Good luck to all the participants in the final days of completing the work for submission on Friday.
We are delighted to announce that Roankabin have come aboard as sponsors for this stage of the workshop. They have provided us with the following prizes for the workshop.
- A three month [minimum] fully salaried [pro-rata] position for an architect in their architectural research section
- A prize fund of €1,500, a minimum of €500 of which will be given out at this stage as prizes with a maximum of €1,000 being awarded to participants to assist further development of the work during the Autumn.
We would like to thank Roankabin for their support and we look forward to our continued collaboration with this company!
Combined with other possible financial support, we are hopeful that some of the ideas that emerge from this workshop might be developed in further detail in time for the exhibition and publication of the NOW WHAT? workshops in Autumn.
Learning Space Competition Submission Requirements:
Submissions should consist of:
2 x A2 physical sheets (bearing no names or insignias)
1 x physical model
1 x A4 sheet, in a sealed envelope. This sheet should contain a brief written explanation of the project.
Any text on the drawing sheets should be absolutely minimal, and should be formatted in 13pt Helvetica or Arial.
Entries must be submitted before 3pm, Friday August 14th 2009 (to the office, School of Architecture, Richview)
Each entry should be labelled on the back only with a random 2letter+3digit code of your choosing (for example GY753) which should also be written onto a separate sheet with your name and contact details, and submitted within the sealed envelope.
Any questions please email us at learningspaceworkshop [at] gmail.com
Good luck!
Details of our prizes and sponsorship will be annouced at the beginning of the workshop meeting today. We are delighted with the level of commitment we have from our new sponsor!
Today’s workshop meeting will be this afternoon in the Red Room. Donaghy+Dimond architects will present their primary school projects and Stephen Tierney of The Interior Prospect workshop and blog will also talk about making images that clearly represent idea and intention – a critical component of the presentation requirements of the workshop! See you there.
News of significant sponsorship for the Learning_Space workshop will be released later today! Stay tuned!
Remember the second Public Conversation of the Now What? series is on tomorrow. It starts at 12.45 in UCD Architecture, Richview, Clonskeagh. Full details here!
Michael Maltzan has designed a snow-white art campus in the urban hell of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Ilaria Mazzoleni explains how philanthropy and architecture are trying to save this city. Edited by Fabrizio Gallanti
Hidden Jewel: a White Pearl in Downtown Los Angeles
di Ilaria Mazzoleni
Set into the monumental skyline of downtown Los Angeles in a notoriously run-down area of low-rise buildings, wholesale warehouses and seedy hotels, there glistens a beautiful white pearl: the Inner-City Arts campus designed by Californian-based architect Michael Maltzan. It is not just a building, but rather a small campus that houses art-instruction facilities for kids, created with the express wish of a group of philanthropists who wanted to show that architecture isn’t just a matter of building workaday spaces, but it can also stimulate creativity and draw people closer to art. The ICA brings a sense of surprise. It also kindles enthusiastic belief in architecture’s power to make a difference: situated on a one-acre lot on the edge of downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row, its large white volume has folded back corners and protuberances that make passers-by curious, encouraging them to stop, look more closely, go inside and, with a surprising sense of discovery, wander between its building canyons as far as the planted central courtyard.
Original article from ARBITARE, posted by Valentina Ciuffi
Remember – next meeting tomorrow Tuesday 28th at 11am at the gates of North Kildare School!
We will be visiting North Kildare Educate Together School on Tuesday of next week, July 28th, meeting there at the school on the outskirts of Celbridge at 11:00am. The school is off the Clane Road, Celbridge, behind St Wolstan’s Girls’ Community School.
[Please note the school is a 15 minute walk from Celbridge village.]
The best bus route seems to be:
Bus Eireann 120
Dublin – Birr
Departs from Dublin Connolly Station (LUAS stop)
09:30 (arriving Celbridge 10:00am)
10:00 (arriving Celbridge 10:30am)
This route also passes directly by the school if you stay on a little further past Celbridge village – this is recommended. As the driver to let you off at St. Wolstan’s Community School. Walk up to the junction, take a left and follow the road. You will see North Kildare in the distance, its a single storey building with a brown / copper roof.
Image courtesy of Grafton Architects / Ros Kavanagh
