The third and final stage of a competition for a new building for Tel Aviv Museum will be held tomorrow. The panel of judges will choose the plans for the building from three finalists - architects Yehoshua Gutman of Israel and Louis Ortega of the firm 451F of Spain; Preston Scott Cohen of the United States; and Ada Carmi-Melamed and Ram Carmi of Israel.

The building will be erected in the museum area, west of the existing structure, thereby doubling the area of the museum. It will include an architectural and design wing and an educational wing.

The final stage judges are architect Moshe Safdie, Professor Robert Oxman, architectural historian Yehuda Safran, Municipal Engineer architect Danny Keiser, curator of the design and architectural wing of the museum, Meira Yagid, and museum director-general and chief curator Professor Mordechai Omer, who will head the judges' panel.

The organizer of the competition is architect Yasha J. Grobma, who watches the judging as an observer. The same panel judged the second stage. The winning plan will be made public immediately after a winner is announced.

The competition was unveiled in October 2002 and was supposed to have two stages - winners of the first public and anonymous stage would compete in the second stage against architects invited to present plans. The first stage was held as planned in March 2003 and four architectural firms made it to the next stage, in which they competed against five architectural firms from Israel and abroad that had been invited to compete.

At the second stage, held in May, the judges found it difficult to choose one winning plan from the candidates and decided to add a third stage. The two final stages in the competition were not anonymous and included personal interviews with the contestants.

The proposal presented by Gutman and Ortega was the only one to move up from the public anonymous stage. For the final stage, the contestants were asked to relate to comments and requests for clarification that arose in the previous stage and to update their proposals accordingly.

The three that made it to the final stage were awarded the minimum prize allocated for the third place in the competition, $10,000. The winner of the first place will get $25,000 and his design will be the one for the new building, if all goes as planned.

Because of the location of the museum in Israel's most important and central cultural and arts compound, the competition to design the new building is one of the most prestigious held here in recent years, and compares with the competition for the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem held in the early 1990s.

The final stage of the competition has also raised special interest because of the architects competing - young people of the new generation against seasoned and experienced professionals, and architects from Israel against architects from abroad.

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Fort Washakie, WY (PRWEB) June 04, 2014

Approximately 4,000 square feet of Ward + Blake Architects design for a K-8 and high school campus to be built in Fort Washakie, Wyo., is dedicated space for cultural activities such as traditional language and dance practice for the predominantly Native American school population. Jackson Hole architects Ward + Blake whose institutional architectural projects include a LEED Gold-certified childrens learning center in Jackson, Wyoming are lead architects for the new $45 million Fort Washakie campus, partnering with veteran national school designers Fanning/Howey Associates.

The Ward + Blake and Fanning/Howey team recently submitted preliminary design schematics for the proposed 180,000-square-foot elementary and high school complex, which will provide classroom, recreational, and extracurricular space for approximately 800 students in two buildings. In addition to dedicated cultural space, the design includes outdoor classroom space to create an environment for non-traditional learning opportunities. The project is scheduled for completion in 2016.

We have submitted schematic designs that we believe meet the school boards desires and objectives for this ambitious project, says Ward + Blake Principal Mitch Blake. Now we will wait for the states approval and hopefully move forward with design drawings. An earlier three-day charette brought the design team together with stakeholders to help determine goals and needs for the project.

Fort Washakie is located at the confluence of the South and North Forks of the Little Wind River and is named for Shoshone Chief Washakie, namesake for the historic military Fort Washakie. Chief Washakie was known as a great supporter of education, and his policies figured into the first school at Fort Washakie being established as part of the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 with a first class of 35 students, both Native American and white.

We want to bring meaning to the project by recognizing the cultural context of the Eastern Shoshone traditions, said Blake in an earlier interview about the firms plans for the school design. The team intends to integrate cultural symbols that imbue meaning to the schools users into the design of the new school building.

Ward + Blake has designed several notable buildings for education, including the Teton County Childrens Learning Center in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the St. Johns Medical Center Childrens Learning Center, which is still in the planning stages. The Teton County Childrens Learning Center The Ranch, built in conjunction with early education architecture specialists D.W. Arthur Associates, was short-listed in the schools category of the 2012 World Architectural Festival in Singapore. A recently opened Teton County School District Central Administration Office designed by the firm received special Jackson Hole Energy Sustainability Project funding.

Ward + Blake has a successful history of creating architecture thats sensitive to a sites environmental, cultural and historical cues, winning the firm numerous awards and honors including being named 2013 Firm of the Year by the six-state AIA Western Mountain Region. A recent monograph, In the Shadows of the Tetons: Selected Works of Ward + Blake Architects, provides an overview of the firms award-winning work.

About Ward + Blake Architects: Ward + Blake Architects was built on a distinctive vision: to be provocative in thought, flexible in nature and disciplined in execution. Since 1996, the firm has earned recognition for architecture that is sensitive to its environment and successfully integrated with its surroundings. Ward + Blake creates buildings that are tactile, modern, bio-climatically responsible, honestly expressed, technologically sound and artfully crafted. For additional information, visit Ward + Blake online at http://www.wardblakearchitects.com or call 307.733.6867.

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An artists impression of the proposal for Caldecott Square, looking north towards St Andrews Church (s)

THE ARCHITECTS of a proposed town centre care home complex have defended the development after a letter raising concerns about the plans was sent to residents in the area.

The anonymous letter, sent to nearby residents last week, urged residents to object to Oak Retirement and Audley Holdings' 18m plan to build 73 extra care apartments in what would be known as Caldecott Square, on the site of the former Herbert Gray College behind St Andrew's Church.

The author requested English Heritage be re-consulted about the proximity of the flats to St Andrew's Church and its visual impact on Church Street and Regent Street.

We are sad to see that St Andrew's Church House will be lost, it read.

English Heritage were not prepared to list it as a building despite the fact it was unique to Rugby but not to our region.

We also have concerns about any future occupants residing at this location given its close proximity to an existing nightclub, the letter continued.

We believe this building should be set further back with high levels of sound insulation, and perhaps some amenity space and railings to separate it from the alleyways and service road.

But Rickett Architects, which is designing the development, has assured residents these matters had been taken into consideration.

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The five shortlisted designs, submitted anonymously, will now go before a jury including members of Gothenberg's city planning department and the project's development company

Five architects have been shortlisted to design what will be Scandinavia's tallest building. The Karlavagnstornet skyscraper is to be built in Gothenberg, Sweden, with current design brief giving it an eventual minimum height of 202 m (663 ft). The winning design will be announced on June 17.

The participants on the final design shortlist are Ian Simpson Architects, Manuelle Gautrand Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill (with Entasis), Wingrdhs Arkitektkontor and Zaha Hadid Architects. Each finalist will be awarded 500,000 SEK (US$75,000) and the winning design will be selected by a jury which includes members of Gothenberg's city planning department and the project's development company Serneke.

Serneke (formerly Sefa) has been working on the Karlavagnstornet project for around ten years with input from the City of Gothenburg and the River Bank Development. The site at Karlavagnsgrnd Square is already developed by the company and will host fifteen blocks of residential, office, retail and service space when the project is complete.

The designs entered into the contest, which was originally organized by the Swedish Association of Architects, were submitted anonymously. They are the 214 m (703 ft) Ursa tower, the 231 m (758 ft) Svall tower, the 202.1 m (663 ft) Glasklart, the 230 m (755 ft) Polstjrnan tower and the 215 m (705 ft) Kyssen tower.

"It feels absolutely incredible to be able to present exciting and spectacular proposals such as these," said Ola Serneke, founder and CEO of Serneke Group.

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County Commissioners Court on Monday selected MNK Architects from El Paso to determine whether the 30-year-old Downtown jail can be fixed or has to be replaced.

Commissioners Court voted 4-0 to start negotiating a contract with MNK Architects. County Judge Veronica Escobar was absent. Commissioners Court has allocated $250,000 to pay for the study, which will compare the cost of building a new jail to the cost of remodeling the existing facility.

MNK Architects was competing for the contract against the company Wiginton Hooker Jeffry from Plano, Texas. Both companies were the finalists as their proposals were rated as equal by the county's evaluation committee. The evaluation did not include the county's provision that gives points to local contractors. The local preference only applies to goods and supplies, not services, said county purchasing agent Kennie Downing.

Commissioners said they supported MNK Architects mainly because it's a local company and because it participated in the construction of the jail. Although Escobar was not at the meeting, she also supported the hiring of the company in a written statement. She said MNK's involvement in the construction of the Downtown Jail would be beneficial to the county.

MNK representatives have said they are the best firm to perform the study because they are familiar with the Downtown jail and the city's building code. Monday's decision came after both companies made their pitches to the commissioners on May 19. MNK will work with GSBS Architects, a firm with offices in Salt Lake City and Fort Worth, on the project.

MNK and GSBS together have worked on more than 115 jail projects. Their team includes companies such as Latta Tech, which specializes in security consulting, and AB&P Engineering from El Paso.

Commissioner Carlos Leon said the evaluation of the two companies did not take into consideration whether they were local companies.

"They do have a tremendous reputation and they do have the background and history that should help as we move forward," Commissioner Carlos Leon said of MNK Architects.

In addition to being local, Commissioners Pat Abeln and Vince Perez said MNK provided a more detailed presentation with a plan of action.

Abeln said MNK's proposal was superior.

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