial aesthetic’ Ganna Design, Taipei Australia Haptic Architects Voon Wong Idunsgate Residence Principal, VW+BS, UK / Singapore Patrick Tighe Architecture Montee Karp Residence

AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 65 INSIDE ARCHITECTURE RETAIL

The Cultura bookstore has been audiovisual products lead out used for lectures and other CULTURA BOOKSTORE designed to be a bookstore for to a garden café. The top fl oor events. Books encircle the space, STUDIO MK27 the 21st century, a store where provides the main area of the the shelves having built-in LEDs socialising, relaxing and store, a large area dotted with that delineate the space as a purchasing are all combined. tables of books provides an bright, book-clad cube. More than merely a place to shop, open-plan space with lounge A multi-use room for the store invites visitors to stay chairs where customers can conferences and a room reserved and experience the fl exible uses read and discuss. The space also for a garden and children’s books of the space. On the ground fl oor, features large tables and can be complete the programme.

WINNER COMMENDED

CAMPER SHOWROOM/OFFICE NERI&HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE

FINALISTS JURY JURY COMMENT Elenberg Fraser Joey Ho ‘Digniﬁ es and civilises the act Adriano Zumbo Patisserie Principal, Joey Ho Design, of bookselling and creates a Persian Garden Studio Hong Kong lively sense of community’ Zeeen Shop Cheryl Durst OpenAir Studio President, International Interior Just Cavalli Design Association, USA Neri&Hu Design and Research O ce Lim Keong Wee Camper Showroom/O ce Founding Principal, PAC, Singapore Make Architects Harrods esclator hall

66 AR | WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL WAF 2015 HOW TO ENTER

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