Emilio Abasz Award for Green Architecture 2011

Architecto, interior designers, landscape architects, researcher and students from all over the world are invated to sub-mit works (built or unbuilt)planned or written since 2007.

Building category:

First place: Peres Peace Building, Jaffa - Massimiliano Fuksas Architects, Italy;
architect of record - Yoav Messer, Israel.
Second place: Hewlett-Packard office building, Yahud - Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects.
Third place: kindergarten auxiliary structure, Trondheim, Norway - Haugen/Zohar Architects.
Honorable mention: Remez community center, Tel Aviv, Mayslits-Kassif Architects
Interior design category:
First place: Holiday flat, Herzliya Marina - Paritzki Liani Architects.
Second place: Architects office, Airport City, Lod - Auerbach-Halevy Architects and Engineers.
Third place: Color experiential center, Bnei Brak - Einat Klein, Yael Lichi - Interior Architects.

Landscape category:

First place: Jaffa slope and beach rehabilitation - Alisa Braudo-Ruth Maoz Landscape Architecture.
Second place: Azorim Park, Kiryat Aryeh, Petach Tikva - Miller Blum Environmental Planning.
Third place: Ibn Gvirol Street renovation, Tel Aviv - Yael Moria-David Sekely Landscape Architecture.

Research category:

First place: “Flexible Deployable Systems”, scissors-like elements - Polina Petrova.
Second place: “Digital Trilogy” - pedagogical aspect of digital architecture - Prof. Rivka Oxman.
Third place: “GreenRing” - connecting the green areas of the Dan Region - Grynhause Architects.
Honorary mention: “Geographical Metaphor” - backyards in Tel Aviv - Anat Goldman.

Unbuilt projects category:

First place: Sport center, Haifa - KSS London, Mansfeld Kehat Architects, S. Gendler Architects.
Second place: “Free Plan (T)”, conceptual building commemorating Eleanor Raymond - Shachar Lulav, Oded Rozenkier (competition entry).
Third place, shared 1: Porter Building for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University - Yosi Cory - Geotectura; Axelrod-Grobman Architects; Chen Architects (competition entry).
Third place, shared 2: Culture center, Kiryat Ono - Amir Mann-Ami Shinar Architects and Planners.
Honorary mention 1: “Kesher” community center - Esther Sperber – Studio ST Architects and Guy Zucker – Z-A Studio.
Honorary mention 2: Urban Fantasy, Hamedina Circle - Adar Oppenheim - Urbanica Association.

Emilio Ambasz Award for Green Architecture:

First place: The European Investment Bank, Luxembourg - ingenhoven architects, Dusseldorf.
Second place: Surry Hills community center, Australia - Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (FJMT).
Third place, shared 1: Energie AG office building, Vienna - Kaufmann & Partners ZT - GmbH.
Third place, shared 2: Van Leer Campus - Schwartz Besnosoff Architects (competition entry).

Arieh Sharon and Eldar Sharon Prize for Creative Students:

First place: “Generative Wind” - Ofir Menachem, Erez Klapper, Shani Lavi
Second place: “Algorithmic Hybrid” - Bshara Rezik.
Third place: “Let Us Live!” - Tomer Dikerman,
Nir Levie.
Honorary mention 1: “Urban Farm” - Talia Amrani.
Honorary mention 2: “Living Space” - Shiri Kalay.

Of all these, Yesodot Ha’emek Prize for Israeli Architecture goes to:

First place: Peres Peace Building.
Second place: Jaffa-Slope rehabilitation.
Third place: Haifa stadium and sport center.

Judging panel members

Chaired this year by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Christoffersen of the BIG Group, the judging panel included: Arch. Yitzhak Laiwand - head of the School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University; Arch. Osvaldo Stav - chairman of the judging committee of the Architects Association; Arch. Baruch Baruch - head of the School of Architecture at Wizo Haifa; Glass artist Jeremy Langford; Dr. Tigran Haas, Assoc. Prof. in Urban Planning & Design, Stockholm; Artist Prof. Siona Shimshi; Arch. Prof. Benamy Turkienicz, Brazil; Arch. Prof. Moshe Tzur; Arch. Yosi Sivan; Arch. Prof. Jan Olav Jensen, Oslo; and Arch. Arad Sharon from Sharon Architects that annually grants the Arieh and Eldar Sharon Award for Creative Students.
As every year, management of the competition was in the hands of Rachel Ben Aharon

http://www.aiq.co.il/competitions.php