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.

Architectural Discussion on Rural Homes

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. 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.

Architectural Award Winners 2024

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. 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.

Architectural Awards and Designs Review

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. 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.

Architectural Design Analysis

Speaker 1 43:19

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

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.

Award-Winning Architectural Designs Discussed

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. 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.

Discussion of Architectural Award-Winning Designs

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. 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.

Global Architectural Award Strategies

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. 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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