Back to The Drawing Board - S4E2 - 2024 Awards Wrapped Up

We dive deep into the architectural wonders recognized in 2024 by RIBA and Arc Daily, exploring award-winning designs and their significance in sustainable development. Each project exemplifies innovation that harmonizes beauty and function, challenging conventional thinking in architecture.

• Exploring Eavesdrop: a harmonious blend with the countryside 
• The Farm Workers House: integrated design and agricultural life 
• Spotlight on Peckham House: self-build and personal expression 
• Plus Henley Stable Block: renovation preserving heritage and sustainability 
• Lung Vai School: community-driven design and educational empowerment 
• Arc Daily highlights nature in urban environments with the Forest 
• Discussions on cultural significance with the Istanbul Modern Museum 
• The Yellow Mini Café: a connection between design and community 
• Reflecting on the essence of architectural excellence and awards

Transcript

Architecture Podcast Awards Revisited

Speaker 1 0:00

So what I'm thinking is for the edit . What I'll do is , as soon as the slideshow starts , you won't see us because you'll be looking at the back of our heads and then cut to this bit where we'll look back at the camera .

Speaker 2 0:10

And we've been looking at the camera the whole time .

Speaker 1 0:14

Hello and welcome to Back to the Drawing Board , an architecture podcast hosted by me , phil Watten-Smith and my friend Formerly known as Inten .

Speaker 2 0:21

Phil Friend , formerly known as intern Feel .

Speaker 1 0:24

Today we're going to be revisiting our ever-popular format of the awards of 2024 .

Speaker 2 0:31

We will have looked to the banner . That shows nothing .

Speaker 1 0:36

Absolutely bought . All so we'll be running through .

Speaker 2 0:45

I think it's the RIBA and the the RIBA Yep Houses of the Year , top five in the shortlist , and the Arc Daily , the 15 winners of the Building of the Year , and they've got 15 different categories . I'm going to do a speed run . You're ready for this ? Best Applied Product , best Commercial Building , best Cultural Building , best Educational Building , best Healthcare Building , best Hospitality Building , best Houses , best educational building , best healthcare building , best hospitality building , best houses , best housing , best industrial building , best interior , best offices , best public and landscape , best religious building , best small-scale installation and the best sports building .

Speaker 1 1:19

Cue Tina Turner . Oh wait , no . Cue the intro music . So Theo has presented us with a slideshow . Each slide will have images from and we'll paste them over the screen . For those of you who are listening rather than watching , we will announce the name of the building , the name of the practice , some little information about it , so that you can find the correct building and images to look at if you choose to do so on your spare time , Unless , of course , you've just tuned in to listen to our voices .

Speaker 2 2:04

Yeah , and that's fair enough , and I would say that this one is a fairly visual one , being an architecture podcast about architecture , showing buildings of architecture . So get your computer up while you're on your drive-in without you just pop it up on your , on your dashboard , so without further ado , we'll jump right in to the riba 2024 house of the year award and you weren't ready for this much preparation .

Speaker 2 2:31

I've done it better than you . You're actually ready to realize I've made your life very easy . We've got a link up on the screen . Hopefully that's going to flash up right now . I'll put it in the bios . Well , you'll put it in the bio as well ? I suppose I will . Um , and there's a big , really really long link , because the RIBA went for just the most complicated way To get to their website , but it will take you straight to the shortlist page when it will spoil the winner . So if you don't want that , wait till the end , we'll start off With one of the Shortlist Eavesdrop , and this is located in sussex . Many of these are winners of different southeast awards , which is it's just all of them are . Actually , I think four of them are winners of southeast awards and one of them is a southwest oh good , I'm glad the northeast is fairly .

Speaker 1 3:23

We got represented , mate , it's okay , we'll get there .

Speaker 2 3:24

Good , I'm glad the northeast is fairly well represented . We got represented . Mate , it's okay , we'll get there eventually . Last year we got to Scotland and that was pretty good . They went too far . They need to come down a little bit . Yeah , yeah , close . We're slowly homing in . The photos are by Rory .

Speaker 2 3:34

Gardner oh this is the one with Big for a resi . It's massive . The design's by Tom Dowell Architects . It's a new build , it's single story . I don't think there's lost space , I think it's just double height . It's got a very funky roof shape . It's got a really funky roof shape . Yeah , so what I've done the layout's going to become pretty clear is I've tried to get a kind of summation of slides on the first one and then on the second one , more orthographic drawings . Okay .

Speaker 1 4:08

Not all of them , provided that , so potatoes to begin with , provided this time by Rory Gardner . Rory .

Speaker 2 4:15

Gardner , yeah , I noticed really quickly a trend with all of the RIBA awards and I want to see if you pick up on it as well . But I actually wrote down a list of ways to win the RIBA House of the Year award In 2024 . In 2024 . One of them is a , very . So anyone who owns a DeLorean , get ready . Get ready to go back Back to the drawing board . Make sure you're ready to move to the southeast . Yeah , that will help , but this one's right in the middle of a field .

Speaker 1 4:48

Does it have a tree in the middle ? Oh , it doesn't have a tree in the middle . It's just sort of a courtyard garden , isn't ?

Speaker 2 4:52

it . No , it's a courtyard garden .

Speaker 1 4:53

Do you remember when we tried to do that for one of our clients ?

Speaker 2 4:55

Yeah , we tried , but they had kids and they made the very valid point of they had kids . I had a workaround . Yeah , kids , dirty ground and kids apparently don't go well together inside of a house . But yeah , shapes are funky , it's all very clean , it's . I hate to say this , but it feels quite hospital-like with how , like on the inside , it's white , yeah , white . Imagine you get handprint on that wall . Your mom would not be happy . We move on to the orthographics then .

Speaker 1 5:31

I do like the shape of the roof .

Speaker 2 5:32

And here you get a much better idea of the shape of the roof . You know it kind of just , is inconsistent the entire way , not in any way meant as a dig Right . So when it's deliberately inconsistent , it's fine . I quite like it when they pull that wall just all the way across and you can see it up on that uh north face there , the way it just stretches along . I think that might be a garage . I feel like this one could have been a stable the one . But no , this is new build , so it wasn't anything . They've got a big patch of land there as well . It just sits right in and it's because it's quite low lying . It doesn't . It doesn't anything . They've got a big patch of land there as well . It just sits right in and it's because it's quite low-lying . It doesn't shout out . Look at me .

Speaker 1 6:09

It's very understated , I think I think one thing they've done quite well in those orthographic drawings is put the trees in . I know that we've attempted something similar in the past and it's not been as I don't know . I've been less pleased with our result on the too bad , but it gives you a good scale of the building . You can see from the , from the site plan up there , that there's a lot of , there's a lot of trees . So they've at least kind of sunk it into its context , even on the elevation you'll notice , all of the drawings provide nice trees .

Speaker 2 6:39

I think that's one of the , that's one of the techniques you've sussed out straight away nice trees on your drawings . I'm assuming the shadows as well , shadows looking lovely on here . Oh , we love a drop shadow . We do love a drop shadow .

Speaker 1 6:54

Oh , that's very nice . Um , so I take it . Is this a ? This is a winner . Is it of it's on the short list ? Oh , so , this is the short list these are all on the short list . There is one winner okay , and I'm assuming that's on there and we know who it's going to be when we get there .

Speaker 2 7:06

Yes , we all . Both of us know we both . Yeah , I might not say who the winner is and let you try and work it out . Fair enough .

Architectural Discussion on Rural Homes

Speaker 2 7:15

Next up , we've got Farm Workers House , similar to Eavesdrop this one's in a field , except this one's on a farm similar to eavesdrop .

Speaker 1 7:23

It's a house .

Speaker 2 7:24

Yeah , new build single story . This one was built for the farm manager and it's actually properly integrated into the farm , to the point where you can see the grass going straight up to the edge of the house . It's like you can farm up to the house am I ?

Speaker 1 7:39

am I looking at the underside of some osb on that uh interior shop within the ceiling right .

Speaker 2 7:45

Well , I think , I think it may be plywood , but what you're starting to notice is lots of exposed timber everywhere . Yeah , and do I see more white paint ? Yeah , I'm noticing a theme . Yeah , and we're too in , oh , dear Courtyard lots of planting going on , exposed timbers , lots of white paint . If I showed them on the same page , you could be mistaken for thinking they're the same scheme .

Speaker 1 8:14

really , you could , you could .

Speaker 2 8:16

Yeah , easily . But again , it's a very single story . With that two-hide space sits into its environment . It doesn't say , look at me , but when you're in there you go yeah , this is quite nice .

Speaker 1 8:27

I think it's a it's a telling level of detail that goes into it , where you can kind of see how , as the as the rafters come up and the tie that sits between rafters on either side of the pitch is just a doubled up timber . And it reminds me you know the trusses in the cottage , yeah , where it's ? It's just like 175 deep board , 25 mil thick and there's just one each side of the truss . It just looks it's nice and it's better than just a big solid block . In my opinion it's a bit more visually interesting .

Speaker 2 8:53

I don't think they're trying to overdo it either . I think that , yeah , they're letting it speak for itself almost . Yeah , it's kind of just .

Speaker 1 9:00

And then the way the rafter's hitting into that head detail over the I'm assuming a French door or possibly a floor ceiling window or a slide or something . Very nice , I like it , I like it a lot and , interestingly , 175 square meters , so it's less than half the size of the other .

Speaker 2 9:16

Yeah , oh , the sizes vary so much throughout this entire thing that you'll see no consistency there , but it is quite interesting to look at .

Speaker 1 9:25

So photos by ? Is that Jason ? I can't really read from it .

Speaker 2 9:28

Jason Alton .

Speaker 1 9:29

Designs by Hugh Strange Architects . We should definitely get a second screen there , so that we're kind of still looking up Well , I've got mine here and realising that the writing's tiny .

Speaker 2 9:41

Anyway , moving on to the plans , oh wow , it's been washed out by this .

Speaker 1 9:45

moving on to the plans oh wow , that's no , good for you luckily , I know what they all look like .

Speaker 2 9:49

I've . I've actually shown that's the full site plan . Yeah , on the far left , and I've zoomed all the way in so that you can see the site plan . But you can see it again , it just drops in and it's just it's just a little smudge in a giant field . I think that's quite a nice privilege to have .

Speaker 1 10:07

Yeah , Although I'm saying that I did a consultation today in the middle of a bunch of fields .

Speaker 2 10:12

I rest my cases .

Speaker 1 10:13

I'll see yours next year . I like the . It looks very . You see how this return here on that courtyard is very sort of you can see . It's a dense , thick wall and it's just yeah . Yard is very sort of you can see it's a dense , thick wall and it's just .

Speaker 2 10:25

Yeah , it looks heavy , yeah , but at the same time it's built so simply and such a light and it's weirdly it looks so heavy in its plan .

Speaker 1 10:32

I wish they would touch their walls . Yeah , and very light in its actual construction , but that might be the trick of the white paint that everyone's using this year .

Speaker 2 10:40

I know you can't really see it , but this section just carries on that language of it's all , just simple . It's just they've really not tried to overcomplicate it , which I think has allowed them to do something quite nice in well , I don't know the budget , but it certainly looks like it In a budget , yeah , of some description Very minimalistic , to .

Speaker 2 11:05

Oh , we're not swearing , are we ? I was going to say to on that theme . I suppose you can beep it just to make your life harder , cool . Um , hello , right in london , in peckham . Um , this is peckham house . It's a self-build . It's two-story plus the roof terrace . It's a family home located in the southeast of london , and when I say self-build , it's two-story plus the roof terrace . It's a family home located in the southeast of london , and when I say self-build , I mean the architects built it . Uh , designed by sermon western , and the photos are by jim stevenson . I think he must be an riba photographer , because you'll see his name pop up a few times .

Speaker 1 11:40

Um 100 square meters , that's tiny , yeah although , to be fair , located in southeast london , 100 square meters probably costs more than most mansions in the northeast , but they play around with levels a lot and I think that's really nice they do .

Speaker 2 11:58

They do a lot of that . That street view I'm kind of almost not sure where I'm meant to be looking , but I think it's behind that tree on the right is where the house is and it just hides away there so it's a complete new build .

Speaker 1 12:09

It's not a refurbishment . Yeah , oh nice .

Speaker 2 12:12

Um , well , from the description I read , that's certainly how it came across . Yeah , um , but you get these massive windows in it , looking straight onto a tree and things like that , where it's like we don't have a field . We're in the middle of the densest city around . You know how can we just pick out little slices of nature here and there ? And there's one shot I'm going to show you which you'll definitely recognize , and it's that door on the right . Everybody has seen that . That's a . That is a nice door . That is a nice door . That is a nice door . That is a good door .

Speaker 1 12:44

I like that . It's very Hobbit-esque .

Speaker 2 12:47

Yeah , this one on the bottom left , it kind of shows you that being playful with the bricks in the facade the hit and miss is nice , yeah , and it really creates that kind of shadowy detail .

Speaker 2 12:58

But then also , when you get up to the terrace and they make it perforated , it kind of still just feels like it continues straight up because they've already been doing that pattern . I think that's really tasty , instead of having the shadow , just getting rid of it completely and letting the light shine through . That one in the top left they seemed really excited by that photo so I thought I'd put it in , but it's showing the end of the stair , the tiles , a plant , I suppose it's all just terrazzo , the end of the stair , the tiles , a plant , I suppose it's just , it's all , it's all the junctions , isn't it ?

Speaker 1 13:27

between the materials ? Yeah , and again that it's the front door that I love the way it's set so far deep in .

Speaker 2 13:33

Yeah , yeah , that's it's a beefy way that terrace . They've just overgrown it as much as possible to kind of sit you in that nature again , creating it where you can . I almost want to go back a bit to look at the interior . What do you notice about the interior film ?

Speaker 1 13:47

oh , look at that . There's lots of exposed wood and lots of white .

Speaker 2 13:49

Yeah , lots of white , lots of just bare plaster . Yeah , moving on to plus henley stable block . So this is a refurb of a stable . Uh , it's two stories , but the second story is built into the roof space yeah loft space , hence the dormers .

Speaker 2 14:08

Yeah uh , family home located in monmouthshire . This one is in , that's on the border between wales and I was about to say france , in england . So that's the the southwest one . Photos by Francesco Monteguti . I'm struggling to read the actual screen here . We're going to be looking away for this entire thing . I feel so bad .

Speaker 1 14:34

Designed by Studio Brassica Nice Architects .

Speaker 2 14:38

Yeah , oh yeah , you've got to make sure to read all the lines first , because it doesn't all fit on . That's fine , 147 square meters , so to get another reasonably sized one you know 147 square meters .

Speaker 1 14:50

Just to put it into context for you .

Speaker 2 14:52

My cottage isn't much bigger than that , it's a whole one meter square bigger than that I think the fact that this is a reefer probably makes a big impact on how they were kind of able to do a lot with what they already had . The details they add in are really nice , like those um louvers they move so they can just close it off or let the light in , and they've been .

Speaker 1 15:15

They were , I think , commended for kind of being very sustainable on this one with , with which will be , I'm assuming , another one of those things that's common through them all to be fair .

Speaker 2 15:23

yeah yeah , one sustainability point .

Speaker 1 15:26

I'll be amazed if I don't see any exposed timber in this , especially with it being an old , stable block .

Speaker 2 15:30

Well , I think that was actually all of the 3Ds , because the louvers are all exposed timber . Yeah , that was all of the visuals that I could get for that one photographs I could get for that one .

Speaker 1 15:40

Oh okay , fair enough . I suppose if it's a private residence , you don't want it all over the internet for people to see , but it's lovely , yeah , yeah .

Speaker 2 15:46

That's a good point , I think , aside from the previous one , the Peckham House , where the architects were the designers , I think all of the clients have been kept private . Yeah , of course , fair enough . We've got some nice sections , but that exposed axle Exploded axle , exploded , axo , exploded , axo , my bad , everyone loves one of them . Yeah , it's lovely . I'm suspecting that those timber joists are exposed in the loft space . Yeah , because that's how you win .

Speaker 1 16:17

But it's painted white .

Speaker 2 16:18

Oh , you can see from that shot there where the lube is on the back . Wow , they're loving it . I think there's a bit of extension that you can actually see just to the left I was gonna .

Speaker 1 16:29

I was gonna ask is that extension ?

Speaker 2 16:31

but it's hard to tell from I think it is and oh , in fact you can see .

Speaker 1 16:35

You see the highlighted red areas that extension , or is that the refurb ?

Speaker 2 16:39

yeah , exactly okay , so you can see where it's being extended there as well . They've done the before and after yeah , and that's nice so that that little bit is extended and they've gone for a completely different brick , which I think is fair enough . I think you've kind of got a contrast .

Speaker 1 16:53

Yeah , if you can't match it , contrast it if you can't design it out , make a feature of it excellent words of wisdom .

Speaker 2 17:00

I love the the use of color as well . I know that Well they've used the red of the yeah and that's consistent throughout . Yeah , it's very nice Moving on to the hall .

Speaker 1 17:12

Oh look exposed to , oh look , lots of white paint .

Speaker 2 17:14

Yeah boy . This one was a renovation of a grade two listed series of buildings 952 square metres .

Speaker 1 17:27

Just think that one that was in South East London was almost a tenth of the size .

Speaker 2 17:29

Yeah , this one's in Kent Downs , which will be south of London , obviously .

Speaker 1 17:38

Renovation three-storey family home .

Speaker 2 17:39

Yeah , designed by Taylor Hare Architects . Photos by Building Narratives . I struggled to work out what had been done to this Do we have orthographics for this ?

Speaker 1 17:51

Yeah , Cool .

Speaker 2 17:52

I struggled to work out what had been done , but I feel like it might be one of those what hasn't been done ? Yeah , which in fairness ?

Speaker 1 18:00

Because you can kind of see that they've obviously used a lot of reclaimed materials , particularly on the outside , and then they've just left what was there , because you can see the timbers left in there and they've got new windows in there .

Speaker 2 18:10

So that's clearly . They've just taken out the bad and almost not tried to . They're not trying to modernize it necessarily .

Architectural Award Winners 2024

Speaker 2 18:19

That being said , that is a very nice polished concrete floor , which brings us to our next point of how to win the riba house of 2024 .

Speaker 1 18:27

Hard surfaces on the floor I did spot the terrazzo before , yeah I didn't think it was .

Speaker 2 18:33

All of the surfaces are hard . They've been tiles .

Speaker 1 18:35

I wonder if it's polished or if it's micro cement or what either way I would have thought for a building like that you'd probably use something like lime , because obviously it'll be a , an ancient building that will have been done in lime , but I don't know .

Speaker 2 18:49

I kind of fell out of love with this when I found out how wealthy the clients were , not from the 952 square meters but from the Eames chair Bottom left at the end , bottom left at the end .

Speaker 1 19:10

That's a room that's about the size of my house with just an Eames chair in it .

Speaker 2 19:12

It's been designed for that chair Nice .

Speaker 1 19:17

I don't know . I got advertised the other day a fake one on Team U .

Speaker 2 19:20

Should have got it . What was it ? Two pounds , it was 35 quid .

Speaker 1 19:23

What I'd hate to sit on that it would turn to kindling .

Speaker 2 19:26

I saw a small tank for , I think , £5 on Timu Nice . I nearly bought it . If you get free items , you can get them for 99 pence , so I've added it to that , oh dear . Moving on to the plans .

Speaker 1 19:45

Also , that's a very nice view from the little .

Speaker 2 19:46

Is it a river ? Is it a lake ? Oh , I feel really bad that you can't see this . It is a lake . They've got a lot of space there and the house takes up a lot of it . It's huge , it's massive , it's absolutely massive . Um , but again , it's one of those things I almost feel like I can't comment on how I personally feel about it , because I don't see what's been done and credit to them it's hard to see what's been done before , and after .

Speaker 2 20:12

It would be really good to to know the changes in this . A lot of them . Where it's the new build , obviously everything's new . Some of the uh like the previous one , the stable house . That's really obvious . I mean .

Speaker 1 20:23

For me , it's like I think of the renovation of a few of the properties we've done of a similar ilk , and it's like the only thing that doesn't change are the four walls and the the roof timbers .

Speaker 2 20:31

Yeah , so it's really hard to actually tell from that point yeah , because it's great to listed . You can't change how it's actually fundamentally looking . That much true well dependent .

Speaker 1 20:40

But like yeah , I mean I think about my cottage where it's like we've had to put a whole new roof covering on because it was falling to pieces . We've had to change a few of the roof timbers or fix a few of the roof timbers expose everything else . We've kept the four walls but we'll put a new slab , new internal walls , like all of the things that aren't original and form that major material fabric of the building is probably what's been changed and I hate to think how much that cost at that size .

Speaker 2 21:03

Yeah but they've got a memes chair , it wasn't . It wasn't too bad . Um the next one . I believe this is the fifth . This is six columns .

Speaker 1 21:18

I wonder how many columns there are . I look a lot of white paint . It looks like exposed timber . Good God , a lot of hard surfaces .

Speaker 2 21:26

A lot of nature , a lot of views to nature .

Speaker 1 21:28

That's got to be a lovely resin floor , because that is an alarmingly plain floor with absolutely no . There's no difference in any texture or colour or anything .

Speaker 2 21:40

This is a new build . It's in London , south East Awards , designed by 3144 Architects , or 3144 , I don't know how they like to say it 3144 ?

Speaker 1 21:53

Could be 3144th .

Speaker 2 21:55

Photos by Building Narratives .

Speaker 2 21:57

again yeah , new build two two-story family home located in london and , interestingly , they bought pieces of land from all of the neighbors gardens and used that land to build the plot on , and one of the things they really got commended on for this was that reuse of land , yeah , and finding a way to just slot right in there , and I do have a photo on the next slide of of it , kind of in its context , and it it could have been there before . I think it does a very good job there . Um , oh , let's go straight on , but I love that view into the garden they've made for themselves as well . It's just a little courtyard , but they've given themselves .

Speaker 1 22:40

They've just focused all of these big views onto that central courtyard well , you can't really look anywhere else if you're in everyone's back garden . I suppose exactly .

Speaker 2 22:48

Oh , that's clever . Look at that , that's clever . Yeah , do you want to guess who won ?

Speaker 1 22:53

yeah , I was about . Is this the one that won ?

Speaker 2 22:56

They did everything the others did , but just in a very Just turned up to 11 , really isn't it ?

Speaker 1 23:02

Yeah , it's funny because you kind of feel a bit spoiled looking at all these projects and going these are absolutely stunning . Every single one of them is stunning .

Speaker 2 23:08

So I think this one is .

Speaker 1 23:14

Yeah , I guess this one's probably my favourite . I was going to say it was going gonna be the one and a half story barn restoration the whole , not the whole . That's the big really the stable .

Speaker 2 23:23

Stable , that's what I was gonna go for , but this . I think this one pips it , but only just for me that the farm manager , but I do love a refurbishment job and the the self-build . I really like that one . That one's so detail focused . You can almost tell it was the designers who built it , because every brick is in the right place . Every bit of mortar's clearly been done . I can appreciate that . They've probably got quite a .

Speaker 1 23:48

The builder hated that . Yeah , I can tell you now they were the builder .

Speaker 2 23:50

I think that's the point .

Speaker 1 23:52

I was going to say they literally , physically built it .

Speaker 2 24:00

I didn't know if like a self-management or if it's literally self-built . Well , that covers that then . That one is . Oh , it's very nice . I love that angle , as soon as I saw the angle , I went yes , yeah , boy , I used that . But the fact that as well , that they've clearly made that separate in so many ways , it's clearly it fits in , it just slots in . Oh , I love it . Anyway , those were the RABA 5 shortlisted winners .

Speaker 1 24:30

But ArcDaily for the next one 2024 Building of the Year . Link in the bio .

Speaker 2 24:35

Yeah , this is 15 different categories and we're going to look at the winner of each category . Same layout as before . We've got the brief description with some photographs of it and then , if they've been provided , we've got some orthographical drawings .

Speaker 1 24:50

Perfect Plans and the like , let's go . We've got half an hour .

Speaker 2 24:54

Let's jump right in Ta-da .

Speaker 1 24:57

The Mayo Hall New Warehouse Logistics .

Speaker 2 24:58

Center hour . Let's jump right in the mail .

Speaker 1 24:59

Nice new warehouse logistics center I hate that I said nice because you've just said nice it's a warehouse .

Speaker 2 25:05

We won we I didn't do this it won the award for the best applied product and the product is the cladding system that they've used on the outside . Um . It's located in spain , it's a high capacity storage warehouse and it applies Danpal , a ventilated , semi-transparent facade system . I think the ventilated was the key thing on that , and they had a lot of pictures of not the facade system , which I thought , considering that's what the award's for , I feel like I should focus it on that . Yeah , fair , but you can see that facade in the bottom right there .

Speaker 1 25:38

They've got the curved spikes . Is it like a polycarbonate or something ?

Speaker 2 25:42

Yes , I think so , Caveats .

Speaker 1 25:46

In terms of conditions apply at home . Be repossessed if you do not give payments of your mortgage .

Speaker 2 25:50

Obviously it's in Spain , so it gets hot , correct ? I believe it's the actual framework which is ventilated somehow , although I don't fully understand it . But , phil , this next page .

Speaker 2 26:02

this is very architectural for a warehouse yeah , it's all I didn't provide all of the technical details and I'm going to send them to you to have a look through because you will love them . I like it . But there are some very , very nice drawings on here and you get a very good view of that plan , understanding how the shaping of that facade works . It's really interesting . It's kind of like a I do wonder though .

Speaker 1 26:26

Wonder , because I forgot the words . With all of the curve in there , are they not wasting a bit of space ? Most definitely Excellent . I'm just thinking .

Speaker 2 26:32

Gary Phil , it looks cool . Oh , I'm not denying that . In fairness , if we go back to that previous slide , you can see you can get right up to the edges . Obviously , that's not space you can store things for , which is its sole purpose . But you can go and take a nice , pretty picture , true .

Speaker 1 26:49

It'd make for good selfies .

Speaker 2 26:51

Yeah , and those shadows are very cool . They have a nice elevation of all the shadows drawn on Again , not on here . I nice elevation of all the shadows drawn on again , not on here . I had limited space , fair enough , um , but the details they provided are absolutely beautiful anyway . Solar trees where's this bad ? My favorite shanghai , I decided it's well , it's commercial , so that kind of actually puts it down a peg for me um total internal area 3 450 , okay I realized we missed out .

Speaker 2 27:20

We didn't say the photos were by flando alder and the designs were by system architecture and it was 18 800 meters squared on the warehouse anyway , fair enough .

Speaker 1 27:33

Fair enough , it's a warehouse that puts the 3 450 into perspective . Yes , not . Yes , not that many , not that many .

Speaker 2 27:39

Not that many Spoiler alerts . There is a house that is 3,000 square meters later on , God .

Speaker 1 27:47

Photos by Ichi . I'm going to say Kano .

Speaker 2 27:51

Ichi Kano . Yeah , designs by Koichi Takada Architects . Architects being on the next line is so bad for the flow category commercial . It's a forest of 32 architectural trees in shanghai , built to serve an evolving retail space . I put evolving in quotation marks because what ?

Speaker 2 28:12

it's shops , isn't it ? And that's kind of what . What lost it for me is that , as nice and pretty as it looks , we've got that internal shot in the top left with a little model of the surrounding area . It looks really nice , but it shops and there's a lot of greenery . But I feel like I can never personally fall in love with a shopping centre because it has its fundamental rules from the metric handbook that you have to follow no matter what and that kind of I like it . I like it , but not that much .

Speaker 1 28:42

Come put it in someone's house . It has to be a commercial building , I think .

Speaker 2 28:45

Get away with that in someone's gaff yeah , the , the warehouse you could put in someone's house , but I don't see how I could put the trees in someone's house no , actually I've got an idea . We'll talk about this afterwards um , there are no plans available for this one , unfortunately , which I think the pictures speak for themselves but yeah I might take a look and see if I can see anything .

Speaker 1 29:05

Yeah , it reminds us of that kerto q stuff . Oh , you didn't do the cpd on that because you weren't here at uni . I'll set up another one because it's really .

Speaker 2 29:12

It's like structural plywood one thing I like about this is it's clearly on quite a narrow site and they seem to fit it quite well into there . I wonder how much space the actual individual shop units have . I think that could be quite clever . I'd really like to see the plans on this because I want to see how they've I'll find them , I'll send them to you . We'll make it happen . This is the Istanbul Modern Museum 10,500 metres square . I mean we haven't beat 18,000 yet , but still it's massive .

Speaker 1 29:43

I'm looking in the back of my head at the bakery project , which is 550 square metres .

Speaker 2 29:50

One of our biggest . The sections on the next page are great , but one thing I'll say about this is it looks like a building , that's for sure , but to me it looks like a building I'm getting pompadour-esque I can understand that . There's just not enough color in it yeah , from the .

Speaker 1 30:08

It's the exposed external stare and that kind of formation of the exterior hanging that um themagic what do you call it ?

Speaker 2 30:16

oh yeah , the doodars . Oh , I would be terrible on a radio show .

Speaker 1 30:20

Thank .

Speaker 2 30:20

God , we don't do a podcast . It's the photos of I it's either Simmel or Kemmel Emden , enrico Cano , meltem Sari . Why do you need three photographers ? Designs by Arup and Renzo Piano Building Workshop . Not Renzo Pia Pia Piano piano , but renzo piano building workshop . I'm intrigued by that . I wonder if that's like his interns , or is that like ?

Speaker 2 30:46

an evolution of the business name yeah , um , this is for the cultural category because , as I say , it's big , it's a big museum , it's got an art gallery , it's got education office and commercial spaces in it . Uh , you can see where I've tried to click the select tool on indesign , because it just that would be throughout this presentation .

Speaker 2 31:07

It would say v and w oh well but yeah , I mean it's massive , but it it looks commercial , it doesn't look cultural , it doesn't say this is a cultural thing . That I think that's why I can't fall in love with it .

Architectural Awards and Designs Review

Speaker 2 31:24

Here we've got the plans and the sections . Very yeah .

Speaker 1 31:28

What do ?

Speaker 2 31:28

the colours mean , I don't know , but I'm not too happy about it . I like the overhang in the bottom right Because they've very cleverly used black hatch . You don't see the structural beams as much , which you can see very clearly in real life and they've put lots of trees in .

Speaker 2 31:49

But again go back to real life and they're all planted , they've been done by a landscape architect , but it's not necessarily in a forest . I can't fault you for your sight mind , but I can't blame you . Yeah , exactly , it feels so commercial and so not very cultural to me .

Speaker 1 32:14

I agree , but you've got to work with what you've got to work with .

Speaker 2 32:18

Yeah , anyway , this one I do like . This is Lung Vai School . It's in Vietnam . Photos by Tro Sien and Son Vu . Sorry if I got that wrong . Designs by 1plus1isgreaterthan2architects . Come on guys .

Speaker 1 32:37

Category educational , which is ironic given the name .

Speaker 2 32:39

Given the name , yeah , built with the help of the local vietnamese villages , this small school brings better educational facilities to the hard to reach village . They're basically right on top of a hill , um that explains why it looks like it's made of .

Speaker 1 32:54

Like it's made of just matchsticks .

Speaker 2 32:57

Yeah , materials that they had . It's all corrugated uh plastic and , yeah , I'm thinking more . It's made of like . It's made of just matchsticks . Yeah , materials that they had .

Speaker 1 32:59

It's all corrugated uh plastic and , yeah , I'm thinking more it's lightweight materials small materials instead of like a big , you know 300 mil deep beam it's like at , say , meters , centers or 600 mil centers . It's lots of little beams that , like you know , rafters even at even looks like 600 mil centers . It's lots of little beams that , like a raft is even at , even looks like 200 mil centers .

Speaker 2 33:23

It's crazy yeah , obviously it's vietnam , so it's a lot of rain and a lot of heat , which means a lot of it's actually just keeping the water off , but you can uh see on a photo of greater resolution , those windows don't actually connect to the roof , so it lets the air flow through . Yeah , that high level and it'll just draw it almost like the stack effect , exactly .

Speaker 2 33:41

It's clever little tactic and it is . It is straight between the walls . There's no in between space . There is no waste of resources in this one . Yeah , it's on . It's on the the peak of this little hill and it's just working with the space they have . And yet I think it's still quite beautiful . The shape is so well designed . Whoever's done it ? Well , one plus one , it's greater than two architects . We know who's done it . They've clearly thought a lot about what's going on here . I rate that one highly .

Speaker 1 34:12

I love the ones where it's I take it that's all rammed earth , because I can sort of see the strata between the layers has been done . But that's my guess .

Speaker 2 34:23

Yeah , that's all rammed earth because I can sort of see the strata between the layers has been done . But that's my guess .

Speaker 1 34:26

Yeah , but yeah they've had to work with the locals to help provide something for the locals that should have won cultural , you know , but instead it's one . I can see why it's one education , why it's a school it's still a school , yeah , exactly , um .

Speaker 2 34:33

And so here we've got some of the plans , and that that nice full plan shows you just really that the shape of it's so nice . Um , here there's a . You can see what it was before . It was just some hut made out of corrugated steel , um , and just what a difference . Yeah , cobbled together , and now they've got this beautiful building . It's great . They've got solar panels on it , um , to provide energy for it no one bothered with a straight line no one bothered with a straight line .

Speaker 2 35:03

I love that I do but you can see from the topographical map as well . They're on top of that hill , yeah , and you can see in there as well where it is um I love it .

Speaker 1 35:16

I like that there's just's just clear , defined entrances into it , where , like it widens out and you've got the two , yeah , the two sort of separated walls that just guide you through Lovely .

Speaker 2 35:25

It's really cleverly done . This is , you know how you . You might have to cut this , you might not . You'd mentioned something about a nursery .

Speaker 1 35:33

Yes .

Speaker 2 35:33

Whenever I see schools that have won awards , it's always in somewhere like kenya or vietnam , in a really poor , isolated community . They just work hard with what they've got , yeah , and the architect has always thought so carefully about every element in it . I love that , and it's being done for a community that can't afford something nice and yet has something fantastic yeah it's one way or the other , yeah , but , but it's .

Speaker 2 35:59

They've made it work , isn't it ? It's great , nice . Anyway , before I get too excited about it , you've got a materials list there as well , and it is that's what we should do for the lodges a little material , what ramdorf yes I use ramdorf in my last project , steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen .

Speaker 2 36:21

You could tell I was getting a bit bored because in my description I've said it's literally a hospital specifically for diabetes . Blah , blah , blah nature . Blah , blah , blah . V W . Sorry , I think it's two V's , I've tried to select it . Total internal area 18,000, . Did we say for the previous one the total internal area was 250 ? Did we say for the previous one the total internal area was 250 meters ?

Speaker 1 36:41

we've done houses bigger yeah , this I don't feel like the photos do this one justice , because they've kind of like it's impressive . It feels like they've desaturated everything but the greenery so the greenery pops , so much yeah , I can't tell if that's just material choice , if that's how it actually looks , or if it's been done by the editor .

Speaker 2 37:00

I think it's been done on purpose . It's very , very well-designed buildings . When you see the plans , you'll see that .

Speaker 1 37:07

I was going to say I don't think the photos are doing it much justice , or at least the photos that we've been provided .

Speaker 2 37:12

I just think , and I love that it's kind of that brutalist technique of uh , that's monolithic , isn't it ? Oh , yeah , overgrowing the area and and , as you say , desaturating the buildings so that it's the nature that stands out . But I don't know if I'm feeling it on this one . Obviously I've seen more of the photos than you have . Yeah , um , and it kind of has this very it's , it's a center for people with diabetes and , yeah , it has this kind of clean , sterile feeling like a hospital . Yeah , what did you expect ? But you see , you see some nicer ones .

Speaker 1 37:49

You can't . You can't judge it based solely on the fact that it is what it is and it's done well .

Speaker 2 37:53

But it's yeah In what it is Credit there , I don't know . Oh look a courtyard . Very , very nice plans , Really nice drawings . I know I've just Nice exploded axle Ripped into it .

Speaker 2 38:08

Lovely bit of shadow on that site plan . That plan is one worth looking into because that is complicated . It's just a square and yet there's so much going on . Loads of courtyards yeah , it's a lot of internal views . Yeah , the stairways throughout it to make sure that . No , I can't say that . Um , the trees , the nice trees everywhere . Everyone's planted nice trees in their drawings .

Speaker 2 38:36

I like it . Yeah , I rate that that drawing style is very pretty . I don't like it when people render their plans and their drawings . I think it takes out the professionalism , and when you see something like that , I absolutely stand by what I'm saying . That is so good and it's in black and white , and yet you know exactly how it looks . Yeah , I think that's . It looks black and white in real life . Yeah , that's a good point . That is a piece of art in itself , those plans . So this is the Yellow Mini Cafe . It won the award for hospitality . I feel like I keep missing something out of each one . The previous one won the award for hospitals , this one won the award for hospitality . The photos were by . Let's get this , phil , do you want to do ?

Speaker 1 39:24

this one Basing Nye and designs by I'm assuming that's Joyce .

Speaker 2 39:29

Yeah .

Speaker 1 39:30

J-O-Y-S architect 170 square metres .

Speaker 2 39:34

And it's tiny . It's what you can see there . It's everything there is it .

Speaker 1 39:37

That's the internal area , though's what you can see there . It's everything there is . That's the internal area , though , because you can kind of see from it there's got a massive overhang . Which part of it's internal ? Is it a question ? I don't .

Speaker 2 39:49

We'll see more on the plans Are those stairs holding the whole thing up . Well , there's columns and such , but yeah , I think they're doing a lot of work for it . That's why that solid , concrete . Well , yeah , this one's just in the middle of nowhere , it's just a cafe in the woods in Thailand and it's just . That's really nice . I love the way that obviously you can't you probably could There'd be a clever way to do it .

Speaker 1 40:11

It's almost like just a floating floor plate , like that full top right .

Speaker 2 40:16

It's very modern , but then that four on top right , it's very modern , but then the actual seating area is just the ground . It's just actually still outside On a nice day you can go in there .

Speaker 1 40:26

I bet we couldn't get that past anywhere in England .

Speaker 2 40:29

God imagine . But then obviously it's Thailand , so you're going to get plenty of rain .

Speaker 1 40:35

They've got a place for you to just sit as your coffee pit fills up . It's just a shelter , isn't it ?

Speaker 2 40:40

And They've got a place for you to just sit as your coffee pit fills up . It's just a shelter , isn't it ? And , on the plans , here you can start to see the actual accessible areas . Ah , okay , yep , so that overhang , I think , is overhang . Yeah it is . It's purely a solid concrete shelter . Christ , let's talk about sustainability , shall we ? Well , that staircase is insane , isn't it ?

Speaker 1 41:02

Where's the handrail ? At 900 to 1100 height , I hadn't even considered that . There's all the spindles . There's no nose over the edge .

Speaker 2 41:06

There's no anti-slip on it and there's kids playing up it in every single photograph . Love it , and it's gonna rain . You know it's gonna rain . It's in thailand , um , I love the trees in that one . Yeah , they're all dead . I love it . It's fantastic .

Speaker 2 41:27

Yeah , uh , a very elaborate small cafe . Yeah , uh , speaking of elaborate , this one won the award for houses 2 122 square meters and it is insane . And they were saying one of the things they love about this is the challenging site . It's being built on photos by someone I've forgotten to write it how embarrassing designs by wall makers . Designed by wall makers . I mean , next to the walls .

Speaker 2 42:01

The roof's incredible . Yeah , it's located in india , um , and it's built essentially into the side of the cliff and they haven't they haven't got rid of the cliff . There's no retaining wall . The cliff is part of the house , which I really love . The roof is insane . The spiraling concrete how does it support itself ? The glass , uh , the , the roof windows just built straight on and you can access the entire roof . You can walk along it and then to get into the toilet , you seemingly have to walk through it . That was the toilet I was talking about . That would never happen , right ? Yeah , that's insane . I think you get into the toilet through the roof , past a tree . Imagine you're there just dropping one and someone comes past to say hello , it's the postie . Yeah , oh , got it . That's incredible , that's insane . It's like some Tim Burton cartoon .

Speaker 1 42:57

That's exactly what I was thinking of . I was thinking of the Nightmare Before Christmas .

Speaker 2 43:00

Yeah .

Speaker 1 43:01

Thank you , I couldn't remember it .

Speaker 2 43:02

It was on the tip of my tongue and I've been sitting here like speechless , trying to remember If you dropped the saturation and put in some splashes of purple . That is , tim Burton Kill all the trees . Well , let's not take that out of context and that is soundbite already .

Speaker 1 43:19

Let's talk about sustainability . Let's kill all the trees that's crazy

Architectural Design Analysis

Speaker 1 43:24

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Speaker 2 43:24

Look at this look at this .

Speaker 1 43:27

I like that this one gets warrants having three slides this has only had two .

Speaker 2 43:32

I've just been talking about it for so long because I got distracted um the black hatch . I think is justified here , which is something you'll never hear me say again . I don't like the inconsistency of the black hatch . However , why have you got it on one drawer and not on the others ? The section just makes no sense .

Speaker 1 43:50

Yeah , that's going to say it . Do you ever watch a Imagine showing ?

Speaker 2 43:52

that to a builder . You'd have to show them every single level . Have you seen a MIDI ?

Speaker 1 43:56

keyboard . That's what that looks like . Yeah , yeah , yeah , which is dots up and down ?

Speaker 2 44:00

Oh man , it does Like they took that after designing it on SketchUp . It must have been designed on a 3D software and then just taken sections for all of it . I'm assuming they must have then showed every single layer as almost like a contour plan . But that's crazy . And there you can see how they've actually just used the wall and just cemented the cliff together .

Speaker 1 44:25

Yeah , christ .

Speaker 2 44:27

It's crazy . 2,000 square meters . Where is it on there ? Where's the 2,000 square meters there ? You just pointed at it . That's a good point . That's massive , though , but like it's so open , it doesn't necessarily look massive . That's mad , that's crazy . Why can't we get that ? Propose that to Jack .

Speaker 1 44:52

On it , cut that . Don't cut that , send it to him .

Speaker 2 44:56

Yeah , 450 Warren . This won the award for housing photos by I think that's Ewan Ban , and designs by SOIL . It's a modern housing block in Brooklyn , usa , usa , usa 5,016 . That is many housings compared to the 2,000 of the previous one house .

Speaker 1 45:23

And do we know how many is in this ? I didn't count . Okay , that's fine .

Speaker 2 45:30

But I think we could find out from the plans . We could certainly have a go . I like that internal shot . It's crazy . I love it . I think it's very Gaudi-esque .

Speaker 1 45:39

I think what's really interesting is how square and boxy it is on the outside , and then on the inside it's Casimilia .

Speaker 2 45:45

It actually is ? Is it With a wire net ?

Speaker 1 45:49

It's not that curvy , but I get what you mean . I see where you're coming from .

Speaker 2 45:53

I think that . Yeah , I think it's . And then , with that access up to the roof terrace as well , you'd get sick of the colour white . Yeah , I think that if you said to me there was an option for a hospital winner , I would think this could be it . Yeah , I get where you're coming from . At least the hospital looked like a hospital . I was going to say sterile and clean .

Speaker 2 46:19

That's just something I have against hospitals . Yeah , no , this is yeah , I've spent enough time in hospitals and this is the plan for it , some of the plans for it . It's a shame that they've desaturated , because they're really really nice plans . I could do with the hatch in the walls . Yeah , this one's a typical flat .

Speaker 1 46:36

Yeah , oh , okay so , but this one could do with the hatch in the walls .

Speaker 2 46:39

yeah , this one's a typical flat yep , oh okay , so it's a series of repeating , is it ? This is crazy , but there is hatch in the walls .

Speaker 1 46:42

Oh , okay , and I think that's why you can see it on that .

Speaker 2 46:43

Yeah , I think that's the only reason you can see them I'll take a look at it so that's your typical flat and then thrown into there those pathways around that central corridor uh , corridor someone likes the spline tool on cad yeah , clearly . Corridor someone likes the spline tool on CAD yeah , clearly . That is crazy and awesome .

Speaker 2 47:01

I really like it there's a lot more nice shots that I wanted to show , but I thought I've got to be fair . And two slides yeah , two slides , unless you don't provide me with plans .

Award-Winning Architectural Designs Discussed

Speaker 2 47:13

Malcolm Factory this won the industrial award . Photos by Atik , attic , beta and designs by iksoi i-k-s-o-i . Uh , it's a garment stitching unit in india and is built on an old textile mill . From the looks of it , I think the textile mill was leveled and they just used the brown side I like the uh , the one shot of someone in like prison uniform .

Speaker 1 47:43

I was just going to go with fluorescent orange , but yes , I see where you're coming from total internal area six thousand meters squared again .

Speaker 2 47:51

That house was a third of a factory . Um this one's very hospitally , very square , there's lots of square . I think it's Squares on squares . I think it's quite prison-y . That outfit , that orange outfit , it just makes me think Squid Game .

Speaker 1 48:08

I've never watched it , but I know what you mean , you get what I mean , yeah , yeah yeah , it's not for me , but I can see where and why it would , because I've seen a lot of industrial units having done a few this year designs-wise and this is it's very cool yeah .

Speaker 2 48:21

It's very sleek , very nice , but I don't think I'd be overly happy working in it . But it is very cool . Plans and sections very uniquely drawn . Wow , they've just gone solid and void for the elevation . I think that's . That's crazy . But yeah , no , look at that . It's . It's three rooms and a couple of offices and a toilet . That's it . Oh good , I'm glad there's a toilet . At least you can see the roof lights up there , but it's white nice .

Speaker 1 48:51

No , I do like it in terms of like their orthographic drawings of it a very .

Speaker 2 48:55

It's a very nice style . I like the style . Yeah , yeah , but I think we're on the same page .

Speaker 1 49:00

There's a reason we don't do industrial except for that one favour of a friend job .

Speaker 2 49:04

Yeah , this one Rodelian Bookstore photos by Nice Phil for you . Oh God , you can see it better from the angle I can't .

Speaker 1 49:19

Yeah , you have henny avraming designs by private and it's ?

Speaker 2 49:25

uh , it won the category for interior . Uh , it's a bookstore in kiev , in ukraine . It's got a total internal area of 44 meters squared and my shift key clearly wasn't working when I was typing this out . It's's fine , there's been no plans provided . It's a square . There wouldn't be many plans to provide , but the interesting thing is all the moving mechanisms they've got going on .

Speaker 1 49:45

Yeah , I was going to say , because I can see one picture where that squiggly thing's up tall and then one bit where it's down low .

Speaker 2 49:51

It's a bookshelf and you see that middle top one with that crank . Yeah , you crank that and it comes down .

Speaker 1 49:58

Nice .

Speaker 2 49:59

Yeah .

Speaker 1 50:00

I love stuff like that .

Speaker 2 50:01

Yeah , it's just simple white walls with metal it looks like stainless steel fixings and then that almost acrylic . It's got free materials in its palette . It's so simple and , yeah , nice . Four of you include books , fair enough . Yeah , I don't know if it's for me , but I can completely appreciate it .

Speaker 1 50:22

I'd love it . Yeah , if that was nearby , I'd go there frequently just to play with the mechanisms .

Speaker 2 50:27

Yeah , you'd just be whining in the shelves .

Speaker 1 50:29

I'd just buy a book by proxy of being there and just kind of feeling bad for not .

Speaker 2 50:44

It looks so simple and , yeah , it clearly does it . It sells six books , no , nine books . It sells nine books . Nice , we're on slide 33 , 42 . By the way , just looking at your 12 minutes left . Yeah , um , on labs . So this is this the category for offices . This is in Denmark . It's in Switzerland .

Speaker 1 51:01

It's in Switzerland . Photos by I'm going to assume that's Michael of some description . Michael Olsen , eduardo Perez . Designs by Specific Generic .

Speaker 2 51:10

I hate that name .

Speaker 1 51:12

Oh , it keeps going .

Speaker 2 51:23

Spillman , esch , sorry , architectonon , I wonder what that means . Yeah , so there's 15 000 square meters crazy , compared to the previous 44 . Ah , because she's a big old block . It's a big , big block . I , that was the only exterior photograph I could find , actually the interior is interesting interior is nice uh , those bookshelves all close so it makes a sealed off one sealed office . That's really cool . I do like the splashes of colour .

Speaker 1 51:43

Yeah , it's all white , because it's quite an austere white building . You've got the green roof , nice bit of greenery , as per usual , and then just pops .

Speaker 2 51:51

There is a lot going on in this and I haven't been able to show everything . I suppose that going on in this and I haven't been able to show everything , that's as well . That's the downside of it being so big it's very hard so much straight .

Speaker 2 52:04

Yeah , I've kind of gone for four different points . There's no plans for this one , which is a shame . Um , they've got one room which is just a washing machine room and it's . It's a centerpiece , these six washing machines and there's a stairway leading up to it and like there's a , a bench , just sat staring at the washing machine . What , why not ? I feel like this one got a lot of points for interior . Considering it didn't win interior Opera Parks , this one won the landscape category . I was about to say the landscaping goes hard on this one .

Speaker 2 52:33

Yeah , it's our landscape . It's next to the Royal Danish Opera . I wonder where it is . And it used to be a massive green lawn on this kind of dock and then the harbour even , and then they built this up . Total internal area 21,500 square metres Now . Internal , I think , includes the entire park and not just the cafe .

Speaker 1 52:58

So photos by Francisco .

Speaker 2 53:02

Tirado , yeah , tirado , tirada , either way , and signs by Cobb or Cobby or Cobby .

Speaker 1 53:08

No .

Speaker 2 53:08

It could be any of them .

Speaker 1 53:10

It could be any of them .

Speaker 2 53:13

It's nice . It's nice , it's clean , it's slick .

Speaker 1 53:17

That stairway I love .

Speaker 2 53:18

Stairway to greenery . Let's have some more . Look at this .

Speaker 1 53:20

This is . The plan is gorgeous Lots of organic shit .

Speaker 2 53:24

Yes , oh , I misheard you . Yes , yes , you did . This is Holy moly , it's so nice and it's just , they got a square and they did their job ?

Speaker 1 53:33

I don't know , because that to me looks like a visual , but from the photos I don't think they're far off no , it reminds me of the apple one park there , steve jobs do hickam you know , where it's just like such slim frame , yeah , and just glass and it just looks like it's floating yeah , a bit like that cafe in thailand where it's just floating .

Speaker 2 53:54

The section reveals this cafe and this public park to have two stories of car parking .

Speaker 1 54:00

I particularly like the way you've just left the word name in the top corner .

Speaker 2 54:04

Oh , my day , I was in a rush , okay . Opera Park that's gorgeous , though I love that . Agreed that's incredible .

Speaker 1 54:14

Shanghai , famiglia , sagrada Famiglia .

Speaker 2 54:17

Parish . You've seen the Sagrada Família Parish . You've seen the word Sagrada Família before . This is not the Sagrada Família . Why did I read Shanghai ? Located in Brazil , this parish has been disguised as a brutalist motorway service station .

Discussion of Architectural Award-Winning Designs

Speaker 2 54:28

I said that that's my personal review . It won the religious award and it's the only time I've ever been underwhelmed by a religious building .

Speaker 1 54:36

I like it , do you ?

Speaker 2 54:37

Yeah , time I've ever been underwhelmed by a religious building . I like it , do you ? Yeah , wow , look at that view on the motorway . And then look at that , they've got . They've got the shell logo and replaced it with a crucifix .

Speaker 1 54:46

I think they I don't think I like it .

Speaker 2 54:48

I think they missed the trick as well .

Speaker 1 54:50

We always do this . We always disagree on blocks of concrete yeah , that that hollow square .

Speaker 2 54:54

Why didn't they make the crucifix hollow ? Then you'd have the crucifix shining onto the ground at all times of the day .

Speaker 1 55:01

There's probably a reason for it . I Well , why don't you ask APQBR , architecture , humanisma yourself .

Speaker 2 55:08

Your Spanish accent is impeccable .

Speaker 1 55:11

Do you know what it's ? The Yorkshire in us ? It's not too dissimilar .

Speaker 2 55:15

APQBR architecture , humanisma . It's not too dissimilar A , p , b , q , r Architecture .

Speaker 1 55:17

It's not too dissimilar from Espanol , and then Joanna Franco Franco .

Speaker 2 55:21

Juana Franco ? I don't know .

Speaker 1 55:23

I don't know 3,900 metres squared .

Speaker 2 55:27

That's almost double the size of somebody's house . I still like it .

Speaker 1 55:32

Have we got plans ?

Speaker 2 55:33

Yeah , let's have some plans . Yes .

Speaker 1 55:36

We kind of have plans . It's a bit washed out . It's very . I really like the timber .

Speaker 2 55:41

I like it . I just it feels so corporate for a church .

Speaker 1 55:45

Nah , because you're meant to be there experiencing . You're meant to be having a religious experience , and this is not distracting you from that .

Speaker 2 55:53

Not distracting . You've got views of the motorway , not distracting , you've got views of the motorway because the entire thing's surrounded by glass .

Speaker 1 55:57

I don't care , I love it . I don't well agree to disagree do you want to read ?

Speaker 2 56:05

out the total internal area of this , the Patagonian shadow pavilion . I thought I said Pontonicon shadow pavilion .

Speaker 1 56:12

Good old dyslexia . Photos by ah , I like this guy's name , felipe David . I'd like to see your photos by oh , I like this guy's name , felipe Camus , david Fossil and Sacha Moreau .

Speaker 2 56:20

Let's do it Before I put you on . That Sounds French .

Speaker 1 56:21

Designs by DRA .

Speaker 2 56:23

Oh , it's seven square meters . Seven square meters , that is a small scale installation .

Speaker 1 56:27

Oh , it's a pavilion .

Speaker 2 56:28

That's why A cool little pavilion in France . That's what I've said there . Actually , I really like it , but I don't know how you get there . I can't see a path . Google it , let's go um . That's nice , that's a very . It does pavilion well . It's sustainable with its materials , with just excuse me it's sustainable with materials , with just timber beams and some sort of fabric kind of .

Speaker 1 56:52

Yeah , it's got like a sail popping yeah yeah , built into the mountains .

Speaker 2 56:57

It looks like it hasn't disrupted anything . I'm assuming it's on a sort of pile system . Obviously it's seven square meters . It's not intensive , yeah , um , but they went intensive with the plans . Wow , holy moly , it's the most detailed plan we have seen yet yeah , that's crazy , it's got sections elevations as the elevation it's been so meticulously designed it feels , one of those where the engineer's been involved quite early on yeah and they've gone .

Speaker 1 57:25

Okay , this is what we're looking at doing and the engineer's gone . Yep , cool .

Speaker 2 57:27

This is how we do it . We need this can't .

Speaker 1 57:29

We need this bit in here .

Speaker 2 57:30

This been there . I suspect the the engineer was the architect . It's just so meticulous and careful that you can see in that axonometric exactly how it goes together . I think that's a beautiful set of drawings . Finally , indoor sports field of Shaoxing University . Photos by Good God .

Speaker 1 57:53

I've just seen the internal area .

Speaker 2 57:55

Yeah , designs by UAD category was sports and it's a sports field on the roof .

Speaker 1 58:02

And more stuff below More stuff below China .

Speaker 2 58:07

That was the last one I did and it was rushed , but at least I got the name . 23,124 square metres .

Speaker 1 58:15

Oh , because right okay .

Speaker 2 58:17

When you see the plans , it will make so much sense .

Speaker 1 58:19

Your description where you said sports field on the roof and more below , because I was looking at that thing and I thought have they included the total square area ? Is it a building that surrounds a field ?

Speaker 2 58:28

No , it's a field under a building . Yeah , on top of a building , building under a field . There we go . The whole field is raised up . The whole field is raised up . It's a football pitch with a running track around it and presumably the rest of the athletics .

Speaker 1 58:41

I can see a sandbox for jumping into . I love the waffle ceiling .

Speaker 2 58:44

Yeah , yeah , it's great . Let's go plans , let's go plans . You're going to love this . So , oh my days , I wish you could see what I'm looking at on my computer screen . That axonometric basically makes everything so clear that you've got tennis courts in the middle . You've got , I think , squash off to the left and four basketball courts to the right One , two , three , one , two , three , four , five , five times 15 little tennis courts in there . Nice , it's insane . I like it , it's just massive .

Speaker 2 59:12

I really like it . You can see the divides between the rooms , so that's how it's well , yeah , it's all just on the grid , isn't it ? Yeah , with the running track on top , it's so simple and effective and not trying to beat around the bush , it just gets the job done , which I think is very effective . I think a lot of the winners this year just get the job done and I think that's what you need yeah simplicity , kiss .

Speaker 1 59:33

keep it simple , stupid Sorry shouldn't call you that I thought we were just going to . It was just an offer . No we'll leave that for the Valentine's podcast .

Global Architectural Award Strategies

Speaker 1 59:42

And thank you for joining us on this wrap-up of the RIBA and the . I forgot what the other one was Arc Daily Arc Daily Awards 2024 .

Speaker 2 59:53

I know we're in a rush , but I feel the need to say this . I didn't make a list . Did you find any pointers from that of how to win the global awards ?

Speaker 1 1:00:01

Just be really really really good .

Speaker 2 1:00:04

Yeah , and make sure your client's minted or the opposite . Yeah , it's one or the other You've got to be the most efficient legend in the world , or your client has to be minted Yep . Those are the two things Like and subscribe and comment . Goodbye .

Speaker 1 1:00:28

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