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Marlon Blackwell Architect in Springdale, Arkansas

March 22, 2013, 12:23 pm
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The new St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architect. Photo: © Timothy Hursley

A former shop building has been transformed into a beautifully minimalist modern church building for a small Eastern Orthodox congregation in Springdale, Arkansas. The St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church was designed by Marlon Blackwell Architect of Fayetteville.

The building's new corrugated siding echoes its industrial origins, and its steel structure was largely preserved, but this is where the similarities end. A deceptively simple western front facade recalls Le Corbusier: a slightly off-center entrance with cantilevered awning, a church tower, and carefully arranged window openings at either corner.

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Under the skylit tower, with vestibule (right) and sanctuary (left) in view. Photo: © Timothy Hursley

The glazing is tinted to hint at stained glass. The two corner windows are tinted blue and yellow respectively. And in the tower, narrow ribbons of red glass form a blazing Latin cross, marking the church. The tower is also a skylit lightwell that stands at the point where the slender vestibule–oriented at 90 degrees to the entry sidewalk–makes a right-angle turn on the center line of the 100-seat sanctuary.

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Floor plan drawings. Image: Marlon Blackwell Architect

The large rectangular worship space occupies the north half of the church, with a screened altar area opposite the main entrance. A choir space is located at its rear, adjacent to the center-axis entry. One long interior wall of the sanctuary is split in two unequal pieces; each portion is hinged and swings out to join the sanctuary with the adjacent fellowship hall, whose eastern end wall is a large glazed opening.

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Sanctuary space. Photo: © Timothy Hursley


Support spaces, including restrooms, office, kitchen, and stairs are arrayed in two levels along the southern wall, the upper portion of which is dominated by an open mezzanine space that overlooks the fellowship hall.

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Section drawing through sanctuary and tower, looking south. Image: Marlon Blackwell Architect


Jury Comments
This transformation of a humble former welding shop into an elegant work of religious architecture is an inspiring example for our profession and especially for small practitioners.

The project makes the most with the least, displaying deep resource efficiency as an integral part of its design ethos—something more architects should be thinking about and practicing.

The continued development of flexible space by creating a maneuverable wall between the worship and fellowship spaces is great.

The ability to maintain the sacredness of the space with strategic use of color and light is inspiring.

St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church has received an Honor Award in the Architecture category of the 2013 AIA National Design Awards.


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Exploded axonometric drawing. Image: Marlon Blackwell Architect

Project Credits
  • Client: Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Architect: Marlon Blackwell Architect
  • Civil Engineer: Bates & Associates
  • Structural Engineer: Myers Beatty Engineering, Inc.
  • General Contractor: Lourie Construction LLC
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View from the northwest. Photo: © Timothy Hursley


Project Details
  • Name: Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Location: Springdale, Arkansas 
  • Energy Use Intensity: not available
  • Year Complete: 2010
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Ralph Rapson - In & Around Tehran

March 26, 2013, 5:00 am
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Azadi Tower, in Tehran, Iran, designed by Hossein Amanat, 1971

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.
"A former Iranian graduate student of mine was a member of the Shah's inner circle. He had been given the commission to design a new arts college in Tehran and asked me to be his associate. I visited Iran several times, preparing preliminary designs for the project. The last trip happened shortly before the Shah fled into exile in 1979. 

"En route from the airport to the city center, my car would always pass an impressive modern monument to the Shah's accomplishments. But this was mostly window dressing as much of Tehran was not modernized. The capital I recall was a city of contrasts, a maze of beautiful gardens, heavily trafficked streets, low-quality housing, and covered bazaars loaded with fascinating goods: jewelry, rugs, fabrics.
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A traditional small village in Iran with wind scoop towers used to passively cool buildings

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.

"I was invited to give a lecture at an international gathering of architects sponsored by the Shah and his wife, a patron of the arts. I spent a glamourous, fascinating evening at a party at one of the Shah's homes–a fabulous place constructed of a series of domes, one of which opened, allowing the stars to reflect the interior pools below. 

"The Iranian people were friendly, and I often wandered around small villages to watch craftsmen working. Although we did not speak the sema language, we coud always communicate." – Ralph Rapson
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AIA Minnesota Design Awards

March 27, 2013, 5:00 am
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The Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by HGA. Photo: Paul Crosby Photography


A serene mausoleum, a respectful addition to the American Swedish Institute, a new staff support facility for the shipping hub of the Dollar General store chain, and the conversion of a historic Chicago landmark by Target Stores were among the eight projects recognized by the AIA Minnesota Design Awards.

The roster of winners also comprised a colorful new main library for the city of McAllen, Texas and three diverse residential projects encompassing historic preservation, homage to a mid-Century master, and contemporary urban infill.

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The ground floor of Louis Sullivan's Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store in Chicago, Illinois is now a Target department store. Photo: Scott Gilbertson



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Nelson Cultural Center at the American Swedish Institute
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
by HGA

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Photo: Paul Crosby Photography


Lakewood Cemetery Garden Mausoleum
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
by HGA
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Photo: Bill Baxley

Dollar General Distribution Center Employee Hub
in Bessemer, Alabama
by Leo A Daly


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Photo: Scott Gilbertson

Chicago State Street cityTarget
in Chicago, Illinois
by Target Corporation

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Photo: Lara Swimmer

McAllen Main Library
in McAllen, Texas
by MS&R

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Photo: Daniel Yudchitz

Essential House: Infill Housing Prototype
in Saint Paul, Minnesota
by Dan Yudchitz, AIA

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Pierre Bottineau House
in Maple Grove, Minnesota
by MacDonald & Mack Architects

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Photo: Troy Thies Photography

Rapson Redux
An homage to Ralph Rapson in St. Paul, Minnesota
by SALA Architects

The eight award winners were selected from among 71 submissions. These awards and others were presented at a reception on November 30, 2012. Craig Rafferty, FAIA of Rafferty Rafferty Tollefson Lindeke Architects received the AIA Minnesota Gold Medal Award.

The AIA Minnesota jurors included: BobBerkebile, FAIA, Principal, BNIM Architects, KansasCity, Missouri; Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Principal, Ross Barney Architects, Chicago, Illinois; and Sharon Johnston, AIA, Principal, Johnston Marklee Architects, Santa Monica, California.


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SmithGroupJJR in Lake View, Illinois

March 28, 2013, 5:01 pm
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Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for Advanced Care. Image: SmithGroupJJR

Ground has broken on a new outpatient facility for Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, a three-story building in the Lake View area of Chicago, Illinois. SmithGroupJJR designed the building, which is the first of a planned two-phase development that will add 156,000 square feet (14,500 square meters) to the Advocate Illinois Masonic hospital.

The new building adds major new care facilities to the hospital, including six outpatient operating rooms, 18 prep and recovery rooms, two linear accelerators, 16 infusion bays, and a medical teaching area. Once completed, the Center for Advanced Care will also accommodate digestive health and cancer care services.

Its front facade will comprise a curving glass curtain wall supported by a metal backing structure. The structural frame continues past the wall at its end, marking the building's entrance, leading to a three-story atrium.


LEED-NC Silver certification is sought for the project, which is currently targeting completion in 2015.

Project Credits
  • Client: Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
  • Architect: SmithGroupJJR
  • Engineer: KJWW Engineering
  • Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
  • Builder: Turner Construction

Project Details
  • Name: Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for Advanced Care 
  • Stories: 3
  • Cost: $109 Million
  • Area: 156,000 square feet (14,500 square meters)
  • Energy Use Intentsity: not available
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Pelli Clarke Pelli at UT in Austin

March 29, 2013, 5:00 am
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Pelli Clarke Pelli designed the new Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex at UT in Austin, Texas. Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli


A two-building complex on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin is a new home for the school's computer science program. The 232,000-square-foot (21,600-square-meter) development has been named for Bill and Melinda Gates, while the northernmost of the two buildings is named for Michael Dell.

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The two buildings are connected by a central atrium. Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli


Clad in bond-patterned Texas brick and cast limestone, the Gates Computer Science complex, designed by New Haven, Connecticut-based Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, unifies the department's functions in a single place for the first time, with 60 faculty offices, and 40 more for visitors and technical staff. The building also accommodates up to 350 graduate students and boast about 20,000 square feet (1,860 square meters) of flexible lab space, as well as a 200-seat lecture hall, 10 seminar rooms, seven classrooms, eight conference rooms, and dozens of other seminar, discussion, and computer lab spaces.

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The firm says that the chief organizing unit are the school's 10 research clusters, each with its own subset of the classroom, office, conference, and ancillary academic spaces surrounding two glass-walled computer labs.

In addition to glass, the interiors of the Gates Computer Science Complex are extensively finished with wood grillwork, screens, and paneling.

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Rendering of the central atrium. Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli


The building opened on March 6,  2013 and is targeting LEED Silver certification.

Building Credits
  • Client: University of Texas at Austin
  • Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects


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An upper-floor glass-clad student work space. Photo: Courtesy UT Austin


Building Details
  • Name: Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Center
  • Location: Austin, Texas 
  • Area: 232,000 square feet (21,600 square meters)
  • Floors: 6
  • Energy Use Intensity:  not available
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Elderly Obama & Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine...

April 1, 2013, 7:30 am
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Breaking News from Climate Progress:

Elderly Obama And Boehner Daughters Arrive In Time Machine To Demand Climate Action

House GOP pass emergency bill criminalizing research into time travel even as their own grown children return from future with irrefutable evidence of climate catastrophe

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In one of the epochal moments in human history, the grown-up children of our leading politicians have returned from the future in a time machine to warn humanity that the worst fears of climate scientists have come true and that we must act now to save billions of people from starvation and endless wars over land and water.

DNA testing has confirmed that the group is led by a now-elderly Sasha and Malia Obama together with Lindsay and Tricia Boehner. They emerged with dozens of others from a remarkably small blue ship that bore a striking resemblance to a 1960s-style London police box, which materialized on the National Mall.

Read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/01/1767431/elderly-obama-and-boehner-daughters-arrive-in-time-machine-to-demand-climate-action/
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Charles Correa RIBA Exhibition

April 2, 2013, 5:00 am
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Jawahar Kala Kendra arts center, in Jaipur India, by Charles Correa. Photo: Courtesy RIBA

In an exhibition designed by David Adjaye, the Royal Institute of British Architects will look back across the multidecade career of Indian architect Charles Correa. The architect has donated an archive of 6,000 drawings to the RIBA library and this work is  a particular highlight of the exhibit.

Along with numerous buildings in India, noteworthy projects in the United States and Portugal, some of Correa's designs for housing and cities, looking closely at climate change, affordable housing, and improved cityscapes, will be featured.

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View of a balcony in the Kanchanjunga Apartments (1983), in Bombay, India. Photo: Courtesy RIBA

"Rooted in India but educated as an architect in the United States and steeped in the modernist teachings of Le Corbusier, Correa has concentrated on the living patterns in communities where he worked, achieving remarkable results with simple but effective means. Tradition and modernity are not opposites for him.  Always contemporary, he has subtly layered the history of the land and of ideas in his designs. His sources range from the railway models of his childhood to models of the Cosmos and to street-hawkers’ use of the Mumbai pavements.  
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Champalimaud Centre for the Study of the Uknown, in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo: © Rosa Reis

"Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a remarkably consistent approach, guided by a respect for the given conditions, a desire to effect change without forced interference and a passion to combine fitness for purpose with beauty and spirituality. He has designed some of the most outstanding cultural and civic monuments, science institutes, schools, housing developments and new cities based on a profound understanding of his country’s history, needs and aspirations.  His work has provided inspiration for future generations of architects at a time of vertiginous population and economic growth in the region."  --RIBA

Dr. Irena Murray will curate the exhibition, which runs at RIBA's London headquarters from May 14 to September 4, 2013.

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Distant overview of the Kanchanjunga Apartments. Photo: Courtesy RIBA



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Perspective drawing overview of the Kanchanjunga Apartments. Image: Charles Correa

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Kanchanjunga Apartments perspective drawing view of upper-level balcony. Image: Charles Correa
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Belapur Housing development. Photo: Courtesy RIBA



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Ralph Rapson's Glass Cube

April 3, 2013, 8:35 am
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The Glass Cube, in Amery, Wisconsin, designed by Ralph Rapson,

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.

"In 1972 my wife and I purchased forty acres near Amery, Wisconsin, on which to build a vacation house. Every time I suggested a scheme, however, Mary complained that the views of the meadows, the bluffs, the pines or the Apple River would be blocked. The result was an all-glass cube. By day the views – and the sunrises and sunsets – are magnificent. At night, the house becomes a luminescent jewel." – Ralph Rapson

Overview of the Rapson Cube. Photo: Tony Soluri / Architectural Digest
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ArchitectureWeek covered the Rapson Cube in detail in a 2007 cover story.

Drawings by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.



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Patrice Bideau in Baden, France

April 4, 2013, 10:12 am
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Patrice Bideau designed this new single-family residence in Baden, France. Photo: Armel Istin

When it became evident that the metal framed, concrete panel construction of an existing 1970s home would make it impossible for the building to comply with 2005 French regulations for energy efficiency and windproofing, architect Patrice Bideau designed a new low-energy house with a total annual energy consumption of 47 kilowatt-hours per square meter (4.4 kWh per square foot).

The new three-story home, located in Baden, France, features a wood and concrete structure, and was built on the highest point of the lot, restoring the original slope of the site. The lowest floor is built into the slope, while the middle "ground floor" accesses small terraces to the west and south.

Overview from southwest. Photo: Armel Istin


The third floor is tucked into the attic space of a steeply sloping roof. Two of the home's three massing elements have gable roofs pitched at 45 degrees, while the third features a 30-degree shed roof; the roofing material is schistose slate.

The middle floor contain's the home's living spaces, including a dining space, with vaulted ceilings, under one half of the gable roof, open to adjacent to a mezzanine level one floor up.

Dining room seen from mezzanine. Photo: Armel Istin

The main facade faces southwest with a gable offering views over the Gulf of Morbihan, a small body of water that opens into the Bay of Biscay. The primary cladding is a wood shiplap painted gray, a requirement of the local planning authority.

Wall insulation is cellulose, while the roof uses 300-millimeter (12-inch) rock wool insulation. Special attention was paid to the air-tightness of the walls and ceilings. Exterior wooden screens roll on tracks to shade the large sliding glass doors on the home's south-facing walls.

The home's primary heating system is a 7kW wood-burning stove. Heat transfer fluid-filled radiators provide back-up heating in the house.

View from mezzanine looking toward western balcony. Photo: Armel Istin


Project Details
  • Architect: Patrice Bideau 
  • Location: Baden, Morbihan, France
  • Stories: 3
  • Energy Use Intensity: 47 kilowatt-hours per square meter per year (4.4 kWh per square foot per year)





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KieranTimberlake Upgrade Saarinen's Yale Dorms

April 5, 2013, 5:00 am
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KieranTimberlake designed a major renovation of Eero Saarinen'sMorse and Stiles Colleges dorms at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo: Peter Aaron/ OTTO

Eero Saarinen originally designed the Morse and Stiles Residential Colleges dormitory buildings at Yale University, completed in 1962. As the final part of the university's phased plan to modernize its twelve student-housing colleges, KieranTimberlake designed a series of respectful modifications to the Modernist master's structures.

In keeping with recent trends in college housing, the dorm rooms were upgraded from stand-alone single rooms to suites. Additional space is also devoted to student recreation and living activities, including a 25,000-square-foot (2,300-square-meter) subterranean addition in the crescent-shaped main courtyard, which was also reconfigured to emphasize greenery over hardscapes.

Section rendering through courtyard, addition, and upgraded recreation areas. Image: KieranTimberlake
The addition receives daylight from a sunken courtyard that skirts the inner perimeter of the main ground-level courtyard, while new wood and steel bridges maintain access to existing entrances. Because student recreation spaces are in the basements of Saarinen's original buildings the renovation also includes new skylights inserted into the roofs of some of these areas to improve daylight access.

One of the dining halls of Morse and Stiles Colleges. Photo: Richard Barnes/ OTTO

Care was clearly taken to respect the form and spirit of the existing buildings while significantly improving the dorm experience for student residents.

Renovation of the Morse and Stiles Colleges has received an Honor Award in the Architecture category of the 2013 AIA National Design Awards.
Exterior overview of the Morse College dining hall, which now includes an outdoor wooden terrace. Photo:Richard Barnes/ OTTO

Jury Comments 

A thumbs-up for preserving the work of Saarinen and exploiting the basement space that was originally less desirable without altering the general impression and character of the project. 
It is sensitive to the resources and shows real attention to detail—great use of materials, lighting dynamics, and spatial results. 

Looking into the new sunken courtyard from an adjacent corridor. Photo: Peter Aaron/ OTTO

All of the spaces were clearly improved, and the spaces of this two-college complex were connected functionally and agreeably. 
The creation of the sunken courtyards and inclusion of skylights were done in very subtle ways, increasing area and allowing additional uses.

New and old spaces are thoughtfully integrated. Photo: Peter Aaron/ OTTO


Project Credits
  • Architect: KieranTimberlake
  • Client: Yale University
  • Code Consultant: Bruce J. Spiewak, AIA, Consulting Architect, LLC
  • Commissioning Agent: BVH Integrated Services
  • Construction Manager for Construction: Turner Construction Co.
  • Construction Manager for Preconstruction: The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
  • Cost Estimator: International Consultants, Inc.
  • Elevator Consultant: Van Duesen and Associates
  • Engineer – Civil: URS Corporation
  • Engineer - MEP/FP: AltieriSeborWieber LLC
  • Engineer – Structural: CVM Engineers
  • Environmental Consultant: Atelier Ten
  • Food Service Consultant: Ricca Newmark Design
  • Geotechnical Consultant: Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
  • Geotechnical and Environmental Engineers: URS Corp.
  • Interior Designer: Marguerite Rodgers Ltd.
  • Landscape Architect: OLIN
  • Lighting Consultant: ARUP
  • Signage Consultant: Strong Cohen
  • Specifications Consultant: Wilson Consulting, Inc.
  • Theater Consultant: Theatre Projects Consultants
  • Water Proofing Consultant: Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.
  • Photographers: Peter Aaron/OTTO; © Richard Barnes/OTTO






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Seating in the sunken courtyard. Photo:Peter Aaron/ OTTO



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Daylight washes the wall in a basement-level weaving room. Photo: Richard Barnes/ OTTO

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CO Architects in Escondido, California

April 9, 2013, 5:00 am
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The new 11-story Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, California by CO Architects. Photo: Tom Bonner


CO Architects designed the Palomar Medical Center (PMC), which recently opened in Escondido, California. The 740,000-square-foot (69,000-square-meter) hospital was conceived as a functional and flexible vertical garden facility, set within a campus configuration. The 360-bed tertiary care facility, was developed using an evidence-based design process in which individuals from all departments in the hospital were invited to participate in researching new and emerging ideas in healthcare design.

PMC also includes a 1.5-acre (0.61-hectare) rolling green roof with native plants that provides a pleasant and restorative setting for visitors, staff, and patients. The facility also integrates daylight into operating rooms.

One of numerous outdoor terraces of PMC. Photo: Tom Bonner



Palomar Medical Center was a pilot project for the Green Guide for Healthcare, a rating system specifically designed for healthcare projects. In line with that participation, PMC is intended to embody two main directives of sustainable healthcare design:


  • create an environment that promotes health and healing
  • reduce the impact on the natural environment in construction and operations.


Upper-floor terraces of PMC. Photo: Tom Bonner


Because of efficient mechanical equipment, lighting systems, and envelope design, the building will purportedly "perform significantly better than a typical hospital would in a similar climate."

The building received a 2013 American Council of Engineering Companies award, and has previously been recognized by Engineering News-Record, AIA Los Angeles and the AIA Healthcare Design committee.

A daylit operating room. Photo: Tom Bonner


Project Credits
  • Architect: CO Architects
  • Associate Architect for D&T Medical Planning: Stantec
  • Construction Management: DPR Construction
  • Interior Design: Stantec; RTKL Landscape Architect: Spurlock Poirier
  • Structural/Civil Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers
  • M/E/P Engineer: M E Engineers
  • Lighting Designer: Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design
  • Sustainability/Cost Estimator: Davis Langdon
  • Wind Engineering Consultant: CPP
  • Photographer: Tom Bonner

Plantings can be found on roofs and terraces. Photo: Tom Bonner
Project Details
  • Area: 740,000 square feet (69,000 square meters)
  • Floors:11
  • Energy Use Intensity: not available

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Entry. Photo: Tom Bonner


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An upper-floor patient area. Photo: Tom Bonner
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National Small Project Design Awards 2013

April 10, 2013, 12:05 pm
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Johnsen Schmaling Architects designed the Nexus Home, located in Madison, Wisconsin. Photo: John J. Macaulay


A compact home in Madison, Wisconsin is one of the stand-out winners of the national-level 2013 AIA Small Projects Awards. Designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, the three-level home occupies a small, sloping lot in one of Madison's historic residential districts.  Angular and modern, the Nexus Home is clad in cedar planks above a bluish brick base. At the rear of the house, its upper level features a deep cantilever that partially shelters a ground-level patio.

Ground-floor living space of the Nexus Home. Photo: John J. Macaulay

A studio project for a musician is a second winner designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects.

Other winners of the Small Projects Awards include a new, lodge-themed transit building for Tahoe City, California, a traditional shingled home in Lewes, Delaware, and a high-end pool-and-pavilion addition to a home in suburban Bethesda, Maryland. These last two projects were both designed by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA.

Inside the new Tahoe City Transit Center, in Tahoe City, California, by WRNS Studio. Photo: Bruce Damonte/WRNS Studio



The complete list of winners includes:
Category 1A small project construction, object, work of environmental art or architectural design element up to $150,000.
  • Bemis Info Shop, in Omaha, Nebraska, designed by Min | Day
  • Cemetery Marker, in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, designed by Kariouk Associates
  • Studio for a Composer, in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Nevis Pool and Garden Pavilion, in Bethesda, Maryland, by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA. Photo: Maxwell Mackenzie

Category 2 A small project construction, up to $1,500,000.
  • Nexus House, in Madison, Wisconsin, designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects
  • Pavilion at Cotillion Park, in Dallas, Texas, designed by Mell Lawrence Architects
  • Webb Chapel Park Pavilion, in Mission, Texas, designed by Cooper Joseph Studio
308 Mulberry, in Lewes, Delaware, by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA. Photo: Maxwell Mackenzie


Category 3A small project construction, object, work of environmental art, or architectural design less than 5,000-square-foot constructed by the architect. The architect must have had a significant role in the construction, fabrication and/or installation of the work, in addition to being the designer.
  • 308 Mulberry, in Lewes, Delaware, designed by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
  • Nevis Pool and Garden Pavilion, in Bethesda, Maryland, designed by Robert M. Gurney, FAIA
  • Tahoe City Transit Center, in Tahoe City, California, designed by WRNS Studio

The unbuilt Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture. Image: Edward Ogosta Architecture


Category 4Unbuilt architectural designs less than 5,000-square-foot for which there is no current intent to build, of all project types including purely theoretical, visionary projects, with or without a client.
  • Four Eyes House, in Coachella Valley, California, designed by Edward Ogosta Architecture

The 2013 awards jury comprised: Leonard Kady, AIA (jury chair) of Leonard Kady Architecture + Design; Julie Beckman of KBAS; Christopher Herr, AIA of Studio H:T; Laura Kraft, AIA of Laura Kraft Architect; and Rob Yagid of Fine Homebuilding Magazine.

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Webb Chapel Park Pavilion, in Mission, Texas, designed by Cooper Joseph Studio. Photo: Eduard Hueber/ArchPhoto Inc.


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Studio for a Composer, in Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects. Photo: John J. Macaulay

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Ralph Rapson on Le Corbusier

April 11, 2013, 5:00 am
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Notre Dame du Haut, in Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1955.

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.
"The opportunity to experience firsthand some of the early work of Le Corbusier was indeed memorable. Le Corbusier was and remains one of the greatest modern architects, and he was one of my early idols.
"Corbusier was not an easy man to get to know. I think he was quite contemptuous of most designers. We meta  few times while I was living in France in the 1950s. Once, I attended a gala evening as part of the CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) conference held at his Unité d'Habitation near Marseilles.  
"The rooftop garden was a throng of music, conversation, and lively dancing while stars and city lights twinkled magically. The architect was surprisingly complimentary about the design I was doing for U.S. staff housing – though it was a scheme much influenced by Corbu's own work."  – Ralph Rapson


Convent of La Tourette, in near Lyon, France, designed by Le Corbusier, 1957 to 1960.


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OMA in Tokyo

April 12, 2013, 5:00 am
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A new flagship store for Coach, Inc. in the Omotesando shopping district of Tokyo, Japan, designed by OMA. Photo: Iwan Baan

A two-story shopping space on a busy corner in Tokyo's Omotesando district is home to the ninth flagship store of the Coach retailer. The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) designed the complete space, from curtain wall to product shelving, which happen to be one in the same.

Facade shelves and louvers. Photo: Iwan Baan

Inspired by the original Coach store's wooden library-style shelving, the Omotesando flagship uses a series of all-glass shelves, set into the building's exterior wall – visible from the inside and out – and in a free-standing multistory display area in the center of the space, enclosing the main stair.

Perspective Section. Image: OMA

A herringbone pattern is used to organize the stacked rectangular display boxes, lending a sense of visual order and variety all at once. These merchandise display boxes are made of glass on the building's facade and acrylic for the stair tower. The standard module measures 1800 x 520 millimeters (71 x 20 inches)

Start of stair. Photo: Iwan Baan

Frosted glass is also used for shelving throughout the interior and appears on the store's facade in the form of louvers.

The slight bluish green hue of the frosted glass contrasts with an interior whose sole material color is white:  stone floor, ceiling, and wall

Looking down the staircase. Photo: Iwan Baan

Project Details
  • Stories: 2
  • Area: 444.75 square meters (4,787.25 square feet)
  • Energy Use Intensity: not available
  • Exterior Wall: 210 glass units
  • Stair Tower: 105 acrylic units

Looking down the Omotesando street. Photo: Iwan Baan

Project Credits
  • Client: Coach, Inc.
  • Local Architect and Engineer: Obayashi Corporation
  • Facade Consultant: Michael Ludvik
  • Interior Architecture: Nomura, Co., Ltd.
  • Partner-in-Charge: Shohei Shigematsu
  • Project Architect: Rami Abou Khalil
  • Team: Yolanda do Campo, Benedict Clouette with Jackie Woon Bae, Cass Nakashima, Phillip Poon, David Theisz

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Glass shelves at second floor. Photo: Iwan Baan








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Ground-floor lobby. Photo: Iwan Baan
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MoMA to Demolish American Folk Art Museum

April 15, 2013, 10:59 am
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The American Folk Art Museum by Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates projects a bronze glow onto West 53rd Street in Manhattan. 
MoMA’s Act of Vandalism
by Martin Filler, New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/20 ... vandalism/

"When in 2011 the American Folk Art Museum was compelled to sell the decade-old building to its next-door neighbor—because the worldwide economic crash had caused it to default on $32 million in bonds used to finance the $18.4-million structure—some commentators sanctimoniously portrayed the debacle as the comeuppance of a quirky little institution’s overweening ambition. 
"Yet at that panicky moment MoMA itself came closer to economic disaster—with much greater sums in play—than has ever been publicly acknowledged. Its own financial foundering, precipitated by a considerably larger expansion extravaganza designed by Yoshio Taniguchi between 1997 and 2004, was allegedly averted only because some of its more deep-pocketed supporters resorted to emergency measures. One venerable trustee is said to have prematurely anted up what he had expected would be a posthumous bequest. 


"Williams and Tsien’s physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally significant incursion into MoMA’s presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern’s director since 1995, and it has seemed something of a grudge match from the outset. ..."

ArchitectureWeek's original cover story on the unique, bronze-clad folk art museum:

Folk Art Museum
by Michael J. Crosbie
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0424/index.html
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Ralph Rapson at the Spanish Steps

April 19, 2013, 5:00 am
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Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, Italy, designed by Alessandro Specchi, 1721 to 1725.

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.

"I was fortunate to be able to spend a fair amount of time in Rome both as a tourist and a working architect. Full of history, energy, and architecture – it still seems the center of a far-flung empire. 

"There's much to see in Rome and the surrounding countryside, but I was continually drawn to the Spanish Steps. What an enchanting place! More than just a unique mix of building types, uses, materials, and colors, the steps area meeting place for people both night and day. 



"The pace – with all the coming and going, the sitting and standing, the symphony of song and voice, musical instruments, laughter, children calling and crying – always left me energized. Whether with students or fellow architects or alone, I loitered there whenever possible." – Ralph Rapson

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St. Peter's was another of Rapson's destinations in Rome. Image: Ralph Rapson


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Ralph Rapson at Machu Picchu

April 22, 2013, 5:00 am
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Machu Picchu, in Peru, through 1500.

Color sketch by Ralph Rapson, from Ralph Rapson Sketches and Drawings from Around the World, courtesy of the Afton Press.]

"Few memories can compare with my recollections of Machu Picchu. Stopping in Peru on our way to Ecuador and Chile, Mary and I boarded a small train from Cuzco with just two passenger cars headed to the ancient mountain city. Few of the passengers were tourists. 
"We followed a stream up into the mountains, took a bus up a zigzagging road, and eventually arrived at a small rundown hotel, where we checked in. Only a handful of people remained as the afternoon wore on and the sun began to set, and we not only wandered among the Inca ruins by moonlight, but also rose early the next morning to watch the sun burn the cloud cover off this ancient aerie." – Ralph Rapson


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View of towers and stairs at Machu Picchu. Image: Ralph Rapson


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Happy Earth Day! Bullitt Center Opens in Seattle

April 22, 2013, 9:47 am
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A 242-kilowatt photovoltaic roof with deep overhangs shelters the Bullitt Center, opening on April 22, 2013, in Seattle, Washington. Photo: Benjamin Benschneider

The Bullitt Center is a new six-story building in Seattle, Washington, conceived and built as a forward-looking model of building sustainability. Equipped with a deeply overhanging rooftop photovoltaic array, the building is expected to generate 100% of its energy needs on site, and water needs will be provided by harvested rainwater routed to a 56,000-gallon (212,000-liter) basement cistern.

The building was designed by The Miller Hull Partnership for the Bullitt Foundation.

Ground-floor plan drawing including adjacent McGilvra Place park. Image: Miller Hull

As much as 82% of the building's area is day-lit, contributing to an energy use intensity of just 4.7 kilowatt-hours per square foot per year (50.5 kWh/ square meter/ year, 16 kBTU/sf/yr). This EUI is in range with the energy criteria of the Passive House standard, and corresponds to a projected total energy use of 230,000 KWH/year, about equal to the anticipated annual production of the 242-kilowatt photovoltaic system.

Total energy use projected to be equal or less than the solar power production qualifies the building for the "net zero energy" title.

The building employs natural ventilation for its perimeter spaces, supplying fresh air and summer-time cooling. An array of twenty-six 400-foot-deep (122-meter-deep) ground-loop heat-exchange wells helps drive the center's radiant heat distribution system.

Looking up the main stair of the Bullitt Center. Photo: Benjamin Benschneider

A cast-in-place concrete column-and-slab system was used for the structure of the ground floor, which is set partially into the sloping site. For the upper floors, a system of wood and steel was used including glulam columns, beams and girders, and wood decking. Heavy construction materials, including steel, and concrete were acquired from sources within 300 miles of the building site, while the wood-sourcing radius was 600 miles.

Bullitt Center also provides onsite waste management with micro-foam-flush marine toilets and a composting system, requirements of a City of Seattle permitting pilot program.

Building systems diagram. Image: Miller Hull


The tall ground floor of the building is devoted to the Center for Energy and Urban Ecology – focused on an education and outreach around building energy efficiency and urban sustainability – a joint effort of the Bullitt Foundation, the Cascadia Green Building Council, and the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Facilities for the center include a classrooms, an exhibition space, a resource library, and a research laboratory. The upper floors are rental office space.

Bullitt Center is an exemplary urban green building, despite over the top — at the least, undocumented — and widely trumpeted public relations claims to be the "Greenest Office Building in the World."

With regard to the exterior expression of the building for the time being, ArchitectureWeek is reserving comment for the time being.

The project is registered with the Living Building Challenge and is said to have decided not to seek LEED certification.

Southern elevation of Bullitt Center. Photo: Benjamin Benschneider
Project Credits
Looking along the facade. Photo: Courtesy Miller Hull
Project Details
  • Building Area: 50,000 square feet
  • Energy Use Intensity: 16 kBtu/ square foot/ year (172.2 kBtu/ square meter/ year)
  • Projected building lifespan: 250 years
  • Total Project Cost: $30 million
  • Building Construction Cost: $18.5 million
  • Photovoltaic (PV) array: 242 Kilowatts; 14,303 square feet: (1,329 square meters)
  • Estimated Annual Energy Production: 230,000 kilowatt-hours per year
  • Day-lit Building Area:: 82 percent
  • Ground-loop system: twenty-six 400-foot (-meter) ground-source wells
  • Cistern Capacity: 56,000 gallons
  • Number of bus routes within 1⁄2 mile : 21
  • Number of Zipcars within 1⁄2 mile : 24
  • Walk Score: 98 of 100
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Fourth floor plan drawing. Image: Miller Hull
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Section drawing looking west. Image: Miller Hull

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Looking across the photovoltaic array. Photo: Benjamin Benschneider
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Harpa wins 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award

April 29, 2013, 11:53 am
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Harpa is the winner of the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award for contemporary architecture. Photo: © Nic Lehoux

Harpa – Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center – in Reykjavik, Iceland, is the island nation's first purpose-built concert hall, designed by a collaboration between Copenhagen, Denmark-based Henning Larsen Architects and several Icelandic firms: Batteríid architect, Att Arkitektar, and Studio Olafur Eliasson.

Harpa plan drawing. Image: Henning Larsen Architects

The 28,377-square-meter (305,450-square-foot) building stands on a waterfront site on the capital's eastern harbour and was developed as part of a master plan to grown and revitalize this part of the city. Harpa is the 2013 recipient of the biannual Mies van der Rohe Prize, also known as the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture.

Inspire by nature, the facades of Harpa are alternatingly cellular or crystalline. Photo: © Nic Lehoux


Its angular glass facades have a cellular or crystalline structure. Some facades are three-dimensional space frames composed of hundreds of vertically oriented steel-frame prisms stacked in overlapping courses, while other surfaces are flat glass-and-steel curtain walls composed of irregularly shaped cells.

The ceiling of Harpa's multilevel atrium is lined with grids of hexagonal mirrored tiles line, helping to distribute precious daylight deeper into the building. These panels also work in combination with the prismic quality of the facades to produce lively interior daylighting effects.

Select glazing is tinted. Photo: © Nic Lehoux

The building consists of both concert and conference spaces, including four main halls. Dark red panels embossed with a simple rectangular pattern are used in the main concert hall, which has four seating levels. Seen from the atrium the arrangement of the halls is intended to evoke the geological massifs that mark the Iclandic coastline.

The concert hall of Harpa. Photo: © Nic Lehoux

Project Credits
  • Client: Austurnhofn TR – East Harbour Project Ltd.
  • Design Team: Henning Larsen Architects, Batteríid architects, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and Att Arkitektar
  • Consultants: Artec Consultants, Almenna Consulting Engineers, Verkis Consulting Engineers, Verkhönnun Engineers, Ramboll, ArtEngineering, Efla Engineers,, Hnit Consulting Engineers, Mannvit Engineers,, IAV hf., Iceland Prime Contractor, Landslag, ASK Architects, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jasper Parrott

View of Harpa across the Reykjavik harbor. Photo: © Nic Lehoux

The building was among five projects shortlisted for the award.

The jury was composed of Wiel Arets of Wiel Arets Architects; Pedro Gadanho, Curator of Contemporary Architecture MoMA New York; Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio; Louisa Hutton of Sauerbruch Hutton Architects; Kent Martinussen, of Danske Arkitekter Center (DAC); Frédéric Migaryou, director of Architecture & Design, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Ewa Porebska, Editor-in-Chief, Architektura-murator; Giovanna Carnevali, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona.

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Aga Khan Award Shortlist Projects Announced

April 30, 2013, 2:50 pm
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The Mapungubwe National Park Interpretation Centre, designed by Peter Rich Architects is shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award. Photo: AKAA / Jean-Charles Tall

The stone-domed Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, in Limpopo, South Africa, post-tsunami housing in Kirinda, Sri Lanka designed by Shigeru Ban Architects, and The Met residential tower, in Bangkok, Thailand, along with several school and medical buildings are among the new-built structures shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Restoration and preservation projects at a variety of scales with locations in Yemen, Lebanon, Indonesia, India, Iran, Palestine, and Morocco, were also included in the list of 20 recently completed projects.

The Met, in Bangkok, Thailand, designed by WOHA Architects. Photo: AKAA / Patrick Bingham-Hall

The bamboo-finished Museum of Handcraft Paper in Gaoligong, China is a noteworthy multi-building ensemble project devoted to the ancient papercraft arts found in the Yunan province.

According to the Aga Khan Development Network, five to six winning projects will be selected from among the shortlist, and will be awarded at a ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2013.

Inside one of the housing units designed by Shigeru Ban Architects for post-tsunami Kirinda, Sri Lanka. Photo: AKAA / Dominic Sansoni

The complete list of projects includes:

Apartment No. 1, in Mahallat, Iran (Central Asia)
by Architecture by Collective Terrain (AbCT), Tehran, Iran 
Photo: AKAA/ Omid Khodapanahi
Hassan II Bridge, in Rabat, Morocco (North Africa)
by Marc Mimran Architecture, Paris, France 
Islamic Cemetery, in Altach, Austria (Europe)
by Bernado Bader Architects, Dombirn, Austria 
Kantana Film and Animation Institute, in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand (Asia)
by Bangkok Project Studio / Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok, Thailand 
Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, in Damascus, Syria (West Asia)
by Ateliers Lion Associés, Dagher Hanna & Partners, Paris, France
Photo: AKAA/ Alhadi Albaridi
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre, in Limpopo, South Africa (South Africa)
by Peter Rich Architects, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Maria Grazia Cutuli Primary School, in Herat, Afghanistan (Central Asia)
by 2A+P/A, IaN+, Mario Cutuli, Rome, Italy 
Photo: AKAA/ Nazes Afroz
Mohammed VI Football Academy, in Salé, Morocco (North Africa)
by Groupe 3 Architectes, Rabat, Morocco 
Museum of Handcraft Paper, in Gaoligong, Yunnan Province, China (Asia)
by Trace Architecture Office, Beijing, China 
Post-Tsunami Housing, in Kirinda, Sri Lanka (Asia)
by Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan 

Preservation of Sacred and Collective Oasis Sites, in Guelmim Region, Morocco (Africa)
by Salima Naji, Kénitra, Morocco 
Photo: AKAA / Courtesy of Architect
Preservation of the Mbaru Niang, in Wae Rebo Village, Flores Island, Indonesia (South-East Asia)
by Rumah Asuh/Yori Antar, Tangerang, Indonesia 
Reconstruction of Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp, in Tripoli, Lebanon (West Asia)
by United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA), Nahr el-Bared Reconstruction Commission for Civil Action and Studies (NBRC) 
Rehabilitation of Nagaur Fort, in Nagaur, Rajasthan, India (South Asia)
by Minakshi Jain, Ahmedabad, India 
Rehabilitation of Tabriz Bazaar, in Tabriz, Iran (Central Asia)
by ICHTO East Azerbaijan Office, Tabriz, Iran 
Revitalisation of Birzeit Historic Centre, in Birzeit, Palestine (West Asia)
by Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah, Palestine 
Salam Cardiac Surgery Centre, in Khartoum, Sudan (North Africa)
by Studio Tamassociati, Venice, Italy 
The Met Tower, in Bangkok, Thailand (Asia)
by WOHA Architects, Singapore 
Thula Fort Restoration, in Thula, Yemen
by Abdullah Al-Hadrami, Sana'a, Yemen 
Photo: AKAA/ Cemal Emden
Umubano Primary School, in Kigali, Rwanda (East Africa)
by Mass Design Group, Boston, MA, USA

The nine members of the Master Jury for the 2010-2013 Award cycle are:

  • Mr. David Adjaye, of Adjaye Associates, London, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Howayda al-Harithy, Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Mr. Michel Desvigne, Landscape Architect and Founder, Agence Michel Desvigne, Paris, France
  • Professor Mahmood Mamdani, Professor and Executive Director, Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR), Wandegeya, Uganda
  • Mr. Kamil Merican, Principal Designer and CEO, Group Design Partnership, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Professor Toshiko Mori,  of Toshiko Mori Architect, New York City, USA
  • Ms. Shahzia Sikander, Artist, New York City, USA
  • Mr. Murat Tabanlioglu, Architect and Founder, Tabanlioglu Architects, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Mr. Wang Shu, Architect and Founder, Amateur Architecture Studio, Hangzhou, China








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