new york NEW YORK

Thanks to all those who submitted to suckerPUNCH’s NYC Casino/Convention Center Competition. All results are linked below.

registration begins 05.14.12

submissions due 08.13.12

awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

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brooklyn NEW YORK

The top 16 entries to suckerPUNCH’s Robot Workshop competition are now online. Click through for more.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

paul TSE, sarah CHUNG, steven TSAI, xander LU, & evelyn TING: Filtration is the second prize entry from graduates of Columbia University for the Busan Opera House International Ideas Competition.

An opera house at its simplest is a black box. It is a container, a vessel in which to deliver and absorb a performance. At the same time, the opera house is a significant contributor to a city’s image, often considered a measure of a city’s cultural agenda. Our proposal highlights the intersection of these two facets—the idea of the opera house as both event and place—in the most literal sense, a large square elevated above the water that is punctured by the theaters and public amenities such as a café, ballroom, and gallery.

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dalian CHINA

The library is intended to be a transformative environment that pulls visitors into a unique landscape. The building weaves into the ground creating a series of courtyards and topographic undulations- rooting itself, and then sweeping up into the air forming a bold urban landmark. The shifting of the mass creates spaces ranging from the intimate spaces for reflection in the courtyard to the dynamic and expansive views offered from the tower volume. The tower volume has a series of internal voids and terraced spaces to further enhance the variety of spatial conditions and to provide internal connectivity. A series of retail functions including cafes will help draw a larger audience to the library. A large media center that shares the central drop-off can be used after hours and function independently.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Concept Statement

Preface:
The extension of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna begins with three existing building—Schwanzer, Schwanzer Connecting Wing, and Ferstel—surrounding a garden, and four primary urban associations—the Ringstrasse, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz, the Fritz Wotruba Promenade, and the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK).

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vienna AUSTRIA

Between 1st and 3rd district in Vienna on the Ringstrasse a few buildings of different authors and times are collected on a block. Some of them serve the purposes of the Museum for Applied Arts and some of them serve the University of Applied Arts. The original urban intent for this group of buildings follows a very fine, subtle and precise idea. Although being part of a block, or standing on a block, they were always meant to keep their independency and autonomy by simultaneously allowing for a visibility of the space in between them.

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rome ITALY

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE will be the fourth cool event that the creative Roman group of CityVision will presents at the MACRO museum of via Nizza in Rome on February 17th, 2012 – 6.30 pm.

A new independent architecture event will host, for the first time in Rome, the famous London office SQUINT/OPERA, with a lecture of Jules Coke (Squint/Opera founding director). A new international architecture competition to explore the future of the Big Apple, the New York CityVision Competition, will be announced. During the event the new, fifth issue of CityVision Magazine will be presented and freely distributed, and the winners and shortlisted of the PFFF—Inflatable Architecture Competition will be revealed.

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE
Friday, 02/17
6.30pm
MACRO Museum via Nizza
Rome, ITALY

brooklyn NEW YORK

Thanks to all those who submitted to suckerPUNCH’s Robot Workshop Competition. All results are linked below.

registration deadline 03.30.12
submissions due 04.02.12
awards: US $2500 total and publication on suckerPUNCH

[WINNERS]

[TOP 16]

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boston MASSACHUSETTS

LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
First place — $1200

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project:

james LENG: MOON SEED is a speculative proposal that attempts to situate a Lunar Crater Cultural Center along a continuous timeline of human space development. This Lunar development is not the beginning, nor the final goal of humanity’s presence on the moon; it is merely a point-in-time of a perpetual, phased-project to expand human presence extra-terrestrially.

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laurel canyon CALIFORNIA

LUNAR CRATER CULTURAL CENTER COMPETITION
Second Place — $800

Hirsuta Architectural Design and Research
Project Team: jason PAYNE and timothy CALLAN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Hirsuta: On The Turning Away: Crater 308

There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.
—Pink Floyd, 1973

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