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OBRA, Architects - Key Projects Featured buildings by OBRA, reverse chronological: IBA Hamburg Smart Price Houses, Germany 2010- image : OBRA architects IBA Hamburg Smart Price Houses RED+HOUSING - emergency housing prototype, China 2009 image : OBRA architects Red+Housing Villa of Captured Distance, Ordos, inner Mongolia, China 2009 image : OBRA architects Villa of Captured Distance OBRA Architects - Studio News Jun 2010 OBRA is pleased to announce that we have been included in the 2010 Wallpaper* Architects Directory. OBRA Architects were one of thirty international firms selected to submit a design for a conceptual house. Our proposal, Twisted Tower, envisions three slender 14-story apartment towers near Penn Station channeling the kinetic panorama of the city. Additionally, the opening reception and awards ceremony for Bello E Possible: Progetti Di Social Housing Per La Riqualificazione Urbana Di Mestre was held June 18, 2010 at Centro Culturale Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Via Poerio n 32, Mestre, Italy. The proposal "Quartieri Parco Ca D'Oro," completed by OBRA Architects in collaboration with AZstudio, placed 3rd in this competition for Venetian social housing and was among the designs honored at the opening gala. An exhibition of the project proposals will be on view from 19-27 Jun. Feb 2010 SMART PRICE HOUSES AT THE IBA - OBRA SELECTION OBRA Architects has been selected by the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Hamburg to participate in the competition 'SMART PRICE HOUSES,' a limited open qualifying procedure involving 16 architectural firms from both Europe and the US. OBRA are the only US firm amongst the chosen architects. OUR PROJECT In presenting solutions for residential architecture for the 21st century our project combines high quality design and inventive construction strategies (prefabrication as well as use of autoclaved aerated concrete, an economical, sustainable, material providing high thermal and acoustic insulation as well as fire and termite resistance) to achieve a unique low cost building. The proposal by OBRA aims to achieve innovative architecture within extreme constraints of economy and high goals of energy efficiency. OUR TEAM The OBRA team includes H+H Deutschland GmbH, Arup [SMEP], Viridian Energy & Environmental [sustainability], and Meyer Steffens Architekten und Stadtplaner BDA [cost estimating]. ABOUT THE IBA 'Over the last hundred years the Internationale Bauausstellung - IBA (English: International Building Exhibition) has been established as a tool in Germany for implementing innovations in architecture and urbanism and stimulating urban development. Each building exhibition in the past has reflected the change of paradigms and the crucial questions of its time: Housing concepts (Weissenhofsiedlung, Stuttgart 1927), reconstruction after World War II (Hansa quarter, Berlin 1957), urban redevelopment (IBA Old, IBA New, Berlin 1980-1987), post-industrial consolidation of industrial past (IBA Enscher Park, Ruhr region 1989-1999).' (quote from Arch+ website) 'The IBA Hamburg (2006-2013) In carrying out anew an IBA, Hamburg stands in line with Germany's tradition of building exhibitions. Faced with the demographic, social, and ecological challenges of today, the IBA Hamburg focuses on three topics: Cosmopolis, Metrozones and City and Climate Change. The pilot projects are expected to showcase the cosmopolitan, post-industrial, and sustainable future of Hamburg.' (quote from Arch+) OBRA Architects is also currently beginning construction on: Casa Osa, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Casa para un viñatero, San Juan, Argentina OBRA Architects are also included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim's 50th anniversary exhibition, "Contemplating the Void: Interventions at the Guggenheim Museum" which opens February 12. More projects by OBRA Architects online soon

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