Selected News from Selected Architects

The heart of the World-Architects.com platform is the Profiles of Selected Architects—over 2,500 offices that are carefully chosen according to criteria of professionalism, uniqueness, and quality of design. To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs—carefully selected, just like the profiles.

Awards

Aidlin Darling Design: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2013 National Design Award for Interior Design; AIA 2013 COTE Top Ten Plus Green Project Award for 355 11th Street: The Matarozzi/Pelsinger Multi-Use Building.

Alberto Camp Baeza: Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (his studio's project for Junta Castilla León is pictured below).

Amateur Architecture Studio: Wang Shu named to the 2013 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, the only architect on the list. 

Belzberg Architects: 2013 OAA (Ontario Assocation of Architects) Design Excellence Awards for Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and Stone Residence.

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group: 2013 AIA Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design for Superkilen.

Bossley Architects: New Zealand Institute of Architects 2012 Gold Medal to Peter Bossley.

Brooks + Scarpa: AIA 2013 COTE Top Ten Green Project Award for Yin-Yang House.

Dattner Architects: 2013 AIA Housing Award and AIA/HUD Secretary Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing Design (both with Grimshaw) for Via Verde - The Green Way (pictured below).

Diamond Schmitt Architects: 2013 OAA (Ontario Assocation of Architects) Design Excellence Awards for Centre for Green Cities, Evergreen Brick Works and Ryerson Image Centre/School of Image Arts (pictured below); 2013 OAA Lifetime Achievement Award to A.J. Diamond.

Eskew+Dumez+Ripple: 2013 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture for Lamar Advertising Corporate Headquarters.

GLUCK+: 2013 AIA Housing Award for House in the Mountains.

Handel Architects: 2013 AIA Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design for National September 11 Memorial.

hanrahanMeyers architects: 2013 AIANY Architecture Honor Award for Won Dharma Center.

Hugh Broughton Architects: 2013 AIA UK Award for Best Scientific Building for Halley VI Antarctic Research Station.

HM White: 2013 ASLANY Honor Awards for Brooklyn Botanic Garden landscape and living roof, and for MiMA north and south terraces.

Ingarden & Ewý Architects: 2012 Prof. J. Bogdanowski Prize for Małopolska Garden of Arts (pictured below).

ingenhoven architects: 2012 AIA National Architecture Awards' Harry Seidler Award for Commercial Architecture (with architectus) for 1 Bligh Street.

KPF: 2013 AIANY Medal of Honor to William Pedersen; 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for CENTRA at Metropark; 2013 AIANY Architecture Honor Award for One Jackson Square.

Leeser Architecture: 2013 Red Dot Award in Architecture and Urban Design category for Museum of the Moving Image.

magma architecture: 2013 AIA UK Award for Best Temporary Building for London Shooting Venue (pictured below).

Marlon Blackwell Architect: 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church (pictured below).

Michael Sorkin: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2013 National Design Award for "Design Mind."

Min | Day: 2013 AIA Small Project Award for Bemis InfoShop.

Morphosis: 2013 AIA Gold Medal to Thom Mayne.

Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects: 2013 Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League of New York.

OMA: Johannes Vermeer Award 2013 to Rem Koolhaas; 2013 AIA Institute Honor Award for Architecture for Milstein Hall, Cornell University (pictured below).

pfarreé lighting design: 2013 IALD Award, Radiance Award Winner for Hafencity University Subway Station.

PLANT Architect Inc.: 2012 Faculty of Engineering Team Alumni Achievement Medal to partners Lisa Rappaport, Chris Pommer, and Mary Tremain.

Richard Meier & Partners Architects: 2013 AIANY Architecture Honor Award for Jesolo Lido Condominium.

Saucier + Perrotte architectes: 2013 OAA (Ontario Assocation of Architects) Design Excellence Award for UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences / CDRD.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: 2013 AIA Honor Awards for Regional & Urban Design for The Great Lakes Century - 100-Year Vision, and Parkmerced Vision Plan; 2013 AIANY Architecture Honor Award for John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Stanton Williams: 2013 AIANY UK Award for Best Community Building for Hackney Marshes Centre (pictured below).

Steven Holl Architects: 2013 AIANY Architecture Honor Award for Daeyang Gallery and House (pictured below).

Studio Gang Architects: Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2013 National Design Award for Architecture Design.

Taylor_Smyth Architects: 2013 OAA (Ontario Assocation of Architects) Design Excellence Award for House on the Bluffs.

Teddy Cruz: Arts and Letter Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Competitions

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group: First place in competition for EuropaCity, an 80-hectare destination between Paris and Roissy.

Bing Thom Architects: First place (with Ronald Lu) in competition for Xiqu Centre cultural venue in the West Kowloon Cultural District.

Boltshauser Architekten: First place in competition for "Ozeanium" Aquarium in Basel, Switzerland, with "Seacliff" entry (pictured below).

C.F. Møller Architects: First place in invited competition for a new student residence at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense (pictured below).

gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner: First place in competition for new exhibition center in Tianjin, China; first prize in competition for extension of Gebr. Heinemann Headquarters in HafenCity, Hamburg.

HENN: First place in competition for the MedForCE medical research center at Münster University Hospital.

Kjellgren Kiminsky Architecture: First place in competition for passive house school in Kungsbacka, Sweden.

nARCHITECTS: Winner in adAPT NYC Mirco-Unit Apartment Competition in New York City, with "My Micro NY" entry (pictured below).

OMA + Hassell: First place (with Populous) in competition for Darling Harbour precinct in Sydney, Australia.

OMA: First place in competition for Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen, China.

WEISS/MANFREDI: Winner of the international design competition for Kent State University's new home for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

 Completed Buildings

atelier arcau: Steel Band, Vannes, France (pictured below).

bergmeisterwolf architekten: Blocco, Laboratorio di sculture in legno, Pontives, Italy.

BNKR Arquitectura: Upcycling Pavilion, Mexico City.

CAP Chalabi Architekten & Partner: Sheikh Zayed Desert Learning Center, Al Ain, United Arab Emerates.

David Hotson Architect: Skyhouse, penthouse apartment in Lower Manhattan, New York City (pictured below).

Fougeron Architecture: Flip House, San Francisco, California.

HENN: Nantong Urban Planning Museum, Nantong, China.

Latz + Partner: Parco Dora, Torino, Italy.

Mikou Studio Paris: School complex and leisure center G.Valbon, Bobigny, France.

NADAAA: Model Home Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (pictured below).

OMA: Coach Flagship Store, Tokyo, Japan.

Pichler & Traupmann Architekten: Culture Congress Centre Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt, Austria.

Plasma Studio: Dolomitenblick, Sesto, Italy (pictured below).

SAKO Architects: LOOP Kindergarten, Tianjin, China.

RVDM Arquitectos: Corisco Housing, Aveiro, Portugal (pictured below).

Schmelzle+Partner: Bürogebäude Schmelzle+Partner, Hallwangen, Germany.

schlaich bergermann und partner: Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

TEN Arquitectos: Amparo Museum, Puebla, Pue, Mexico.

wild bär heule architekten: "Dado" office building, Dübendorf, Switzerland (pictured below).

 Exhibitions

ARX Portugal Arquitectos: ARX Archive, at the Centro Cultural de Beleém in Lisbon, 2012-13 (pictured below).

Auer+Weber+Assoziierte: 6 Ans 42 Concours 6 Projets, at the Architektengalerie München in Munich, Germany, 12 April - 1 June 2013.

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group: Yes Is More, at the USM showroom in Berlin, Germany, as part of Architektur & Wohnen "Architect of the Year 2013," from 24 April - 1 June 2013.

Iwan Baan: Iwan Baan: The Way We Live, at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, from 20 February - 13 April 2013 (pictured below).

Morger + Dettli Architekten: Morger + Dettli: Trancauna, at Architektur Galerie Berlin, from 16 March - 27 April 2013.

PLANT Architect Inc.: Lenticular Curtain | Breathtaking: Constructed Landscapes, at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, 29 September - 23 December 2012.

 Monographs

KCAP Architects & Planners: Kees Christiaanse: Rotterdam, by Kees Christiaanse. nai010 Publishers, April 2013.

LOCALARCHITECTURE: LOCALARCHITECTURE. Quart Architektur, December 2012.

OMA: Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: An Ethnography of Design by Albena Yaneva. nai010 Publishers, April 2013.

RVDM: Collection 1+1 - Ricardo Vieira de Melo. Uzina Books, 2012.

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See the first roundup of Selected News from Selected Architects from November 2012.

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