urbArAmA’s Blog

As promised, here is a review of the strangest project we found at the World Architecture Festival: Das Urpflanze Haus-Homage to Goethe.

The Modern Movement in architecture was based primarily in Utopian Solutions to its constructed Tasks. To complete these Tasks the Moderns combined Science [ as the desire to differentiate Nature indefinitely ] with Personal Intuition, so as to inform the architect when to make an end. Modernism’s most pressing problem then was assumed to be the construction of Mass-Housing that is truly affordable by all.

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Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, designed by Peter Rich Architects of Johannesburg, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of World Building of the Year at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009.

The presentation took place during a special awards ceremony, which marked the conclusion of global architecture summit the World Architecture Festival, at the Centre Convencions International Barcelona (CCIB) on 6th November.

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Dear friends of urbArAmA,

It’s been a year since the launch of urbArAmA Atlas of Architecture . We would like to thank you for your support and feedback during this year.

We released urbArAma to make extremely easy to share engineering and architecture projects on the Internet. With urbArmA you can easily share your own architecture projects or simply your favourite ones with a growing community, either at urbArAmA.com or at your own website thanks to our API and widgets If you haven’t done so yet, please give it a try and upload your favourite architecture project to urbArAmA, it’s extremely easy and fast. Share with us your favorite projects!

Thanks to your active support, urbArAmA has also evolved into a growing community  of architects and architecture passionates. Please, take a look at our community webpage and new members profiles. Complete your own profile with your picture and info. And join us in our Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter Groups. We’ll love to hear your comments and feedback to improve urbArAmA.

Thanks again for your support,

Ethel, Martin and Jordi

Due to an overwhelming amount of interest, the entry deadline for the AR Emerging Architecture Awards has been extended. The new deadline is:

FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2009

You now have an extra 10 days in which to send in your entries so don’t miss out on the chance to see your work:

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El prestigioso arquitecto Josep Lluís Mateo, presentará su último libro Ocasiones en la galería RAS de Barcelona. El libro recoge proyectos, charlas y reflexiones del arquitecto durante los últimos cinco años. Con motivo de esta presentación, el estudio ha ideado una instalación efímera, Occasional City, que muestra maquetas y documentos de proyectos recientes.

Sobre el libro:
El libro Ocasiones está editado por Actar en castellano y en inglés y se distribuirá en más de 20 países. Recoge contribuciones de Stan Allen, Dominique Boudet, Vicente Guallart, José Luis Guerín, Marta Poch, Carlos M. Reis de Figueiredo y Jordi Teixidor.

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Shortlisted announced for World Architecture Festival Awards.

A tree top restaurant in New Zealand, a space age high school in Los Angeles, a stunning culture complex in South Korea, an aviary inspired by Gaudi in Geneva, and Wimbledon Centre Court in London, are among the 272 building projects that have made it onto this year’s shortlist for the world’s biggest architecture contest - the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards.

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We just received a few days ago our business cards for urbArAmA. They’re cute! We’d like to share the process of designing and printing them.

For the reverse of the business cards we thought it would be a nice idea to have some architecture sketches. And we inmediately thought about Alvaro Carnicero, an Spanish young architect and blogger that posts his drawings at Flickr. It’s worthy to take a look at his sketches on Flickr. Thanks Álvaro for grating us permission to use some of your sketches.

We’ve used the fantastic online printer service Moo. If you don not know it yet we strongly recommend you to take a look and give it a try.

This has been the result:

There are only 16 days to entry your last projects at the World Architecture Festival Awards. So, you better enter today to benefit from:

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Compete, contemplate, learn and network at World Architecture Festival
World Architecture Festival comprises the world’s largest architectural awards programme. The nature in which the shortlisted compete is truly unique. Each shortlisted individual presents in front of an audience of their peers and the world’s most renowned expert architects such as Raphael Vinoly, Sou Fujimoto, Lorenzo Apicella, Sir Peter Cook and Kengo Kuma. The event is fiercely competitive and highly pressured but incredibly exhilarating for festival attendees to watch.

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Zurich, May 8, 2009 - The second cycle of the Holcim Awards competition has reached its pinnacle: the top sustainable construction projects out of thousands of submissions from all continents have been selected.

Gold for River remediation and urban development scheme in Fez, Morocco
A project centered upon restoration of the river through the UNESCO World Heritage listed Medina of Fez was awarded the top prize of USD 300,000 and the Global Holcim Awards Gold. A youthful and international project team led by architect Aziza Chaouni (Morocco) and urban planner Takako Tajima (USA) are remediating the heavily-polluted river Fez to revitalize the ancient heart of the city. The approach includes a series of interventions to renovate traditional tanneries, create public spaces and pedestrian zones, and restore wetlands as well as biodiversity.

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