The American Architectural Foundation has donated the model of the World Trade Center to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center, to be opened in 2012.

‘Architectural models are inherently fragile and challenging to maintain,’ the museum’s chief curator, Jan S. Ramirez, said in a statement. ‘It is a double stroke of exceptional luck and far-sighted stewardship that this outstanding model has outlived the building complex it was created to forecast.’

‘This model has the unparalleled capacity to help tell the first chapter of the World Trade Center story,’ said Joseph C. Daniels, the president of the memorial and museum.

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The project by the Korea-based firm Mass Studies came as a response to Korea’s rapid technological and architectural development, which the designers describe as ‘anarchical.’ The Seoul 2026 proposal offers a fully-functional community development that is efficient, high-tech, and immensely sustainable.
Subtitled ‘Rethinking Towers In The Park,’ the Seoul Commune 2026 takes the classic architectural idea of towers in the park, and literally turn the park into the towers themselves.

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Hotel Everland by Swiss artist-duo L/B (Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann), is a Hotel with only one room, including deluxe bathroom, a king-size bed and a lounge with a view. The hotel is prefabricated in a factory and brought to a site near you.

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For further information visit the designers’ website: www.tafarkitektkontor.se.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced the eight recipients of the 2009 AIA Young Architects Award. Young Architects are defined as professionals who have been licensed 10 years or fewer regardless of their age. This award honors individuals who have shown exceptional leadership and made significant contributions to the profession early in their careers. The Young Architects Award will be presented to the recipients at the AIA 2009 National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco.

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The following information is from Plan B Architects:

‘a. Architecture and organisms

The construction of a Orchideorama should come up of the relation between architecture and the living organisms. It should not make any distinction between natural and artificial, on the contrary, it should accept them as a unity that allows architecture to be conceived as a material, spatial, environmental organization that is deeply related to the processes of life.

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Six leading teams of architects have been short-listed to develop their ideas for a brand new public square for London at King’s Cross station.

Bigger than Leicester Square, the new square at King’s Cross station is one of the most important schemes of its kind for the capital, giving London its first dedicated open approach to a major station.

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Mass Studies‘ Boutique Monaco (‘Missing Matrix Building’) was just announced the Silver Award winner of the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2008 (Frankfurt, Germany).

Gold Award: Tange Associates, Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower (Tokyo, Japan)
Silver Award: Mass Studies, Boutique Monaco (Seoul, Korea)
Bronze Award: KPF, Shanghai World Financial Center (Shanghai, China)

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