Hospital in Bangladesh named world’s best new building in prestigious RIBA 2021 architecture awards

FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL, SATKHIRA, BANGLADESH – OVERALL WINNER: The 80-bed neighborhood hospital, which was accomplished in 2018, delivers important healthcare providers to the native communities of Satkhira and gives ‘a medical lifeline for 1000’s of individuals in an space of the coast that was closely affected by a serious cyclone in 2007’, in line with Riba. It says that the ‘low-cost constructing’ was designed to resist the rising seawater within the space, the place grain fields have been changed by shrimp fisheries. It price £1.5million to construct and was made utilizing native supplies by native craftmanship, which ‘helps the mixing of the constructing to the native tradition and society’. The judges ‘discovered it refreshing to see a hospital with such a human and pure contact’

FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL, SATKHIRA, BANGLADESH – OVERALL WINNER: Water was ‘central’ to the design of the hospital, Riba reveals. It says: ‘A collection of courtyards usher in pure gentle and air flow, whereas a canal traversing the positioning collects priceless rainwater for the reason that groundwater stays unusable for many functions. This channel of water provides visible aid, helps the micro-climatic cooling and gives a welcome distraction from the nervousness and unhappiness associated to sickness, for each sufferers and their relations’

KOHAN CERAM CENTRAL OFFICE BUILDING, TEHRAN, IRAN – WINNER OF THE EMERGING ARCHITECT PRIZE (PICTURED CENTRE-RIGHT): An current constructing was included into the design of the 1,019-sq-m (10,968-sq-ft) headquarters of the Kohan Ceram Brick Manufacturing Firm in Tehran, which was accomplished in 2019. ‘The venture transient required the prevailing construction to be tailored to accommodate a mixture of makes use of – showroom, gross sales workplace, administration, automotive park and in addition a residential unit – however the organisation of areas and voids gives for flexibility of makes use of in the long term,’ says Riba. The facade is comprised of ‘perforated bricks’. Riba says of the architects: ‘With this venture and their collaborative method to innovation Hooba Design Group is a worthy recipient of the Riba Worldwide Rising Architect’

JAMES-SIMON-GALERIE, BERLIN, GERMANY – SHORTLISTED: This can be a customer centre on Berlin’s Museum Island, a Unesco World Heritage Web site, that serves to behave as a entrance door to different museums akin to Pergamon Museum, the Neues Museum and the Altes Museum. The architects, David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, got the transient to create an area that will home ticketing, a restaurant, a cloakroom, restrooms, an auditorium, a particular exhibition house and deliveries. Riba says: ‘Moderately than creating an autonomous singular constructing, the architects have adopted an structure of promenade and connection, a constructing that serves the primary museum constructions, that defines edges and that creates new exterior areas as a lot because it creates wonderful inner areas.’ The judges felt that the top consequence, accomplished in 2018, is a ‘constructing of nice poise and stillness’

LILLE LANGEBRO, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – SHORTLISTED: This bridge revitalises ‘part of the harbour that had been underused for many years’, in line with Riba. The construction, accomplished in 2019, was designed by WilkinsonEyre with City Company and is made up of two rotating sections that open in unison to permit boats to go beneath. Riba provides: ‘Developing a brand new bridge throughout a river in a metropolis is a uncommon achievement. For that bridge to be exceptionally properly designed, aesthetically, functionally and inclusively, is maybe even rarer. With this venture, we have now all three.’ The bridge is aimed solely at cyclists and pedestrians

THE POLYGON GALLERY, VANCOUVER, CANADA – FINALIST: Riba describes this gallery, by Patkau Architects, as ‘a brand new cultural hub on the decaying industrial waterfront of North Vancouver, a self-contained township with its personal industrial and maritime heritage’. It provides that the gallery, accomplished in 2017, replaces a ‘failing Nineteen Seventies images museum’ and is raised greater than a metre above floor degree to permit for rising sea ranges. The diagonal panels on the roof, fitted with home windows, invite pure gentle inside. Riba says: ‘This can be a gallery with no everlasting assortment so it has to work arduous to supply its personal id – one thing the structure helps it obtain’

TAI KWUN – THE CENTRE FOR HERITAGE AND ARTS, HONG KONG, FINALIST: This venture, creating Hong Kong’s Hollywood Highway space, price £380million to finish. It was completed in 2018 and had a workforce of architects behind it – Purcell, Herzog & de Meuron, and Rocco Design Associates Architects Restricted. Riba says: ‘The Tai Kwun masterplan has unlocked connections amidst a maze of ranges and current buildings, by opening up the buildings that had been the police headquarters and jail, preserving the historic sq. as stipulated by heritage and inserting two new museum buildings with well-connected exterior areas. The larger-scale out of doors areas work as artwork and exhibition areas, in addition to morning Tai Chi areas.’ Anna Liu, Riba Awards Group Member, says that within the Nineteen Nineties, she ‘used to smile on the sight of seeing the police uniform frolicked on the headquarters’ terrace to dry’. She continues: ‘Little did I do know that prisoners from this advanced was once held on the bushes within the historic sq. at Tai Kwun.’ In response to Anna, the ‘complexity and poignancy of this venture’ will ‘encourage the unbelievable restoration and reinvention of the spirit of this place’

THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, U.S – FINALIST: The judges had been ‘deeply moved’ by this venture by Mass Design Group. It’s America’s first memorial to the victims of racial terror lynchings, in line with Riba, which says that the memorial ‘seeks to make seen and doc this harrowing interval of American historical past and remodel nationwide conversations round racial justice in America’. The memorial, which was accomplished in 2018, accommodates 810 corten metal monuments, which ‘seize each the gravity and horror of lynching and search to honour the over 4,000 people murdered throughout over 800 US counties’. Riba provides: ‘The soil collected from the websites of lynching in Alabama are displayed in glass jars within the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, with the situation and victims title in reminiscence’

RENOVATION OF THE CAPTAIN’S HOUSE, BEIJIAO, FUJIAN PROVINCE, CHINA – FINALIST: Vector Architects had been behind the refurbishment and extension of this current ship’s captain’s home, which Riba says is ‘an exquisite instance of how a small venture with modest ambitions has the flexibility to affect a neighborhood’. In response to Riba, the three-storey household dwelling, which encompasses a distinctive ‘floating’ barrel-vaulted roof, has ‘reworked’ the id of the village of Beijiao. Because the venture’s completion in 2017, the 470-sq-m (5,059-sq-ft) home ‘has been the setting for a lot of native occasions and gatherings, and an exhibition house the place native structure college students displayed their design tasks for the general public areas within the village’. It has additionally attracted vacationers. ‘It will seem the villagers are each stunned and charmed by the worldwide curiosity and all the brand new guests to their seaside village,’ Riba provides

ALILA YANGSHUO, YANGSHUO, GUANGXI, CHINA – FINALIST: Vector Architects had been additionally accountable for this venture – the transformation of a 1972 sugarcane mill right into a ‘stunning new lodge advanced’. It spans 16,000 sq m (172,222 sq ft) and was completed in 2017. The architects ‘conserved the format of the previous sugar mill’, maintaining the crane truss that was used to move uncooked sugarcane from the river, and the refining workshop the place ‘the syrup flowed to the subsequent constructing for extraction’. Riba says: ‘Between these restored constructions, now housing shared services for residents, new parts of panorama – a sunken plaza, reflecting pond and collection of planted courtyards – have been inserted’

DONGZIGUAN VILLAGERS’ ACTIVITY CENTER, ZHEJIANG, CHINA – FINALIST: This ‘modest neighborhood constructing’, comprised of ‘brick-walled neighborhood rooms’ lined by a ‘terracotta tiled roof’, was designed by Gad. ‘There’s a sense that the constructing will age properly,’ says Riba, which provides that the rooms within the centre can accommodate the likes of a market, a video games room and a library. Dongziguan, the village that the centre is ready in, is ‘very new’, however the judges felt that this new communal house, accomplished in 2018, may assist to ‘foster’ a ‘thriving neighborhood’ within the years to return

LIANZHOU MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, GUANGDONG, CHINA – FINALIST: This property, designed by O-office Architects and Jianxiang He & Ying Jiang, was constructed on the positioning of an previous sugar mill. Riba says: ‘The whole development was accomplished by native employees utilizing each fashionable development and conventional craftsmanship, making that is an especially low-cost constructing.’ There is a ‘retained and refurbished warehouse’ on the coronary heart of the advanced and an ‘exterior courtyard advanced which weaves round galleries and assembly locations’. Guests can even discover an open-air theatre on the roof. Riba provides: ‘Moreover being an exquisite advanced, the museum additionally creates a brand new mannequin of sustainable structure that may keep and proceed native materials tradition for revitalising small cities’

ARTISTS’ RETREAT AT PITTUGALA, SRI LANKA – FINALIST: This gorgeous residence – a ‘dwelling and studio for a Sri Lankan painter and his household’ – price simply £53,000 to assemble. It was masterminded by Palinda Kannangara Architects and completed in 2017. Riba says: ‘The idea was to create a low-budget, handcrafted dwelling and studio, with open, landscaped backyard areas woven into the shape and cloth of the constructing – in essence, to create a non-public oasis and a “dwelling which appears like a backyard”.’ It options inner courtyards and a pure pond. Riba notes: ‘The venture, an actual labour of affection for all concerned, was constructed by native individuals and the shopper, with many features of joinery and furnishings tailored by the architect from recycled supplies’

AMOREPACIFIC HEADQUARTERS, SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – FINALIST: This 216,000-sq-m (232,5004 ft) constructing is the headquarters for the Amorepacific Company, a South Korean cosmetics firm. ‘Whereas it serves as a secured office to the sweetness product firm, the distinct design can be a public vacation spot for all to expertise and revel in,’ says Riba. Commuters can entry the subway from the bottom of the constructing, which additionally encompasses a museum, auditorium and library along with outlets and exhibition areas. The central courtyard of the constructing is stuffed with bushes, swimming pools and sky gardens ‘to supply a wholesome surroundings and nurture [the] wellbeing of the occupants’. The judges had been ‘impressed by the precision in its execution, integrity of gorgeous supplies and proximity to nature all through… [echoing] the aspirations of this contemporary organisation’

EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE SANTA FE DE BOGOTA FOUNDATION, COLOMBIA – FINALIST: This £44.6million extension of a non-public hospital, by architect El Equipo Mazzanti, is roofed in a ‘veil of brick’ with openings that permit in pure gentle, in line with Riba, which says: ‘An inner tropical backyard on the ninth flooring provides sufferers an area full of sunshine, crops, and birds that takes them out of the hospital context and permits them to narrate to the world exterior.’ The constructing can be an area for the general public – Riba says that it ‘gives residents a route connecting two necessary avenues alongside a path that ends in a public plaza with eating places and the opportunity of artwork installations and musical performances’

MODERN ART MUSEUM AND ITS WALKWAYS, SHANGHAI, CHINA – FINALIST: This museum, created by Atelier Deshaus, is ‘sited within the semi-demolished stays of the 100-year-old Laobaidu Coal Docker, which operated till the Nineteen Eighties’. Excessive-level public walkways comply with the previous coal shoot runs of the constructing, providing views of the Huangpu Riverfront, Riba reveals. It says: ‘The galleries incorporate various volumes and a uncooked materiality together with copper tanks.’ On the bottom flooring, guests will discover a public eating corridor that hosts native movie nights, concert events and festivals

MSHEIREB DOWNTOWN DOHA MASTERPLAN, QATAR, FINALIST: Architects Allies and Morrison ‘developed a seven-step design code’ to rework Doha’s Msheireb Downtown district. In response to Riba, the architects created ‘100 plus new buildings, every distinct but all expressing a shared architectural language rooted within the tradition and the local weather’. The venture – which was accomplished in 2019 – is a ‘walkable neighbourhood, one which takes into consideration the difficulty of weight problems within the area’ with precedence given to ‘the pedestrian, the bike owner and the general public transport consumer’. Riba says: ‘This can be a subtle piece of labor. Its ambitions to encourage strolling and using public transport are out of the odd for the Center East and have produced a really attention-grabbing and really up to date piece of metropolis.’ The buildings had been additionally designed to chill locals down within the scorching local weather, with ‘thick partitions, intelligent use of wind to assist cooling, and using colonnades and Mashrabiya screens to regulate photo voltaic warmth’