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Marie-Claire Regniers

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If the Far East seems to be the focal point of the contemporary architectural development, the future is probably in Africa. Is this continent already in the line of vision? Many European architects are currently building significant complexes: the ARPT by Mario Cucinella, the new hospital in Tangiers by Architecture Studio or the future urban development in Oran by Massimiliano Fuksas, among other projects. But the African architectural approach also reveals real dynamics. This is the idea which seem to express the international exhibitions on African architecture during these last years, on the cultural side and architectural and city-panning approach, as well as in relation to the experimental means proposed by numerous sub-Saharan countries after their independence in the sixties, as a way to show their national identity. Not the least of contradictions, this architecture was often imported from foreign countries, sometimes from former colonial powers. The demographic explosion and the galloping city planning have contributed to this situation. The recent exhibition « African Capitals » in La Villette (Paris) proposes a new view on the constantly changing African city, whilst rethinking the evolution of the African city and more largely the modern city. As the contemporary African art is rich and varied – the Paris Louis Vuitton Foundation is presently organizing three remarkable exhibitions – the African architecture can’t be reduced to a single generalized label, because of the originality of the different nations and their socio-historical background. The challenges imply to take account and to control many parameters in relation with the urbanistic pressure and the population. Those who shape the future by proposing a new approach to modernity personify the changing potential. Among one of the first native architecture offices, there are the Nigerian office Adeyemi (its Makoko district floating school in Lagos was on many front pages) or the South African offices Makeka and MMA. One was renowned by the transformation of imposing buildings of the apartheid period, such as the Cape Town Railway Station for the 2010 World Cup. The other one, one of the first offices belonging to South African black people after the end of apartheid, has initiated new ways and worked on important institutional projects. Whilst the Burkinabe Diébédo Francis Kéré, very publicized and present in many exhibitions and seminars, counts on using his European training -he studied in Berlin- and traditional African methods, as well as his innovative use of vernacular materials to promote an architecture integrating ethics and tradition. This more sensitive approach, being back to the roots and combining local solutions with the most appropriate occidental ideas is the one revealing today the new face of Africa.

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BUILDING AFRICA

Lycée Schorge Secondary School, Koudougou, Burkina Faso 2016 Architect : Diébédo Francis Kéré This school provides a source of inspiration by showcasing locally-sourced building materials in an innovative and modern way. The architecture not only functions as a marker in the landscape, it is also a testament to how local

Soulages Museum

materials, in combination with creativity and team-work, can be transformed

RCR-Arquitectes, Spain

into something significant with profound lasting effects.

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Content 02 Editorial 04 Portrait: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta (ES) 08 Portrait: David Adjaye (UK) 13 European Architecture Awards® 20 Serpentine Pavilion 2017, London 23 Interview of Prudent De Wispelaere (B) 26 Products 28 Books 30 Competitions

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RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME PIGEM & RAMON VILALTA

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After Chile, the Pritzker Architecture Prize has now been awarded to Spain with the RCR Arquitectes trio, the Catalan office noticed for its handcrafted approach, minimalist and respectful of the genius loci.

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For Tom Pritzker, son of the prize founder, the three architects show a faultless commitment to the site and its history, in order to create spaces conversing with their context. Their ability to intensely relate the environment specific to each site is a testament to their process and deep integrity. It is like this for all their major realizations, the Rodez Soulages Museum finished in 2014. Five oxidised Corten steel parallelepipeds offer a rust tint reminding of the volcanic stone of their region of origin and close to the Aubrac mountains local sandstone. Let’s go three decades back. Rafael Aranda (1961), Carme Pigem (1962) and Ramon Vilalta (1960) met each other in 1987 at the Valles Architecture School, where they were finishing their studies. The next year, they founded the RCR Arquitectes office (their three name initials) at Olot, in the Gerona province close to the French border where they were born. They attribute their early success to a first prize victory in a 1988 competition sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Public Works and Urbanism, in which they designed a lighthouse in Punta Aldea by

pondering the essence of the typology, a fundamental approach that would resonate throughout all of their future works. Influenced by the Japanese culture, the three architects wish to « make the people feel the nature, the air, the void, the essence of matters ». They adopt a handcrafted approach, minimalist and respectful of the close environment. For the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt, their work reflects great respect for the past, while projecting clarity that is of the present and the future. Such, the Barberí Laboratory, their office located in an early 20th century foundry refurbished in 2007 keeps many remnants of the original building. By adding new elements only where needed and in contrasting materials, the architects demonstrate their love for both tradition and innovation. Harmonizing materiality with transparency, Aranda, Pigem and Vilalta seek connections between the exterior and interior, resulting in emotional and experiential architecture.

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All their works have a strong sense of place and are powerfully connected to the surrounding landscape. The buildings’ settlements, the choice of materials, the geometries used are always aimed to underline the natural conditions and throw them in the building itself. The bodega Bell-Lloc Winery in Palamos (2007), for example, is embedded in the vineyards soil, in dark and fresh cellars needed for the wine ageing. The intensive use of recycled steel merges the building with the earth whilst the openings made between the metallic slats let the light in. The Cols Restaurant in Olot is an other example of fusion between landscape and minimalist modern materials to create a functional site reminding of certain country-style buildings. The space sets itself in a valley carved out in the landscape by the architects. The thick volcanic stonewalls support a lightweight and polymer trans-

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parent roof to protect against sun and rain. The furniture and vertical hanging blinds that can sub-divide the space are also of clear plastic, which puts the emphasis on food, festivities and the natural setting. 5

Community is another word that comes to mind when speaking of their work. Both in the bright and colorful nursery school in Besalú, Girona, El Petit Comte Kindergarten (2010) and the Sant Antoni – Joan Oliver Library, Senior Citizens Center and Cándida Pérez Gardens in Barcelona (2007), those who will inhabit the buildings are at the forefront of their concerns .The library, as well as many RCR Arquitectes projects, is situated in an existing city block. The variety of spaces invite for exploration and are casual enough to create a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The architects have also undertaken important works outside their home in Catalonia. They have built in Belgium and France, for instance. A part from the Soulages Museum (2014) in Rodez, France, for example, which houses the works of the abstract painter Pierre Soulages and forms a symbiosis with the artist, who seems to paint with light, they have designed The Cuisine Art Center, at Nègrepelisse in the Occitan region. Their latest project in the western part 6

of Paris is to create an Art Center covered with ceramics and many terraces with a large concave volume shaped like an open hand. This project would be located at the end of the Boulogne-Billancourt Seguin Island, former site of the Renault manufacturing plants, which now is to become an important cultural pole. In Belgium, after the crematorium of Hofheide, in association with the office Coussée & Goris Architecten, they have just finished the realization of De Krook city library and media center in Ghent, which seems to challenge the gravity laws like many of their buildings. Great horizontal surfaces and the overhanging beams create parallel lines strengthening its magic, where criss-cross the complex spatial uses. Established in an urbanized area, the building is based on a sustainable energy concept with passive and active measures. The technical facilities used are integrated in the structure and even contribute to its architectural form. We live in a globalized world and we must count with the international influences.

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But more and more people fear that, because of this international influence, we will lose our local values, our local art, and our local customs. Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta will help us to see, in a most beautiful and poetic way that we can, at least in architecture, aspire to have both; our roots firmly in place and our arms outstretched to the rest of the world.

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1 / Bell–Lloc Winery, Palamós, Spain (2007) 2 / De Krook, Ghent, Belgium (2017) with Coussée & Goris architecten 3 / Barberí Laboratory Olot, Spain (2008) 4 / El Petit Comte Kindergarten, Besalú, Spain (2010) with J. Puigcorbé 5 / Row House Olot, Spain (2012) 6 / Soulages Museum, Rodez, France (2014) with G. Trégouët 7 / La Cuisine Art Center, Nègrepelisse, France (2014) 7

DAVID ADJAYE

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With noteworthy projects, from London to Lagos and from Moscow to Washington, the awards, the exhibitions and the publications about him, David Adjaye has entered into the closed circle of the most famous international architects.

A D J AY E A S S O C I AT E S , L O N D O N , N E W YO R K, B E R L I N & AC C R A www. ad jaye . c o m

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The British David Adjaye has become one of the major international actors in architecture with more than 50 projects achieved throughout the world. Two years ago, his complex work has been highlighted on the occasion of the biennial of architecture in Chicago with an exhibition called “Making place: The architecture of David Adjaye”. Buildings often are displaying tactile materials with changing colours depending on the light, with different forms each showing a capacity to challenge the conventional typologies and generate a dynamic cultural message. This year, he has been named among Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2017 and he is the only architect to be recognised. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, David Adjaye (1966) was brought up in Africa and in the Middle East - his father is a diplomat – before establishing himself in the UK. He studied architecture in London where he graduated in 1993. After short associations with David Chipperfield (London) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (Porto), he creates with William Russell in 1994 the office Adjaye & Russell to which succeeded Adjaye Associates, a multicultural team known for its curiosity and research-based methodology. Then followed many prestigious commis-

sions: the transformation and new entrance canopy of the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (2005), the Idea Store Whitechapel library in London, pioneer project of a new approach for information services (2005), the teaching areas of the Stephen Lawrence Centre (2007), the Rivington Place exhibition hall (2007), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (2007) distinguished by a Gold LEED and the big project for the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo (2010). Rather than excelling in a precise style, these projects take account of the communities’ concerns and the local conditions by a good historical understanding of the context as well as a global approach to modernity. They weave their identity in the rich multiculturalism. For David Adjaye, the architecture must be “emotionally relevant”. It can’t be autonomous without connections to the site and the people, their life and their history. His vision is one that promotes multiple interpretations of urban development by expressing the sense of the city as a constantly evolving organism. His liking for contemporary art, African art and music has

brought him the sensitivity and the vision of an artist. Adjaye Associates established its early reputation with a series of private houses for artists. And this dialogue continues with recent public buildings, pavilions and exhibitions. « I want to collaborate with artists that see space and structure as integral to their work. » However sustainability is in the heart of all the projects. Experiences with cheap recycled materials and concerns for the local climate enable to obtain an optimal environment. As an example the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, largely dictated by the necessity to deal with an extreme winter.

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One of his concerns is to go against conventional ideas and rethink the project in relation to the site or the social context. This is the spirit of his recent important projects. Inaugurated by President Obama in September 2016, the new Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington D.C is seen as a direct reference to Africa with its distinctive shape, a three level crown with walls leaning outwards, using a form similar to those created by Yoruba crafts. The glazed façade is clad in bronze to filtrate the light, 9

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reminding the “metal working, one of the first professions adopted by the freed slaves”. New mixed-use development in a Manhattan’s historic district of Harlem (New York City), the Sugar Hill project expresses the social dimension of his architecture. David Adjaye has indeed created a 13-storey, 124-apartment affordable housing complex. Working with a tight budget, but searching for quality, the concept challenges the traditional typology. In the building, you can find a museum, a nursery school, and community facilities to fight against poverty and revitalize the area. It is a charcoal grey concrete citadel conceived to shine with the sunlight, with a cantilever and small windows (for budgetary reasons). The textured cladding is achieved with rose embossed pre-cast panels, which achieve a textured, ornamental effect. The material’s austerity is lightened by this pattern of engraved roses inspired by the old neighbouring buildings. Sawtoothed fenestration fans across both façades, referencing bay windows that are a common feature of the area. 10

Adjaye Associates now has four offices, in London, New York, Berlin and Accra with projects throughout the world. In a general way, so many projects for Africa get stuck at the first hurdle or are blocked in the architect’s drawers. It is not the case with David Adjaye. "I am attracted to important projects to the African diaspora because I am interested." For this reason, he created important landmarks on the whole continent. Among them, the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation in Libreville (Gabon) with a completely open façade enabling interaction with the public, the Alara shop in Lagos with a façade inspired by the West African textile design, or also the headquarters of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation in Dakar, the slave museum in Accra (Ghana) and a master plan in Kampala (Uganda). That is where he designed an office campus to welcome thousands of employees for the charitable organisation Made in Africa Foundation. This new 65-hectare urban development is composed of 10 conical towers, placed in a ring to create a circular public square at the heart of the campus. In Kigali, on a 4-hectare site, The Pediatric Cancer Centre Foundation Eugène Gasana Jr, is inspired

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by the vernacular architecture of the area expressed in a contemporary language. Its form recalls the Imigongo popular art in Rwanda. The architect has favoured sustainable resources to reduce operating costs and make available a calming environment for the medical treatments. Shaded by a system of metallic screens composing triangular elements, the great straight mass also includes three generous interior courtyards with luxurious plants bringing light very deeply inside. Furthermore, Adjaye Associates is presently transforming Hallmark House, a 1970 industrial building 66 m high situated in Johannesburg. The post-modernist 17-story structure, will now accommodate luxury apartments, hotel, shops and cultural installations, all with balconies covered with plants. This project’s objective, scheduled for completion in 2016, is to combine African aesthetic with a contemporary vision. “The transformation of Hallmark House is an opportunity to apply fresh thinking to urban communities and to create a new typology that reflects changing lifestyles and a more fluid approach to the way we inhabit cities.” Upcoming projects include a new Latvian Museum of Contempo-

rary Art in Riga selected as the winning scheme oh a compétition in June 2016. The form resonates with traditional domestic Baltic architecture. If the international community calls him an “African architect “, he believes it is not sufficient: “My origin has surely influenced my appreciation of space and I am obviously inspired by Africa which is part of my legacy, he confessed recently. But also by many other cultures in which Mies van der Rohe or Palladio are present.” With the challenge of cultural frontiers and geopolitical categories his African and British identity give him an unique perspective in the profession. David Adjaye is the only architect born in Africa working in such worldwide landscape.

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1 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2007) 2 / Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Moscow (2010) 3 / National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C. (2016) 4 / National Museum of Slavery and Freedom, Cape Coast, Ghana (current) 5 / Hallmark House, Johannesburg (current) 6 / Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (current) 11

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Over the recent years the architects are faced with more and more technical, legal and environmental regulations which makes their job extremely complex to achieve as well as the concern for sustainable construction and respect of the environment. The European Architecture Awards® aim is to reward architects who have been able to integrate all these constraints and turn them into opportunities of state of art projects in terms of quality, design, comfort and sustainability. Organized by Archi-Europe, with the real estate trade fair Realty for this first edition, the awards highlighted outstanding international projects in key sectors such as urban development, housing, industrial, commercial, office buildings, healthcare facilities. An undeniable success! The organizers received a total of 327 projects from 32 countries and 24 of them were officially selected. A jury of European architects and industry experts then awarded the six winning projects with two special prizes. The winners were announced and rewarded during Realty 2017 on 18 May 2017. Enhancing the awarding ceremony by their presence, the architects members of the jury also held interesting lectures based on their own experience and this was very much appreciated by the public. Were present the Dutch Paul de Ruiter – (Paul de Ruiter Architects), the Spanish Juan Manuel Herranz (Virai Architects) and the Belgians Prudent De Wispelaere (Charles Vandenhove & Associés) and Vittorio Simoni (Simoni Architects).

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The architects Juan Manuel Herranz, Vittorio Simoni, Paul de Ruiter, Prudent De Wispelaere and the journalist Marie-Claire Regniers (jury members) with the Director of Realty Matthieu Van Marcke

Winner Special Prize: Sustainable Innovating Project by Mrs Maria Claudia Clemente of LABICS, Italy

Vittorio Simoni

 Category Urban Development

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JDS Architects, Belgium Faaborg Harbour Bath, Denmark

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New public space on the water in the inner-city waterfront of Faaborg (South Funen Archipelago) for bathing and recreation activities, the Harbour Bath is designed to tie a closer link between the city and the sea. The “finger” configuration with open basins between the three thematic piers giving room for everyone offers multiple ways to approach the water. The wooden piers form ramps, stairs, and informal sitting opportunities in staged platforms and create a number of different settings around the water. The new development invites to bathe, to go on a kayak-tour, to go for a walk or just sit in the sun or simply enjoy an exciting and active public space. The architects’ intention was not to over-program the project in advance, but to create a frame for an unknown content, a place for public life to unfold, the unexpected to happen, in other words a place that people can adapt in their own ways.

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Georges Batzios Architects, Greece To Tsai, Tea House, Athens

Philippe Samyn and Partners, Belgium Renovation of 150 housing units, Brussels This refurbishing project concerns 6 buildings designed in 1954 by architects and urban planners from the Alpha group. Showing a total respect for the existing and high quality architecture, the proposed changes have reduced the number of flats from 150 to 98 units and simplified checking who is entering and leaving the buildings. With a view of sustainability, an inexpensive general solution has been developed that solves the problems of seepage, thermal bridges, insufficient insulation and the aging of the concrete, consisting of resurfacing the building with a continuous, watertight, insulated surface. A smooth, painted coating protects the layer of thermal insulation. Like a mashrabiya, the use of wire netting or perforated sheet gives effective transparency from the inside looking out and opacity from the outside looking in. The overall approach to the facades, plus the added terraces give a contemporary architectural expression.

Located in Kolonaki, one of the liveliest areas in Athens, which opens to experimentation in design, lifestyle, architecture and urban culture, the tearoom is the first of many other ones created in the area in the last ten years. The renovation challenge was to transform the multiple disparate elements, decorative and engineering, which were prevailing. The architect tried to bring the customer not only closer to tea as a product but as a way of thinking. Melting form texture and function under the same distinctive element, he created a minimalist space with ornament-free details, inspired by traditional Japanese tea ceremony architecture. The 200 panels of glued laminated timber cover the entire interior space in all dimensions in a regular repetitive rhythm that brakes up its regularity periodically while keeping the same rhythm in order to organize the functional areas of the tea house.

 Category Office Buildings

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C.F. Møller Architects, Denmark Bestseller Office complex, Aarhus, Denmark

 Category Industry

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As a town within a town, the office complex for about 800 employees covers a total area of 22,000 m² and looks like a varied flotilla of buildings at different levels (from one to twelve storeys), with lots of rooftop gardens and terraces, communal areas and specially designed solutions. Contrasting to the south and north façades in natural stone with distinctive reliefs, the east and west ones are simple, in transparent glass framed by natural stone. The office complex uses sea-water cooling and solar energy to be a low energy class building i.e. energy consumption will be 50% lower than the minimum requirements stated in the building regulations. The focal point of the complex is an internal “street” with a central indoor plaza laid over a road passage, which splits the building's ground floor into two halves. The entrance is shaped like a bridge, from which there are views of the building's three underground levels.

ď š Category Healthcare

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Huber Staudt Architekten bda, Germany Psychiatric Center, Friedrichshafen, Germany

CoussĂŠe & Goris architecten, Belgium / RCR Arquitectes, Spain Crematorium, Holsbeek, Belgium Built on a landscaped site within one of the large plains in the Flanders region, the crematorium attracts attention by the great coherence and identity of the building. A basin is underscoring it and propitiating the permanent formation of a larger reservoir, part of a walk through the park that spreads across the entire precinct, at the end of which are two cemeteries. For ensuring certain serenity, the architects decided to work with a minimal amount of materials. So the long, rectangular structure is primarily built from iron oxide pigmented concrete, which symbolizes the earth. Strips of weathering steel in irregular widths create a screen that covers the upper two thirds of the external walls, playing with light and shadow. In order to keep the human scale and warmth of the design they chose to work with wood. Finally the glass creates a fascinating play of reflections and views. The pond also serves as part of the building's water management system.

Following natural slope of the hill towards Lake Constance, this hospital complex encloses a generously dimensioned green courtyard and exploits typologically the contour of the hillside by providing entrances on two different levels. The main building erected in the 1960s, dominates the extensive grounds of the campus while the adjacent singular buildings relate orthogonally to the hospital. The new Psychiatric Centre is set up as a significant figure in this system with two materials, fair-faced concrete and untreated wood, which dominate the surfaces of the building both internally and externally. Concrete is treated in a sophisticated way: large flat board-marked concrete surfaces and fine horizontal linear prefabricated elements, corresponding with the vertical fins of the wooden cladding made of untreated silver fir as a reference to the local building tradition. The vertical cladding lends the building, through its transparency, an airy and open appearance.

 Special Prize Sustainable Innovating Project Labics, Italy City of the Sun, Rome

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This project involves the regeneration of an urban area with a weak identity but with good growth potential due to its location at the edge of the city centre. Labics’ aim therefore was to create a new centre to integrate a mixture of uses, but also to increase its profile as a place of transition with privileged access to the city centre. Articulated over different levels, the City of Sun presents a clear and coherent morphological and programmatic structure (commercial and office spaces, houses and flats). On an urban level the pedestal becomes part of the surrounding system of open spaces; the volume bridging over the existing building (with a public library inside) hosts offices and directional spaces. The project builds a long facade towards the city confirming the role of the street, while it opens towards the outskirts. The neutral building envelope - glass and/or aluminium sun blinds - allows, on an urban scale, a background perception of the different volumes.

 Special Prize Sustainable Mixed-Use Project Veelaert Architecten, Belgium The school complex “Sisters Annonciaden”, with a strong historical past, has been transformed into a real state complex with mixed use: 89 residential apartments with assistance, offices, kindergarten, commercial and service areas in the centre of a park. After an extensive site analysis, the architects renovated three existing properties and designed a new building which could validly integrate itself in the existing urbanized area, with a familiar archetype and classic materials, but also innovating elements. So the work in the building’s mass and the windows’ depth game award plenty of expressiveness to the façade. The four-story volume is not intrusive, in view of the harmony with the surrounding buildings. However its diagonal lines enhance the dynamics and visually link the different constructive volumes to the complex, creating a special perception. 18

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Annonciaden, Wijnegem, Belgium

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Architect: Diébédo Francis Kéré Since 2000, the Serpentine Pavilion has become on the lawn of the Kensington Gardens a real architectural experimentation, presenting temporary and inspiring structures by some of the world's greatest architects. After Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Oscar Niemeyer, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel ou Sou Fujimoto e.g., the Burkinabe Diébédo Francis Kéré was invited this year. The Pavilion is achieved by prefabricated wooden blocks assembled into triangular modules with slight gaps between them. Curved walls are split into four elements, creating four different access points. A great over-hanging roof canopy is made of steel with a transparent skin covering the structure and wooden shading

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elements, which underline its bottom side to generate a dynamic shadow effect on the interior spaces. In case of rain, the roof becomes a funnel channelling water into the heart of the structure. This rain collection acts symbolically, highlighting water as a fundamental resource for human survival and prosperity. For the architect committed to socially engaged and ecological design in his practice, this temporary building also promotes a sense of freedom and community. So its big structure is inspired by the traditional African tree where people can gather and share their daily experiences in the shade of its branches.

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winners Special Prize Sustainable Mixed-Use Project Veelaert Architecten Belgium

FOCUS ON CHARLES VANDENHOVE & ASSOCIÉS, LIÈGE (BELGIUM)

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Charles Vandenhove started his architect career in Liège (Belgium), in the middle of the fifties where he founded his office. The office built many residences such as the Liège University Hospital at Sart-Tilman (1965-1987), the renovation of the Cour Saint Antoine (1978) in the same town, the Abbesses Theatre in Paris, completed by some residences on the Butte Montmartre (1996), the Ceramics House in Maastricht (2011) or the Saint-Gilles Terraces complex in Liège (2014), among others. It is when reading a book, edited in 1975, on the most important works of Charles Vandenhove that Prudent De Wispelaere, then a student, was seduced by this architect’s approach. As soon as he graduated, he becomes a trainee and then an associate. Today, he leads the office; he talks about his master, about emblematic projects, about the evolution of the architect’s profession, in the light of a four-decade long fidelity to someone who has devoted his whole life to the search of an obvious, but retained beauty. The necessity to take account of the monumental heritage and the preservation of the architect’s fundamental approach is the

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Icon of contemporary Belgian architecture, Charles Vandenhove has just celebrated his 90th birthday. Let’s back to the specificities of this practice, one of the most emblematic of the country since decades with Prudent De Wispelaere.

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Prudent De Wispelaere

basis of the passion he shares with Charles Vandenhove, i.e., to be able to raise architecture above the building constraints – without at the same time denying its function – to award it an aesthetic value creating emotion, transcended sometimes up to a sacred character. Archi-Europe: Which is the spirit of Charles Vandenhove’s specific architecture? Prudent De Wispelaere: Symmetry, repetition, harmonic relation, classic composition (using the word’s large meaning), choice of materials, feeling of details and integration of contemporary artists’ works are a few of the elements recognizable as the central theme, throughout a complete work inspired by great masters such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Carlo Scarpa and many others. It is a functional and contemporary architecture, but turning the back to organic, deconstructive or exhibitionist architecture. We notice then constancy in the approach throughout the years, even if an evolution naturally takes place during a 60-year career, depending on the sensitivity of the period. As an example, the renovation of historical houses in Liège following a classic plan, with new houses facing them on a public square, inspired by Aldo Rossi’s writings. 24

Archi-Europe: During many decades, the architect profession has also changed… Prudent De Wispelaere: I am very concerned about the future of the architect. Yes, the profession has changed. And the evolution is getting faster and faster. Permanently you have to reassess yourself. Our work has become incredibly sophisticated, in a way that our role, the one of orchestra conductor, who must give life and rhythm to projects, is almost put in danger… During our 25year experience in The Netherlands, we had already noticed that the architect was just an actor among others. The responsibility and the power of project management has been in the course of time breached by series of consultants, covering all competences, in economy, logistics, sustainability etc. Furthermore, regulations have become plethoric and unavoidable, which is oppressive, although they are legitimate. Through the competitions, the project managers must manage a budget, a program, a planning and don’t want to take any risks. So, they choose to subcontract the complex matters to important companies integrating all the disciplines. For this reason, there is less and less room for craftsman-architects. We want to stay craftsman-architects in order to design buildings and control their execution with full attention for detail.

1 / Physical Education Institute, Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium (1972) 2 / CHU, Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium (1987)

Archi-Europe: What about your office? Prudent De Wispelaere: We make it clear that we want to work as creators with a sensitivity, which can’t retreat in front of the material, economical, administrative or program contingencies of the project manager. That is why an architect is not the same as an artist. The latter works alone in front of the white page, the canvas or the stone he is sculpting. On the other hand, numerous actors, such as the public administration, consulting engineers, the enterprises, surround the architect, as well as his project manager, and he must do his best to stay master of the project. At the same time, he must protect his sensitivity and make it appear in the building.

3 / Saint-Gilles Terraces, Liège, Belgium (2014) 4 / Justice Palace, Den Bosch, The Netherlands (1996)

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lon. In his workshop, about one hundred architects and engineer architects have worked during more than six decades. When I integrated the team as a trainee, Charles Vandenhove was already a well-known architect in Europe. I was immediately convinced by his career and never regretted my choice. We have always been united and complementary. As long as we stay associated – our association exists for thirty years – I will continue his work. But further on, I don’t feel legitimate to sign projects under the name “Charles Vandenhove & Associates”. It wouldn’t make sense. If I have to continue, I’d do it differently and under another name, but always inspired by his priceless legacy.

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Archi-Europe: What do you think about projects keen to push the architect beyond the bounds? Prudent De Wispelaere: The desire of mankind to build higher and higher and more and more expensive is an absurdity. It is pure technology, obviously exceptional engineering, but it is more a technical than an architectural performance, and mainly to raise the promoters’ and designers’ ego at its peak. For students, such projects can’t serve as examples. Personally, I would say: It is not because a designer is able to resolve the equation ‘budget-land-program’ whilst respecting the planning, that he is a good architect; he is only a good building technician. Architecture means to add an emotional value to a project, which the author will bring along, once he has shown his ability to previously respond to the equation integrating all the components, from budget to sustainability.

Archi-Europe: Has the continuation of the office been organized with someone like you who has always respected his “master” to whom he remained faithful? Prudent De Wispelaere: The continuation has not been contemplated as Charles Vandenhove works like an “artist” architect with passing colleagues. One can’t succeed to a character who has built his work around a reputation and a name. His legendary passion for art, and his cooperation with artists have enabled him to constitute an extraordinary personal collection, which permits art and architecture to be very close. Indeed, during his long career, Charles Vandenhove (1927) has worked intensively with many artists such as Léon Wuidar, Daniel Buren, Sam Francis, Sol Le Witt, Jeff Wall, 25

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COMPETITIONS 1. 2017 TILE OF SPAIN AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN The prestigious international awards return with a refreshed identity and a total prize fund of 39,000 euros distributed between three categories: Architecture, Interior Design and Final Degree Project. Projects can be located anywhere in the world, but must make significant use of Spanish ceramics and must have been completed between January 2015 and October 2017. Entry is free and the closing date for submissions is 24 October 2017. Deadline for submissions: 24/10/2017 More information: www.tileofspainawards.com

2. 7 TH ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE CONTEST: RESPONSIVE CITIES The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges. The programme challenges the participants to design any project directly related to responsive cities- buildings, sensors, devices, urban planning, means of transportation, fab cities, energy systems, etcThe participants will be free to decide on the size and location of the Project, which must be clearly detailed and justified. Any time projection short (10 years), medium (50 years) or long-term within the duration of the 21st century is allowed. Deadline submissions: 16/01/2018 - 5 pm More information: www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org

3. I NSPIRELI AWARDS INSPIRELI AWARDS is the largest international architecture competition enabling new talents to tell their stories and raise awareness about their own world view before they get their chance to build it. It brings together up-andcoming design and architecture students or recent graduates, as well as established professionals, and provides them a forum to connect to the general public. For the best design work of talented architects and students of architecture under the age of 35. Contestants enter works in one of two categories: Vision for conceptual works and Realisation for already built projects. Deadline submissions: 30/11/2017 More information: www.inspireli.com

4. T HE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN ARCHITECTURE Architects, designers, engineers, artists and urban planners are given a unique opportunity to win one of the three prizes of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation - Institut de France by creating innovative and ambitious projects. The international competition is divided into three categories, each of them with a subcategory: • Innovation and Architecture for the Sea Louis Vicat Grand Prix - €7 500 Focus: The ports of the future - €2 500 • Innovation and Architecture for Space Grand Prix - €7 500 Focus: Solar power satellites - €2 500 • Architecture and Sea Level Rise Grand Prix - €7 500 Focus: The African coastline - €2 500 For the focus “the African coastline”, the jury expects a high level of implementation of the project, reason why it is mandatory that the team manager be of African nationality, for his great expertise and of the social and economic background of the region. Although these are separate prizes, one can win both the main award and the focus award if his/ her project fits the requirements.

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5. 24H COMPETITION 20TH EDITION: BIOMETRIC This competition proposes give responses in 24H to the social problems, future visions, climate changes, humanitarian causes and sociologic problems of the contemporary societies. Commitment, perseverance, inspiration and hard work are the necessary bases to develop a proposal that meets the premises that will be released regularly in the brief of the competition. We challenge you to prove your talent in 24 hours! You have 24H to develop a proposal that responds to the program contained on a brief that you only know on the same day that start competition. Take the risk! The competition begins at October 21st 12:00 noon and ends at October 22nd 12:00 noon (London GMT + 0:00) More information: www.if-ideasforward.com/24h

6. BSH BARCELONA SOCIAL HOUSING Barcelona is going through a moment of housing emergency where 40% of the purchases of flats are made only to invest and the increase of tourist apartments exponentially increases the price of rents. There are large numbers of empty homes and the lack of rental housing makes the neighbors forced to move, a phenomenon known as gentrification. Sensitive to this problem, from ARCHmedium we invite students and young architects to explore new typologies about social housing in a consolidated environment in the center of Barcelona. We propose the transformation of an existing office building from the 20th century to social housing. The existing 18.000m2 will house 160 homes and small scale businesses. The objective of the competition is to guarantee the social function of housing through rethinking the housing space. Proposals must explore new typologies and urban ways to respond to the program and improve the scope of intervention. The intervention must meet the highest environmental criteria, seeking a low energy consumption. Deadline for registrations: 19/11/2017 Deadline for submissions: 04/12/2017 More information: student.archmedium.com/competition/bsh/

7. SITE THEATRE : INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE IDEAS COMPETITION The Site Theatre aims to create a new cultural destination and provide a place for open-air performances to enhance the experience within the landscape. The Site Theatre is a place to engage with the land, the sky and the sea, where performers and audience are both participants and observers while the landscape becomes a natural scenic venue. This international one-stage architecture ideas competition invites all architecture students, young architects and young professionals with a degree in architecture studies (≤ 40 years old) to develop and submit compelling ideas for the design of a Site Theatre located on a site promontory near the Fortress of Baleal, in Baleal, Peniche, Portugal. The Baleal Fortress is a significant landmark located within a remarkable place; a powerful natural scenery where the remains of the Fortress rises from the landscape and together with the cliff surfaces eroded by the wind are notable features within this setting. When generating a vision for an intervention located within such a spectacular place, it is essential that each design proposal emphasises, respects and celebrates the site and existing ruins, while providing visitors with a unique experience. Deadline for late registrations: 27/10/17 * 06/11/17 Submission deadline: 11/11/17 More information: www.arkxsite.com

The competition challenges students of architecture all over the world to work with daylight as an ever relevant source of light, life and joy. What is your project? Register before 1 April 2018 at iva.velux.com

Redistribution of Light by Kwang Hoon Lee, Hyuk Sung Kwon and Yu Min Park, Republic of Korea, Global winner 2016

Call for daylight projects! Registration opens 1 September 2017

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Winners announcement and online exhibition October 2018

Jury meeting – evaluation of all submitted projects June 2018

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