RIBA announces its 2021 International Prize shortlist
16/11/2021.
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RIBA have announced its 2021 International Prize shortlist, three project which have been selected from the RIBA International Awards for Excellence winners.
The RIBA International Awards are awarded every two years. First established in 2016, the award goes to the best new buildings that demonstrate both a uniqueness in design and an ability to make an impact socially, and are open to any qualified architect in the world, for a building of any size, type or budget.
The RIBA International Awards are awarded every two years. First established in 2016, the award goes to the best new buildings that demonstrate both a uniqueness in design and an ability to make an impact socially, and are open to any qualified architect in the world, for a building of any size, type or budget.
Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. Photograph by Asif Salman.
Lille Langebro cycle and pedestrian bridge by WilkinsonEyre. Photograph by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
Lille Langebro cycle and pedestrian bridge by WilkinsonEyre. Photograph by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
Lille Langebro cycle and pedestrian bridge by WilkinsonEyre. Photograph by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
James-Simon-Galerie by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph by Simon Menges
James-Simon-Galerie by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph by Simon Menges
James-Simon-Galerie by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph by Simon Menges
Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. Photograph by Asif Salman.
Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. Photograph by Asif Salman.
Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. Photograph by Asif Salman.
“These projects are united by human experience at their heart. Collectively they demonstrate sensitivity to their surroundings and local cultures, inclusive design, and sustainable solutions, and set a high bar for architectural excellence around the world.”
RIBA’s president Simon Alford.
RIBA’s jury this year only included three projects from the 16-member-long list acording the 2021 jury led by French architect Odile Decq. Es Devlin and Jeanne Gang are also serving as jurors. This year’s projects hail from Germany, Denmark, and Bangladesh, respectively.
The 2021 winner of the RIBA International Prize and the RIBA International Emerging Architect will be announced in early 2022.
The full list of projects with jury comments below.
James-Simon-Galerie by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph by Simon Menges
"The building has been twenty years in the making and is the latest development in Museum Island’s master plan by the practice.
The challenging design brief required a new building that would respond sensitively to its historical context whilst offering a contemporary museum experience within a narrow strip of land on the island.
The architects have created a design that blends the Neoclassical with the modern. The commanding temple-like entrance way, colonnaded walkway that wraps around the building and projects out to the city and lofty interior lobby space is monumental in scale and stature. The main visitor facilities lie within the subterranean spaces of the building, including an exquisitely crafted 300-seat auditorium and temporary exhibition gallery. This lower floor of the galerie leads to an underground walkway through which visitors can access the surrounding museums."
- Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA
Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, Bangladesh by Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA. Photograph by Asif Salman.
"The hospital is arranged around a series of intimate courtyards, which bring in light and natural ventilation. A canal of water cuts through the length of the site, separating the inpatients and outpatients, whilst collecting rainwater stored in tanks — a valuable resource in an area where the saline groundwater is unusable for most practical purposes.
This outdoor space creates intimate areas for patients and visitors to sit and rest with viewpoints of the local countryside. Crafted in local brick chosen for its resilient qualities and low cost, openings in the brickwork offer private shaded areas and provide natural cooling for the wards essential for this hot climate."
This outdoor space creates intimate areas for patients and visitors to sit and rest with viewpoints of the local countryside. Crafted in local brick chosen for its resilient qualities and low cost, openings in the brickwork offer private shaded areas and provide natural cooling for the wards essential for this hot climate."
- Laille Langebro in Copenhagen, Denmark by Wilkinson Eyre
Lille Langebro cycle and pedestrian bridge by WilkinsonEyre. Photograph by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
"At 160m long, the bridge follows a gently curved path across the water, giving the bridge a light and slender visual profile that allows views across the harbor. The surrounding structural supports create two giant wings on either side of the deck and along with the pier arms are painted in dark grey to blend in with the water.
At the center of the bridge, two rotating sections swing open vertically, allowing for marine traffic to pass through. The mechanism is buried within the bridge’s piers and opening structure so as not to interrupt the continuous sweeped line across the water. This is the first time this engineering approach has been used in swinging bridge design, breaking new ground in the field."
At the center of the bridge, two rotating sections swing open vertically, allowing for marine traffic to pass through. The mechanism is buried within the bridge’s piers and opening structure so as not to interrupt the continuous sweeped line across the water. This is the first time this engineering approach has been used in swinging bridge design, breaking new ground in the field."
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David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before working at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
In 1985 he founded David Chipperfield Architects, which today has over 300 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.
David Chipperfield has taught and held conferences in Europe and the United States and has received honorary degrees from the universities of Kingston and Kent.
He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and an honorary fellow of both the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2010 he received a knighthood for services to architecture in the UK and Germany. In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture and in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, while in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in recognition of a lifetime’s work.
In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury. Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/Urbana
Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, the son of a civil engineer, growing up in Bangladesh and the Middle East before graduating in architecture from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1995. In 2006, he attended the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass in Sydney. After working with architect Uttam Kumar Saha, he established the practice URABANA in partnership in 1995 and from 2004 has continued as the sole Principal of the firm. Chowdhury is married to Rajrupa Chowdhury, an Indian classical musician of the instrument Sarod. They have a son.
Kashef Chowdhury has a studio based practice whose works find root in history with strong emphasis on climate, materials and context - both natural and human. Projects in the studio are given extended time for research so as to reach a level of innovation and original expression. Works range from conversion of ship and low cost raised settlements in 'chars' to training centre, mosque, art gallery, museum, residences and multi-family housing to corporate head offices. Chowdhury has been a visiting faculty at the North South University and BRAC University, both in Bangladesh and has been a juror in final year crits in universities in Dhaka. He was twice finalist in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has won first prize in Architectural Review's AR+D Emerging Architecture Award 2012.
Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury takes an active interest in art and in 2004 presented a lecture series 'Aspects of Contemporary Art in Germany' at the Goethe Institut, Dhaka. He has worked as a professional photographer and has held seven solo exhibitions. He has designed and published three books: Around Dhaka, 2004; Plot Number Fifty Six, 2009 and The Night of Fifteen November, 2011 - a photographic and recorded account of some survivors of the cyclone SIDR in the coastal areas of Bangladesh.
Kashef Chowdhury has a studio based practice whose works find root in history with strong emphasis on climate, materials and context - both natural and human. Projects in the studio are given extended time for research so as to reach a level of innovation and original expression. Works range from conversion of ship and low cost raised settlements in 'chars' to training centre, mosque, art gallery, museum, residences and multi-family housing to corporate head offices. Chowdhury has been a visiting faculty at the North South University and BRAC University, both in Bangladesh and has been a juror in final year crits in universities in Dhaka. He was twice finalist in the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has won first prize in Architectural Review's AR+D Emerging Architecture Award 2012.
Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury takes an active interest in art and in 2004 presented a lecture series 'Aspects of Contemporary Art in Germany' at the Goethe Institut, Dhaka. He has worked as a professional photographer and has held seven solo exhibitions. He has designed and published three books: Around Dhaka, 2004; Plot Number Fifty Six, 2009 and The Night of Fifteen November, 2011 - a photographic and recorded account of some survivors of the cyclone SIDR in the coastal areas of Bangladesh.
Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre. Wilkinson Eyre
Wilkinson Eyre, twice winners of both the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize and the RIBA Lubetkin Prize, is one of the UK’s leading architecture practices. Its portfolio of bold, beautiful, intelligent architecture includes the Guangzhou International Finance Center – one of the tallest buildings in the world; the giant, cooled conservatories for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth and the acclaimed temporary structure of the London 2012 Basketball Arena. Current projects include the refurbishment of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s Grade II-listed Battersea Power Station, the new medicine galleries for the Science Museum and a resort hotel for Crown in Sydney.
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