February 5, 2016
courtesy of Richard Meier and Partners
On the Korean Coast Rchard Meier, FAIA’s newest is the Seamarq Hotel, a 15-story trapezoidal hotel for the eastern coast of South Korean. [ARCHITECT]
ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart
A rendering of the Elytra Filament Pavilion at the Victoria and Albert Museum John Madejski Garden, in London.
The Week in Tech A bio-inspired, robot-built pavilion for the Victoria and Albert Museum, modifying incandescents to make them more efficient than CFLs and LEDs, finishing the Kingdom Tower and the residential areas that surround it, and more. [ARCHITECT]
Bullitt+Center
Net-Zero Enthusiasm Make room, iPhone and Tesla Motors. The net-zero building belongs in the pantheon of top contemporary innovations. So, asks editor-in-chief Ned Cramer, where’s the popular appreciation—and demand? [ARCHITECT]
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects
Big Waste Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects are the winners of the International Architectural and Landscape Design Competition for the Shenzhen East Waste-to-Energy Plant, commissioned by Shenzhen Energy Environmental Engineering, in China. The plant, located in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, will be largest of its kind in the world. [ARCHITECT]
Douglas Fir Plywood Association
A small-scale vacation home plan advertised by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association in 1960
Tiny House History A 20th-century history of tiny houses, economical residences sought to make home—and vacation property—ownership possible for a new and growing middle class. [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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