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News: La Carboneria, Grand Prize at ADF Design Award 2024

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The rehabilitation of `La Carbonería´ in Barcelona, by Angel Borrego Cubero/ Office for Strategic Spaces, has been honored with the Gran Prize at the ADF Design Award 2024.

The recipients of the ADF 2024 Excellence Awards are Takashige Yamashita Office and NOA kankyo SEKKEI Office.

The projects of the three winners will be showcased at the upcoming Milan Design Week from April 16th to 21st, 2024 in a joint exhibition of the non profit ADF with Milan Architects Association Best Graduation Award for Polytechnic University of Milan students and the works of the interior design firm Garde Italy at Garde Italy showroom (Via Tortona, 37)

The ADF Design Award, organized annually since 2010 by the non profit Aoyama Design Forum of Japan, aims to support designers from Japan and around the world. The Gran Prize includes a $30,000 stipend and public exposure activities.

The jury for the 2024 edition consisted of five members: Suzy Annetta, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Design Anthology;  architect Delfina Scotto of Stamuli; architect  Fernando Menis ; architect Lorenzo Bini, a member of the Council of the Milan Architects Association and founder of Binocle; and William Potts, Design Director of the creative studio NR2154.

News: `The Competition´, exhibited at S AM Swiss Architecture Museum

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Our documentary film The Competition will be part of the group exhibition WHAT IF at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum between 25.11.2023 – 05.05.2024, in Basel.  The opening will take place on 24/11/2023, 7 PM. Further details on S AM website.

What If

Lost, rejected, stalled or changed… There is a vast number of architectural designs that continue to be talked about in Switzerland, even though they have never been built. The S AM takes a look back at them and constructs a utopian-dystopian image of what Switzerland could have been.

The exhibition is conceived in dialogue with:
Architektur Forum Ostschweiz, Architekturforum Biel / Forum de l’architecture Bienne, Architekturforum im Touringhaus Solothurn, Architekturforum Obersee, Architekturforum Thun, Architekturforum Zürich, ArchitekturForumBern, Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) und Archizoom, Archivio del Moderno, BauForumZug, Das Gelbe Haus, FAR Forum d’Architectures, Forum Architektur Winterthur, Glarner Architekturforum, gta Exhibitions, Istituto Internazionale di Architettura (i2a), Fondation Pavillon Sicli, Schaffhauser Architektur Forum, Teatro dell’architettura, ZAZ Bellerive – Zentrum Architektur Zürich.

With projects from:
Architekturforum Obersee; Mario Botta; Martin H. Burckhardt; Caruso St John, Thomas Demand; Consiglio di Stato della Repubblica e Cantone Ticino; Aurelio Galfetti, Jachen Könz; Godfrey Grima, George Grima, André Bornet; Herzog & de Meuron; Kantonsingenieur des Kantons Zug; Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret; Hans Leuzinger; P.M.; Morphosis; Jean Nouvel, Emmanuel Cattani; Luigi Snozzi, Bruno Jenni; Tiefbauamt des Kantons Bern, Stadtplanung der Stadt Biel; Bernard Tschumi, Luca Merlini; Jean Tschumi; Werner Stücheli, Jørn Utzon.

Film:
The Competition (2013), Angel Borrego Cubero. With Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault.

Source of the description: S AM Website

Image: “The Competition” in show at S AM. Photo©Tom Bisig

News: Angel Borrego Cubero leads workshop at Space10, in CPH

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May 6, 2017, 12h – 16h, at Space10, within the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, DK, Ángel Borrego Cubero will lead the `Adaptive Architecture and City Systems´workshop: Spend the day exploring and discovering the opportunities and potentials that Copenhagen’s architecture, city systems and urban areas has to offer. SPACE10 and CAFx  present an explorative workshop for architects and students who wish to discover the unused potentials that Copenhagen and its urban fabric have to offer. Director Angel Borrego Cubero of Office for Strategic Spaces will give a talk and run an explorative workshop revolving around the offices ethos of architecture being sustainable, affordable and reversible. OSS will challenge participants to look for spaces, buildings, urban areas or city systems that they see require re-use, re-adaptation or re-programming. As a whole, the workshop asks architects and students to detect opportunities within the city that can be explored.

News: Workshop “Subversive Strategies for Architects”

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From January 25 to 27, 2017, Barcelona, in the ETSAB, Angel Borrego Cubero will share experience (s) with Juan Herreros, Daria Pahhota, Jacobo García-Germán, Ethel Baraona Pohl and Pati Nuñez (director) in the workshop ” Subversive strategies for architects “.

More information: punk@patinunezagency.com
Registration: from January 2 to 18, 2017-> http://bit.ly/2hiwLpD

News: Best Rehabilitation Project at NAN Awards 2016

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At the 10th edition of the NAN Architecture and Construction Awards, our Factoría Cultural in Matadero Madrid won the Award for Best Rehabilitation Project. The other winners for Projects are: RCR Arquitectes – Award for Best project of a Spanish office abroad; Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra – Award for Best non residential project; Ohlab – Award for Best energy efficiency project; Vallribera Architects – Award for Best residential project. Cruz and Ortiz have received the Honorary Award NAN.

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