Rafiq Azam the architect for the Drik Gallery and Terrace as well as the upcoming Pathshala Building has been shortlisted for the Emirates Glass LEAF Awards.
12 Jun 2012
LEAF Awards 2012 Shortlist
Mixed – Use Building of the year
– Steven Holl Architects, with Daeyang Gallery & House, Seoul, South Korea image : Iwan Baan Daeyang Gallery and House
– Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with Tidemill Academy & Deptford Lounge, Deptford, UK Residential Building of the year (Single Occupancy)
– Studiomk27, with Cobogo House Sao Paulo, Brazil
– Sou Fujimoto Architects, with House like a single Tree, Tokyo, Japan Architectureburo Govaert & Vanhoutte, with House Roces, Bruges, Belgium Sanjay Puri Architects, with Courtyard House, Rajasthan, India
– Peter Rose & Partners, with East House, Chilmark, Massachusetts, US Residential Building of the year (Multiple Occupancy)
– Studio Daniel Libeskind, DCA Architects PTE Ltd, with Reflections at Keppel Bay, Singapore image ? Courtesy of Keppel Bay Pte Ltd Reflections at Keppel Bay Singapore 2012-Leaf-Awards-Shortlist-05 Rafiq Azam – Rafiq Azam, with SA Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh
– Gonzalo Mardones Architecture Studio, with Ignacia Apartments, Santiago, Chile
– Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanioglu, with Loft Gardens, Levent, Istanbul photo ? H?l?ne Binet LOFT Gardens Istanbul Commercial Building of the year
– Vittorio Grassi Architetto & Partners, with Koa Zambon Company Restaurant, Bresso, Italy
– Mossessian & Partners, with 5 Merchant Square, London, UK photo ? Nick Weall
– David Chipperfield Architects, with Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store Vienna, Austria
– WOW Architects, with Vivanta Hotel, Bangalore, India
– Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanioglu, with Asmacati Shopping &meeting point, Balcova, Turkey photo from architects Asma?at? Shopping Centre
– Peter Rose & Partners, with Housing Tower at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Stockbridge, USA International Interior Design Award
– Hironaka Ogawa & Associates, with Forest Chapel, Gunma, Japan
– Billard Leece Partnership & Bates Smart with HKS, with The Royal Children?s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
– Isay Weinfeld, with Rodeio Restaurant, Sao Paulo, Brazil
– Kay Elliott, with Titanic Belfast, Belfast, UK photo : Christopher Heaney Titanic Belfast Refurbishment of the year
– Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects, with The Granary, London, UK
– Magma Architecture, with Masrah Al Qasba Theatre, Emirate of Sharjah, UAE
– Pepe Gascon Arquitectura, with Sant Miquel Special Education School, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
– Hugh Broughton Architects, with Maidstone Museum East Wing, Kent, UK Young Architect of the year award
– Zai Shirakawa, with Enbutsu-do Hall & Eifuku-ji Temple, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
– Martin Gruenanger, with Green Knot, Graz, Austria
– Marco Guarnieri, with 2 Whites Grounds, London, UK Public Building of the year
– Studio Daniel Libeskind, with Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany photo ? Bitter Bredt Dresden Military History Museum
– GPY Arquitectos, with SEGAI Research Centre, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
– Sou Fujimoto Architects, with Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, Japan image from architect Musashino Art University Museum & Library
– Billard Leece Partnership & Bates Smart with HKS, with The Royal Children?s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
– Stephen Marshall Architects, with Rothschild Foundation Archive, Waddesdon, UK photo ? Richard Bryant Rothschild Foundation Archive
– Isay Weinfeld, with Hotel Fasano Boa Vista, Porto Feliz, Brazil photograph from architects Las Piedras Fasano Best Sustainable Development
– Magma Architecture, with London Shooting Ranges, Woolwich, London, UK
– Iotti + Pavarani Architetti, with Domus Technica (centre for advanced training), Brescello, Italy photo : Roland Halbe Domus Technica
– Paolo Verducci Architetti, with New Headquarters for Archimede Solar Energy, Massa Martana, Italy
– Arup Associates, with Druk White Lotus School, Shey, India photo ? Christian Richters Druk White Lotus School Best Future Building
– Skidmore Owings + Merrill, with Manhattan Loft Gardens, London, UK
– 3XN Architects, with Green School Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
– Aedas Limited, with CX 2-1, Singapore
– Aedas Limited, with Oasis Mall, Sanya, China image from architect Aedas
– Aedas Limited, with Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, Hong Kong, China image from architect West Kowloon Terminus
– Mossessian & Partners, with Place Lalla Yeddouna, Fez, Morocco picture from organisers Place Lalla Yeddouna
– MZ Architects, with Al Ain Stadium, Al Ain, UAE
– Sanjay Puri Architects, with Chapel at Murcia, Murcia, Spain
– Victor Sala Bori, with Landscraper, Castelldefels, Spain
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world.
Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography.
Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society.
John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”
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