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| Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture 2005 The prestigious Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture 2005 were presented to winning architects and designers from all over the world at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London. A distinguished international jury assessed hundreds of entries to find three award winners, seven high commendations, six commended schemes and eight honourable mentions. The annual AR Awards are now seven years old and are recognised as the world’s leading celebration of the work of young architects who are at the start of their independent careers. A very wide range of artefacts from over 50 countries was presented to the jury. They varied from furniture to landscape projects, churches to cocoons, and tiny pavilions to dramatic transformations of large existing buildings. The three award winners are: Taira Nishizawa for the Forestry Hall gymnasium in Tomochi, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, which draws on the main local industry of forestry to create a lyrically arboreal timber and steel space frame structure. Trahan Architects for an oratory in an educational campus in Louisiana, USA. FNP Architekten for a showroom in Pfalz, Germany. An eighteenth-century farm building is imaginatively transformed into a showroom by the simple expedient of placing a timber structure inside the original crumbling stone shell. Award winners share the £10 000 prize money equally. All work submitted for the award scheme must be constructed. The age limit of 45 was chosen for entrants because in many countries architects and designers find it difficult to build before that age. An exhibition of winning entries is on show at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1 from 7 December until 28 February 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |