Riken Yamamoto announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2024
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by Anil Jangid
3w ago
The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, as the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.  Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures, and housing systems. Deeply embedded in upholding community life, he asserts that the value of privacy has become an urban sensibility, when in fact, members of a community should sus ..read more
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Pakistani Architect Yasmeen Lari named as the recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2023
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by Anil Jangid
9M ago
ArchiDiaries’ news announces that RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) is pleased to nominate Ar. Yasmeen Lari as a recipient of the Royal Gold Medal 2023, one of the world’s highest honours for the architecture fraternity.  One of the world’s highest accolades for architecture, the Royal Gold Medal is approved by the monarch and awarded to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture. This award – the first to be personally approved by His Majesty The King – acknowledges Yasmeen Lari’s work championing zero carbon self-build ..read more
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David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023
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by Anil Jangid
1y ago
Civic architect, urban planner and activist, Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been selected as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor. Subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant, he is a prolific architect who is radical in his restraint, demonstrating his reverence for history and culture while honoring the preexisting built and natural environments, as he reimagines functionality and accessibility of new buildings, renovations and restorations through timeless modern design that confronts climate urgenc ..read more
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The Journey of ‘Doshi We Know Fellowship’ through the lenses of Past Fellows’ Work
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by Anil Jangid
1y ago
Doshi We Know trust has announced its annual fellowship program for the year 2023-2024, calling it ‘Breaking the Barriers’. The Doshi Fellowship supports scholars primarily in the field of architecture and the built environment. Awardees are provided a sum of Rs. 3,00,000/- as support for pursuing their interest. Detailed information about the Doshi We Know Fellowship can be found in our previous article. The Doshi We Know (DWK) fellowship was first announced in the year 2018 and three successful cycles have been completed so far. Under the mentorship and correspondence with the DWK fellowship ..read more
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Doshi We Know | Applications for ‘Breaking the Barriers – The Fellowship 2023-2024’ are invited
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by Anil Jangid
1y ago
Doshi We Know trust has announced its annual fellowship program for the year 2023-2024, calling it ‘Breaking the Barriers’. The Doshi Fellowship will support scholars primarily in the field of architecture and the built environment. Awardees will be provided a sum of Rs. 3,00,000/- as support for pursuing their interest. Please find all the details about the Doshi We Know group, fellowship, and the application procedure in this article. About Doshi We Know: The “Doshi We Know” group, a non-profit Trust is a coming together of Prof. Doshi’s past students, alumni of schools under CEPT, and other ..read more
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BV Doshi awarded Padma Vibhushan
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by Anil Jangid
1y ago
With so many golden feathers already to his crown, architect Balkrishna Doshi has been posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan-the second highest honor in the country, on the eve of India’s 74th Republic Day. While the architecture and design community, from around the world, still mourns and recollects his life and works, the conferring of Padma Vibhushan (2023) adds to the luminous list that has RIBA Gold Medal (in 2022), India’s only Pritzker Prize (2018), and the Padma Bhushan (2020).  Students and the architecture fraternity celebrate the modernist architect, who recorded the beauty ..read more
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Architect B V Doshi
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by Anil Jangid
1y ago
A teacher, educator, architect, urban planner, Pritzker Architecture Prize and RIBA Laureate Architect B V Doshi passed away on January 24, 2023. He will be mourned by us at ArchiDiaries and by the whole Architecture and Design fraternity, all over the world. He leaves us with his eminent works ranging from the full-of-life institutional design, to the pioneering and impactful designs rooted in modernist and postmodernist eras, to the projects of socio-cultural facets. Prof. Doshi celebrated the life of the world around the buildings and imbibed that into his works.  He was often found su ..read more
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Le 16 | TAA (Taillandier Architectes Associés)
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by archimaster
1y ago
Excerpt: Le 16 is a residential project designed by the architectural firm TAA (Taillandier Architectes Associés). The project plot forms a sharp point at the junction where the two streets meet at a roundabout. Considering the context, the project on this particular plot must create an articulation between the developing rue de Cugnaux and the smaller scale rue Nungesser et Coli, whilst still creating an urban facade of an appropriate scale to define the public space of the roundabout. Project Description [Text as submitted by architect] « The 16 » is located at the angle of rue de Cugnaux an ..read more
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TAA (Taillandier Architectes Associés)
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by archimaster
1y ago
(“Text as submitted by the Architects”) Pierre-Louis Taillandier Pierre-Louis Taillandier is an architecture graduate of the School of Architecture of Toulouse (1989, France) and an Urban Planning graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (1992, USA). Pierre-Louis Taillandier is, above all, an architect, but an architect convinced by and sensitive to the idea that architecture is a result of its urban context. He has always dedicated himself to the act of building, combining architecture, urban planning, and quality of the living spaces with a natural curiosity and the absence of pr ..read more
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Minhang Riverfront Regeneration | SPARK
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by archimaster
1y ago
Excerpt: Minhang Riverfront Regeneration is a riverfront designed by the architectural firm SPARK. SPARK’s proposal creates a 750-meter-long recreational environment that meets the government and community’s desire for a sense of place that facilitates better pedestrian connections and promotes a more sustainable living environment. The riverfront design includes continuous green ribbons of walking, jogging, bicycle tracks, and 3 pedestrian bridges that link the residential, education and business communities. Project Description (“Text as submitted by the Architects”) SPARK is delighted to an ..read more
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