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International Sculpture Park, Municipal Center at Schaumburg Road, Schaumburg, Illinois 60193 USA www.chi-athenaeum.org 122 South Bench Street, Galena, Illinois 61036 USA Tel: +1/815-777-4444 Fax: +1/815-777-2471 THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM Contact: Lary L. Sommers Tel: +815/777-4444 RUSSIAN ARCHITECTS SELECT FIFTY-SEVEN BUILDING DESIGNS IN TWENTY-FOUR NATIONS TO WIN THE WORLD’S 2007 PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS APRIL 16, 2007, Chicago, Illinois. . . The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and co-presented by Italy’s prestigious design publication, Abitare magazine, announce fifty-seven (57) new distinguished projects and urban schemes selected in this year’s prestigious International Architecture Awards® program for 2007. In a matter of several years, The International Architecture Awards have become a global event on a grand scale—the most important barometer for the future direction of new architectural design and thinking today—celebrating, recognizing, and highlighting the world’s foremost architectural solutions for the designs of new skyscrapers, corporate buildings, institutions, arts facilities, airports, private homes, industrial structures, and urban planning projects from London to Singapore. The International Architecture Awards is the only global Awards Program in architecture of its kind, which was conceived and presented by the Museum to give an important overview of the practice of architecture on a world scale. The Awards Program draws important public and professional focus for the celebration and recognition of the most important key buildings produced in this decade, underscoring the highest level of imagination and inspiration of the “best of the best” architectural minds practicing design today. The selected projects challenge new approaches to design that are beyond the envelope of the everyday, while providing cities with key civic building that celebrate and harmonize architecture as a high art while finding answers to the complicated problems of environment, social context, improving quality of life, and sustainability. INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2007 And the list of this year’s winning schemes is impressive drawn by some of the world’s most talented thinkers from large and small architectural practices around the world. The glossary of entries is a “Who’s Who” in international architecture today. For the 2007 International Architecture Awards, the Museum received hundreds of submissions from design firms in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. The submissions ranged from the latest new corporate high-tech headquarters to smaller planning projects, bridges, memorials, sacred spaces, and private residences. All submitted projects were designed by architects in their countries of origin or abroad for both built and unbuilt projects alike, as of January 1, 2003. This year’s jury for awards took place in Moscow and was organized by the Union of Architects of Russia at the end of February and included some of the most important young and established Russian architectural practitioners employed today: • Yury Gnedowskiy, President, Union of Architects of Russia, People’s Architect of the Russian Federation and Chair of the Jury • Vladimir Yudintsev, Architect, Moscow • Georgiy Solopov, Architect, Moscow • Alexander Larin, Architect, Moscow • Andrey Kaftanov, Architect, Council Member, Union of International Architects (UIA) • Dimitriy Serebryakov, Architect, Moscow • Andrey Osokin, Architect, Moscow • Maria Kiernan, Architect, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland The International Architecture Awards is curated and organized by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, President, The Chicago Athenaeum and assisted by Lary L. Sommers, Director of Administration/Marketing and Ioannis Karalias, Museum Vice President, The Chicago Athenaeum, and Kieran Conlon from the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies. The geographic range in this year’s Awards Program attests to the global significance of this program organized by The Chicago Athenaeum. Out of the fifty-seven (57) project selected for awards, Japan received the highest number of nine (9) awards with Germany and Italy at six (6) awards followed by the United Kingdom with five INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2006 (5) awards and Spain with four (4) awards. The United States, Mexico, and Austria had three (3) awarded buildings with Switzerland, China, and Saudi Arabia for a total of two (2) awards. Ireland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Australia, India, Denmark, South Korea, Egypt, South Africa, Singapore, Sweden, and Israel/Jordan each had one (1) awarded project. The total number of countries with awarded projects was twenty-four (24). The Austrian firm of Coop Himmelb(b)lau won four (4) awards for projects in South Korea, Germany, Egypt, and Spain while Skidmore, Owings & Merrill won a total of five (5) awards for projects in Great Britain, Saudi Arabia, Israel/Jordan, and the USA. One of the boldest and largest projects awarded in 2007 is the new Madrid Barajas Airport by Richard Rogers Partnership in Madrid, Spain, which is a poetic marvel of form and function married to state-of-the-art technology. Staggering and expressive are the words for the Berlin Central Station by gmp-von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Architects in Berlin and for the high-art exposition facility, Nuovo Polo Fiera Milano, by Massimilano Fuksas Architect in Rho-Pero, Italy. Two urban bridges of the highest caliber were awarded: the Sean O’Casey Bridge by Brian O’Halloran & Associates in Dublin and the Lugner Suspended Bridge in Glass by Architekturstudio Bulant & Wailzer in Vienna. Both bridges are brilliant aesthetic performances of engineering and far-reaching design skill. A new Danish prison was also awarded in East Jutland by Friis & Molke A/S, which might signal a new trend that tomorrow’s prisoners might be housed in awarded design and a far cry from the nightmarish days of gulags and Alcatrazes of the past. The majority of awarded projects for 2007 displayed a dizzying, almost hypnotic sense of geometric contortions. The Space of Contemporary Artistic Creation by Coop Himmelb(l)au in Cordoba, Spain is indicative of the continuing trend to stretch the box into an enthralling geometric labyrinth. Also overpowering in form are the mesmerizing shells of the Wellness Center “Bergoase” by Studio arch. Mario Botta in Arosa, Switzerland. A hard-edge abstraction is the giant cube for ARB Bank Headquarters by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. The St. Andrew’s Beach House by Sean Godsell Architects in Victoria, Australia is total sculpture as a house. All of these awarded hard-edge geometric designs are destined to become icons of our time and place in architectural history. The architecture of the memorial had a priority in this year’s awards with most of them commemorating the highest of human tragedies and disasters. The most austere are the Sachsenhausen Memorial “Station Z” by hg merz architekten museumgestalter in Oranienburg, Germany and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Memorial by Mathew Ghosh Architects Pvt. Ltd. in Bhospal, India. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Foundation symbolizes something entirely different memoralizing the life of a humanist in the most humane form. Bridging the Rift by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill on the Israel/Jordan border demonstrates that good architecture could and should be the instrument of world peace. “The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. have organized this annual Museum program, The International Architecture Awards, as a way in which to draw significant world attention to new buildings and urban planning projects being built and designed globally by the best and most prestigious international architecture offices and design firms,” states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine. “The wide geographic distribution of these awards attests to the importance of the program,” Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine adds. “There is no one, single architecture program in existence today that brings together the latest cutting-edge international architecture today as one cohesive universal representation or platform for world design. The Museum is honored to provide a focus that allows an exploration and analysis for current stylistic directions and philosophical thinking that is apparent in contemporary design today.” “The program has a unique educational mission and public profile with the intent of promoting and celebrating the latest, most cutting-edge international design to a national and international audience,” Mr. Narkiewicz-Laine continues. The awarded projects for 2007 and other selected works will form an exhibition, “New World Architecture” to open as an exhibition in 2007. (Location to be announced.) Also shown will be the winning projects selected from the Museum’s annual “American Architecture Awards” for 2007, which recognizes the best new building design in the United States. All Awarded Projects for 2007 can be seen on the Museum’s website at www.chi-athenaeum.org. The 2008 deadline for submissions for “The International Architecture Awards” is DECEMBER 1, 2007 for buildings designed and/or built between 2004-2007. Entry forms are available by calling the Museum at +815/777-4444 or by FAX at +815/777-2471 or online at www. chi-athenaeum.org. For more information or photographs for publication, contact Lary L. Sommers at Tel: +815/777-4444 or email: info@chicagoathenaeum.org INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2007 Check List SOKA-BAU COMPLEX Wiesbaden , Germany Architects: Herzog + Partner Client: SOKA-BAU SEAN O’CASEY BRIDGE Dublin, Ireland Architects: Brian O’Halloran & Associates Client: Dublin Docklands Development Authority Contractor: John Mowlem Construction Ltd. SACHSENHAUSEN MEMORIAL “STATION Z” Oranienburg, Germany Architects: hg merz architekten museumsgestalter Client: Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten “MOTENASHI” DOME Kanazawa, Japan Architects: Shirae Associates Associate Architects: Nihon University Client: Kanazawa City Office Contractor: Sihmizu Corporation BERLIN CENTRAL STATION Berlin, Germany Architects: gmp-von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Architects Client: Deutsche Bahn AG NEW REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS SÜDWESTMETALL Heilbronn, Germany Architects: Dominik Dreiner, Architect Client: Südwestmetall THEATRE STUDIO FOR UNIVERSITY Brno, Czech Republic Architects: ARCHTEAM Associate Architects: RADArchitekti Client: JAMU SIEEB SINO ITALIAN ECOLOGICAL AND ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects Client: Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory (Italy) and Ministry for Science and Technology (Peoples’ Republic of China) AGC MONOZUKURI QUALITY MANUFACTURING TRAINING CENTRE Kanagawa, Japan Architects: Takenaka Corporation Client: Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. Contractor: Takenaka Corporation 222 RESIDENCE Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Architects: Elliott + Associates Architects Client: Withheld Contractor: Lingo Construction RECTORIA DE LA UNVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY Monterrey, N.L., Mexico Architects: Bernardo Hinojasa Rodriguez Client: Universidad de Monterrey HORIZON HOUSE Atami, Japan Architects: Shinichi Ogawa & Associates Associate Architects: Wada Structural Engineer Consultant Client: Withheld Contractor: Daido Kogyo Co., Ltd. CHOKKURA PLAZA & SHELTER Tochigi, Japan Architects: Kengo Kuma & Associates Client: The City of Shioya-gun, Tochigi Contractor: P.T. Morimura & Associates SSM/KANNO MUSEUM Shiogama-City, Miyagi, Japa Architects: Hitoshi Abe + Atelier Hitoshi Abe Client: Kanno Museum Contractor: Kajima Corporation Contractor: Takahashi Kogyo Co., Ltd. KUMU/THE MAIN BUILDING OF THE ART MUSEUM OF ESTONIA Tallinn, Estonia Architects: Vapaavuori Architects Client: Government of Estonia Client: Art Museum of Estonia Client: Kesseu/Art Museum Construction Foundation Contractor: AS Merko Ehitus Contractor: AS Eesti Ehitus NUOVO POLO FIERA MILANO/NEW MILAN TRADE FAIR Rho-Pero, Italy Architects: Massimilano Fuksas Architect Client: Fondazione Fiera Milano Contractor: Astaldispa Vianini S.p.A., Pizzarotti STADIUM SIENA Siena, Italy Architects: Michele Piccini Architect Client: Municipality of Siena SHANGHAI QIZHONG FOREST SPORTS CITY TENNIS CENTRE Shanghai, Peoples’ Republic of China Architects: Mitsuru Senda + Environment Design Institute Planners/Associate Architects: Naomi Sato Architects Associate Architects: Shanghai Institute of Architectural Design Research Co., Ltd. Client: Shanghai Qizhong Forest Sports City Tennis Centre Contractor: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Contractor: Beijing Special Engineering Design and Research Institute Contractor: Jiangnan Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. JKS WORKSHOPS Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom Architects: gm+ad Architects Client: Clydebank Re-Built Ltd. Contractor: Luddon Construction ST. ANDREWS BEACH HOUSE Victoria, Australia Architects: Sean Godsell Architects Client: D. McNair Contractor: R. D. McGowan Building LEAMOUTH PENINSULA London, Great Britain Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLC. Associate Architects: Martha Schwartz Partners Client: Ballymore Properties Limited ARB BANK HEADQUARTERS Riyadh, Saudia Arabia Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLC. Client: Al Rajhi Banking & Investment AL RAJHI BANK HEADQUARTERS Riyadh, Saudia Arabia Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLC. Associate Architects: Mohamed Harasani Architects Client Al Rajhi Banking & Investment BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY MEMORIAL Bhopal, India Architects: Mathew Ghosh Architects Pvt. Ltd. Client: EPCO INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2007 Check List Page Two MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT Madrid, Spain Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership Associate Architects: Estudio Lamela Client: AENA Contractor: UTE Terminal (ACS, FCC, Ferrovial, Nesco, Safyr Contractor: UTE Satelite (Dragados,m OHL) Landscape Architects: dosAdos NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Architects: Richard Rogers Partnership Client: National Assembly for Wales Contractor: Taylor Woodrow Construction Landscape Architects: Gillespies RE-TEM CORPORATION TOKYO FACTORY Tokyo, Japan Architects: Taku Sakaushi/O.F.D.A. Associates Associate Architects: Takeshi Nakashima/ O.F.D.A. Associates Client: Re-Tem Corporation Contractor: Shimz Corporation HOTEL CONDESA DF Mexico City, Mexico Architects: Higuera + Sanchez Architects: IMH Client: CONDESSA df Contractor: Higuera + Sanchez AMSTERDAM 315 MULTIFAMILY HOUSING Mexico City, Mexico Architects: Higuera + Sanchez Client: Higuera + Sanchez Contractor: Higuera + Sanchez LUGNER SUSPENDED BRIDGE IN GLASS Vienna, Austria Architects: Architekturstudio Bulant & Wailzer Client: Lugner Söhne Stiftung Contractor: Waagner-Biro Structural Engineers: Vasko + Partners NEW STATE PRISON IN EAST JUTLAND Horsens, Denmark Architects: Friis & Moltke A/S Client: Ministry of Justice, Department of Prison and Probation, Building Division THEATER 11 Zurich, Switzerland Architects: EM2N | Mathias Müller | Daniel Niggli Architekten AG | ETH | SIA | BSA Client: MCH Messe Zuerich AG Contractor: Bauengineering.com AG REHABILITATION OF SANTA CATERINA MARKET Barcelona, Spain Architects: Miralles/Tagliabue-EMBT Client: Foment de Ciutat Vella S.A. Contractor: COMSA Empresa Constructors 31 VERNON STREET OFFICE BUILDING London, Great Britain Architects: Terry Pawson Architects Client: Thomas Gatacre Contractor: Acuity Management Solutions BCC-BUSAN CINEMA COMPLEX Busan, South Korea Architects: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Prix & Swiczinsky & Dreibholz ZT GmbH Associate Architects: Heerim Architects & Planners Co., Ltd. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS Munich, Germany Architects: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Prix & Swiczinsky & Dreibholz ZT GmbH Client: Freistaat Bayern-Staatshochbauamt SPACE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC CREATION Cordoba, Spain Architects: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Prix & Swiczinsky & Dreibholz ZT GmbH Client: Consejeria de Cultura Empresea Pública de Gestion de Programmes Culturales Contractor: Structural Engineers: B+G Ingenieuere, Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH THE GREAT EGYPTIAN MUSEUM Cairo, Egypt Architects: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Prix & Swiczinsky & Dreibholz ZT GmbH Associate Architects: Arge Eiger Nord Wien Client: The Egyptian Ministry of Culture, under the Patronage of UNESCO Structural Engineers: B+G Ingenieuere, Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH USASAZO SECONDARY SCHOOL Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa Architects: Noero Wolff Architects Client: Department of Transport and Public Works, Western Cape, Provincial Government Contractor: NR Construction GALLERY IN KIYOSATO Hokuto City, Yamanashi, Japan Architects: Satoshi Okada Architects Inc. Client: Standard & Chartered Bank, Japan Branch GALZIGBAHN CABLE CAR STATION St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria Architects: driendl*architects Client: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG Contractor: Arlberger Bergbahnen AG WELLNESS CENTER “BERGOASE” Arosa, Switzerland Architects: Studio arch. Mario Botta Associate Architects: GPL Tschuggen Arosa Salvatore Client: Tschuggen Grand Hotel PASTORAL CENTER AND CHURCH SANTO VOLTO Turin, Italy Architects: Studio arch. Mario Botta Client: Archbishopric of Turin FISH MARKET ISLET Treviso, Italy Architects: Studio Architetto Toni Follina Client: Comune di Treviso (Treviso Municipality) Contractor: Impresa Setten Genesio S.p.A. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MERCED, CENTRAL PLANT Merced, California, USA Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Associate Architects: Arup Client: Reed Smith Contractor: Swinerton Inc. BRIDGING THE RIFT Israel/Jordan Border Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Client: Bridging the Rift Foundation STEPHEN M. ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. Client: University of Michigan Contractor: Gilbane/Clark Joint Venture INCS “ZERO” FACTORY Nagano, Japan Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. Client: INCS, Inc. Contractor: Maeda Corporation MINT TOY MUSEUM Singapore Architects: SCDA Architects Pte. Ltd. Client: Bullworks Pte. Ltd. Contractor: Actus Builders Pte. Ltd. TEN ROW HOUSES IN RUGINELLO-MILAN Milan, Italy Architects: Roccatelier Associati Client: Frigerio Appalti Contractor: Frigerio Appalti VILLA BIO Barcelona, Spain Architects: Cloud 9, SL. Client: Perimetralia Contractor: Carlos Fontecna & Giovanna de Uzin ASPLUND LIBRARY ADDITION Stockholm, Sweden Architects: Macrae-Gibson Architects Client: Asplund Library DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN London, Great Britain Architects: Gustafson Porter Client: The Royal Parks Contractor: Geoffrey Osborne WINECENTER Kaltern, Caldaro, Italy Architects: feld72 Architecture and Urban Strategies Client: Kellerei Kaltern-Winegrowers Cooperative Contractor: Bernard Bau GmbH THEATRE/FESTIVAL AND CONVENTION CENTRE Bregenz, Austria Architects: Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten Client: Municipality Bregenz, Federal Province of Vorarlberg, State Austria INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2007 Check List Page Three Architecture Awards featured: Civic Trust Awards Dynamic Place Awards RIBA Awards Roses Design Awards Grand Designs Awards Stirling Prize BCO Awards International Architecture Awards : PR from Chicago Athenaeum 25Apr 2007 World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe Comments / photos for the International Architecture Awards page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk International Architecture Awards - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt |