February 2, 2016
Doublespace Photography
East façade showing view into Strength and Conditioning Centre
On Full Display The new Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport for the University of Toronto by Patkau Architects and MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects shows off its athletes and those exercising inside to the community. [ARCHITECT]
Escobedo Solíz Studio
2016 YAP Winner Mexico City’s Escobedo Solíz Studio wins the 2016 Young Architects Program: It’s “Weaving the Courtyard” will decorate the Queens courtyard for the summer and will include a canopy of colored ropes mounted to the courtyard’s concrete walls. [ARCHITECT]
Courtesy Allied Works Architecture
Model of the Dutchess County residence in New York
The Models of Brad Cloepfil The head of Allied Works Architecture (reluctantly) shows off his firm’s model’s in an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum curated by Dean Sobel of the Clyfford Still Museum. [ARCHITECT]
Cristobal Palma
Alejandro Aravena
Picky Pritzker Aaron Betsky dissects the two biggest complaints about Alejandro Aravena’s 2016 Pritzker Prize win: That he’s “just” an activist, and that Aravena was a member of the Pritzker jury before be won the award. [ARCHITECT]
Awards and Competitions
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is now accepting submissions to its fourth Wheelwright Prize, an open, international competition for early-career architects that supports travel-based research. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2016. Read more about the Wheelwright Prize.
The Architectural League has announced a call for entries for its Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, focused this year around the theme of (im)permanence and time as a defining characteristic of architecture. Entries are due Feb. 17, 2016.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge recognizes initiatives that take a comprehensive and anticipatory design approach to advance human well-being and the health of the planet’s ecosystem. The Buckminster Fuller Institute awards one $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a design solution that addresses complex global problems. The application window will open on Jan. 15 and entries are due by March 1.
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