* Architecture: Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Isay Weinfeld

Architecture: Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Isay Weinfeld: “..the Fazenda Boa Vista Golf Clubhouse by Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld, which was named World’s Best Sport Building at the World Architecture Festival this week..Located 100 kilometres from São Paulo, Brazil, the two-storey clubhouse serves two 18-hole courses at the Fazenda Boa Vista leisure complex..Concrete encases the lower floor of the building, which is sunken into the sloping landscape, while the upper floor comprises a sequence of rooms and terraces with glass walls and a chunky timber frame..”

See our other posts on projects by Isay Weinfeld:

• Residential Architecture: Marrom House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Terra Nova House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Brasilia House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Grecia House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Piracicaba House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Sumaré House by Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto
• Residential Architecture: Yucatan House by Isay Weinfeld
• Residential Architecture: Casa d’Água House by Isay Weinfeld

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* Architecture: World Building of the Year Winner Announced – World Architecture Festival 2012

Architecture: World Building of the Year Winner Announced – World Architecture Festival 2012: “..World Architecture Festival 2012: the Cooled Conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects at the Gardens by the Bay tropical garden in Singapore have been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore..Completed earlier this year, the two shell-shaped structures are the largest climate-controlled greenhouses in the world and form part of Bay South, the largest and first to complete of three gardens at the 101-hectare site beside the marina in downtown Singapore..One of the conservatories accommodates flowers from Mediterranean regions, while the other is filled with tropical plants and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall..”  Rightly spectacular and lush..

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* Residential Architecture: George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist Residential Design Competition

Residential Architecture: George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist Residential Design Competition: “..Public voting started this past week and will go on until July 22 for the inaugural George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist residential design, a unique architecture competition sponsored by nonprofit Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH)..Anyone may vote for his or her favorite, once per email address. According to TMH founder and director George Smart, the “sleek, refined, powerful entries for the Prize brilliantly continue this state’s incredible legacy of Modernist residential design.” A panel of nationally known architects, along the public, will determine the top three winners of $6000 in cash prizes. To make your vote, please visit their website here..”  Some lovely homes..

image: Copyright Mark Herboth; article: Furuto , Alison . “George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist Residential Design Competition” 19 Jul 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/254726&gt;

* Architecture: RIBA International Award Winners Announced

Architecture: RIBA International Award Winners Announced: “..Following our previous announcement revealing the 2012 RIBA Award recipients, we now present to you 12 international projects that have also received top honors from RIBA. Buildings outside the European Union by RIBE Chartered Architects and RIBA International Fellows are eligible for this award. These 2012 RIBA International Award winners will now compete for the RIBA Lubetkin Prize – an award named in honor of the Georgia-born architect who worked in Paris before coming to London in the 1930s to establish the influential Tecton Group. In 2009, the RIBA Lubetkin Prize went to the National Stadium Beijing by Herzog & de Meuron [and Ai Weiwei] with China Architectural Design & Research Group and Arup Sport for National Stadium Company..”  Includes photos of the 12 RIBA International Award-winning buildings..

See our post on the 2012 RIBA Award – winning buildings: Architecture: 2012 RIBA Awards Winners Announced.

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image: Innhouse hotel Kunming, China by Integer Intelligent and Green © Kerun Ip; article: Rosenfield , Karissa . “RIBA International Award Winners Announced” 21 Jun 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/247164&gt;