ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AWARDS FOR EMERGING ARCHITECTURE 2007 ANNOUNCED

The design blog Dezeen reports that the winners of the Architectural Review’s Awards for Emerging Architecture 2007 were announced last night, with three buildings sharing the £15,000 ($30,863) prize money. These are Wall House in Chile by Far: Frohn & Rojas, Taketo Shimohigoshi/AAE’s vegetation installation at FLEG Daikanyama showroom in Tokyo, and Ecosistema Urbano Arquitectos’ EcoBoulevard of Vallecas, Madrid. Now nine years old, the annual AR Awards are recognized as the world’s leading awards program for young architects, with a mission to discover emerging talent and celebrate the stars of tomorrow. A very wide range of artifacts from fifty countries was presented to this year’s jury. They varied from furniture to landscape projects, and tiny pavilions to dramatic transformations of large existing buildings. Jury members were Shirley Blumberg of Toronto-based Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects; Peter Cook, architect, critic, and academic; Peter Davey, former AR editor; Shuhei Endo of Shuhei Endo Architect Institute, Osaka; and Jo Noero from Noero Wolff Architects, Cape Town. AR editor Paul Finch was jury chairman.