DESIGN AWARDS 2012 PUBLIC BUILDING

Wallpaper announced the winners of their 2012 Design Awards. The international panel of judges, this year comprising Grayson Perry, Rafael Vinoly, Simon de Pury, Gerd Bulthaup, and Jean-Paul Goude, selected the top entries in eleven major design categories. Many more awards in highly specialized design categories were chosen by Wallpaper* editors and contributors. Below are the winners and shortlist candidates in the architectural categories Best New Public Building.

WALLPAPER SHORTLISTED - BEST NEW PUBLIC BUILDING 2012

1 - HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD BY DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS

2 - TESHIMA ART MUSEUM BY RYUE NISHIZAWA

3 - MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BY SOU FUJIMOTO

4 - METROPOL PARASOL BY J MAYER H.

5 - GIANT GROUP CAMPUS BY MORPHOSIS

HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD BY DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS

The Hepworth Wakefield, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, opens to the public on Saturday 21 May 2011, putting the spotlight on Yorkshire as a world centre for sculpture, together with Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery.

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TESHIMA ART MUSEUM BY RYUE NISHIZAWA

Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Inland Sea. Shaped like a drop of water, the museum lies in a corner of the spacious grounds surrounded by once-fallow rice terraces that have been restored with help from local residents.

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MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BY SOU FUJIMOTO

Evoking the atmosphere of a traditional reading room, this geometry resolved the two conflicting goals common to many libraries. While the labyrinthine paths between book-lined walls inspire the unguided exploration of the library’s sizable collection, the radial organization system cutting through the shelves enables the beeline search for a specific book.

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METROPOL PARASOL BY J MAYER H.

 

"Metropol Parasol" explores the potential of the Plaza de la Encarnacion to become the new contemporary urban center. Its role as a unique urban space within the dense fabric of the medieval inner city of Seville allows for a great variety of activities such as memory, leisure and commerce. A highly developed infrastructure helps to activate the square, making it an attractive destination for tourists and locals alike.

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GIANT GROUP CAMPUS BY MORPHOSIS

 

 

Situated amid existing canals and a new man made lake, the undulating office building interacts with an augmented ground plane, joining architecture to landscape, and environment to site.
The Giant Campus project is a compact village that accommodates diverse functions in a flexible framework of forms that move in and out of a folded landscape plane.

Source: wallpaper.com