The World Architecure Festival is held from the 2-4 November 2011 in Barcelona

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Nebuta-no-ie warasse will also be on view at:
World Architecture Festival preview at the UIA convention in Tokyo
The preview exhibition will be taking place from the 26 - 28 September at the Uchida Yoko showroom in the Chuo-Ku district of Tokyo. The exhibition will be open from 12 - 8pm each day.

The new "knock-down" version of COLOUR & LINE CHAIR to be shown at TENT LONDON
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After its debut at DesignTide Tokyo now for the first time on show in Europe the new prototype of our Colour & Line Chair. Constructed with a minimum amount of elements the chair offers a puzzle-like playfulness and geometric beauty through its lines and surfaces.
The basic concept of showing the connections and the interconnections of the elements in an honest way forms the base of its aesthetic. Its assembly method is minimal.
The seating element and backrest simply slot into the armrests and are held in place with wedges that remain visible as subtle details. This allows the chair to be stored and transported flat. Consistently made out of 18mm durable maple plywood, only the chairs surfaces are coloured leaving the wood grain exposed. The lines of the plywood layers are left blank while the whole chair is poly-urethane lacquered. Change the colours of the parts and an infinite number of combinations can be created. With this possibility of variation, the chair can fit any interior environment. And not only is the chair aesthetically good-looking but the slanted seating and backrest guarantee it is also comfortable in use. Except for a dining chair, a lounge chair and matching table can be produced as well.

See it, Buy it, Source it First
Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival each September.
Now in its fifth year at the Old Truman Brewery, Tent London presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products - furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories.
Over 19,000 international trade buyers, high calibre specifiers, opinion forming media and design savvy consumers from 44 different countries attend the four-day event. It is regarded as the most cutting-edge and progressive trade exhibition during the London Design Festival and must attend for those who need to be seen with their finger on the pulse.

Winner of the WAN Civic Buildings Award, completed category: Nebuta House (Nebuta-no-ie Warasse), Aomori City, Japan


Nebuta House (Nebuta-no-ie Warasse), a museum and centre for creative culture in Japan wins the completed category of this year’s WAN Civic Buildings Award.

The WAN Civic Buildings Award, completed category has this year been awarded to molo, d&dt Arch and Frank la Rivière Architects Inc. for Nebuta House (Nebuta-no-ie Warasse). Nebuta House is a museum and centre for creative culture in the Northern Japanese city of Aomori and is inspired by the craftsmanship and spirit of the Nebuta Festival.

The Civic Buildings Award celebrates and promotes the best in international architecture for public use, attracting entries from all over the world. Fittingly the panel of judges was a highly experienced group who understand the complexities and opportunities in this sector. The jury included Lady Patricia Ann Hopkins - Co Founder of Hopkins Architects, Miles Delap - Partner at Gardiner & Theobald, Keith Williams - Founder of Keith Williams Architects, Morten Schmidt - Co-Founder of schmidt hammer lassen and Ralph Johnson - Design Principal at Perkins & Will.

An exciting shortlist included Sunset Chapel in Acapulco, Mexico. This chapel is the first religious commission for Bunker Arquitectura and is a chapel which appears as a magnificent rock that blends with its surrounding nature. Sunset Chapel was considered such a strong entry that it was awarded ‘Highly Commended’. Another very strong contender was Norihiko Dan
and Associates for their impressive tourism bureau on Sun Moon Lake in Nantou County, Taiwan. It was from this exceptional shortlist Nebuta House (Nebuta-no-ie Warasse) in Northern Japan was crowned the deserved winner.

Judges’ comments

A number of incredibly strong entries had the judges struggling to come to a shortlist. On reaching this shortlist they agreed that the civic submissions on the final list all offer hope and spirited design that encapsulate the very meaning of the term ‘public space’.

This notion of civic function was intrinsic to the jury’s decision process, with the majority of projects catching the eye of our jurors for their balance of strong architectural design and commitment to civic function. Keith Williams, Founding Partner of Keith Williams Architects was particularly taken with Larraz Arquitectos’ Shelter Home for the Homeless in Pamplona, which easily made the shortlist, commenting: “Many homeless people are untied over a social embarrassment about where they are, so a place like this where you are not under display would be quite a good thing.”
A number of schemes were praised for their easy integration into the surrounding landscape; JDS’s Holmenkollen Ski Jump was singled out for this purpose, alongside Bunker Arquitectura’s Sunset Chapel, both prominent figures in their communities yet sympathetic to the surrounding flora and fauna.

Selecting the winner in the completed category was harder still, but Nebuta House (Nebuta-no-ie Warasse), Aomori City, Japan was the most highly admired amongst the judges. Miles Delap, Partner at Gardiner & Theobald was particularly taken with the building: “It has the complexity that’s important in a civic building. It blends very nicely the community uses, the community art form which is obviously really interesting. The community art form is visually exciting and the building doesn’t compete with that but it has a really beautiful and lovely façade and depth to it that you don’t often see.”

Morten Schmidt, Co-Founder, schmidt hammer lassen, added that it was “a very modern building and very poetic”. He continued that “the project brings social energy and art and blends them together. A historical and traditional art form brought into a modern frame but done in a very elegant way”

Ralph Johnson, Principal and Design Director at Perkins+Will, Chicago also commented that Nebuta was “an interstitial space that transforms a black box function to create connections back to the city, with a façade of undulating individual shaped steel ribbons symbolizing the myth and tradition of this local festival.” Ending with saying that Nebuta is a “strong form which reinforces a specific regional-cultural tradition and becomes a year round civic amenity”

WAN website:

Shortlist 2011
Completed Buildings » Culture
Guangzhou Opera House Zaha Hadid Architects
Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute China

HARPA Reykjavik Concert and Congress Centre Henning Larsen Architects
Batteriid Architects Iceland

Hoki Museum Nikken Sekkei Ltd. Japan

Holburne Museum of Art Eric Parry Architects United Kingdom

MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome Odile Decq Benoît Cornette Architects and Urban Planners Italy

Musashino Art University Museum & Library Sou Fujimoto Architects Japan

Museum of Liverpool 3XN United Kingdom

Museum of Memory and Tolerance Arditti+RDT/arquitectos Mexico

Nebuta House molo d&dt Arch Frank la Rivière Architects Inc Japan

NO99 Straw Theatre Salto AB OÜ Estonia

OMS Stage 5468796 Architecture Inc. Canada

Raif Dinckok Yalova Cultural Center EAA-Emre Arolat Architects Turkey

SHIMA KITCHEN ARCHITECTS ATELIER RYO ABE Japan

Soumaya Museum FREE / Fernando Romero Mexico

Sperone Westwater Foster + Partners United States of America

Windmill Hill Stephen Marshall Architects LLP United Kingdom

Shortlist 2011
Completed Buildings » Display
Gippsland Water Factory Vortex Centre DesignInc Australia

Naturum Vattenriket White arkitekter AB Sweden

Nebuta House molo d&dt Arch Frank la Rivière Architects Inc Japan

Norwegian Wild Reindeer Center Pavilion Snøhetta Norway

Pavilion, Lille Museum of Modern Art 2hD Architects/ Nottingham Trent University France

Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion Marlon Blackwell Architect United States of America

Waitomo Glowworm Caves Visitor Centre Architecture Workshop New Zealand

Windmill Hill Stephen Marshall Architects LLP United Kingdom

Nebuta-no-ie Warasse awarded THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARDS 2011The World's Most Prestigious Global Awards for New
Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Planning
ORGANIZED BY
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design
The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
AND Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd.

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. have organized The International Architecture Awards as away in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built around the world by the most important architects, landscape architects and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally.

The International Architecture Awards give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public worldwide.

The program is one of the Museum’s most important public education outreach initiatives produced throughout the year—to the Museum’s international audience.

The International Architecture Awards are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism from a global point-of-view.

The program pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.

This year’s program honors new (2009-2012) corporate, institutional, commercial, residential architecture, interiors, and urban planning, designed for both built and unbuilt projects alike.

This years Jury:
THE ASSOCATION OF POLISH ARCHITECTS SARP
Warsaw, Poland
May 2011

Jerzy Grochulski
President, SARP

Andrzej Bulanda
Bulanda Mucha Architekci Sp. z.o.o.

Grzegorz Stiansny
Grzegorz Stiansny Architeki

Jacek Syropolski
Kurylowicz & Associates

At Zen Foto Gallery in Roppongi Piramide Building the exhibition NIRVANA was held featuring work by Tim Porter (Canada) and Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thailand). Tim showed images of his series Still Lives and Manit of his series Masters. We were responsibel for the graphic design of the catalogues and postcard of this very interesting juxtaposition of bottled phoetesus of siamese twins and stoic looking wax replicas of budist monks.

The February 2011 (no 945) issue featured Nebuta-no-ie Warasse in a two page article. In the same period we collaborated with Nikkei Architecture and Hewlett-Packard on an article published in the March 2011 (no 947) issue. For about two we were asked to test run the large size HP Designjet T2300 eMFP printer-scanner-plotter. The fact that this printer can handle A0 size drawings, that it is also a scanner and its reasonable price-quality ration makes it an attractive machine, provided one has the space. We had to clear our living romm to do the test.

SPACE is a series published by Beisistudio Pace Publishers in Hong Kong. Previously Y-HOUSE was selected for the HOME issue and this time N-HOUSE was included in RESIDENCE together with a wide veriety of residential interiors.