COMPETITIONS

EU Mies Award Nomination

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS on January 2, 2017

MAP Architects are delighted to announce that the Kalø Slotsruin Visitor Access has been nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture- Mies van der Rohe Award.

MAP WINS PROJECT IN THE MALDIVES

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, FLOOD, NEWS, PROJECTS on October 26, 2012

MAP Architects and PMO Maldives have won the competition to develop a sports park for the young in the island of Huluhmale. 15 000 m2 will be developed for out door sports, free for all, to encourage sports and out door activities. Huluhmale is a reclaimed island located in Kaafu Atoll, the Maldives on the Hulhule-Farukolhufushi […]

FIRST PRIZE IN “STEDET-TÆLLER” DANISH COMPETITION

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on September 25, 2012

MAP Architects and MAST, together with consultant Marco Mercuri, have been selected to enhance via design, one of the top 10 natural/historic sites in Denmark. Out of a total of 75 applicants, we have been chosen to design the entrance, access and viewing tower inside Denmark’s oldest medieval surviving site. We are delighted to be […]

THIRD PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on June 6, 2011

The studio has received a third prize for the Jøssingfjord museum international competition in Norway. Placed on the remnants of an old titanium mine and at the mouth of a fjord, the museum proposal plays with relationships between the vertical and horizontal landscape and skyline. We are delighted to receive this prize contributing to the […]

FIRST PRIZE FOR UNESCO DELTA CITIES COMPETITION

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, FLOODS, NEWS on September 30, 2010

The studio’s submission for the International UNESCO Delta City of the Future competition, has been awarded first prize. Out of 57 teams world wide, and after being one of the 7 teams selected in the first round, we were invited to Rotterdam to take part in the final, 24-hour competition session. The brief aimed to give […]

FIRST PLACE IN UNESCO DELTA CITY OF THE FUTURE COMPETITION

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, FLOOD, NEWS on July 14, 2010

The Studio has received a first prize for the Port Harcourt shore proposal, MODULAR RAFT COMMUNITIES, Nigeria, in the Delta City of the Future competition held by UNESCO. Port Harcourt, Nigeria encompasses a metropolitan area approaching 5.7 million people in the Niger Delta. Our focus is on the waterfronts, the flashpoint for cyclical social […]

HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE BRONX HIGHBRIDGE

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, POLLUTION, PROJECTS on March 20, 2010

HB: BX is an open ideas competition to design an arts center that culturally reinforces the physical connection between the Manhattan and Bronx High Bridge communities of New York City. Working in cooperation with the arts organizations Artists Unite and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ENYA means to draw awareness to the current efforts […]

EUROPAN 10, VARDØ, NORWAY

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on January 10, 2010

Vardø possesses an outstanding potential to become an artistic and natural beacon both in the north and internationally. This is possible by the geographical conditions of the island and its cultural heritage. The fact that its nature is so powerful and present, but still accessible, are some of the best assets of Vardø, aspects […]

URBAN SKY LINK

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on September 9, 2009

The history of the skyscraper is inherently linked to that of the elevator. It is interesting to note that although structurally speaking the skyscraper has evolved enormously, it is still a vertical structure, dictated by the elevator, which in its effort to go up, it only meets a dead end. The lack for alternative methods […]

ARCTIC MOBILE UNIT

Posted by maparchitects in ARCTIC, COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS, RESEARCH on August 1, 2009

MAP Architects and Alanna Baudinet collaborated on a competition for a mobile arctic unit, hosted by Arctic Perpective. The design is to be an open source mobile architecture system capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass, industrial and amateur production and manufacturing potential. The unit is to serve as […]

NATIONAL WILDFLOWER CENTRE

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS on July 19, 2009

COMPETITION SHORT LISTED The architectural competition for the National Wildflower Centre in Leeds, England, desired an extension to their existing installations, that expressed nature’s mathematical order that is not necessarily immediately apparent in nature, but found upon closer inspection. To test how this building could become an expression of this, Fibonacci series based curves were […]

ARTFUND PAVILION

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on January 19, 2009

As this pavilion will be constructed each summer, we chose to work with elements that could create a different configuration of spaces each time the structure was erected, basing our concept in simplicity and flexibility. We began with a standard sheet of plywood. By stacking these and allowing each element to become a sliding panel, […]

ZOO NETWORK

Posted by maparchitects in COMPETITIONS, NEWS, PROJECTS on July 7, 2008

The competition guidelines called for “An environmental zoo where consideration should be given to a symbiotic environment that includes the activities of humans with animals.” The proposal aimed to enrich both humans and animals by closer contact, while using the same environment. If the contemporary aim of zoos is to understand how animals and humans […]