The jury of The Green Architecture Competition is pleased to announce they have selected a total of ten proposals which will compete in the second stage of the competition. These proposals were selected from 74 competition entries from all over the globe, which all aimed to examine the prospect to maintain and improve biodiversity through architecture. > Read more...
The AM NAi prize is awarded every two years to the best building, constructed in the two years prior to the award date, designed by an architect under forty years of age. With the prize the NAI and real estate developer AM want to encourage young architects and convince clients of the strength of emerging talent. > Read more...
The winner of the 2011 Ymere NAI Competition, ‘New Harloheim’, is the team led by designers Joep van der Veen and Tom Blokkers with the plan ‘Chain Reaction – A string of pearls around a rich urban mosaic’ (‘Kettingreactie – Parelketting rond een rijk stedelijk mozaïek’). This third edition of the competition focused on Haarlem , specifically Haarlem-East and how this quarter of the city might be developed into a vital component of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. Besides a cash prize of €12,500, the winning team received the assignment to elaborate its vision into an exhibition in the form of a design workshop. This will be presented at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) from 26 November 2011 and in Haarlem from April 2012. > Read more...
