Awards of 2013

The Beslan Memorial is dedicated to the victims of the hostage drama in the Beslan School No. 1 1.-3. September 2004 in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

The nursery school and early childhood center of Aire sur la Lys was designed as a playful and welcoming place, fitting children scale and development. The building’s thematic mainly focuses on child’s self-fulfillment, from the protection he seeks at the start of his life, to his first initiatives, by the creation of volumes and spaces taking part of his awakening.

The new building of the Ludwik Solski State Drama School in Krakow, Wrocław Branch, is a modern facility combining educational and cultural functions.

Nestled on the side of Dartmoor, the Clients had lived in the area for their 47 year married life and had a deep attachment to the area. The west country ’place’ was fundamental and raised profound issues inherent to the local context in fulfilling a deceptively simple brief which was to provide a home where they could retire. 

Completed in a cubic form, the building breaks free of its restrictions and plays with the falling lines of the facade sections.  Clusters of trees grow around the building, sometimes producing shadow, accentuating the verticality of the design.  The façade is divided in non-parallel sections that continue the lively interplay with the surrounding trees.

This new market hall, situated in a small town of the plains of Hungary, is part of the revitalisation process taking place in the city of Dabas. Surrounded by public buildings such as the Town Hall, Police Station and a school, the new hall helps to define the market place as the dynamic heart of the town.

The Bathgate Partnership Centre is a new concept in “joined up thinking” for local community services under one roof – a community hub which includes various Council Services, an Information Centre,  hot Offices, Library and a community Café in a bright, light, welcoming environment.

The Federation of Building and Public Works Finistère built its new headquarters on the outskirts of the city and near the airport of Brest. The new building is perfectly located and accessible to all members of the department.

As a part of the refurbishment of the historic Central Railway Station, a new South Pavilion has been commissioned to function as the night station. The two-storey structure stands on the axis of the exit from the main pedestrian walkway under the tracks and the platforms of the main railway station.

The design of the gymnasium and the square of central Chelles was an opportunity to use an architectural project to address urban issues. The plot is indeed in a central position, where all the symbols of the city (the church, State, culture, education and sports) are concentrated. The aim of this project is to elevate this highly heterogeneous environment, into the category of an agora, a new perception of the whole. These public spaces, the piazza and the new pedestrian street, are drawn in a conventional manner: regular, surrounded and defined by buildings.

The property  is a secluded Georgian house, set within large sculpted gardens on the side of a deeply wooded valley within an 'Area Of Natural Beauty'. The clients brief was to create a highly designed, modern extension that was experimental with materials but that would sit comfortably against the side of the traditional stone of the Georgian house.  It needed to make the most of the stunning, manicured gardens and the south facing orientation whilst internally providing the clients with a functional kitchen dining area and somewhere to hang a few pieces from their artwork collection.

The building is located on a hillside in the Dolomites, at the edge of a residential area. The volume has been developed mainly from its pragmatic functional request to include 6 independent apartments around a common circulation: a ‘cut’ that marks the main access and the division of the volume into 2 halves. Besides its function, the ‘cut’ becomes the main defining element of the building: from either side of the ‘cut’ strips unfold that form the balustrade of a generous covered balcony which reach out to the surrounding topography. The strips and the façade jump back at each floor, following the profile of the natural steep hillside.

The objective of this restoration project was to find the magic power that any good building should have. In this sense, the layout was redefined, volumes were simplified, new spaces were created that allow more complex fields of vision, the entrance of natural light was outlined, and the whole programme was rationalised to clarify the different uses.

Named after Christopher Marlowe, the city’s famous Tudor playwright, this iconic modern theatre in the heart of the historic city of Canterbury has been designed by the award-winning London-based Keith Williams Architects. A pre-oxidised copper skin clads the second auditorium, forming a contextual connection with the red and brown roofscape of the city and a visual distinction from the other auditorium.

Opera-goers in Copenhagen no longer have to stand outside in the wind and rain when they take the water bus to and from performances.   A new circular floating pavilion, with capacity for 200 people, provides shelter from the changeable Danish weather both for visitors to the Opera House and for the daily commuters on Holmen.

Downley House is composed of family and guest wings either side of a barrel shaped dining hall, the ‘Foudre’, which reflects the clients love of wine and is aligned on the entrance to the ruin of the former house. 

This design by C + S won an international competition.  The new building is grafted into the complexity of the Venetian urban system facing Piazzale Roma, the car-entrance space to the city of Venice.  At the same time it becomes the 'infrastructure' which brings an existing 19th century factory (Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi) into a contemporary use: in fact it houses the technical building systems.

The new sports centre is placed on the site of the old sports center, located at in the town of Aretxabaleta.  It is located adjacent to an elongated urban park  along  the river extends along the southern front of the town. It has a rectangular shape, the base (slightly longer than the height) is arranged along the base of the slope on which the complex is located.

The regeneration of a remarkable 19th-century water treatment complex serving Warsaw takes a traditional approach – with steeply-pitched copper roofs above brick walls, referencing without copying the style of the original architecture. 

The multidisciplinary health centre is located to the South of the commune of Rambervillers (Vosges), on  a new commercial area on the site of the former station, now disused. The issue of the community of Communes of the Region of Rambervillers is the reduced availability of medical support; to overcome this situation, it wished to create a building comprising a medical interdisciplinary (General practitioners, Podiatrist, physiotherapist, speech therapist and orthoptist). 

The building complex of the Krasnodar Youth Academy of Football is located in a newly developed district of Krasnodar city.  The aim of the project is to create a functional and harmonious environment for children’s living and training.  The complex consists of a min building, which includes a school, sport halls, swimming pool, library, school club, medical centre and 8 buildings for student residences.  An alley with residences on either side ends with a square with a small garden, bounded by the main building on the east side.

This new cultural and media centre in the rural Normandy town of Gournay en Bray in northern France takes its cue from the forms of local buildings transformed into modern interventions, characterised by slate surfaces and glazing veiled by expanded copper sheet. 

Gathering around a single set of equipment, dedicated to culture and education functions, comes from the desire to create unifying public facilities to initiate urban renewal.  The educational and cultural center consists of seven entities organized around the same spatiality: a school with kindergarten and elementary school, building restoration, a nursery, a library and a function room.

After 784 days of chipping off plaster and removing rubble from the site, after the walls and floors were renovated, a new façade completed and an underground parking area arranged, just a few days before the UEFA EURO 2012 European Football Championships start, the Central Railway Station is ready to welcome travellers. Its interiors have been fully refurnished and thoroughly modernised. During the renovation works, numerous polychromes concealed by paint for decades were uncovered. The perfection of conservation and modernisation works mean that both the building and its rooms have regained their original appearance and acquired new functions to provide for the railway station’s new functionality.

This elegant conversion of a former presbytery into a town hall led to the rehabilitation and extension of an ancient building set in the very heart of Dompierre sur Mer, a small town located near La Rochelle in the Charente Maritime region.

This house built at edge of the marl in 8 km from Paris just a step from the subway, in the middle of islands and open-air dance halls is for us a dream. It is modern space, fed by the natural light, where the glazed facades open on the landscape, where the heights under ceiling give to every place a feeling of liberty.

The Hive, Worcester's recently opened Library and History Centre certainly has a striking presence. A beacon for learning, it is a key part of Worcester's river frontage, highly visible from the rising ground to the south and west. The articulation of its unique external form resonates with the scale and grain of the setting: the roofline echoes the profile of the Malvern Hills visible to the west, and recalls the Royal Worcester kilns which, with the Cathedral, once dominated the city's skyline. The iconic 'funnels' are as fundamental to the interior of the building as they are to its external appearance, providing natural light and ventilation to the heart of the floor plates. 

The office building is located within the heart of industrial Wola and is adjacent to the Warsaw uprising Museum. The seven storey A+ office building is state of the art and sets new standards in the design of offices. The modern glass and basalt façade is at the same time avant-garde in its expression and fits in well into the industrial surroundings.

In the summer of 2006 Maidstone Borough Council launched an exciting and ambitious scheme to open up Maidstone Museum’s collections and transform its services and facilities for visitors. The East Wing project forms the second phase of the Museum’s re-development programme, following the renovation of the West Wing in 2003.

Kashubian Philharmonic Hall with Culture Center is located in Wejherowo at the intersection of Haller Str. and Sobieski Str. in the part of the city named Old Town.  Based on a rectangular plan building has a diverse number of stories and a full basement.

Studio Egret West was challenged to turn an existing run down office site into a new mixed use, residential led, building. The awkwardly shaped site is located directly adjacent to the local station and bus terminus and a poorly designed pedestrian access route, presenting an opportunity to deliver intensification of use, in line with the aspiration of The London Plan. The challenge was to marry the need for high density housing with the constraints of the local fabric. The surrounding streets contain a mixture of shops, offices and homes of varying styles, most below three storey’s in height, with the exception of one adjacent 17 storey building which was part of a previous drive for employment in the 1970s.

A villa of the 1920‘s with a hipped roof had to be extended to become a residence for a family of five. The entrance area had to be upgraded and furnished with storage for bicycles etc. On the other side a generous living room, a bedroom, a bathroom and a fitness studio had to be added to the North at the other side of the building that is averted to the street. In between both interventions a protected exterior space had to evolve in front of the existing building.

Within the Primrose Hill Conservation Area, London, naganjohnson architects have used a material which works quietly with the new architecture to provide a large extension to this listed property.  Our brief was to increase the size of an existing terrace house to more comfortably accommodate a growing family with 4 children. We made good use of the unusual wedge shaped footprint of the property, adding a new 2 storey glazed and copper extension to the rear. This additional space allowed the living room to be shifted from an isolated position at the front of the first floor to the rear lower ground floor, with the dining room directly above, giving the family spaces a focus around the garden.

A recently completed high quality contemporary two storey addition to an existing home in Cardiff, South Wales.

The new exhibition gallery of the Port Museum in Dunkirk will be officially opened on 1 June 2013 with an international exhibition named « European ports. In search of new worlds ».  The use of copper in this gallery was chosen  to remind its role in traditional shipbuilding as a lining and protection of wooden hulls, such as for the famous Cutty Sark in London.

The buildings complex where the Munipality of Guimarães now built the Center for Advanced Postgraduate Formation for the University of Minho, is located in the “Zona de Couros” (Leathers Zone), and relates to the rest area by a set of small alleys and paths that, following the existing small river, constitute the road structure in the area.

“La passerelle”, situated on the Angers University campus, combines two services, Student Information and Professional Orientation, Guidance, and Employability (SUIO –IP).

The project involves the extension of a dwelling house.  Architectural fabric of the existing surrounding landscape consists of historic and typical buildings of rural areas of central France.  The land comprising the construction is located right next to a church classified as historical building.

The buildings that make up the Municipal Market and the space defined by them, commonly referred to as "the square", a name inherited from market square are, as a unit, characteristic elements of the urban landscape of the city of Guimarães. The grounds of the old municipal market boasted a privileged and very central location with excellent accesses, very close to the Toural Square and the historic center.

On october 30 of 2012 the new Turkish embassy in Berlin was opened by His Excellency the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.