2016COMPETITIONS Annual

2016 Competitions Annual2

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SHoP ArchitectsNew YorkNational Veterans Resource CenterSyracuse University

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Zaha Hadid ArchitectsLondon, U.K.Forest Green Rovers Soccer StadiumStroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.

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3XNCopenhagen, DenmarkMälardalen University CompetitionEskilstuna, Sweden

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2016COMPETITIONS Annual

Editor in Chief: G. Stanley Collyer, Ph.D, Hon. AIAAssociate Editor: Daniel Madryga, MS Arch.

with contributions by Michael Speaks, Gretchen Millikinand Wilfred Wang

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6 Introduction

8 Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art

8 Adjaye Associates (winner)London, U.K.

16 Sauerbruch HuttonBerlin, Germany

20 Lahdelma & MahlamakiHelsinki, Finland

24 Caruso St John ArchitectsLondon, U.K.

26 Henning Larsen ArchitectsCopenhagen, Denmark

30 wHY ArchitectureLos Angeles, California

34 Neutelings Riedijk ArchitectsRotterdam, The Netherlands

38 Jack Layton Ferry Terminal Competition

38 KPMB Architects (winner)Toronto, Canada

42 Stoss Landscape Urbanism + nARCHITECTS + ZAS ArchitectsBoston/Brooklyn/Toronto

46 Clement Blanchet Architecture + RVTR + Batlle i RoigParis/Ann Arbor/Barcelona

48 Diller Scofidio+Renfro + architectsAlliance + Hood DesignNew York/ Toronto,/Oakland

48 Diller Scofidio+Renfro + architectsAlliance + Hood DesignNew York/ Toronto,/Oakland

50 Quadrangle Architects + aLL Design + Janet Rosenberg & StudioToronto

52 Berlin Forum M20 Competition

53 Herzog & de Meuron (winner)Basel, Switzerland2nd Place

58 Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter A/S with Schønherr A/SCopenhagen, Denmark3rd Place

62 Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architektenwith Capatti Staubach LandschaftsarchitektenBerlin, GermanyHonorable Mentions

66 Office of Metropolitan ArchitectureRotterdam, The Netherlands

70 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAATokyo, Japan

74 Volker Staab - Staab ArchitektenBerlin, Germany

78 Aires Mateus & AssociadosLisbon, Portugal

Contents82 The Museum of the 20th Century (open competition)

83 Arga16, Berlin, GermanyChoe Hackh Netter Architekten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

84 ARGE Weyell Zipse Architekten und Hörner ArchitektenBasel, SwitzerlandPedro Domingos arquitectos unip., Ida + Pedro Matos Gameiro arq.Lisbon, Portugal

85 TOPOTEK 1, Berlin, Germany and Pordenone, ItalyHeinle, Wischer und Partner, Berlin, Germany

86 Florian Hoogen Architekt, Mo nchengladbach, GermanyShenzhen Huahui Design, Shenzhen/Beijing, China

87 Dost Architektur, Schaffhausen, SwitzerlandBeatriz Ale�s + Elena Zaera, Castello� , Spain

88 The Tri An Monument Competition

88 Grega Vezjak Architect (Winner)Bilje, Miren-Kostanjevica, SloveniaFinalists

92 David Chisholm, CMC ArchitectsPrague, Czech Republic

95 Jordan Hines, Informal Office, llcLexington, KentuckyHonorable Mentions

96 Jin Young Song, Buffalo, NY97 Anh Nguyen, Riverside, CA98 Rob Kiester, Denver, CO99 Yongwon Kwon, New York100 Justin Arleo, Chandler, AZ101 Tianyu Wu, Athens, GA102 Tom Lucey, Perth, Australia

Yi-Chen Lee, Taipei, Taiwan103 Tommy Haddock, San Francisco, CA

Palita Simapaisal, Bangkok, Thailand

104 Science Island Competition in Kaunas

104 SMAR Architecture Studio (Winner) Madrid and Western Australia

108 SimpsonHaugh and Partners (Winner)London/Manchester, U.K.

112 Donghua Chen Team (Winner)Beijing, ChinaHonorable Mentions

116 Alper Derinbogaz, SalonIstanbul, Turkey

117 Amid.cero9 / ElsewhereMadrid, Spain

118 Mark Foster Gage ArchitectsNew York, NY

119 UAB Architektų biuras G. Natkevičius ir partneriaiLithuania

120 Wolfgang Tschapeller ZTGmbHVienna, Austria

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122 Syracuse University National Veterans Resource CenterInterview with Michael Speaks

122 SHoP Architects (Winner)New York, NY

126 Snøhetta (Finalist)New York / Oslo

132 Strategizing for Expansion: Mälerdalen University

Winner132 3XN, Copenhagen, Denmark

Finalists138 Arkitema, Stockholm142 Christensen & Co, Copenhagen146 Juul/Frost, Copenhagen150 Wingårdh Architectural Office, Stockholm/Göteborg154 White Arkitekter, Göteborg

158 Not Just a Coming Attraction: ZNE Is Already Here!

158 Dialog (Merit Award), Vancouver, Canada162 Little (Merit Award), Charlotte, NC164 Modus Studio (Citation Award), Fayatteville, AR166 Romain Dechavanne (Student Honor Award)

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, Grenoble, France167 Steven Loutherback (Student Merit Award)

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TXTamkang University (Student Special Recognition)Taipei City, Taiwan

168 The Museum of London Competition

168 Winning EntryStanton Williams with Asif Khan, London, U.K.Finalists

172 BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Copenhagen, Denmark173 Caruso St John, London, U.K.174 Diener and Diener Architekten, Basel, Switzerland176 Lacaton & Vassal Architectes. Paris, France177 Studio Milou architecture, Singapore

178 A Fitting Gateway for Gallaudet UniversityA Fitting Gateway for Gallaudet University

178 Hall McKnight (Winner)London / BelfastFinalists

182 Kennedy & Violich Architecture, LtdBoston, MA

184 Marvel ArchitectsNew York, NY

186 MASS Design GroupBoston, MA

188 New Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in BerlinNew Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin

188 Arge Kim Nallweg with César Trujillo Moya (1st Place)Berlin, Germany

192 bube (3rd Place - shared), Rotterdam, The Netherlands194 R + S Architekten (3rdPlace - shared), Lippstadt, Germany196 Rohdecan (3rdPlace - shared), Dresden, Germany198 Laura Alvarez Architecture (Honorable Mention), Amsterdam200 Lankes Koengeter Architekten (Honorable Mention), Berlin

202 Forest Green Rovers CompetitionForest Green Rovers Competition

202 Zaha Hadid Architects (Winner)London, U.K.

208 Glenn Howells Architects (Runnerup)Birmingham, U.K.Finalists

210 George King Architects, London, U.K.212 AFL Architects, Manchester, U.K. 213 Studio 12, Surrey, U.K.214 Zed Factory, Wallington, UK

DP Architects, Singapore215 Gianni Botsford Architects, London, U.K.

Richard Kroeker, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

216 Lamborghini Monument CompetitionLamborghini Monument Competition

216 ACQ studio (1st Prize - Shared), Florence, Italy218 Team 0.9 (1st Prize - Shared), Milan, Italy219 Team: FPMG (2nd Prize)220 Casamassima Mazzocchini Notari (3rd Prize)221 Team: CDA (Gold Mention)

Mass & Volume / Architecture, Art & Design Studio (Gold Mention)222 Florian Marquet (Honorable Mention)223 Team: HYPNOS - Jan Popowski, Nicola Brembilla (Honorable Mention)

224 Canterbury Earthquake Memorial DedicationCanterbury Earthquake Memorial Dedication

224224 Grega Vezjak Architect (Winner), Bilje, Miren-Kostanjevica, Slovenia

230 Twin Creeks: Trail as Experience MakerTwin Creeks: Trail as Experience Maker

230 APLIZ (Winner)Borba, Portugal

234 Cadaster, (Winner)Brooklyn, New York

236 Small Wonders (Winner)New York/Seattle

238 Notable 2016/2017 CompetitionsNotable 2016/2017 Competitions

240240 Illustration CreditsIllustration Credits

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Introduction

Of all the competitions won by Zaha Hadid over the past decades, two standout, not because they were built and received universal praise, but because theyrepresented two of her best designs that went unbuilt: the Cardiff Opera House(1994) and the New National Stadium in Japan (2012). Since her passing in 2016,those two competitions seem almost like bookends, containing a life’s work span-ning over two decades.

Zaha Hadid was the consummate competitor, and her meteoric career could beattributed at least in part to her participation in numerous competitions. Althoughthe Cardiff Opera House competition did not result in a commission, it certainlycontributed to her presence as a designer to be reconed with on the nationalstage. Her name came up as a frequent participant in invited competitions, andshe must have lost twice as many of those as she won. An architect, who wasclosely involved with organizing a competition in Ireland once responded to myquestion, as to why Zaha had been shortlisted: “We needed somebody to runagainst.” The message to her competitors: Can you beat this?

Zaha was known for her exuberant, sweeping, curvilinear designs. However, shecould pursue an entirely different strategy when the situation dictated. A primeexample is the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio—her first Americancommission. There she was confronted with a very small, constrained, corner site,and the end product—a structure sporting a facade that related more to cubism—seemed like the perfect urbanistic solution. For one who saw her there for the firsttime, she exuded supreme confidence in justifying her solution for this difficultchallenge. This, turning a building that needed more space for exhibits into a citylandmark.

Her later design for Michigan State University’s Eli Broad Art Museum, also theproduct of a competition, bore no resemblance to her Cincinnati project, spreadingout over a larger site, with no need to go up two or three stories. And when sheturned the BMW automobile plant in Leipzig into a spectacular experience, it wastime to look differently at what most regarded as a mundane building type.

And what other major contribution did she make to the profession of architec-ture? She proved that a woman could compete with any man when the playingfield was level. Maybe that is why she turned to competitions as a way to advancea promising career.

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“All sorts of rumours sweptCardiff on the weeks that fol-lowed that decision: it was theresult of a direct order fromNo. 10; it came from prejudicebecause Zaha Hadid is awoman, and an Iraqi at that;the Commissioners hated thedesign. I do not believe any of these

rumours, but I do know thatfear is perhaps the most sig-nificant of all political reali-ties, and leadership combinedwith vision is required to over-come it.So in the end the verdict

must be reached that politicsand dissension were decisive.”-Nicholas Crickhowell fromOpera House Lottery

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Poland and the Baltic states have been playing cultural catch-up with the rest ofthe world ever since the former gained their independence after the breakup of theSoviet Union in 1989. These have included several high-profile competitions formuseums in Poland, but also interesting projects in Estonia. Now Latvia andLithuania are saying that they too should also have modern art museums on parwith those in western Europe and Scandinavia. In Latvia, a movement to establish amodern art museum dates back to the early decade of the 21st century. It was thenin 2005 that the ABLV Charitable Foundation, established by a local bank, providedendowment funds for purchasing modern art for a museum. They were joined inthe museum project by The Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation, which was foundedwith the purpose of promoting culture.

Finland has always had close times culturally to the Baltic States, especially toEstonia, and the recent Guggenheim competition there could hardly have goneunnoticed by its southern neighbors. So it should come as no surprise that theLatvian sponsors engaged Malcolm Reading Consultants, the Guggenheim competi-tion adviser, to organize their competition for the Latvian Museum ofContemporary Art in the nation’s capital, Riga. Contrary to the Guggenheim compe-tition, this time the finalists were the result of a closed shortlisting process.

Prioritizing Arts on the BalticThe Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art

Winning Entry

Adjaye Associates (UK) with AB3D (Latvia)

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View from southwest

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View to front entrance

©Adjaye Associates Images courtesy Malcolm Reading Consultants