Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
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Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
Yves here. We pointed out some time ago that the idea that the UK would get a favorable trade deal with the UK post-Brexit, and particularly post a crash-out, was bonkers, so it’s good to have official confirmation, even if it comes from the likes of Larry Summers. The US typically dictates terms in bi-lateral trade deals, allowing at most only a bit of face-saving terms-tweaking at the margin. The power imbalance will be even more pronounced in trade negotiation in the wake of Brexit because the UK will be desperate to cinch a deal quickly, and the urgency will give the US even more leverage.
More quotes from the Summers interview on BBC Radio 4, courtesy Al Jazeera:
“I’m not sure what Britain wants from the United States that it can plausibly imagine the United States will give.”
“If Britain thinks that the American financial regulators – who have great difficulty coming together on anything – are going to come together to give greater permissions and less regulation of UK firms, I would call that belief close to delusional.”
Nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal found a whimsical Brexit angle today, although it could just as easily have been spun as gallows humor: Tired of Waiting for Brexit, Britons Munch Through Nutella Stockpiles (any Northern Ireland readers may take umbrage at “Britons”):
Britain’s Brexit preppers have been stockpiling for months. Now their revolution is eating itself.
Fed up with waiting for the U.K. to leave the European Union and mindful of product expiration dates, stockpilers are using up foodstuffs they had squirreled away in case of a blunt exit leaves them cut off from imported treats, or spikes the price of necessities, like toilet paper and tea.
The chance of a no-deal divorce hasn’t diminished and may only have been postponed until Oct. 31, but some preppers can’t resist breaking into their stashes.
Elizabeth Priest, 29, found it easy to eat into her stockpile because she had socked away delectable items such as Nutella and mozzarella from Italy, lactose-free milk from Denmark and an awful lot of tea—not, say, Spam.
“Because we bought nice things, we weren’t facing down this nasty stockpile of tinned ham,” says the writer from Hastings on Britain’s southern coast. She brewed the last of her 200 stockpiled tea bags on June 29, three months to the day after Britain was meant to leave the EU.
Returning to the theme of this post, it’s not clear what could be strip mined from the UK. Unlike Russia post the collapse of the USSR, there aren’t natural resources that to be bought on the cheap and sold in world markets. North Sea oil is largely played out. UK manufacturing capacity will become much less valuable due to post-Brexit non-tariff trade barriers. Sadly, the big wealth opportunities may lie in moves like acquiring real estate and squeeing already not-well-housed working people with higher rents, and dismantling the NHS.
By Adam Ramsay, the co-editor of openDemocracyUK and also works with Bright Green. Before, he was a full-time campaigner with People & Planet. You can follow him at @adamramsay. Originally published at openDemocracy
“Britain has no leverage, Britain is desperate … it needs an agreement very soon. When you have a desperate partner, that’s when you strike the hardest bargain.” So warned former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers on Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme this morning, as new foreign secretary Dominic Raab jets off on a tour of North America to investigate potential trade deals.
“Britain has much less to give than Europe as a whole did, therefore less reason for the United States to make concessions,” said Summers, a senior figure in both the Clinton and Obama administrations. “You make more concessions dealing with a wealthy man than you do dealing with a poor man.”
Summers is of course right. But he makes a key mistake. He assumes that Raab, Johnson and the new cabinet care about defending the interests and autonomy of most people in the UK. He seems to be under the impression that Brexit was about taking back control.
In reality, the brand of Brexit promoted by Tory hardliners has long been about pulling Britain under the shadow of American capital. Not as a 51st state, with votes and constitutional rights, but as an outhouse for US business, a sort of colder, paler version of Puerto Rico.
We will be forced to accept US-style deregulation, with its poor standards for workers and consumers. We will have our assets stripped clean off the bone. Even before Brexit, we are fast becoming a pawn in the Pentagon’s global games.
We won’t become Americans, though. We’ll have no say in the standards that will govern our new Atlantic common market. Nor will we be permitted to help decide who stands in the planet’s biggest pulpit. Nor will we have much significant say in our own foreign policy. The UK has chosen to shift from participating in one power block to sitting on the outer edges of another.
Victory of the Lobbyists
If that wasn’t clear before (though it was), the events surrounding the arrival of Boris Johnson in Downing Street have confirmed it.
During the leadership election there was, of course, the failure to defend Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US. Then there is the ongoing confrontation with Iran, in which Britain’s post-empire is being enlisted in the schemes of US neoconservatives. There is the revelation that a new US pro-Brexit campaign group has launched, and Steve Bannon’s insistence on ‘Today’ that Boris Johnson should deliver a “no deal, hard out”.
Over the past three years, we’ve seen Britain’s lobbying industry and think-tanks auction their access to our politicians off to US corporations and oligarchs – from the firm which ran Johnson’s leadership campaign bragging in Washington about its ability to shape Brexit for US business, to the Institute for Economic Affairs offering to broker meetings between senior ministers and US companies wishing to get their piece of the Brexit pie.
We’ve seen one former Washington lobbyist – Shanker Singham – move to London and secure unprecedented access to our politicians, even writing the so-called Malthouse compromise, while lobbyists also drove the team that ensured their preferred candidate was elected prime minister.
And now that they’ve got their Johnson in place lobbyists have taken over the cabinet.
We’ve seen Trump confirm that “everything” – including the NHS – “will be on the table” in a US trade deal, before his spin-doctors reminded him that he’s not supposed to say that out loud.
“Britain Trump”
We see it in the ascent of Johnson himself – a rise which has coincided with the arrival in the UK of the sorts of institutions and culture we’re more used to watching from a safe distance across the Atlantic. On openDemocracy, we’ve revealed how Definers Public Affairs, the smear machine which destroyed Hillary Clinton, has set up shop in the UK, how a US-style super PAC is being rolled out across Europe and how Brexit is the biggest outsourcing of public policy in British history.
Johnson, who has surfed this wave, has been anointed “Britain Trump” by his US admirer. It’s a fair nickname, not because they have the same character, but because they both epitomise the elitist myths embedded in their respective national characters. Trump is the millionaire’s son who pretends to be rich because of merit, the brash bully-boy billionaire in a culture whose dream equates wealth and cruelty with merit and success.
Johnson, on the other hand, comes from the school on whose playing fields the battle of Waterloo was mythologically won. He epitomises an Anglo-British exceptionalism built on a mystical link between nation, royalty and aristocracy: a link forged in the failed revolution of the civil war and bought with imperial plunder, and which reminds the British bourgeois of an era when you didn’t need to do your homework to attain power – you got it by dint of your nation, gender, class and skin colour.
Likewise, their identikit ideologies are the same: oligarch enrichment woven round national mythologies.
Johnson pretends to be a free trader in the way that earlier British politicians claimed to support free trade whilst using their military might to force China to buy opium, commit genocide in Tasmania and smash up cotton looms in India. Trump claims to be a protectionist just as earlier US presidents used a pretence of isolationism to pretend they weren’t building an empire, at the same time preaching that the US was manifestly and justifiably destined to conquer the whole North American continent, committing genocide against Native American peoples as they did so.
Both Trump and Johnson have been contorted by the distorting lenses of their respective nationalisms, confusing many into thinking that they ooze truth or charm or talent. Strip off those red white and blue tinted goggles and you quickly see them for what they are: rich racists willing to trample anyone to secure the world for their kind.
Ultimately, they both represent the same interwoven set of interests: oligarchs, mafiosi, disaster capitalists, Gulf oil millionaires, hedge fund speculators and any other corner of the elite which has spotted that the neoliberal era is coming to an end, they have few places left to invest and their best option is to hide away as much money as they can behind the biggest walls they can build.
This is what Johnson meant when he said “fuck business” – that he and his friends no longer have anything invested in traditional industries, so are happy to see them disappear. It is why Trump is perfectly happy to fuck America’s car industry as he slashes tax for the hyper-rich.
Useful Scraps of Empire
At openDemocracy, we’ve revealed how millions of pounds were pumped into the Leave campaigns in the first place. That money came through the same British Overseas Territory and Crown Dependency secrecy areas that the billionaires of the world use to stash the cash they can no longer figure out how to get a return from – the same post-empire that the Pentagon is so keen to get a closer grip on.
For while the UK’s network of semi-colonies is useful as a money-laundry for the world’s oligarchs, we’ve seen in recent weeks how it plays a different strategic role, too – why America might see it as a valuable asset to begin to enclose under its wings.
When the British territory of Gibraltar captured an Iranian tanker, supposedly to enforce an EU embargo against oil to Syria, it did so despite the fact that Iran isn’t in the EU, and the EU doesn’t force non-members to comply with its embargoes. The Spanish have, according to The Guardian, claimed that the UK is acting under the influence of the US, and the former Swedish prime minister and senior EU figure Carl Bilt has hinted as much. It looks very much like this wasn’t so much an act of British foreign policy as one of submission to the US Department of Defense.
Britain captured Gibraltar in 1704 because of its strategically important location. To this day, one-third of the world’s oil and gas passes through its straits. Likewise, another strategically vital waterway will define this conflict: the Gulf of Oman, which connects the Strait of Hormuz to the Arabian sea. Oman isn’t formally a British territory, but it has been a de facto UK colony since the nineteenth century, with London helping to prop up the slave-owning ruling family over two centuries. As Ian Cobain has outlined, its current sultan was put in place by an MI6 coup in 1970.
The relationship remains strong. Shell owns 30% of the national oil company and Britain’s military presence is significant. According to Duncan Campbell, the journalist who originally revealed the existence of GCHQ, the Snowden leaks revealed Oman hosts a vital British intelligence base, tapping the vast number of communications cables that run under the Gulf. Last year, the UK opened a permanent naval base in the country, and in February this year, the British government announced it had signed an historic defence agreement with the sultanate, “bringing us even closer to one of our most important partners”.
For those with long memories, this might start sounding familiar: the 45-minute claim intended to frighten the British into accepting the 2003 Iraq war was based on the claim that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction could be ready to deploy not against London, but against the British Overseas Territories in Cyprus.
If the Pentagon is to keep a firm grip on the world, Britain’s post-imperial web of semi-colonies will be vital fingerholds, and Brexit offers the US a unique opportunity to expand its control over the UK and its overseas assets.
The Great British Asset Striptease
This wasn’t inevitable. In theory, Brexit could genuinely have been about ‘taking back control’ for the British people. It would be possible to turn the UK into a new Cuba, for instance, substituting home-grown products for international imports. Not a suggestion that would please the millions of Leave voters who opted to quit the EU essentially because they wanted to become another Japan instead: wealthier than the UK, industrialised, with less income inequality, richly forested and deeply racist.
But these are not the options before us.
Instead, Brexit means plonking the corpse of post-imperial Britain in a vulture restaurant for US asset strippers, and pretending not to notice that China perches nearby, ready to pluck at whatever it fancies too.
The Great British Asset Striptease isn’t new, of course. For decades, the country has mostly stayed afloat in the world by auctioning off the plunder we accumulated through centuries of empire. As Joe Guinan and Thomas Hanna point out, the Treasury has calculated that Britain sold off 40 per cent of all assets privatised across the OECD between 1980 and 1996.
But as the new foreign secretary heads off on his ‘everything must go’ tour of North America, the people of the UK are going to have to fight hard to stop him selling the whole country to Trump and his friends. Just as thousands mobilised against the EU-US trade deal known as TTIP, we’re going to have to stand together and fight against any UK/US trade deal. We’re going to have to fight to protect our public services and our workers’ rights and our ecosystems from the new plunderers of the planet. Because Britain doesn’t have any power in its negotiations with Trump. And we have a government that will be delighted to turn the country into an offshore theme park for American, Saudi and Chinese billionaires.
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3 Sep 2020
International Architecture Awards 2020 Winners
Greek architects award over 125 new buildings and urban planning projects from 38 nations in this year’s 15th edition of the 2020 international architecture awards
Announcing the Oldest and Largest Global Awards Program Featuring the World’s Most
Prominent Architecture Firms to be Officially Celebrated at “The City and the World”
Exhibition and Gala Reception in Athens, Greece on September 11
A new corporate headquarters building by Morphosis
Architects in South Korea, a new museum by Mecanoo in Taiwan, a new bridge and passenger
clearance building by Aedas and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in Macao and Hong Kong, the
world’s largest urban park by Omrania and Henning Larsen Architects in Saudi Arabia, four new
skyscrapers by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, a stunning urban design by ASPECT Studios/Kengo
Kuma in Sydney, a restored museum by Frank Gehry, a new Miami High-Rise by Herzog & de Meuron,
a New London Tower by SOM, two new bridges by WilkinsonEyre, a new mixed-use building by
MVRDV in Amsterdam, innovative residential architecture by NADAAA and Christ.Christ. associated
architects, a sleek tower by Pininfarina, a new house in Russia by J. MAYER H. und Partner, three
innovative projects by Trahan Architects in the USA, 3XN Architects’ Olympic House in Lausanne,
Switzerland, and a new McDonald’s restaurant in Chicago by Ross Barney Architects head the list of
this year’s awarded projects for 2020.
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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for
Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies are delighted to announce the 2020 International
Architecture Awards as the global architecture award for the world’s best new buildings and urban
planning projects from over 38 nations.
Founded in 2005, these Awards for International Excellence demonstrate how buildings and urban
planning projects worldwide stretch the boundaries of architecture, irrespective of style, complexity, and
size of both scheme and budget.
The Awards are regarded internationally as the world’s most important global mark of excellence, recognizing the best international architecture practices, as well as the hundreds of corporate clients, developers, state and local governments, institutions, and general contractors that produced them.
“We are thrilled to recognize and celebrate architectural excellence across the globe,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Architecture Critic and President of The Chicago Athenaeum.
“It is our intention that these awards uncover the world’s most innovative and visionary architecture and their professional practices, as well as spark local and global debates about the positive impact that well-designed buildings and places can have on local communities and the environment.”
“Each year, we discover how architecture is reacting to and resolving issues posed by the changing demands of a global community.”
“These awards set a standard by which to assess and promote design excellence on a global scale.”
Out of a record number of projects that were entered in 2020, over 400 submissions were shortlisted.
“These successful projects demonstrate the world’s best visionary and innovative thinking and excellence of execution by a global design practice, along with developers and clients,” continues Narkiewicz-Laine.
This year’s selected buildings and urban planning projects are from 38 nations including: Albania, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Latvia, México, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, United Kingdom, The United States, and Vietnam.
The 2020 Jury for Awards was held at Contemporary Space Athens and consisted of the following Greek architects, critics, and architecture educators:
• George Tsolakis, Architect, National Technical University of Athens
• Giannis Giannoutsos, Architect Engineer, National Technical University of Athens
• Iro Nikolakea, Architect, Head of Exhibition and Cultural Events, National Museum of
Contemporary
Art (EMST), Athens
• Konstantina Siountri, Architect, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Athens
• Manolis Vourakis, Architect, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – University of Leuven
• Marianna Athanasiadou, Architect, schema architecture & engineering, Athens
International Architecture Awards 2020 Shortlist
The 125 plus awarded projects for 2020 include:
AIRPORTS AND TRANSPORTATION CENTRES
Felix Fischer Architekten – Tram Schwabinger Tor, Munich, Germany
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects – Richmond Ferry Terminal, Richmond, California, USA
Aedas in Joint Venture with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Hong Kong Port Passenger Clearance Building, Hong Kong, SAR
Aedas – Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, Hong Kong, SAR
BRIDGES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
WilkinsonEyre – CF Toronto Eaton Centre Bridge, Toronto, Canada
WilkinsonEyre/Urban Agency – Lille Langebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Kuczia Architects – Solar Activation of Footbridges for Beijing, Beijing, China
Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects – Center Street Garage, Berkeley, California, USA
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY CENTERS
IMO Architecture & Design – Xiafu Activity Center, New Taipei City, Taiwan
3andwich Design / He Wei Studio – Stone Nest Amphitheatre for Community Activities, Weihai, Shandong Province, China
Mobile Architectural Office – The Albert Schweitzer Community Centre in Dammarie les Lys, Dammarie les Lys, France
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Ferrier Marchetti Studio – Grand Central Saint Lazare, Paris, France
Di Vece Arquitectos – Estudio-Galería Di Vece Arquitectos, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Ross Barney Architects – McDonald’s Chicago Flagship, Chicago, Illinois, USA
CORPORATE OFFICE BUILDINGS
Morphosis Architects – Kolon One & Only Tower, Seoul, South Korea
Takenaka Corporation – Asahi Facilities Hotarugaike Dormitory KAEDE, Osaka, Japan
3XN Architects – Olympic House, IOC – International Olympic Committee New Headquarters, Lausanne, Switzerland
Takenaka Corporation – Kanda Holdings Headquarters, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Ricardo Yslas Gámez Arquitectos – Anteus Constructora Headquarters, Zapopan, Jalisco, México
Trahan Architects – Ochsner Center for Innovation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – 52 Lime Street, London, United Kingdom
CULTURE AND MUSEUMS
Mecanoo – National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
PLY Union Limited – Redevelopment of Art Museum Annex, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR
Haworth Tompkins – The Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
Lemoal Lemoal Architectes – Civic and Cultural Centre Gonzague Saint Bris, Cabourg, France
Aedas – Zhengzhou Cultural District, Zhengzhou, China
China Architecture Design & Research Group – Garden Art Museum, Nanning Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture – Munupi Arts Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
GPY Arquitectos – MIAC Castillo de San José, Arrecife, Lanzarote Island, Spain
Ennead Architects – Yangtze River Estuary Chinese Sturgeon Nature Preserve, Shanghai, China
Shenzhen Tanghua Architect & Associates Co., Ltd. – Bishan Art and Cultural Center, Chongqing, China
FXCollaborative – The Statue of Liberty Museum, Liberty Island, New York Harbor, New York, USA
Shanghai United Design Group – Qingpu Archives, Shanghai, China
Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University Co., Ltd. – Chenjiagou – ‘Impression Tai Chi’ Theatre, Chenjiagou, China
Trahan Architects – The Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, Arrival Garden and Moody Pavilions, Austin, Texas, USA
DISPLAY/INSTALLATIONS
DP Architects Pte. Ltd. – Why Green? Singapore, Republic of Singapore
MUTUO and urb—in – Boyle Tower, Los Angeles, California, USA
UNITEDLAB Associates LLC. – Cloud Forests—Pavilion for Children’s Play, Hwaseong, South Korea
ENTERTAINMENT
EID Architecture – The Panda Pavilions, Chengdu, China
EXPOSITION
SZAD/Atelier Apeiron/Yunchao Xu – Future Exhibition Center in Baoding, Baoding/Hebei, China
Shenzhen Tanghua Architect & Associates Co., Ltd. – Tianfu International Conference Center, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS
Peter W. Schmidt Architekten GmbH – Annex for the Bamberg State Archive, Bamberg, Germany
EID Architecture – Medog Meteorological Center, Medog County, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet
HEALTH CARE/HOSPITALS
IDOM – BioCruces Institute Headquarters, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain
StudioVRA – Day Care Center for People with Alzheimer’s Disease, Benavente, Zamora, Spain
fjmt – The Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ventura + Partners – Nefrodouro Dialysis Clinic, Santa Maria de Lamas, Portugal
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture – Walu – Win Wellness Centre, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
HIGH RISES/SKYSCRAPERS
NOVO Architects Ltd. – Mesong Tower, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – Spring City 66, Kunming, China
Valdez Arquitectos – Best in Black, Puebla, México
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – 10 & 30 Hudson Yards, New York, New York, USA
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. – Azrieli Tower, Tel Aviv, Israel
HOTELS/HOSPITALITY
UnitedLab Associates LLC. – Round Retreat, Kurzeme, Latvia
Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates – Mogana Hotel, Kyoto, Japan
AW² – Architecture Workshop 2 – Kasiiya Papagayo, Guancaste, Costa Rica
Liminal Architecture – Coastal Pavilions Freycinet Lodge, Coles Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Raulino Silva Arquitecto – Canine and Feline Hotel, Parada, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Marge arkitekter – Naturum Trollskogen, Öland, Sweden
De Zwarte Hond/ Monadnock – Park Pavilion—The Hoge Veluwe National Park, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Stinessen Arkitektur – Manshausen 2.0 Island Resort, Nordskot/Steigen, Norway
INDUSTRIAL
MR STUDIO Corporation – Aida Precut Division Ibaraki Factory, Ibaraki, Japan
LIBRARIES
RDH Architects (RDHA) – Idea Exchange Old Post Office Library, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
RDH Architects (RDHA) – Springdale Library and Neighbourhood Park, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
MONUMENTS
Johnson Pilton Walker Pty. Ltd. – Anzac Memorial Centenary Project, Sydney, NSW, Australia
MIXED-USE
Manuelle Gautrand Architecture – Le Belaroïa, Montpellier, France
Shanghai United Design Group – Wuxi Institute of Quantum Studies, Wuxi, China
MVRDV – Valley, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Trahan Architects – Julia Street Mixed-Use Development, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING
Herzog & de Meuron – Jade Signature, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. – Manhattan Loft Gardens (The Stratford), London, United Kingdom
Younghan Chung Architects – Floating Cubes, Cheongwon-Gun, South Korea
fjmt – Wonderland, Sydney, Australia
Pininfarina SpA – Sixty6, Limassol, Cyprus
PRIVATE HOUSES
Caballero Colón – Can Canyís, Capdepera, Spain
Christ.Christ. associated architects GmbH – Haus E, Wiesbaden, Germany
Ian Moore Architects – Redfern Warehouse, Sydney, Australia
Alain Carle Architecte Inc. – True North. Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Spring Road Residence, Ross, California, USA |
Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects – Spectral Bridge House, Venice, California, USA
Sanjay Puri Architects – 18 Screens House, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
J. MAYER H. und Partner – n.n. Residence Moscow area, Russia
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – Comfort in Context, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
81.waw.pl – Field House, Warsaw, Poland
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – GASEA-The Cliff House, Taitung City, Taiwan
David Jameson Architect – Manifold House, Arlington, Virginia, USA
NADAAA – Villa Varoise, Le Var, France
David Jameson Architect – Vapor House, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
David Jameson Architect – Wildcat Mountain Residence, The Plains, Virginia, USA
Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados – Panorama, San Paulo, Spain
MIA Design Studio – Sky House, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Atelier Jun – The Boulder House, Seoul, South Korea
Grupo Zegnea – Box XL Houses, Guimarães, Portugal
A-01 (a Company / a Foundation) – No Footprint House (NFH), Ojochal, Costa Rica
Gort Scott Architects – The Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Hyunjoon Yoo Architects – Private D House, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited – Smith Residence, Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Architect 49 House Design Ltd. – Veyla Natai Residences, Phang Nga Takua Thung District, Thailand
Sergio Conde Caldas Arquitetura – Capuri House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Architects 49 (Chiangmai) Limited – Pillars House, Phrae, Thailand
Gronych & Dollega Architekten – An Steins Garten, Gießen, Germany
L’EAU design – Diaspora, Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
MHN Design Union – Double Bay Residence, New South Wales, Australia
Cherem Arquitectos – House C, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
PUBLIC SPACE
Heams & Michel Architectes – Boat Users on the Port of Cannes, Cannes, France
West-line Studio – Bamboo Forest Gateway, Zhuhai National Park, Chishui, Guizhou Province, China
Kris Lin International Design – Flying, Jiangyin, China
RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS
Omrania – KAFD Grand Mosque, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hyunjoon Yoo Architects – The Hug, Sejong-si, Korea
RESTAURANTS
Chain10 Architecture & Interior Design Institute – The Green Isle, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
RETAIL/SHOWROOMS
Kris Lin International Design – Circle, Chengdu, China
Kris Lin International Design – Navigator, Tianjin, China
RESTORATION/RENOVATION
Gehry Partners, LLP. – Philadelphia Museum of Art Renovation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
JC architecture – JCA Living Lab, Taipei City, Taiwan
Atelier Brückner GmbH – Wagenhallen, Stuttgart, Germany
SquareWorks – #7 Southlands, Mumbai/Maharashtra, India
Kris Lin International Design – Textile, Deqing, China
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES
WilkinsonEyre – Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Studioarch4 – Servete Maçi Primary and Secondary School, Tirana, Albania
GL Studio/Shenzhen University Institute of Architecture Design & Research Co., Ltd. – Shenzhen MSU-BIT University Student Center, Shenzhen, China
Atelier Brückner GmbH – Kindergarten, Troisdorf, Germany
CCA Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica – Club de Niños y Niñas, Chiconaulta, Ecatepec De Morelos, Estado de México, México | 2018
Ennead Architects – Seoul Foreign School, New High School, Seoul, South Korea
SPORTS AND LEISURE
Approach design (ZUP) – The Cloud Town Convention and Exhibition Center (Phase II), Hangzhou, China
URBAN PLANNING/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Batlle i Roig Arquitectura – Scenic Path Along Igualada’s Old Gypsum Mines, Igualada, Spain
HASSELL – Collect and Connect – Resilient South City, South San Francisco, California, USA
ASPECT Studios and Kengo Kuma and Associates – Darling Square, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Orania and Henning Larsen Architects – King Salman Park, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
ENOTA – Koper Central Park, Koper, Slovenia
Hoàng Thúc Hào Architect – Jackfruit Village. Co Dong Commune, Son Tay Town, Hanoi, Vietnam
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This elite group of buildings and urban planning projects selected by the jury will be premiered in an exhibition at Contemporary Space Athens (74 Mitropoleos Str., GR-105 63 Athens, Greece) opening September 11 and continuing through October 11, 2020.
The exhibition is entitled “The City and the World” and is scheduled to travel in Europe through 2021.
The official Awards Presentation is postponed this year, but takes place at a Gala Awards Dinner and Ceremony adjacent to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece next September 2021 due to the COVID-19 Crisis. For more information, contact:
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The buildings and urban planning projects are also published as a catalogue for Global Design + Urbanism XX (“New International Architecture”) edited by Christian Narkiewicz-Laine for Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd. and is available through The European Centre and www.metropolitanartspress.com.
The deadline for the 2021 International Architecture Awards is December 1, 2020.
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10 famous logos that have a hidden message
While some popular brands promote their logos with what you have come to believe as one, universal meaning, yet there are actually a number of double meanings developed into numerous brand strategies that are executed through their unique trademarks.
Here are 10 famous logos that may require a second look to uncover their hidden meanings.
Toblerone
In 1908, the decadent milk chocolate bar famously known as Toblerone was created by Theodor nTobler in Bern, Switzerland.
Toblerone is known for its unique nougat, almond, and honey taste, carefully moulded into long, triangular bites.
Tobler wanted to pay a tribute to the chocolate bars place of origin when he decided on creating a logo distinguishable to the brand.
Upon a first glance, the iconic logo looks fairly simplistic in identifying the name of the brand with an image of a high mountain above it. However, the mountain is symbolic of the Matterhorn mountain, a mountain of the Alps located between Switzerland and Italy, where the chocolate was originally created. Interesting, right?
But, it doesn’t stop there. If you look closely at the Matterhorn mountain built into the negative space, there is an image of a smiling bear which uniquely reflects Bern as a city that is famously associated with bears.
Pinterest
Although you may use Pinterest as one of your daily photo sharing platforms, you may have failed to notice its unique logo that embodies its main service as a pinboard.
While the letter ‘P’ might seem as an obvious reference to its name, the image was designed to double as a pin.
What better way to introduce a virtual pinboard with a logo that subconsciously directs you to pin and organize your interests?
Launched in 2010 accompanied by it’s fitting logo, the platform was featured in Time magazine’s ‘50 Best Websites’ only a year later, and has continued to grow substantially since then.
FedEx
The multinational delivery service, FedEx, that previously went under the name as Federal Express, is known for their white delivery trucks printed with their purple and orange logo.
However, the clever take on their logo that alludes to their courier services might not be as easily detectable as the big and bold print.
This FedEx trademark contains a subliminal arrow in the negative space between the ‘E’ and the ‘X’ to gesture their always on the move delivery services.
LG
Formerly known as a South Korean brand called ‘Lucky-Goldstar,’ LG corporation has established a recognizable logo affiliated with their wide variety of products including electronics, chemicals, and plastic.
According to a website called ‘Famous Logos’ the shape and design of the LG logo contains elements of a human face in an effort to symbolize the company’s main objective in making their customers happy.
Where the ‘L’ is utilized as a nose that is wrapped around the ‘G,’ to resemble the structure of a face, the coloured circle wrapped around the entire emblem symbolizes a globe of smiling faces.
While it might appear as a winking face, the one eye carries a significant meaning in delivering a message of focus and is meant to be goal-oriented.
Toyota
Founded 79 years ago in Toyota, Aichi, Japan; Toyota Motor Corporation has become one of the top leading automotive manufacturing companies in the world with a recognizable emblem featured on all of their automobiles.
Although the logo has changed throughout the years, the three oval combination that is widely known today symbolizes the unification of ‘the hearts of the customers and the heart of the company as well as mutually trusted relationship between them,’ according to car-brand-names.com.
The shape of the ovals as a ‘T’ also symbolizes the brands name as Toyota.
The overarching oval surrounding the ‘T’ is also meant to reflect ‘the world embracing Toyota,’ while the spaces in between the ovals are meant to signify the ‘infinite values, cherished by Toyota,’ including ‘excellent quality, reliability, environmental concern and innovative technologies’–all of which are influenced by Japanese cultural traditions.
Kisses
The small, bite-sized chocolates wrapped in colorful pieces of aluminum foil, famously known as the mouth watering Hershey’s Kisses, were brought into Hershey’s delicious chocolate brand in 1907 by David Yang.
Similar to FedEx’s use of negative space to convey a particular shape that is representative of their brand, Hershey’s Kisses hide the distinguishable chocolate shape in between the ‘K’ and the ‘I’ of their logo.
Although this famous company experiments with the choice of colored foil to wrap around their milk chocolate pieces that range in a number of flavors, their logo has always remained identifiable despite its many variations.
Depending on the time of year, the Kisses Brand markets to fit with holiday specials that increases their popularity during any season.
Wendy’s
The logo from the American fast food chain widely known as Wendy’s, has a sentimental attachment located in the image of red-headed girl with pigtails that’s showcased in their new logo.
According to Stock Logos, the successful restaurant chain with 6,490 established restaurants to date have advertised their food as ‘old fashioned’ ‘home cooking’ that reminds their customers of Mom’s home cooked meals.
Located inconspicuously in the young girls collar, the blue stripes on either side of the blue circle spell out ‘mom.’
Aside from secret messages encoded into collar, the restaurant’s founder, Dave Thomas, openly revealed that he named the restaurant after his 8-year-old daughter, Wendy.
Coca-Cola
The famous soda pop company, Coca-Cola, was invented in the 19th century by John Pemberton that was originally produced as a patent medicine until it became one of the world’s most consumed soft drink.
Known for its unmistakable red and white can, their logo carries an unintentional hidden message that the brand openly took advantage of once it was uncovered.
Since Coca-Cola has utilized the smiling faces of happy people consuming their product in multiple advertisements and marketing strategies, Coca-Cola embraced the hidden message in their logo and set up shop in Denmark’s airport for a media event after making the very fitting discovery.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins was founded in 1945, in Glendale, California, and continues to be one of the world’s largest ice-cream shops to date.
Known for their wide variety of 31 delicious flavors, this international specialty shop has more than 7,300 locations worldwide.
The hidden message in their famous blue and pink logo isn’t easily detectable, but once you notice that the number ‘31’ is colored in pink between the ‘B’ and ‘R,’ you’ll wonder how you never noticed it before.
According to their slogan, 31 flavors ensures that their customers could have a different flavor of every day of the month–and who wouldn’t want to try a different flavor of ice cream everyday?
Tostitos
The next time you open up a bag of Tostitos, take a look at their logo that’s probably dictating what you are likely to do next.
What initially looks like a fancy print of the brands name accompanied by a blue background is actually an image of two people dipping a tortilla chip into a bowl of salsa.
Above the ‘I’ and between the two ‘T’s’, you’ll notice that the ‘T’s’ are actually two stick people sharing a yellow Tostito chip over a red circle, aka a delicious bowl of salsa.
Introduced in the chips world in 1979 by Frito-Lay, these white corn tortilla chips have become a staple on everyone’s menu when preparing for a Mexican inspired meal.
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