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And the winners are...
At the end of November, the World Architecture
Festival announced award recipients in 32 catego-
ries as well 12 overall winners. Held over three days
in Amsterdam, the 2018 festival named Kampung
Admiralty, a mixed-use development in Singapore by
local firm WOHA, the overall World Building of the Year.
The project incorporates a series of lush elevated
green spaces, a signature for the firm. A full list of
winners revealed during the event can be found at
worldarchitecturefestival.com
The American Institute of Architects has awarded
Richard Rogers, founding principal of Rogers Stirk
Harbour + Partners, the 2019 AIA Gold Medal. The
British architect is renowned for such projects as
the Lloyd’s building in London and Paris’s Centre
Pompidou, which he designed with Renzo Piano.
Movers and shakers
MVRDV principal and co-founder Winy Maas is set
to take on an unexpected new role this year: editor-in-
chief of Domus magazine. Maas joins the publication
as part of its inventive 10×10×10 editorial strategy,
which will see 10 leading architects direct the maga-
zine for 10 issues each over the span of a decade.
Maas succeeds Michele De Lucchi, who was first in
the cue leading up to Domus’s centennial anniversary
in 2028.
Lebanese architectHashim Sarkis has been chosen as
the next curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale,
set to launch in 2020. Currently serving as dean of the
School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, Sarkis is
director of Hashim Sarkis Studios, based in Boston
and Beirut. He was previously a member of the jury for
Alejandro Aravena’s Venice Biennale, in 2016.
One of the founders of SCI-Arc is set to return to the
school, as “full-time distinguished faculty.” Pritzker-
winning architect Thom Mayne will coordinate the
school’s postgraduate program Design of Cities,
beginning with the fall semester. Mayne co-founded
SCI-Arc in 1972 , the same year that he launched his
renowned firm, Morphosis.Wave makers
Beginning next year, all new houses built in the state
of California will be required to incorporate solar
panels. The California Building Standards Commission
approved the new rule, which will apply to single-
family homes, as well as multi-unit residential projects
up to three storeys, in December. Officials estimate
the inclusion of the panels will add about $10,000 to
the cost of new builds; residents will have the option
of buying them outright, leasing or entering power
purchase agreements.
In December, news that Massimiliano Fuksas had
been recognized with the Premio alla CarrieraArchitettura sparked protest for the award’s exclusion
of Doriana Fuksas. Following the announcement of the
win, a petition was launched online, insisting that the
Italian architect’s wife and partner be named co-recip-
ient of the honour, stating: “Doriana and Massimiliano
are equal partners. It’s important to correct the record
now so that young architects can look up to their
incredible work and know the whole story – that the
work is strong because of joint creativity and collabora-
tion.” Organized by Italian activists RebelArchitette and
the U.S.-based Voices of Women, the document had
gained over 730 signatures at press time, including
high-profile names such as Bjarke Ingels, Toshiko Mori
and Denise Scott Brown. Doriana and Massimiliano,
who have both signed the petition, have worked
together since 1985 ; she has been director in charge
of Fuksas Design since 1997.
The brakes have been hit on Foster + Partners’ Tulip
Tower proposal in response to concerns that the
305 -metre-tall skyscraper may interfere with aircraft
radar systems at the London City airport. The new cul-
tural attraction was designed for a site adjacent to the
Gherkin and promised fantastic views of the city from
both the upper levels and from spherical gondolas
that travel the building’s facade. The worry is that the
movement of these pods, at such great heights, may
confuse air traffic control equipment at the airport,
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