Winka was part of a great panel discussion at Cityscape Global in Riyadh, and was moderated by Andy Shaw on the future of stadiums and cities.
We would like to invite you to the Curatorial Project’s upcoming exhibition: Imagine Having a Relationship with a Building!
Centro Cultural Borges, October 8–December 15, 2024
The 19th Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennial
Opening: October 8, 7 pm
Winka will give a keynote lecture of the Gongshu Canal Sports Park, Hangzhou, China, 2022
“IMAGINE BUILDINGS THAT BREATHE, GET HOT, AND SWEAT! I TRY TO ADD HUMAN-LIKE QUALITIES TO BUILDINGS.”
We just heard that we are officially included in the list of the most beautiful stadiums, and up for the big award!
We were excited to be invited to present to Prime Minister Edi Rama for the recent Energizing Cities - Innovative Public Properties Development Competition in Tirana - Albania, last week. Our team alongside with Dirtworks Landscape Architects, Thornton Tomasetti Engineering and our local architect, Anisa Pestani, created 2 masterplans & buildings for a climate conscious future.
More exciting news soon...
Our recently completed London Solar House has been selected by the SARA National Awards Jury to receive a SARA National Design Award 2024!
The official announcement of the award winners will take place on October 26th at the SARA National Design Awards Gala, held at the world famous TWA Hotel in New York City.
Our London Solar House was featured in this past weekend's edition in The New York Times, in the column Living Small written by Julie Lasky.
Happy to have received the "Best of Practice" Award from The Architect's Newspaper this year!
Proud that Archi-Tectonics' NYC, LLC 8-story 512GW Building has been selected by the SARA Jury to obtain the prestigious SARA New York Council Design Awards 2024!
During the Awards Gala yesterday, Winka and Justin had the privilege to receive the 2024 SARA NY Design Award of EXCELLENCE, the highest level for this award!
Recently Architizer A+ Awards China, did an interview with Winka on Archi-Tectonics' Asian Games 2022 Hybrid Stadium, and Asian Games 2022 Village Valley Shopping Concept, are respectively selected as a jury winner of "Concepts -Architecture + Innovation" and a "Commercial-Shopping Center" finalist at Architizer A+ Awards 2023.
Excited to share that Archi-Tectonics' 116-acre Asian Games Eco-Park project won the Special Honor Award of the 2023-2024 Designverse Awards in China!
We are thankful for this major award, especially to the Designverse Awards Jury for the nomination.
BLURB:
Winka is lecturing April 24 at the university of Innsbruck in Austria. She will discuss Strange Objects as found in the recent book of Archi-Tectonics “Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things” a “below the surface” manual or taxonomy of the firm’s work and areas of research, describing also the singular highly specific nature of the design process and its final outcome.
This past International Women's Day, very grateful with our friends from Parametric Architecture for including Winka as one of the best women architects to learn from
Excited that The Architect's Newspaper featured our 36,000 m2 / 365,000 SF Valley Village Shopping Concept, the Hybrid Stadium / Concert Hall and the Field Hockey Stadium in the January - February issue!
The IDA 17th Annual International Design Awards
We are so proud that our design for the Pearl Dental Clinic, downtown Manhattan, won the Gold Prize in Healthcare Architecture Design Category for the 2023 IDA Design Awards!
The prestigious Archello Magazine announced Winka as a juror for the Archello Awards 2023, she is looking forward to join her esteemed colleagues.
Archi-Tectonics was part of the Architecture in Urban Hospitality + Interior & Art Composition event in Shenzhen, China, where Winka was invited as a keynote speaker. The event was organized by UPenn and CCD.
Our Gingerbread City “Rocks & Scissors” project is intended to bridge the gap between the playful and the analytical, volume and surface, as well as architecture and nature. While engaging the landscape as, quite literally, an animate gingerbread strata that interacts and merges with the architectural object, and allowing the candy-vegetation and frosting ornaments to invade and subvert the gingerbread massing, we wanted to allow for the baking and decoration process to not be only execution, but exploration and form-finding in itself.
We are honored to announce that Archi-Tectonics will be giving a lecture at the National University of Singapore this week! Winka will lead us through her latest research paper called “Synthetic Natures” on October 19th at the SDE3 Level for the Design Forum: Department of Architecture College of Design and Engineering at 6:30 pm.
If you missed one of the latest articles from our friends at Parametric Architecture Istanbul discussing with Winka our recent Hybrid Stadium for the Asian Games 2023, here is a short abstract from the interview.
Excited to share with all of you that Winka, the founder of Archi-Tectonics NYC, was part of this year’s COP28 in Dubai: "Prototypes For Humanity".
COP28 UAE brought together influential leaders from government, business, finance, and the broader sustainability community to highlight the bold actions needed to make further progress against the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement and limit global temperature rise.
Archello just published ”Archi-Tectonics completes a dynamic hybrid stadium concept for the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023”
written by Allie Shiel on October 31st
Check out the latest article from Azure Magazine: "Archi-Tectonics' Asian Games Eco-Park is Hybrid by Nature", written by Elizabeth Pagliacolo
Winka visited Archi-Tetonics' Asian Games 2023 Eco-Park in Hangzhou, China before the kick-off of the Games this September.
In October Archi-Tectonics will receive the prestigious CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 in the Urban Habitat Category for the Asian Games 2023 Masterplan and 7 Buildings, including 2 Stadiums. Winka will be speaking at the CTBUH Conference on Tuesday October 17th.
For this year’s CTBUH International Conference integrates the annual CTBUH Awards Program, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment. Awards are given in more than 20 categories for best tall building, urban habitat, innovation, renovation, interior design, construction, and engineering. Winners in each award category present their projects to an international audience and live juries. Overall Category Winners are then selected during the event and awards are conferred at the dinner and ceremony.
We wanted to share the best moments of the UIA World 2023 held in Copenhagen where Winka was invited as a guest speaker in this important event presenting her research paper on Synthetic Natures.
More than 6,000 participants from 135 countries attended the world’s largest event for sustainable architecture, the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen.
This other event was organized by IID-ASC, Architecture Society of China and moderated by academic host Mo Zheng of AntiStatics Architecture. Winka gave another talk on her research paper titled Synthetic Natures at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
Our moderator Mo Zheng is also a UPenn graduate and Winka's former student!
While in Hangzhou, Winka gave a talk on our Asian Games Masterplan with 116-acre Eco-Park and 07 buildings, from which 2 Hybrid Stadiums at UAD Research Institute of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou on Friday, August 18th for a very interested audience.
Here are 4 of the latest awards we have received for our Asian Games 2023 :
1) Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner - Architecture +Innovation Category for the Asian Games 2022 Hybrid Stadium
2) CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 - Urban Habitat Category on the Asian Games 2022 Masterplan
3) MUSE Design Awards - Lighting Design of the Year 2023 for The Grand Canal Asian Games Park in Hangzhou
4) China Construction Engineering Luban Award for the Grand Canal Sports Park
We are proud and excited to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Masterplan has been selected the 2023 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner in the Innovation Category! In addition, we were selected finalists in the Shopping Center typology with our Valley Village Shopping Concept in Hangzhou/ China.
This is an unparalleled honor. With entries over 90 countries, our work truly represents the best of architecture worldwide. The Architizer A+ Jury Winner is selected by Architizer's illustrious jury, comprised of architects and designers, media luminaries, tech and business leaders, and other creatives.
With great success, our exhibit STRANGE OBJECTS was part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023! We presented a 7m long 3D printed model of our Asian Games Masterplan, our strange objects were beautifully photographed by SFAP Photographers: a Hybrid and a Field Hockey Stadium .
Winka was invited to be part of the panel "Rethinking Resource Debate Session" on Wednesday July 5th, during the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023: Sustainable Futures Leave No One Behind in Copenhagen from July 1-6. Don't miss it!
Recently, China Illuminating Engineering Society (CIES) announced the 17th CIES Lighting Award List, and Gongshu Canal Sports Park Night Scene Lighting Project won the first prize of the Engineering Design Award. Located in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Gongshu Canal Sports Park is one of newly-built venue clusters for the Asian Games, and the first comprehensive urban sport park of Zhejiang that integrates the gymnasium, sports field, park and commercial supporting facilities.
The lighting design of the building cluster is based on "water" and "shore", with yellow of canal water waves as the main keynote, supplemented by glowing red, laurus yellow, glimmering blue and lake & mountain green in the colour system of Asian Games Hangzhou 2022.
The Grand Canal Sports Park, a multifunctional park and sports venue for the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, China, has recently been awarded the China Construction Engineering Luban Prize, the top award recognizing construction quality in China.
The Eco-Park has two primary stadiums connected by a Valley Village pedestrian mall and five other buildings covered by green roofs. The stadiums will hold events, such as, field hockey and table tennis. The park is meant to be incorporated into the daily life of Hangzhou, one of China's fastest-growing cities after the games are over.
CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 Winner in the Urban Habitat Category: our 116-acre Asian Games 2022 Masterplan with an Eco Park and 7 Hybrid Buildings has been recognized. Archi-Tectonics will receive this distinguished award in Singapore in October at the CTBUH Conference. Winka will be speaking.
We are happy to share with all that AD Italia granted an article written by Olivia Fincato, from Archi-Tectonics North Salem Residence in NY.
Read the full article HERE
This past weekend, Winka was interviewed in Istanbul by the founder of Parametric Architecture Magazine, Hamid Hassanzadeh. They discussed different topics about today's architectural design. Full interview coming soon!
Join Winka in the largest Business Architecture Symposium in the world! When? 1st, 2nd and 3rd of November2022. Where? Virtual and Live on social media. Watch the event HERE
This past Friday, the event Cocktails & Conversation featured Winka Dubbeldam, founder and partner of the award-winning firm Archi-Tectonics with Thom Mayne, founder of Morphosis. It was an extraordinary dialogue about design, accompanied by a custom-made cocktail at the Center for Architecture in NYC. See you all again in the next series in January!
About the Summit: In partnership with Detroitisit, The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago, and Dutch Design Week, will host conversations with Industry Leaders from Detroit, the Midwest, and the Netherlands.
At the Madison Building, on October 13, 2022, minds will meld and develop creative solutions through a global yet hyperlocal program focused on Sustainable Urban Planning, the Circular Economy, Climate and the City, Smart City, and more. A multi-layered conversation is envisioned as a bridge builder to grow the best solutions for long-term partnerships and opportunities between the two geographies.
This forest-covered building for the 250,000 sf. Asian Games Fitness Center is set into the hilly landscape. It is part of the recent Hangzhou Asian Games Park to be held next year, Archi-Tectonics’ 47-hectare Eco-Park including two Hybrid Stadiums.
The sustainable Fitness Center is designed as a key facility for the Games, a lasting community asset, and an integral part of an Eco-Park that brings a recreational landscape to the heart of one of China’s fastest-growing cities. It hosts two Olympic pools, eight basketball courts, an Olympic-scale fitness center, and physiotherapy spaces.
Current project under construction: most people associate visiting a dental office with feelings of fear and dread. What if instead it was an experience of calm, beauty and wellness, a place where nature merges with technical precision. Archi-Tectonics design for a different concept in New York’s legendary Woolworth Building presents an innovative and unique answer to this question.
Winka's talk in Archi-Tectonics latest book: "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things" at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, NL.
After the lecture, there was a discussion in depth with professor Dirk van den Heuvel
We are proud to share the Archi-Tectonics’ article on our recent 47-hectare/116 acre Asian Games 2022 Masterplan & Hybrid Stadiums by Braun Publishing from Switzerland.
This 5,000 seat centerpiece for Archi-Tectonics’ Asian Games 2022 Masterplan, has as its main goal the creation of a Hybrid Stadium / Concert Hall with an enduring legacy for Hangzhou.
Archi-Tectonics Hybrid Stadiums buildings mentioned in World-Architects Magazine, article by John Hill
Archi-Tectonics noticed some wonderful quotes on social media from local neighbors from the Hangzhou Province that we would like to share:
For example, the Deputy Director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education with 1.83 million followers said: "The Grand Canal Asian Games Park located in the north of Hangzhou City is an organic combination of parks and stadiums. People and vehicles are separated, the greening rate is super high, and the design concept is novel. It is a new place for citizens to play!"
We are proud to announce that BOOQ PUBLISHING will share our recently completed 5,400 sf. 140 Duplex Penthouse in Tribeca and the 5,880 sf. 512GW SoHo Townhouse in NYC with 09 spreads of photos and renderings.
Visit Booq Publishing Webiste HERE
AIA award- Proud to have our latest project - the 512 GW Townhouse and Climate Skin - awarded the 2022 AIANY Design Award! We had a blast at the award luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street! Read more here.
We'd like to extend a warm thank you to Architizer for including our founding partner Winka Dubbeldam in "100 Women to Watch in Architecture." Click here to read the full article.
We're excited to have Winka lecture at the American University in Dubai on November 10th, 9 AM EST, in online format.
Please join the live event here.
Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things
explores Archi-Tectonics’ work in light of a paradigm shift in contemporary design enabled by advances in digital technology and design conceptualization. Examining the architectural object and the process of its emergence and production, the lecture will outline in great detail how the firm’s unique design methodology of research, optimization, and construction innovation leads to original, characteristic designs. celebrates the potential of the Strange Object and its capacity to generate new forms and meanings. Reconceiving how the architectural object is produced and experienced changes the very concept of objectivity and meaning of architecture. Research -Design Projects discussed will include recent buildings in Manhattan NYC, and the recently competed 47 ha Eco park and 2 stadiums for the Asian games 2022 in Hangzhou China.
We're proud to see that our Asian Games Eco-Park and Stadiums has been covered with excitement from several newspapers in China. Amazing to see the work on the front page of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) for example, which is the oldest and largest Chinese newspaper group. It is the official newspaper of the the Chinese Government! Read more here.
We had a great time at the presentation of our new book "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things”, published by Actar, Spain. Thanks to Rizzoli Bookstore for having us!
A panel discussion moderated by Ferda Kolatan, Associate Professor at Weitzman Architecture - University of Pennsylvania, followed the presentation, and included book designer Jonathan Jackson of WSDIA, editor Julia van den Hout from Original Copy, and Winka Dubbeldam.
We are pleased to share that Winka was invited by Alessandro Melis and Prof Roberto Buizza to speak at the online event 'Architecture and Climate Change Adaptation', October 19th at 7 am EST, at the Virtual Italian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2021; Conservator of Architectural and Environmental Heritage. We're excited to continue the discourse on climate resilience with the many esteemed speakers at the Italian Pavilion this year. Please find more about the initiative here, and the webinar link here.
After the recent re-design of our website, Jonathan Jackson and WSDIA have now finalized the design of our next book "Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things", published by ACTAR Spain, and edited by Julia van den Hout / Original Copy.
Please join us for a lecture and book launch with Winka Dubbeldam on September 15th at 6:30 pm EDT, at Meyerson Hall, Lower Plaza Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. Register in advance for the in-person event at this link, and check the Weitzman School's YouTube for the livestream!
Strange Objects, with more than 600 images and graphics, traces the past 15 years of innovative multidisciplinary work produced by Archi-Tectonics through 10 case studies that explore process, experimentation, and production – including the upcoming Asian Games 2022 park and stadiums, reaching completion.
To pre-order your copy of Strange Objects, visit actar.com. Students receive 30% off with promo code strangeupenn
Find WSDIA's website here, as well as actar's, and Original Copy's.
Click the image to the right to play the trailer for Winka's extended feature with Frederique van der Wal's "Life Cycles"!
The interview highlights the stories behind the Inscape Meditation Studio - titled "a self-regulating oxygen dome" by CORE.live, V33 Residential Building, 497 GW Building, 512 GW Townhouse, and more. View the full video, free of subscription here.
Winka and Frederique will discuss the dialogue of the Life Cycles episode during an exclusive Instagram Live Event on Tuesday September 14th at 3pm EST. Find the link here.
Winka Dubbeldam, professor and Chair of Weitzman architecture, Upenn, has been invited to participate as a Creative Director at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion Sezione del Padiglione Italia.
Find the interactive link HERE. Curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University, and Alessandro Melis, Portsmouth University, titled CITYX Venice, responds to ‘How will we live together’ curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by La Biennale di Venezia.
The exhibition opened on Saturday 22 May at 10.00 am CET. As written by Winka on LinkedIn: "I am proud to present 6 great research-design faculty of Weitzman architecture : Ferda Kolatan, Karel Klein, Dorit Aviv, Masoud Akbarzadeh, Robert Stuart Smith, and Laia Mogas Soldevila."
Guest-edited by Yael Reisner, Beauty Matters: Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture posits that "after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back ... Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.
The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics."
Happy International Women's Day!
To highlight the day this year, Dezeen asked 22 of the most influential women in design to nominate a woman who should be better known for their work. We are proud that Winka was highlighted on this list! Find the full article link below.
"The future of architecture is female," write the Architizer Editors, and we can't say it much better ourselves! We are proud to have our founder and principal recognized alongside these leading voices, delivering some of the best architecture around the globe. Read the full article here, and check out our Architizer Popular Choice Winner, the Asian Games 2021 Masterplan and Stadiums on our site at the link below.
"Dubbeldam Diagrid", writes Katie Angen of our Asian Games 2022 Table Tennis Stadium on archpaper.com. Read more from her analysis HERE.
We're proud to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Stadiums has been awarded First Prize in the 9th "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest by the China Graphics Society!
Out of over 1,500 entries, ours was awarded as the first to coordinate master plan, infrastructure, landscape, and building technologies together across several Building Information Modeling softwares. We'd like to thank and congratulate our collaborators in this submission, ZheJiang Xinsheng Group and China Huadong Engineering Co., LTD.
Feel free to view the victory announcement below the credits of the Master Plan, Table Tennis Stadium, Valley Village, and Field Hockey Stadium projects in English and in Mandarin!
Winka was part of a great panel discussion at Cityscape Global in Riyadh, and was moderated by Andy Shaw on the future of stadiums and cities.
We would like to invite you to the Curatorial Project’s upcoming exhibition: Imagine Having a Relationship with a Building!
Centro Cultural Borges, October 8–December 15, 2024
The 19th Buenos Aires International Architecture Biennial
Opening: October 8, 7 pm
Winka will give a keynote lecture of the Gongshu Canal Sports Park, Hangzhou, China, 2022
“IMAGINE BUILDINGS THAT BREATHE, GET HOT, AND SWEAT! I TRY TO ADD HUMAN-LIKE QUALITIES TO BUILDINGS.”
We just heard that we are officially included in the list of the most beautiful stadiums, and up for the big award!
We were excited to be invited to present to Prime Minister Edi Rama for the recent Energizing Cities - Innovative Public Properties Development Competition in Tirana - Albania, last week. Our team alongside with Dirtworks Landscape Architects, Thornton Tomasetti Engineering and our local architect, Anisa Pestani, created 2 masterplans & buildings for a climate conscious future.
More exciting news soon...
Our recently completed London Solar House has been selected by the SARA National Awards Jury to receive a SARA National Design Award 2024!
The official announcement of the award winners will take place on October 26th at the SARA National Design Awards Gala, held at the world famous TWA Hotel in New York City.
Our London Solar House was featured in this past weekend's edition in The New York Times, in the column Living Small written by Julie Lasky.
Happy to have received the "Best of Practice" Award from The Architect's Newspaper this year!
Proud that Archi-Tectonics' NYC, LLC 8-story 512GW Building has been selected by the SARA Jury to obtain the prestigious SARA New York Council Design Awards 2024!
During the Awards Gala yesterday, Winka and Justin had the privilege to receive the 2024 SARA NY Design Award of EXCELLENCE, the highest level for this award!
Recently Architizer A+ Awards China, did an interview with Winka on Archi-Tectonics' Asian Games 2022 Hybrid Stadium, and Asian Games 2022 Village Valley Shopping Concept, are respectively selected as a jury winner of "Concepts -Architecture + Innovation" and a "Commercial-Shopping Center" finalist at Architizer A+ Awards 2023.
Excited to share that Archi-Tectonics' 116-acre Asian Games Eco-Park project won the Special Honor Award of the 2023-2024 Designverse Awards in China!
We are thankful for this major award, especially to the Designverse Awards Jury for the nomination.
BLURB:
Winka is lecturing April 24 at the university of Innsbruck in Austria. She will discuss Strange Objects as found in the recent book of Archi-Tectonics “Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things” a “below the surface” manual or taxonomy of the firm’s work and areas of research, describing also the singular highly specific nature of the design process and its final outcome.
This past International Women's Day, very grateful with our friends from Parametric Architecture for including Winka as one of the best women architects to learn from
Excited that The Architect's Newspaper featured our 36,000 m2 / 365,000 SF Valley Village Shopping Concept, the Hybrid Stadium / Concert Hall and the Field Hockey Stadium in the January - February issue!
The IDA 17th Annual International Design Awards
We are so proud that our design for the Pearl Dental Clinic, downtown Manhattan, won the Gold Prize in Healthcare Architecture Design Category for the 2023 IDA Design Awards!
The prestigious Archello Magazine announced Winka as a juror for the Archello Awards 2023, she is looking forward to join her esteemed colleagues.
Archi-Tectonics was part of the Architecture in Urban Hospitality + Interior & Art Composition event in Shenzhen, China, where Winka was invited as a keynote speaker. The event was organized by UPenn and CCD.
Our Gingerbread City “Rocks & Scissors” project is intended to bridge the gap between the playful and the analytical, volume and surface, as well as architecture and nature. While engaging the landscape as, quite literally, an animate gingerbread strata that interacts and merges with the architectural object, and allowing the candy-vegetation and frosting ornaments to invade and subvert the gingerbread massing, we wanted to allow for the baking and decoration process to not be only execution, but exploration and form-finding in itself.
We are honored to announce that Archi-Tectonics will be giving a lecture at the National University of Singapore this week! Winka will lead us through her latest research paper called “Synthetic Natures” on October 19th at the SDE3 Level for the Design Forum: Department of Architecture College of Design and Engineering at 6:30 pm.
If you missed one of the latest articles from our friends at Parametric Architecture Istanbul discussing with Winka our recent Hybrid Stadium for the Asian Games 2023, here is a short abstract from the interview.
Excited to share with all of you that Winka, the founder of Archi-Tectonics NYC, was part of this year’s COP28 in Dubai: "Prototypes For Humanity".
COP28 UAE brought together influential leaders from government, business, finance, and the broader sustainability community to highlight the bold actions needed to make further progress against the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement and limit global temperature rise.
Archello just published ”Archi-Tectonics completes a dynamic hybrid stadium concept for the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023”
written by Allie Shiel on October 31st
Check out the latest article from Azure Magazine: "Archi-Tectonics' Asian Games Eco-Park is Hybrid by Nature", written by Elizabeth Pagliacolo
Winka visited Archi-Tetonics' Asian Games 2023 Eco-Park in Hangzhou, China before the kick-off of the Games this September.
In October Archi-Tectonics will receive the prestigious CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 in the Urban Habitat Category for the Asian Games 2023 Masterplan and 7 Buildings, including 2 Stadiums. Winka will be speaking at the CTBUH Conference on Tuesday October 17th.
For this year’s CTBUH International Conference integrates the annual CTBUH Awards Program, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to the advancement of tall buildings and the urban environment. Awards are given in more than 20 categories for best tall building, urban habitat, innovation, renovation, interior design, construction, and engineering. Winners in each award category present their projects to an international audience and live juries. Overall Category Winners are then selected during the event and awards are conferred at the dinner and ceremony.
We wanted to share the best moments of the UIA World 2023 held in Copenhagen where Winka was invited as a guest speaker in this important event presenting her research paper on Synthetic Natures.
More than 6,000 participants from 135 countries attended the world’s largest event for sustainable architecture, the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen.
This other event was organized by IID-ASC, Architecture Society of China and moderated by academic host Mo Zheng of AntiStatics Architecture. Winka gave another talk on her research paper titled Synthetic Natures at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
Our moderator Mo Zheng is also a UPenn graduate and Winka's former student!
While in Hangzhou, Winka gave a talk on our Asian Games Masterplan with 116-acre Eco-Park and 07 buildings, from which 2 Hybrid Stadiums at UAD Research Institute of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou on Friday, August 18th for a very interested audience.
Here are 4 of the latest awards we have received for our Asian Games 2023 :
1) Architizer A+Awards Jury Winner - Architecture +Innovation Category for the Asian Games 2022 Hybrid Stadium
2) CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 - Urban Habitat Category on the Asian Games 2022 Masterplan
3) MUSE Design Awards - Lighting Design of the Year 2023 for The Grand Canal Asian Games Park in Hangzhou
4) China Construction Engineering Luban Award for the Grand Canal Sports Park
We are proud and excited to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Masterplan has been selected the 2023 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner in the Innovation Category! In addition, we were selected finalists in the Shopping Center typology with our Valley Village Shopping Concept in Hangzhou/ China.
This is an unparalleled honor. With entries over 90 countries, our work truly represents the best of architecture worldwide. The Architizer A+ Jury Winner is selected by Architizer's illustrious jury, comprised of architects and designers, media luminaries, tech and business leaders, and other creatives.
With great success, our exhibit STRANGE OBJECTS was part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023! We presented a 7m long 3D printed model of our Asian Games Masterplan, our strange objects were beautifully photographed by SFAP Photographers: a Hybrid and a Field Hockey Stadium .
Winka was invited to be part of the panel "Rethinking Resource Debate Session" on Wednesday July 5th, during the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023: Sustainable Futures Leave No One Behind in Copenhagen from July 1-6. Don't miss it!
Recently, China Illuminating Engineering Society (CIES) announced the 17th CIES Lighting Award List, and Gongshu Canal Sports Park Night Scene Lighting Project won the first prize of the Engineering Design Award. Located in Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Gongshu Canal Sports Park is one of newly-built venue clusters for the Asian Games, and the first comprehensive urban sport park of Zhejiang that integrates the gymnasium, sports field, park and commercial supporting facilities.
The lighting design of the building cluster is based on "water" and "shore", with yellow of canal water waves as the main keynote, supplemented by glowing red, laurus yellow, glimmering blue and lake & mountain green in the colour system of Asian Games Hangzhou 2022.
The Grand Canal Sports Park, a multifunctional park and sports venue for the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, China, has recently been awarded the China Construction Engineering Luban Prize, the top award recognizing construction quality in China.
The Eco-Park has two primary stadiums connected by a Valley Village pedestrian mall and five other buildings covered by green roofs. The stadiums will hold events, such as, field hockey and table tennis. The park is meant to be incorporated into the daily life of Hangzhou, one of China's fastest-growing cities after the games are over.
CTBUH Award of Excellence 2023 Winner in the Urban Habitat Category: our 116-acre Asian Games 2022 Masterplan with an Eco Park and 7 Hybrid Buildings has been recognized. Archi-Tectonics will receive this distinguished award in Singapore in October at the CTBUH Conference. Winka will be speaking.
This past weekend, Winka was interviewed in Istanbul by the founder of Parametric Architecture Magazine, Hamid Hassanzadeh. They discussed different topics about today's architectural design. Full interview coming soon!
Join Winka in the largest Business Architecture Symposium in the world! When? 1st, 2nd and 3rd of November2022. Where? Virtual and Live on social media. Watch the event HERE
This past Friday, the event Cocktails & Conversation featured Winka Dubbeldam, founder and partner of the award-winning firm Archi-Tectonics with Thom Mayne, founder of Morphosis. It was an extraordinary dialogue about design, accompanied by a custom-made cocktail at the Center for Architecture in NYC. See you all again in the next series in January!
About the Summit: In partnership with Detroitisit, The Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Chicago, and Dutch Design Week, will host conversations with Industry Leaders from Detroit, the Midwest, and the Netherlands.
At the Madison Building, on October 13, 2022, minds will meld and develop creative solutions through a global yet hyperlocal program focused on Sustainable Urban Planning, the Circular Economy, Climate and the City, Smart City, and more. A multi-layered conversation is envisioned as a bridge builder to grow the best solutions for long-term partnerships and opportunities between the two geographies.
This forest-covered building for the 250,000 sf. Asian Games Fitness Center is set into the hilly landscape. It is part of the recent Hangzhou Asian Games Park to be held next year, Archi-Tectonics’ 47-hectare Eco-Park including two Hybrid Stadiums.
The sustainable Fitness Center is designed as a key facility for the Games, a lasting community asset, and an integral part of an Eco-Park that brings a recreational landscape to the heart of one of China’s fastest-growing cities. It hosts two Olympic pools, eight basketball courts, an Olympic-scale fitness center, and physiotherapy spaces.
Current project under construction: most people associate visiting a dental office with feelings of fear and dread. What if instead it was an experience of calm, beauty and wellness, a place where nature merges with technical precision. Archi-Tectonics design for a different concept in New York’s legendary Woolworth Building presents an innovative and unique answer to this question.
Winka's talk in Archi-Tectonics latest book: "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things" at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, NL.
After the lecture, there was a discussion in depth with professor Dirk van den Heuvel
We are proud to share the Archi-Tectonics’ article on our recent 47-hectare/116 acre Asian Games 2022 Masterplan & Hybrid Stadiums by Braun Publishing from Switzerland.
This 5,000 seat centerpiece for Archi-Tectonics’ Asian Games 2022 Masterplan, has as its main goal the creation of a Hybrid Stadium / Concert Hall with an enduring legacy for Hangzhou.
Archi-Tectonics Hybrid Stadiums buildings mentioned in World-Architects Magazine, article by John Hill
Archi-Tectonics noticed some wonderful quotes on social media from local neighbors from the Hangzhou Province that we would like to share:
For example, the Deputy Director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education with 1.83 million followers said: "The Grand Canal Asian Games Park located in the north of Hangzhou City is an organic combination of parks and stadiums. People and vehicles are separated, the greening rate is super high, and the design concept is novel. It is a new place for citizens to play!"
AIA award- Proud to have our latest project - the 512 GW Townhouse and Climate Skin - awarded the 2022 AIANY Design Award! We had a blast at the award luncheon at Cipriani Wall Street! Read more here.
We'd like to extend a warm thank you to Architizer for including our founding partner Winka Dubbeldam in "100 Women to Watch in Architecture." Click here to read the full article.
We're excited to have Winka lecture at the American University in Dubai on November 10th, 9 AM EST, in online format.
Please join the live event here.
Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things
explores Archi-Tectonics’ work in light of a paradigm shift in contemporary design enabled by advances in digital technology and design conceptualization. Examining the architectural object and the process of its emergence and production, the lecture will outline in great detail how the firm’s unique design methodology of research, optimization, and construction innovation leads to original, characteristic designs. celebrates the potential of the Strange Object and its capacity to generate new forms and meanings. Reconceiving how the architectural object is produced and experienced changes the very concept of objectivity and meaning of architecture. Research -Design Projects discussed will include recent buildings in Manhattan NYC, and the recently competed 47 ha Eco park and 2 stadiums for the Asian games 2022 in Hangzhou China.
We're proud to see that our Asian Games Eco-Park and Stadiums has been covered with excitement from several newspapers in China. Amazing to see the work on the front page of Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) for example, which is the oldest and largest Chinese newspaper group. It is the official newspaper of the the Chinese Government! Read more here.
We had a great time at the presentation of our new book "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Things”, published by Actar, Spain. Thanks to Rizzoli Bookstore for having us!
A panel discussion moderated by Ferda Kolatan, Associate Professor at Weitzman Architecture - University of Pennsylvania, followed the presentation, and included book designer Jonathan Jackson of WSDIA, editor Julia van den Hout from Original Copy, and Winka Dubbeldam.
We are pleased to share that Winka was invited by Alessandro Melis and Prof Roberto Buizza to speak at the online event 'Architecture and Climate Change Adaptation', October 19th at 7 am EST, at the Virtual Italian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2021; Conservator of Architectural and Environmental Heritage. We're excited to continue the discourse on climate resilience with the many esteemed speakers at the Italian Pavilion this year. Please find more about the initiative here, and the webinar link here.
After the recent re-design of our website, Jonathan Jackson and WSDIA have now finalized the design of our next book "Strange Objects, New Solids, and Massive Things", published by ACTAR Spain, and edited by Julia van den Hout / Original Copy.
Please join us for a lecture and book launch with Winka Dubbeldam on September 15th at 6:30 pm EDT, at Meyerson Hall, Lower Plaza Gallery, University of Pennsylvania. Register in advance for the in-person event at this link, and check the Weitzman School's YouTube for the livestream!
Strange Objects, with more than 600 images and graphics, traces the past 15 years of innovative multidisciplinary work produced by Archi-Tectonics through 10 case studies that explore process, experimentation, and production – including the upcoming Asian Games 2022 park and stadiums, reaching completion.
To pre-order your copy of Strange Objects, visit actar.com. Students receive 30% off with promo code strangeupenn
Find WSDIA's website here, as well as actar's, and Original Copy's.
Click the image to the right to play the trailer for Winka's extended feature with Frederique van der Wal's "Life Cycles"!
The interview highlights the stories behind the Inscape Meditation Studio - titled "a self-regulating oxygen dome" by CORE.live, V33 Residential Building, 497 GW Building, 512 GW Townhouse, and more. View the full video, free of subscription here.
Winka and Frederique will discuss the dialogue of the Life Cycles episode during an exclusive Instagram Live Event on Tuesday September 14th at 3pm EST. Find the link here.
Winka Dubbeldam, professor and Chair of Weitzman architecture, Upenn, has been invited to participate as a Creative Director at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion Sezione del Padiglione Italia.
Find the interactive link HERE. Curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University, and Alessandro Melis, Portsmouth University, titled CITYX Venice, responds to ‘How will we live together’ curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by La Biennale di Venezia.
The exhibition opened on Saturday 22 May at 10.00 am CET. As written by Winka on LinkedIn: "I am proud to present 6 great research-design faculty of Weitzman architecture : Ferda Kolatan, Karel Klein, Dorit Aviv, Masoud Akbarzadeh, Robert Stuart Smith, and Laia Mogas Soldevila."
Guest-edited by Yael Reisner, Beauty Matters: Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture posits that "after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back ... Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.
The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics."
Happy International Women's Day!
To highlight the day this year, Dezeen asked 22 of the most influential women in design to nominate a woman who should be better known for their work. We are proud that Winka was highlighted on this list! Find the full article link below.
"The future of architecture is female," write the Architizer Editors, and we can't say it much better ourselves! We are proud to have our founder and principal recognized alongside these leading voices, delivering some of the best architecture around the globe. Read the full article here, and check out our Architizer Popular Choice Winner, the Asian Games 2021 Masterplan and Stadiums on our site at the link below.
"Dubbeldam Diagrid", writes Katie Angen of our Asian Games 2022 Table Tennis Stadium on archpaper.com. Read more from her analysis HERE.
We're proud to announce that our Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Stadiums has been awarded First Prize in the 9th "Longtu Cup" National BIM Contest by the China Graphics Society!
Out of over 1,500 entries, ours was awarded as the first to coordinate master plan, infrastructure, landscape, and building technologies together across several Building Information Modeling softwares. We'd like to thank and congratulate our collaborators in this submission, ZheJiang Xinsheng Group and China Huadong Engineering Co., LTD.
Feel free to view the victory announcement below the credits of the Master Plan, Table Tennis Stadium, Valley Village, and Field Hockey Stadium projects in English and in Mandarin!