October 05, 2012Metropolis Magazine Announces Annual Next Generation® Design Competition Call for Entries
Winning Design to be Awarded $10,000. Entry Deadline is February 18, 2013
July 25, 2012
Opening Games: Next Generation winner designs for London’s East End
London Mayor’s office has commissioned an urban installation called BLOOM Games, by Bartlett architecture professor and Next Generation winner Alisa Andrasek, for Victoria Park in the East End.
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The Architect's Newspaper
Growing Full Steam Ahead
June 04, 2008
By Daniela Morell
Chris Reed has a lot going on these days. A runner up in the 2004 Next Generation competition for Phyto-Harvesting: the new civic garden, his firm Stoss Landscape Urbanism was recently named a finalist in the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. The firm was also honored by the Edra/Places Awards for a planning proposal for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto.
The Lower Don Lands project was originally developed for a competition sponsored by the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation. While that initial prize went to Michael Van Valkenburgh and Associates, the plan that Stoss and their collaborators created stands out for its focus on the river itself as seen from the point of view of landscape urbanism. The underlying notion is that landscape’s ability to lead environmental and infrastructural systems to grow, thrive, and change over time offers a unique, large-scale model for dealing with urban design. Starting with the Don River as the backbone of the whole scheme, the Stoss plan burgeoned into a complete revitalization blueprint for the 300 acre site.
“The typical way a river is dealt within a city,” Reed explains, “is that the requirements of the city are laid out and the river is given the left-over space, which is part of the problem because then the river doesn’t function hydrologically. This leads to sedimentation and flooding issues.” He offers the example of the transportation system in his proposal, which considers integration with the other ecological and landscape systems at work.
Stoss’s recent awards are just a snapshot of success in the firm’s portfolio. Other projects include a collaboration with Renzo Piano’s office on the Gardner Museum in Boston as well as a large development project on a peninsula in Dubai. The firm’s name refers to the force of a glacial landform, and clearly Chris Reed and his firm are making an impact.
January 21, 2009
The Freer Masons
Michael Silver’s new audio software liberates bricklayers from their paper plans.
January 12, 2009
A CASE in Point
2004 Next Generation Runner-up launches an original academic program
November 01, 2007
Shelter from Taliesin to Manila
June 06, 2007
More on Molo
See what’s unfolding for a past runner-up
February 16, 2005
Updates: Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, Jeanine Centuori
Updates on 2004 Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition runners-up Forsythe + MacAllen, Lira Luis, and UrbanRock Design/Jeanine Centuori.
December 22, 2004
Seattle Waterfront Plan Dealt Setback
Next Generation Design Competition runner-up Cary Moon and her People’s Waterfront Coalition were dealt a blow this week when Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced the city’s plan to replace the Alaska Way Viaduct with a six-lane tunnel.
December 01, 2004
A Place to Dock
Architect Lira Luis’s temporary shelter would give Manila seafarers someplace to come home to.
December 01, 2004
Building Blocks
A young designer finds a way to recycle plastics into reusable building components.
December 01, 2004
Flower Power
Landscape-architecture studio StoSS proposes a plan that uses phytoremediation to make brownfields into public gardens.
December 01, 2004
Reclaiming the River
Pete Seeger and friends promote a permeable swimming structure for the newly cleaned-up Hudson River.
November 22, 2004
A Backup Plan
When his study of leading task chairs revealed that most of them force the sitter into unhealthy postures, industrial designer Jeff Jenkins decided to start with healthy postures and work backward.
November 22, 2004
Improv Theater
Architects often espouse the idea of adaptability, but they rarely give it center stage.
November 10, 2004
Software Aims to Revamp Masonry Practice
Michael Silver, a 2004 Next Generation® Design Prize runner-up, and the International Masonry Institute are developing Automason, a software program that delivers precise instructions to on-site masons.
October 01, 2004
Do the Strand
Seattle activists suggest that the best plan for a troubled waterfront freeway may be to eliminate it.
August 01, 2004
Radiant Living
Emergent turns infrastructure into ornamentation with a concept house based on systems of circulation.
July 01, 2004
Mapping the Competition ‘04
Where did all these ideas for the Metropolis Next Generation Design competition come from?
July 01, 2004
Accordion Architecture
A Canadian firm’s material experiments produce flexible living spaces.
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