PAR
MARCH 2013

The year is looking pretty bright. Here's what we've been designing, building and thinking about.
AWARDS

 

Jennifer has been nominated for the Architects Journal Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award. Winners will be named in London on March 22nd.

 

Our zero carbon proposal for the Helsinki Library has won an AIA New York Merit Award for its "scenographic magnificence that is technically and environmentally convincing" according to AIA jury. Developed in collaboration with ARUP, we reinterpret the oculus of the Pantheon when designing a high performance facade for the challenging Finnish climate. The concave building geometry amplifies daylight while rooflines are optimized for snow recycling.

 

 

TOPPING OUT


Situated in a canyon near the Hollywood Sign and Griffith Observatory, the M House continues to rise and is scheduled to top out in Summer 2013. The project emerged from the idea of making a suspended house that floats over the canyon, thus taking advantage of the Los Angeles skyline while generating spaces for living outdoors. 
 
hollywood Sign


DAMDI

Look out for PAR projects in the forthcoming Process series published by DAMDI. Edited by Ulf Mejergren and Anders Berensson with Pyo Miyoung, the seven volume set reveals the architectural process behind works from 46 offices around the world.

 
RECENT



We have been working on two competitions that are currently in procedure. Building on the Keelung Harbor Competition, PAR and Buro Happold return 

to Taiwan for another collaboration. Catch more details in Summer 2013.

 

According to master planner Jacques Herzog, EXPO 2015 will overturn the concept of monumentality: in place of giant structures, Milan will build a new landscape of monumental lightness and natural beauty. In the spirit of this plan, PAR is participating in a competition to design the 23.500 m2 Padiglione Italia. 

 

  

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

As part of the AIA New York Awards Exhibition, Helsinki Library will be on exhibit at the Center for Architecture - Opening on April 19th. The project will also be part of the New Constellations New Ecologies exhibition at the ACSA 101 Conference.

 

In Athens, we developed together with ARUP, the adaptation of a former grain silo into a Museum of Antiquities. The proposal is on exhibit thru May 31st. Detail covers the project. 

 


 
Our finalist proposal for Keelung Harbor is up for it's third exhibition in D3 Unbuilt Visions. The exhibit, which opened on March 10th, promotes critical debate about architecture and design by acknowledging excellence in unbuilt projects.

  

Happy Birthday SCI-Arc - several PAR projects will be part of the SCIARC @ 40 Exhibition which opens on April 20th.