Timber iQ February - March 2019 // Issue: 42 | Page 18
EVENTS
"The next World Architecture
Festival takes place between 4 and
6 December 2019 in Amsterdam"
dealing with multiple social and societal issues, including
aging populations, wellness and healthcare.
EDUCATION - FUTURE PROJECTS
The category winners were Warren and Mahoney Architects
and Woods Bagot for their Lincoln University and
AgResearch Joint Facility in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Judges were impressed by collaborative engagement of six
client partners and the local community, allowing for the
creation of a building ‘with a profound relationship to both
the cultural meaning and physical manifestation of the
landscape’.
HOUSE – FUTURE PROJECTS
A bamboo stalactite project in Italy.
HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Alison Brooks Architects won this award for Exeter College
Cohen Quadrangle in Oxford, UK. Judges were impressed by
the project for being ‘contextual in a very sensitive and
contemporary way, with exterior and interiors beautifully
balanced and integrated’.
SCHOOL - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Tezuka Architects won this category for its Muku Nursery
School project in Fuji City, Japan. The oval shaped
kindergarten school features a wooden deck across its roof
acting as a playground space for pupils. Judges felt it was a
‘beautiful and delightful concept’.
VILLA – COMPLETED BUILDINGS
The category winner was High Horse Ranch in the US
designed by Kieran Timberlake. The collection of a main
house and two satellite guest cabins in California's
Mendocino County wowed the judges, who felt the project
‘develops a new discourse in architecture in relation to
off-site construction, even in unbuilt landscapes’.
TRANSPORT – COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Grimshaw won the category for London Bridge Station in
the UK. One of the most complex projects in London’s
history, the station upgrade has doubled its capacity while
catalysing regeneration in the local area. Judges recognised
the project as a ‘major repair to the fabric of the city’ with
the design seamlessly ‘interweaving future with tradition’.
MIXED USE – COMPLETED BUILDINGS
WOHA won the award, supported by ABB and Busch-Jaegar,
for Kampung Admiralty in Singapore. The judges were
impressed by the way the mixed uses were cleverly layered
in a ‘new and innovative way’ and lauded the project for
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Nextoffice won the category for Guyim Vault House in
Shiraz, Iran. The festival’s judges commended the project
for reinventing the house typology, with its structural and
material concepts bridging the divide between traditional
enclosed vaults and modernist transparency.
CULTURE - FUTURE PROJECTS
The category winner was Studio 44 for its Museum of the
Siege of Leningrad, in St Petersburg, Russia. The proposed
project was lauded as a dignified response to a competition
brief, with judges confident it would be a ‘moving and
sensitive’ building if built, while also praising its
accessibility.
MASTERPLANNING – FUTURE PROJECTS
Sebastian Monsalve + Juan David Hoyos scooped the award
for the Medellin River Parks / Botanical Park Masterplan in
Medellin, Colombia. The project was a clear winner in its
category, offering a ‘breathtaking vision that will transform
the city’ according to the festival judges, who also praised it
as a ‘beautifully designed and practical proposal’.
COMMERCIAL MIXED USE
– FUTURE PROJECTS
The award, supported by Miele, was won by Aedas for
Taichung Bank Headquarters in Taichung, Taiwan. The
proposed 200-metre, 40-storey high tower wowed judges,
who felt it was a highly sophisticated project,
demonstrating ‘confident, contemporary architecture’ and
was ‘definitively of its place: tomorrow’s Taiwan’.
RESIDENTIAL – FUTURE PROJECTS
The award, supported by GROHE, was won by Sordo
Madaleno Arquitectos for its Amelia Tulum project in Tulum,
Mexico. Commended as an ‘interesting interpretation of the
vernacular regarding spatial planning and materials’ by the
festival’s judges, the designs for the ambitious residential
building feature interlocking units in plan and section.
The next World Architecture Festival takes place between
4 and 6 December 2019 in Amsterdam.
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