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The Winnipeg Skating Shelters have received a 2011 North American Wood Design Honor Award.
OTTAWA, ON – The Wood Design & Building magazine is pleased to announce the award recipients for the prestigious 2011 North American Awards Program. Sixteen projects were hand selected from over one-hundred entries by an esteemed jury panel: Andrew Frontini from Perkins+Will, James Cutler from Cutler Anderson and Robert Hull from Miller Hull.
>> 2011 Wood Design Award Winners Announced 
The Fort York National Historic Site Visitor Center has received a 2011 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
TORONTO, ON. Canadian Architect announces the winners of the 2011 Awards of Excellence, given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. One of only two national award programs devoted exclusively to architecture, the Awards of Excellence have recognized significant building projects in Canada on an annual basis since 1968.
This year's winners have been selected by a jury consisting of Walter Francl of Walter Francl Architecture in Vancouver, Diarmuid Nash of Moriyama & Teshima Architects in Toronto, and Peter Sampson of Peter Sampson Architecture Studio in Winnipeg.
Awards are given for architectural design excellence. Jurors considered response to the program, site, geographical and social context, and evaluated physical organization, structure, materials and environmental features.
>> 2011 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence winners announced
>> Award of Excellence - Fort York National Historic Site Visitor Center
The Linear House has won the 2011 AZ Award for Design Excellence in the Residential Architecture category.
The 14 award winners were selected by an international jury, comprised of landscape architect Claude Cormier, industrial designer Patty Johnson, architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta, interior designer Glenn Pushelberg of Yabu Pushelberg, and designer Eero Koivisto, of Stockholm's Claesson Koivisto Rune.
>> 1st Annual AZ Award winners announced
The Cottages at Fallingwater have received a 2010 Canadian Architect Award of Excellence.
TORONTO, ON. Canadian Architect announces the winners of the 2010 Awards of Excellence, given each year to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage. One of only two national award programs devoted exclusively to architecture, the Awards of Excellence have recognized significant building projects in Canada on an annual basis since 1968.
This year's winners have been selected by a jury consisting of Janna Levitt of Levitt Goodman Architects in Toronto, James Cheng of James KM Cheng Architects in Vancouver, and Andrew King of Cannon Design.
Awards are given for architectural design excellence. Jurors considered response to the program, site, geographical and social context, and evaluated physical organization, structure, materials and environmental features.
>> 2010 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence winners announced
Gleneagles Community Centre has been selected as one of ten case study models for the Architecture Canada 2030 Challenge.
Canada’s residential, commercial, and industrial buildings create a major demand for materials and energy, both of which produce greenhouse gases in extraction (of materials), manufacture, and operations. The 2030 Challenge is a program supporting design activities that will significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of new and renovated Canadian buildings.
The 2030 Challenge has been endorsed by Architecture Canada as part of its commitment to promote sustainable design as a recognizable skill of its members. Architecture Canada has been joined by the Canada Green Building Council, and other Canadian organizations within the design sector.
The 2030 Challenge addresses the energy use of buildings, and asserts that the creation of low-energy consuming buildings is primarily a design issue. By establishing a set of energy consumption targets and through the encouragement of institutions and businesses to adopt and enforce the achievement of those targets, the 2030 Challenge will enable every Building Owner to help to resolve the problem.
>> Architecture Canada - 2030 Challenge
Patkau Architects has been selected to perform Phase 1 of the renewal of Marpole-Oakridge Community
Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Three Patkau Architects projects have been shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival Awards 2010.
The Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport at the University of Toronto, Fort York National Historic Site
Visitors Centre and the Cottages at Fallingwater have all been shortlisted in the Future projects category.
>> World Architecture Festival: Shortlist 2010
Patkau Architects and MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects have been selected as architects for the Goldring Centre for
High Performance Sport at the University of Toronto, Ontario.
>> Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport
MILL RUN, PA. Fallingwater today announced that a jury has chosen Patkau Architects of Vancouver, British Columbia, as the winner of its first-ever design competition for on-site cottages that will support residential educational programming at the Frank Lloyd Wright masterwork in Fayette County.
The second-place winner of the competition is Phoenix, Ariz.-based Wendell Burnette Architects, and Olson Kundig Architects of Seattle, Wash., has been chosen as the third-place winner.
Patkau Architects' winning design for six small, efficient, sustainable cottages will serve as the basis of a final design, to be implemented following regulatory approval and fundraising.
“In its subtlety, it is provocative and it carries forward the discourse about where architecture can move,” the jury said of the winning design. “Its strength is not just in what is included, but in what is left out.”
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which preserves and maintains Fallingwater, will build the cottages on the grounds of the 5,000-acre Bear Run Nature Reserve that surrounds Fallingwater, some distance from the house itself. The design competition is the first that Fallingwater has sponsored for construction of new buildings on-site.
The new cottages will serve an important outreach goal by expanding lodging capacity for participants in Fallingwater Institute’s diverse educational programs. These unique, immersive educational offerings are tailored to broad age levels and interests – and to people from the Western Pennsylvania region and beyond.
“When Edgar Kaufmann, jr. entrusted Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, he envisioned education as a critical component of Fallingwater’s new role as a public resource. He saw Fallingwater as not merely available to the public, but as a force that could continue to drive the development of architecture and good design as well as advance their appreciation and understanding,” said Lynda Waggoner, director of Fallingwater and vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. “He said, ‘Fallingwater grew and still grows.’ We feel that the winning design by Patkau Architects will allow Fallingwater to grow by actively demonstrating the principles we espouse: good design in harmony with nature.”
>> Fallingwater Announces Winner of Design Competition for On-Site Cottages
PITTSBURGH, PA. Carnegie Museum of Art will exhibit design proposals by six architectural firms for green, energy-efficient cottages to be built in the vicinity of Fallingwater at Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Situated some distance from the house, the cottages will accommodate students, teachers, academics, and researchers interested in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s greatest architect, and in the ecology of the 5,000-acre Bear Run Nature Reserve surrounding this cultural landmark.
This is the first time a competition has been held for new construction at the Fallingwater property. The proposals by three American and three Canadian practices were submitted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which preserves and maintains Fallingwater, at the beginning of May, and the winning design will be announced on May 21. Presentation boards and models by each firm will be exhibited June 12–August 22 in the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, where they will be on view to the public and to students participating in the museum’s summer architecture camps.
“We are delighted to exhibit these proposals, which represent a 21st-century interpretation of many of Wright’s concerns in the 1930s yet also address today’s pressing issues of environmental stewardship and sustainability,” said Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture at the Heinz Architectural Center.
“Contestants should not only integrate good design and modern technology into their ideas,” added Cara Armstrong, Fallingwater’s curator of education, “but also ask themselves how living in harmony with nature is inseparable from the modern ideals of good design.”
The six participating firms, each known for environmental sensitivity, are:
· Marlon Blackwell Architect, Fayetteville, Arkansas
· Wendell Burnette Architects, Phoenix, Arizona
· MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, Halifax, Nova Scotia
· Olson Kundig Architects, Seattle, Washington
· Patkau Architects, Vancouver, British Columbia
· Saucier + Perrotte Architectes, Montreal, Quebec
The winning design should incorporate the use of energy-efficient and environmentally friendly building materials. The cottages will be situated to take full advantage of natural heating and cooling opportunities and to minimize environmental impacts. Each structure should include a basic kitchen, a fireplace, and a shower, and should recycle kitchen and shower gray water for use in the toilets. They must be easily maintained during three seasons and just as easily closed over the winter.
>> Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater | Carnegie Museum of Art
Lectures:
June 16, 2011
Patricia Patkau
Ghost 13 International Architecture Conference
Halifax, Nova Scotia
May 25, 2011
John Patkau
The Edge of Opportunity: Between Circumstance and Imagination
2011 RAIC National Conference, Vancouver
April 14, 2011
John Patkau
Yale University
March 30, 2011
Patricia Patkau
School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin
March 1, 2011
Patricia Patkau
Juror, AIA Design Awards, New York
February 18, 2011
Patricia Patkau
Montana State University
November 13, 2010
John and Patricia Patkau
Five Architects: A North American Anthology. A Conference Curated by Kenneth Frampton
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University, NYC
10 am to 6 pm
November 4 - 5, 2010
Patricia Patkau
Workshop Participation, Lecture
Moving Sustainability by Design Conference, Arhus, Denmark
Exhibitions:
January 2011 - Spring Ice Melt
Invited Participant, The Warming Hut: An Art + Architecture Exposition on Ice
Assiniboine River, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Project: Jellyfish
June 12 - August 22, 2010
Design Competition: New Cottages at Fallingwater
The Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
April 19 - June 30, 2010
Archtypes: from Greek Huts and Sheepfolds to Contemporary Art and Architecture
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
Works included: La Petite Maison du Weekend
Publications:
Patkau Architects
Monograph Available from The Monacelli Press
foreword by Kenneth Frampton
May 2006
