ArchDaily Awards: Building of the Year 2014
Finalists unveiledThe winners for the ArchDaily Awards: Building of the Year 2014 have been unveiled.
More than 3,500 projects worldwide were subjected to a process of collective selection, open to all website users, where a total of 70 projects have been selected initially, 5 finalists in each of 14 categories. Peek the winners of each category.
WAN Award
CVDB ArquitectosBraamcamp Freire Secondary School, in Pontinha, was voted the best school building in WAN Award, presented by World Architecture News.
The building was designed by the architects Cristina Verissimo and Diogo Burnay that, under the Modernisation of Secondary Schools Programme, transformed a building composed of several pavilions in a single volume.
Rolha Side-Table
A Table With Corkscrew LegsGonçalo Campos, a Portuguese designer living in London, designed the prototype Rolhap Side-table, a small table cork with a peculiar form of assembly.
The gesture of opening a good bottle of wine is transposed for this purpose in the act of assembling the table legs.
This gesture reminds the mechanical characteristics of this raw material - cork is firm and stable.
New Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
The president of Real Madrid unveils winning projectThe president of Real Madrid officially unveiled the project winner of the “International Tender for Architectural Ideas for the remodelling of the Santiago Bernabéu”, stating “We want to turn the Santiago Bernabéu into the best stadium in the world, in a unique location that will be a global symbol”.
See some images and the promotional video of the project shows its implementation step by step, from the removal of the current roof, through the construction of new wings, to the implementation of the new exterior structure.
Frank Lloyd Wright's house in danger!
Crowdfunding to restore architectural iconHow can we stand and watch an iconic work of one of the most famous and acclaimed architects of all times fall into ruin?
Let’s contribute and help to spread the word on this campaign so that we can save this architectural masterpiece, an important part of the legacy from one of the greatest architects ever.