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Casa Kike
Gianni Botsford Architects
Copyright: Christian Richt
The RIBA National and International Awards for architectural excellence were presented on Friday 27 June, at a dinner in London at the Park Lane Hilton Hotel.
The 26 RIBA Award winners (16 in the UK and 10 in the EU) range from an Alpine cable railway to Wembley National Stadium, from a beachside café in West Sussex to the BMW events centre in Munich. Transport in its many forms is well represented as are a variety of arts centres. The architects whose work has been honoured this year range from up and coming young practices like Gumuchdjian Architects to international practices such as Coop Himmelb(l)au, Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. Also represented this year are small multi-disciplinary firms such as John Pawson and the Heatherwick Studio, who bring together architects, designers and engineers in collaborative teams.
The 16 buildings that have won RIBA National Awards are:
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Accordia, Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios/Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington
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Adelaide Wharf, Hackney, London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay, Glasgow by David Chipperfield Architects
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East Beach Cafe, Little Hampton, West Sussex by Heatherwick Studio
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Hilton Tower, Manchester by Ian Simpson Architects
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Lawn Tennis Association’s National Tennis Centre, Roehampton, London by Hopkins Architects
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Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester by Denton Corker Marshall
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North Wall Arts Centre, St Edward’s School, Oxford by Haworth Tomkins
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Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney by Reiach and Hall Architects
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Royal Festival Hall, London by Allies and Morrison
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St Marylebone Church of England School Performing Arts Facility, London, by Gumuchdjian Architects
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Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
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The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry by Stanton Williams
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The Sackler Crossing, Kew, Surrey, by John Pawson
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Wembley National Stadium, London, Foster + Partners/HOK Sport
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Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre, London, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
The 10 RIBA European Award winning buildings are:
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Am Kupfergraben 10, Berlin, Germany by David Chipperfield Architects
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Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Grimshaw/ARCADIS Architecten
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BMW Welt Event, Exhibition and Automobile Delivery Centre, Munich, Germany by Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf D Prix, W. Dreibholz & Partner ZT GmbH
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Carabanchel Social Housing, Madrid, Spain by Foreign Office Architects
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Empire Riverside Hotel & Brauhaus, Hamburg, Germany by David Chipperfield Architects
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Lufthansa Aviation Center Frankfurt a.M, Frankfurt, Germany by Ingenhoven Architects
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Nord Park Cable Railway, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects
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The Royal Playhouse, Copenhagen, Denmark by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitektfirma
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The Sleeping Giant, Co.Dublin, Ireland by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects
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University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
The Stirling Prize shortlist will be drawn from the 16 RIBA National Award winners, and the RIBA European Award winners who are eligible for the prize. The shortlist will be announced on Thursday 17 July. The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The £20,000 prize will be presented in Liverpool on Saturday 11 October 2008 and broadcast on Channel 4 on Sunday 12 October.
The winner of the Lubetkin Prize for the best building outside the EU by an RIBA member and the RIBA Client of the Year were also announced.
The Lubetkin Prize 2008 winner is:
Casa Kike, Cahuita, Costa Rica by Gianni Botsford Architects.
The RIBA Client of the Year 2008 winner is:
Coin Street Community Builders for commissioning projects that include this year’s award winning Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre and other schemes such as the Oxo Tower. Working with practices such as Haworth Tompkins and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and under the enlightened guidance of Ian Tuckett, Coin Street Community Builders have shown that genuine community architecture can also be award-winning architecture.
RIBA National Award winners, with the winners of RIBA Awards, are also eligible for a series of special awards to be presented at the RIBA Stirling Prize ceremony.
For details of these and all the RIBA Award-winners please visit www.architecture.com/awards|.
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Call for nominations
Is there a teacher of Architecture who you feel has been influential in your studies and career? If so, this is your chance to nominate the academic who has impressed you the most.
The RIBA is pleased to announce the fourth biennial Annie Spink Award, presented in recognition of an outstanding contribution to architectural education.
The Annie Spink Award is open to teachers (individuals or groups) who have made a substantial contribution to architectural education in a School of Architecture validated by the RIBA in the UK and abroad. Applicants must be, or have been involved in the development of architectural education and engage with the process of teaching and learning.
The award is financed by the Annie Spink Trust Fund, which was established in 1974 by the architect Herbert Spink FRIBA. He bequeathed the trust as a lasting memorial to his wife Annie, and conceived it as an honour for the 'advancement of architectural education'.
The winner will receive the Annie Spink trophy and £10,000, at a ceremony presented by the President of the RIBA.
The deadline for nominations is 6 October 2008.
For further information please visit the Annie Spink page or contact:
RIBA Education Department
T +44 (0)20 7307 3604
F +44 (0)20 7307 3754
E john-paul.nunes@inst.riba.org|
RIBApedia is an innovative new resource for studying and research from the RIBA Research and Development Department.
RIBApedia is a wiki — a dynamic and growing collection of web pages that are easy for anyone to edit — like Wikipedia. It has lots of relevant information for students, researchers, academics, and practitioners involved in research, including:
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Study guidance
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An RIBA reading list
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Pages about relevant academic journals
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Information about online subject databases
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Profiles of student societies and discounted student membership
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Profiles of schools of architecture — their courses, financial support, and awards
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Links to student blogs and popular study websites
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Advice on making the most of free study venues.
Not only this, but you can find out how to get funding for your research projects—including worldwide travel scholarships—and how to win awards.
Registration is free. Once you are logged in you can create a personal profile (like a Facebook profile), edit and create pages on subjects you are studying or researching, and join in discussions with students in any school of architecture as well as other people with shared interests in the academic and research community.
We're launching RIBApedia in August, and we will be demonstrating the wiki at schools of architecture in the new academic year.
We are looking for student volunteers to be the wiki contact for their school of architecture or student society. If you are interested email research@inst.riba.org|.
We may be running competitions and giving away more information and freebies later this year, so email research@inst.riba.org| to keep up to date.
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The RIBA is working with Nationwide Building Society to launch the Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards 2008 student competition.
The competition seeks to incentivise the design professionals of the future to take account of and be inspired by the challenges of sustainability in housing. It is also hoped to make existing and future homeowners aware of and attracted to the benefits of sustainable housing. By developing ideas for high quality affordable housing, the competition should also generate ideas and influences for infrastructure – social/cultural/economic – and for improving resource efficiency.
This is the first of an annual ideas competition, proposed to run over three years. The theme of this first year’s competition is “Sustainable Housing in an Urban Environment”. Within this theme, there will be awards for each of three categories:
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Existing Housing
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New Build
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Community/neighbourhood.
Winning designs in each category will receive awards of £3,000 (1st place); £1,500 (2nd place); £1,000 (3rd place).
The Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards competition will be open to students in years 1 to 3 of undergraduate courses at architectural and other related design colleges. Entries should be anonymous and comprise no more than 2 x A1 boards and an accompanying technical report. Drawings of internal layouts should be a minimum of 1:50 scale.
Full briefing documents and an associated website will be available in the first week of September 2008 with entries to be submitted to the RIBA Competitions Office by 16 January 2009. A jury panel will then assess the entries and winners will be notified by the end of January. An awards ceremony and exhibition at RIBA HQ, London (Gallery 2) will follow in February 2009.
If you would like to register your interest and receive further information when it is available please email louise.phillips@inst.riba.org|.
The RIBA and John McAslan announced the recipients of the RIBA ICE McAslan Bursary 2007/08 at a reception held on 11 June 2008 at the RIBA.
39 applications were received from architecture and engineering students, graduates and newly-qualified practitioners committed to the progress of environmental and community issues in economically deprived areas in the UK or abroad. The six recipients were allocated a total of £20,350, the highest amount since the scholarship was launched in 2004.
The bursaries were awarded to:
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Heather Cruickshank, who received £2,000 for the project 'Community Infrastructure in Rural Nigeria'
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Sophie Handler, who received £2,500 for 'Alternative Seating Arrangements (for pensioners in East London)'
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Ripin Kalra, who received £6,000 to revisit three sites in India affected by earthquakes and cyclones in the 1990s
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Asif Khan and Julia King, who received £3,000 for their project 'Mass Sustainability: Zero Carbon Chair and School Desk'
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Nikki Linsell, who received £6,850 to work alongside The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW).
John McAslan, who started the Bursary scheme in 2004 in partnership with the RIBA, said, 'I am delighted to work with the RIBA and ICE once again to promote research in the field of architecture in areas of the world that will see direct practical benefits by the tremendous hard work by these individuals and teams.'
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Until 25 July
dreamspace gallery
1–3 Dufferin Street
London, EC1Y 8NA
Free entry
John McAslan + Partners and the dreamspace gallery have teamed up to present an exhibition as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture. Sponsored by the AJ and Adrem, the exhibition presents extraordinary projects brought to life by the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary.
The humble ideas of students and graduates become reality through the Bursary, which supports the development of collaborative projects that bring about social and community improvements throughout the UK and overseas.
The exhibition will feature a selection of those projects that came to fruition, offering an insight into the diversity, commitment and implicit humanity that floods each one of them. Drawings, photographs and prototype models will allow the viewer to discover a profound spirit prevalent in architectural research and experiment. The projects selected for ‘Beginnings’ highlight the opportunities available for social change, improving the quality of urban life and engaging communities in the implementation of design.
Supported by the RIBA
22–23 July, University of Oxford
In 1958 the first Oxford Conference set an agenda for architectural education that has been
followed for 50 years. This agenda needs radical change to meet the evolving drivers of costs
of energy and construction, shifting social values and environmental crises and to create a
new generation of buildings that are part of the solution to these crises – not the problem.
The conference will be comprised of inspirational keynote lectures and a series of forums
incorporating the following topics:
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Buildings and the Environment
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Sustaining Studio Education in a Climate of Change
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Human Habitat and Social Responsibility
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Refurbishment and Evidence Based Education
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Research into Teaching Courses
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Urban Design and Sustainable Cities
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Schools and Professional Views
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Materials and Renewable Energy
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Virtual Building and Generative Design
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Design Research Courses and Curricula
Additional features include:
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Oxford Union Debate on Architectural Education
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Café-style Workshops for each Forum
A large exhibition will take place alongside the conference featuring the latest tools, schools, practices and publications.
Students may register with discounted rates.
For more information, please visit www.oxfordconference2008.co.uk|