Shortlist for Scotland's Best Building Award announced, Zaha Hadid doesn't make the cut in UK design comp and the Kosciuszko Bridge to be replaced.
SCOTLAND
The 2009 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award has a $45,000 jackpot - more than the Stirling Prize - and seven of the finalists are in Glasgow. The competition is known as an "award for architects by architects", and the winner will be announced on 20 November. Shortlisted entries include the Small Animal Hospital by Archial Architects in Glasgow, North Glasgow College by RMJM Scotland, Infirmary Street Baths in Edinburgh by Malcolm Fraser Architects and Hotel Missoni in Edinburgh by Allan Murray Architects (pictured).
UNITED KINGDOM
London architect MUMA will build the $21.5 million extension at the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester. The RIBA-run competition saw almost 140 expressions of interest when it was first advertised. Firms that failed to impress were Zaha Hadid, Eric Parry and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. MUMA is currently coming to the end of its work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which it has been working on for seven years.
UNITED STATES
Plans are underway to replace the Kosciuszko Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Queens over Newtown Creek. The Department of Transportation (DOT) recently recommended that it be replaced, citing cost and the opportunity to increase traffic safety as the main reasons. The bridge also topped a list of the most worn-out state-owned bridges in the city. The DOT has allocated $403.9 million to the bridge's replacement. Three different designs are currently being reviewed as potential replacements.
SPAIN
Sabrina Kleinenhammans was named the winner of the AECOM Design + Planning Urban SOS; Distressed Cities, Creative Responses student design competition at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate impressed judges with her Pre-emptive Landholding Strategy in Mumbai. Her proposal uses the spatial element of frequently intersecting transportation lines, such as railways, to create a cohesive network of open spaces and a recreation system for Mumbai's citizens.
TURKEY
Teget Architectural Office has completed an extension of YapiKredi Bank Academy, a banking centre in Istanbul. The project was in addition to the existing building by British architect, John McAslan. It comprises two copper-clad volumes cantilevered outwards from the ten existing cubes. Classrooms fill the two towers, with social spaces and meeting rooms between them.
