NEWS:

X-SITE - city of entertainment: On the North edge of the Venice lagoon XSITE seeks to condense entertainment and retail in a new artificial island. From 10 European countries the most representative emergent architects were chosen for the different buildings- Plasma is representing the UK and is commissioned for a nightclub and retail pavilion

"Plasma Studio- Energy flows through prisms, forces shape buildings": theorist and editor-in-chief Mathias Boeckl wrote a 7 page portrait of Plasma in Architektur Aktuell (Austria, German and English)

Plasma Studio's exhibition of recent work in the series 'Architecture where to' at Buro Happold's London headquarters (17 Newman Street, London, W1T 1PD) has been well received and will be extended for another two weeks until the 9th of May.

Plasma Studio received the Next Generation Architects Award by the Architecture Foundation and Pipers at MIPIM in Cannes on the 14th of March.

The award- now in its fourth year- seeks to bring new thinking to the design of commercial buildings.

The criteria for selection were: - a committed and coherent approach to design - talent, sensitivity, ability to inspire, conceptual acuity, architectural skill - potential to work on large commercial projects - evidence of ability to deliver projects on time and to budget.

The jury stated “We already knew that Plasma were strong and adventurous architects. Recently completed projects, supported by enthusiastic client references, demonstrate that they can realise their ideas in substantial buildings, while working to demanding briefs.”

article in Building Design

Architecture Foundation

A profile of Plasma featuring Tetris Haus and Strata Hotel is published in the April edition of Wallpaper*

Dalian Diamond Tower- Plasma won First Prize in an ideas competition for the adaptive reuse of an existing 220m high mixed-use tower in Dalian, China

First Prize for DEEP GROUND: GroundLab, a collective recently formed by PLASMA partners Eva Castro and Holger Kehne with Eduardo Rico, Alfredo Ramirez and Sarah Majid, has just won the First Prize in the Longgang City and Longcheng Square International competition. The project- titled Deep Ground- deals with the regeneration of 11.8 Km2 of the urban fabric in the centre of Longgang, North East of ShenZhen in the Pearl River Delta, with an estimated population of 350,000 and 9,000,000 m2 of new development.

GROUND LAB focuses on large scale strategic planning and specific urban interventions. Closely linked to the masterclass in Landscape Urbanism at the Architectural Association, its members bring together a unique range of experience needed to address the complexities of contemporary habitats. www.groundlab.org

Esker Haus is publisehd in the March edition of the Architectural Review with a focus on houses

Comboni - 2nd prize in a competition for a 40 unit residential development in Brixen/ Bressanone, Italy. A terraced series of L and T-shaped appartements accumulate to form blocks that cascade along the steep hillside at the edge of Bressanone. They are distributed to form a clustered village around communal spaces. The configuration has been determined parametrically to minimize groundwork and optimize the conditions of each single unit. The total height of the buildings would add to 10 storeys - a stealth high rise in quaint South Tirol.

London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: Plasma Studio has been chosen from 434 contestants as one of 47 practices to form a framework for the Games' £2 billion 'Athletes Village'. more

 

 

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