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Honorable Mention 4 |
Tenderer : Manfredi Nicoletti ˇ@Nationality : Italy
Joint TendererˇG
ARCO Architects & Designers Ltd / Tony Y.T. Chen ˇ@Nationality: R.O.C. |
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| STUDIO NICOLETTI ASSOCIATI |
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Manfredi Nicoletti started his practice in 1957. In 2004 Giulia Falconi and Luca Nicoletti joined his office as partners of Studio Nicolettti Associati.
The Studio practice's expanded through all major aspects of urban and building design in Italy, Europe, Africa, USA, Middle and Far East.
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Among the many 1st Prize International Competitions awards received, built and on the process of being built: the Astana State Auditorium for 3500 seats (50.000 sqm), Kazakhstan; the Nigeria National Complex in Abuja, including the Museum of Nigeria, the Cultural Center, the Tower of Nigeria, the City Hall (170.000 sqm); the New Acropolis Museum, Athens; the Abuja Nigeria 32ha Millennium Park, opened by Queen Elizabeth on 4/12/2003; the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt; the New Hall of Justice, Arezzo; the Venice Tronchetto Vehicular Terminal; the Palace of Justice, Reggio Calabria (70.000 sqm); the Palermo Sport Palace; the New Palace of Justice of Rome (65.000 sqm); the New Halls of Justice of Lecce and Campobasso; the University City of Udine (120.000 sqm); the Agrigento Main General Hospital; the Tropical Butterfly Greenhouse for the University of Catania; the Piazza dei Navigatori Civic Center in Rome; the MoWa Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; the Museum of Natural History, Rouen. |
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Tony Yao-Tung Chen is a practicing architect in Taiwan, and established ARCO ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS LTD. In Taipei City, Taiwan in 1985. Due to the long term experience of hospitality design, Mr. Chen is invited to be a committee member of the Tourism Bureau, the Ministry of Communications, Taiwan for evaluating new hotel establishment application. In order to assist developers and offer the best design supporting on projects in China, Mr. Chen founded Y.T. CHEN + ARCO ARCHITECTS & DESIGNERS, SHANGHAI in 1993 which was a leading overseas firm to establish a branch office in China and to deliver high design quality.
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Arco Architects & Designers Ltd. has grown into a firm employing over 60 professionals including architects, planners, interior designers, project managers, administration and supporting staff. The work scope of Arco extends to large-scaled development programming and master planning, recreational facilities development program assessing, consulting, and design. The firm has completed a great amount of works and shown the design and technical expertise in residential, educational, hospitality, sport and recreational, corporate and large planning projects in Taiwan and China.
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Design Concept |
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THE ICONIC MESSAGE
The Biolab Squadron
The Biolab Squadron consists of two units of laboratories protected and sealed within two similar elements evoking the ˇ§Nautilusˇ¨ shell of different sizes. |
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In nature, the interior of this shell is an authentic marvel formed by a sequence of interconnected chambers, lined with beautiful mother-of-pearl, whose geometry is a perfect logarithmic spiral. Such a masterpiece of nature hides one of the most horrible looking cephalopod mollusks. |
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The two shells, forming the Biolab Squadron, are a metaphoric example of the highest formal and technological sophistication of the most advanced laboratories conceived and the extremely harmful pathogenic viruses of our planet which are studied within themselves. |
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The External Skin
The Biolab Squadron outer skin pattern is made of interlacing geometric incisions reproducing the four conventional symbols (A = adenine, C = cytosine, G = guanine, T = thymine) attributed to the DNA sequence of the bacteria being studied. We have chosen two deadly viruses which are deadliest amongst others: Tuberculosis and AIDS.
The result is a surface perfectly homogenous and uniform in its overall material, but mysteriously engraved by symbols illegible by most people. |
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A sense of arcane volumetric unity bearing an enigmatic and indecipherable message emanates from this surface treatment.
This effect reproduces what the common people feel towards the terrible pathogenic agents. They are invisible to the naked eye and can be really observed only under powerful electronic microscopes or when they cause devastating effects on populations. |
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By engraving the genetic code of the most destructive viruses of our era on itˇ¦s Centres for Disease Control Complex buildingˇ¦s skin, Taiwan is giving a clear Message to the world: EPIDEMIC PREVENTION IS A WAR THAT WE INTEND TO WIN. |
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