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RIBA announces Lubetkin prize short list
01-08-2012They are the Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China, the tallest building in the world by a UK architect; the Solaris science research and development centre in Singapore, described as an incredible feat in green building; the One KL apartment development in Malaysia which tackles the humidity of the city; and Foster + Partner’s Sperone Westwater gallery in New York City.
‘We have four highly experienced architecture practices offering sophisticated yet fun responses to complex sites. These cutting edge buildings show the leading role that architects play in creating low energy living and working spaces, even in extreme environmental conditions,’ said Angela Brady, RIBA president.
The Guangzhou International Finance Centre is a 103 storey slender triangular mixed use tower with a podium containing shopping and a connection to the subway system and three levels of parking, as well as two linked smaller towers of accommodation.
The main tower is 66 floors of offices and 38 floors of a Four Seasons hotel arranged around a dramatic tapering atrium. Its diagonal grid gives it its strength and each diamond is 54 metres or twelve storeys high, reducing the amount of steel required for the construction by a remarkable 20%.
One KL is a 35 storey residential tower in which each apartment has its own pool, rectangular or L shaped depending on the location of the apartment. These mini infinity pools are expressed on the façade with glass end walls, making them an outward manifestation of the desirability of the accommodation within.
The tower is C shaped so as to make the best use of a tight urban site. It means that it has three fronts and three backs, the missing fourth elevation draws the wind and negative pressure, pushing it up the void and cross ventilating the structure through the cuts made by the terraces and pools. Condensation produced by the air crossing the pools also results in local cooling.
Kuala Lumpur has some of the highest levels of humidity in the world at 95%. Ken Yeang’s approach to designing buildings to cope naturally with extreme climates has been hugely important and his ideas disseminated in a series of influential books.
Solaris is two big buildings, one seven, one fourteen storeys, linked by a day lit and naturally ventilated atrium with roof lights that close automatically when it rains and crossed by sky brides at high level. A rain check glass wall made up of glazing separated by perforated panels also keeps out the rain while allowing cross ventilation.
A narrow landscaped ramp, more like a stony country path, wraps itself round the building for 1.5 kilometres, rising from ground level up to a roof garden with dramatic views over Singapore. It provides walks for the buildings’ users and a habitat for birds, butterflies and even the occasional snake.
Altogether the landscaping exceeds the amount of greenfield land taken up by the building by 13% giving it an impressive Green Mark rating of 113%. Included within this figure are the sky terraces, where the linear path broadens out into wide hard landscaped but well planted terraces where staff can meet up, an important provision in a building whose primary function is scientific research and development.
Precisely shaped sun shading louvres supplement the low emissivity glass, resulting in relatively cool open plan office spaces even when the air con is turned off. In the deeper plan of the two buildings, a broad light well or solar shaft runs diagonally through the section, scooping light into the heart of the building and reducing the need for artificial lighting. Rainwater harvesting stores enough water, some 700 cubic metres, underground to irrigate the landscaping for five days.
Consequently Solaris has very low carbon emissions, just 62 kilograms of carbon per square metre. It has achieved the local Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark Platinum Standard.
The Westwater gallery in New York is on a narrow site, just 7.6 metres wide by 30.5 metres deep. By day it has the air of fine steel, by night its transparency shines through, not least in the moving room. This additional six by three metre gallery space is also the goods lift which can be parked at any of the four floors of galleries above the entrance level. If it is in use as an extended gallery space, then circulation is via the lift and stair core towards the rear of the building. Only ground conditions prevented the moving room from descending to occupy the street level entry.
There is a double height long gallery, a smoothly curved mezzanine gallery overlooking the long gallery with a beautifully detailed polished steel handrail leads to a sculpture terrace above a secret garden borrowed from the adjacent apartment block.
The RIBA Lubetkin Prize is named in honour of Berthold Lubetkin, the Georgia born architect who worked in Paris before coming to London in the 1930s to establish the influential Tecton Group.
He is best known for the two Highpoint apartment blocks in Highgate and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. The Lubetkin Prize winner is presented with a unique bronze plaque, based loosely on Lubetkin’s design for the Penguin Pool. It has been commissioned by the RIBA and designed and made by the artist Petr Weigl.
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‘We have four highly experienced architecture practices offering sophisticated yet fun responses to complex sites. These cutting edge buildings show the leading role that architects play in creating low energy living and working spaces, even in extreme environmental conditions,’ said Angela Brady, RIBA president.
The Guangzhou International Finance Centre is a 103 storey slender triangular mixed use tower with a podium containing shopping and a connection to the subway system and three levels of parking, as well as two linked smaller towers of accommodation.
The main tower is 66 floors of offices and 38 floors of a Four Seasons hotel arranged around a dramatic tapering atrium. Its diagonal grid gives it its strength and each diamond is 54 metres or twelve storeys high, reducing the amount of steel required for the construction by a remarkable 20%.
One KL is a 35 storey residential tower in which each apartment has its own pool, rectangular or L shaped depending on the location of the apartment. These mini infinity pools are expressed on the façade with glass end walls, making them an outward manifestation of the desirability of the accommodation within.
The tower is C shaped so as to make the best use of a tight urban site. It means that it has three fronts and three backs, the missing fourth elevation draws the wind and negative pressure, pushing it up the void and cross ventilating the structure through the cuts made by the terraces and pools. Condensation produced by the air crossing the pools also results in local cooling.
Kuala Lumpur has some of the highest levels of humidity in the world at 95%. Ken Yeang’s approach to designing buildings to cope naturally with extreme climates has been hugely important and his ideas disseminated in a series of influential books.
Solaris is two big buildings, one seven, one fourteen storeys, linked by a day lit and naturally ventilated atrium with roof lights that close automatically when it rains and crossed by sky brides at high level. A rain check glass wall made up of glazing separated by perforated panels also keeps out the rain while allowing cross ventilation.
A narrow landscaped ramp, more like a stony country path, wraps itself round the building for 1.5 kilometres, rising from ground level up to a roof garden with dramatic views over Singapore. It provides walks for the buildings’ users and a habitat for birds, butterflies and even the occasional snake.
Altogether the landscaping exceeds the amount of greenfield land taken up by the building by 13% giving it an impressive Green Mark rating of 113%. Included within this figure are the sky terraces, where the linear path broadens out into wide hard landscaped but well planted terraces where staff can meet up, an important provision in a building whose primary function is scientific research and development.
Precisely shaped sun shading louvres supplement the low emissivity glass, resulting in relatively cool open plan office spaces even when the air con is turned off. In the deeper plan of the two buildings, a broad light well or solar shaft runs diagonally through the section, scooping light into the heart of the building and reducing the need for artificial lighting. Rainwater harvesting stores enough water, some 700 cubic metres, underground to irrigate the landscaping for five days.
Consequently Solaris has very low carbon emissions, just 62 kilograms of carbon per square metre. It has achieved the local Building and Construction Authority’s Green Mark Platinum Standard.
The Westwater gallery in New York is on a narrow site, just 7.6 metres wide by 30.5 metres deep. By day it has the air of fine steel, by night its transparency shines through, not least in the moving room. This additional six by three metre gallery space is also the goods lift which can be parked at any of the four floors of galleries above the entrance level. If it is in use as an extended gallery space, then circulation is via the lift and stair core towards the rear of the building. Only ground conditions prevented the moving room from descending to occupy the street level entry.
There is a double height long gallery, a smoothly curved mezzanine gallery overlooking the long gallery with a beautifully detailed polished steel handrail leads to a sculpture terrace above a secret garden borrowed from the adjacent apartment block.
The RIBA Lubetkin Prize is named in honour of Berthold Lubetkin, the Georgia born architect who worked in Paris before coming to London in the 1930s to establish the influential Tecton Group.
He is best known for the two Highpoint apartment blocks in Highgate and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. The Lubetkin Prize winner is presented with a unique bronze plaque, based loosely on Lubetkin’s design for the Penguin Pool. It has been commissioned by the RIBA and designed and made by the artist Petr Weigl.
