1. Kingsdale School - Alleyn Park Dulwich, London, Southwark SE21 8SQ, United Kingom (de Rijke Marsh Morgan Ltd)
Conceptual clarity and innovative construction methods are key features of the design. The conversion of Kingsdale School, a style icon of the late fifties, has received particular attention. Following its refurbishment and extension by drmm, it is now once more a shining example of a modern school building. The design focused on the 'content' rather than the form, with drmm looking for correlations between particular materials, contexts and uses in order to generate extraordinary architecture.
(Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc)
A modest smooth textured, ivory clay brick exterior housing an equally minimal interior of dark wood screens, stucco walls, frosted green glass and polished concrete columns.
"While sustainable design is generally accepted as the right thing to do, its value is often considered only in terms of quantitative returns such as energy performance or payback period. However, a more holistic approach suggests that sustainability must encompass many threads, both building and civic, working together to realise a qualitative common good and not just individual measurable segments. in this light, a building's sustainability should therefore be understood both for its technological solutions as well as its ability to positively contribute to the city as a whole. "
3. Prince Consort Restaurant, Royal Albert Hall - Kensington Gore London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom
(Softroom)
The restaurant was designed to be innovative, diverse and of high-quality. Its design was revolved around an aspect of being accessible in the broadest sense - to consist of spaces that are both engaging and stimulating to as wide an audience as possible.
Technical Aspects of Complex Geometry
1. Art Gallery of Ontario - 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario
(Gehry Partners, LLP)
"While the project bears few immediate resemblances to the signature billowing forms that have become his calling card, the design is certainly not wanting for architectural bravura. Stretching over 180 meters along the entire Dundas Street façade and rising 20 metres above street level will be a swooping Douglas fir and glass scrim that slants and twists over its full course and then breaks free from itself at the ends. Behind the transparent visor, a linear sculpture gallery will double as the main circulation route. On the south side of the gallery a tinted glass and titanium tower will rise to overlook Grange Park and will house a hosting facility, galleries for contemporary art, and a panoramic dining hall. While a square box seems the last thing you would expect, a set of spiralling stairs bears the Gehry signature and twists its way through the sky-lit roof to the third and fourth floor contemporary galleries.
2. Sharp Centre for Design Ontario College of Art and Design - 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario
(Robbie/Young + Wright Architects in joint venture with Alsop Architects)
"...a massive two-storey slab perched some 27 metres above the street on 12 slender stilts that look more like colourful crayons. In actuality, the main support for the building comes from the jet-black monolithic elevator core rising from the heart of the original brick building, with most of the crayons being more of a whimsical reference to the arts. Wrapping the entire slab equally on all sides is a metal skin painted with a black and white dot matrix pattern interspersed with a seemingly random pattern of punched openings. By day, the white hulk looms overhead, while at night, ultraviolet lighting gives the slab an ephemeral presence from afar."
3. MAS | Museum On the River - Hanzestedenplaats 1, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
(Neutelings Riedijk Architects)
"Every storey of the tower has been rotated a quarter turn, creating a gigantic spiral staircase. This spiral space, in which a façade of corrugated glass is inserted, forms a public city gallery. The spiral route leading up to the top of the tower narrates a story about the harbour and its inhabitants; it is finished with a gigantic curtain of corrugated glass. Thus it allows visitors to enter a museum hall on every level and reflect on the history of the 'dead city', while on the way up mind-blowing views unfold above the active city."
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