Timber iQ February - March 2019 // Issue: 42 | Page 17

EVENTS
LEISURE LED DEVELOPMENTS
– FUTURE PROJECTS
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group was victorious in this category,
winning the award for Audemars Piguet Hotel des Horlogers
project in Le Brassus, Switzerland. The Danish practice was
commended for how the designs ‘seamlessly resolved the
connection between the existing factory and its sloping site’.
OFFICE – FUTURE PROJECTS
The award, supported by Forbo, was won by 3XN Architects
for the Olympic House project in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Designed as the future headquarters of the International
Olympic Committee, judges commended the architects for
their ‘strong and subtle response’ to the client’s brief, and felt it
was a ‘very sophisticated design that was very well resolved’.
A future project entry - Treetop Experience in Denmark.
CIVIC - FUTURE PROJECTS
This category winner was The Sunken Shrine of Our Lady of
Lourdes of Cabetician, Bacolor, Philippines by BAAD Studio.
The designs were commended by judges for conserving the
existing structure of the ruined shrine, which was buried in
ash following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991,
deeming it a ‘serious solution, rooted in an ecological
response, to the problems of flooding and landslides caused
by the eruption’.
COMPETITION ENTRIES - FUTURE PROJECTS
Nextoffice won the category for its Sadra Civic Center
project in Iran. The festival’s judges found this scheme to be
a rich, sensitive solution to a pressing urban challenge,
which draws on historical sources in building and planning
to create a viable urban nucleus for a new town.
EXPERIMENTAL – FUTURE PROJECTS
KANVA won the award for the Imago project for Montreal,
Canada. The judges commented that the series of inflatable,
mobile biomorphic structures offers the chance for
behavioural change and embodies innovation at its core. It
can also be a paradigm elsewhere.
HEALTH - FUTURE PROJECTS
The category winner was The Alder Centre, Liverpool, UK by
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The bereavement centre is
unique within the UK National Health Service and
internationally; providing bereavement counselling for
families who have had a child pass away as well as a
national telephone helpline and general counselling for
hospital staff. Judges commented that ‘technical and
emotional aspects of the design are integrated into
delicately balanced architecture’.
INFRASTRUCTURE - FUTURE PROJECTS
The category winner was Monk Mackenzie + Novare, for
their Thiruvalluvar project in Kanyakumari, India. The
designs for a 500-metre long pedestrian bridge located at
the southern-most tip of India was commended by judges
as ‘a simple and elegant response to a complex problem’.
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LARGE SCALE HOUSING
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
The category, supported by GROHE, was won by Indian
practice Sanjay Puri Architects for its project The Street in
Matura, India. Judges were impressed with how the
building’s configuration, together with its angled bay
windows, gives optimal views to all rooms within the
student residence. They praised the project as a ‘deeply
poetic realisation of a simple building typology’.
HOTEL AND LEISURE
- COMPLETED BUILDINGS
The winner of the award, supported by GROHE, was SeARCH
for its Hotel Jakarta project in Amsterdam. The architects
were commended for making use of timber modular
construction and achieving an energy neutral solution to
the client’s brief.
RELIGION - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Spheron won the category for the Belarusian Memorial
Chapel in London, UK. The new build wooden chapel was
commissioned by the Holy See of Rome for the Belarusian
Diaspora Community in London to commemorate the 30th
anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Judges
commented that the ‘quality of light and the sensitivity to
materiality allows the interior to resonate with memory and
meaning’.
SHOPPING - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
Nikken Sekkei won the award for the project Shanghai
Greenland Centre / Greenland Being Funny in Shanghai,
China. The Japanese practice was praised by the festival’s
judges for the building, which they deemed ‘a radically
original approach to the urban mall’ and felt it
demonstrated ‘creative mastery’ of the client’s brief.
HEALTH - COMPLETED BUILDINGS
This category was won by Temporary Association AAPROG
BOECKX – B2Ai for its Hospital AZ Zeno project in Knokke,
Belgium. 11 years after winning the competition of vzw
Gezondheidszorg Oostkust for a new hospital in Knokke on
the Belgian coast, judges commended the architects for
fully integrating the idea of collaboration, from way-finding
to engineering design and medical planning.
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