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Contract magazine has named Studio O+A principals Verda Alexander and Primo Orpilla as Designers of the Year for 2011. The magazine gives this award annually to individuals whose work and practice raise the standard for excellence in commercial design and exhibit tremendous potential for ongoing contributions to the industry.

The award was presented at the 32nd Annual Interiors Awards Breakfast, hosted byContract on January 28, 2011 in New York City. Previous winners of the award include Shigeru Ban, Shashi Caan, Michael Graves, William McDonough, Peter Pfau, and David Rockwell.





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Dreamhost Headquarters, La Brea, CA, 2010, Photo: Jasper Sanidad





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Dreamhost Headquarters, La Brea, CA, 2010, Photo: Jasper Sanidad



Alexander and Orpilla founded Studio O+A in 1991. With a staff of about 15, the San Francisco–based interior design firm has become well-known for workplace design for technology clients, including eBay, Facebook, PayPal, and Yelp, as well as for companies such as Emergence Capital Partners and Levi Strauss & Co.



With so many clients devoted to innovation, the firm’s strategy has always been to push the boundaries of the work environment. “There’s a new generation of workers today who grew up on social networking, and they’re open to a very transparent, open work environment,” says Orpilla. “So we look at workplaces as large collectives, with different specialties that can be either grouped for cross-pollination or sequestered in different areas, all within an open plan space.”





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Facebook Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA, 2009, Photo: Cesar Rubio





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Facebook Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA, 2009, Photo: Cesar Rubio



At the same time, the firm customizes its designs for each client—often using technology in unconventional ways.“We try to understand the company that we’re working for and embed their philosophy in the design,” says Alexander. “We’ve actually used social networking in our design process to poll wide groups of workers to get input into the design process.”





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W Salon, San Jose, CA, 2008, Photo: David Wakely





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W Salon, San Jose, CA, 2008, Photo: David Wakely



Alexander received a Masters in Landscape Architecture from U.C. Berkeley in 1992 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Orpilla received a Bachelors of Science in interior design from San Jose State University in 1988.



Contract editor-in-chief Jennifer Busch and the magazine’s editors selected the firm for the honor. The January/February issue features Alexander and Orpilla on the cover and includes an article about their work.





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Studio O+A staff (left to right): Alexander Ng, Soo Emens, Denise Cherry, Al Claxton, Al McKee (on ladder), Verda Alexander, Primo Orpilla, Perry Stephney, Birgit Schweimanns,





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d3 just announced the winners of the Housing Tomorrow competition for 2011. The annual competition invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. Developed by co-directors Gregory Marinic and Mary-Jo Schlachter, the competition promotes investigation of alternative housing typologies that boldly postulate new strategies for living in the future.



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Detail from the winning board VERTICAL VILLAGE: Sustainable Village-style Living




The jury awarded three prizes and eleven special mentions, with First Prize captured by Netherlands-based Yushang Zhang, Rajiv Sewtahal, Riemer Postma, Qianqian Cai for their project: Vertical Village: Sustainable Village-style Living.





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First Prize: VERTICAL VILLAGE: Sustainable Village-style Living by Yushang Zhang, Rajiv Sewtahal, Riemer Postma, Qianqian Cai (Netherlands/China)




The 2011 jury was composed of a panel of architects and designers engaged in sustainable practices and housing explorations including Colin Cathcart of Kiss+Cathcart Architects, Michael McClure of emerymcclure architects, Sandra McKee of Yoshihara McKee Architects, Jorg Sieweke of ParadoxCity, and Sanjive Vaidya of Vaidya Stoltz Architects. Colin Cathcart hosted the event in his New York office.





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Second Prize: Lace Hill, Yerevan by Forrest Fulton Architecture (USA)




The d3 Housing Tomorrow 2011 international architectural design exhibition will be a featured event during Cleveland Architecture Week in March 2011. Sponsored by Robert Maschke Architects, AIA Cleveland, and 1point618 Gallery, the exhibition will be a focal point of this annual regional architecture and design event.





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Third Prize: LEARNING FROM SLUMS, Ilhas, Portugal by Antonio Minto, Angelo Renna (Italy)



See also the eleven special mentions in the image gallery below. All images via d3.







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BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.



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Competition-winning design for the new National Gallery of Greenland by BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti




Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland’s fjords, the 3,000 m2 National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen‐Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.





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Visualization, Exterior




“The Board has a clear vision: to work for the establishment of an internationally oriented highly professional institution that communicates the continuous project of documenting and developing the Greenlandic national identity through art and culture. Our dream is a national gallery where historic and contemporary art meets circumpolar pieces, Nordic and world art in general. Our dream is an institution that stimulates our curiosity, awake our excitement with its thought‐provoking design and where we all feel at home. Selecting a prominent architect as BIG, I am sure that our chances of realizing that dream are good”, Tuusi Josef Motzfeldt, Greenland’s National Gallery of Art.





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Visualization, Exterior




As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three‐dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum’s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.





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Visualization, Exterior




“The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and visually in harmony with the dramatic nature, just like life in Greenland is a symbiosis of the nature. We have created a simple, functional and symbolic shape, where the perfect circle is supplied by the local topography which creates a unique hybrid between the abstract shape and the specific location”, Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Partner, BIG.





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Visualization, Exterior




The slope opens up the sculpture garden towards the city and the view, framing both the sculpture garden and museum functions. A rough looking external façade of white concrete will patinate over time and adjust to the local weather, while the circular inner glass façade will consist of a simple and refined frame which contrasts the rough nature and compliments the beautiful view.





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Visualization, Interior




” The building will with its simplistic coarseness and harmony with the landscape become a symbol of the current independent Greenlandic artistic and architectural expression.”, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner & Project Leader, BIG.





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The circular shape of the gallery enables a flexible division of the exhibition into different shapes and sizes, creating a unique framework for the museum’s art. Visitor access to the exhibition happens through a covered opening created by a slight lift in the façade into a lobby with a 180 degree panorama view towards the sculpture garden and the fjord as well as access to the common museum functions, including ticket counters, wardrobe, boutique and a café.





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Visualization, Interior




The new gallery will create more activity at the waterfront by attracting the whole area is interconnected by a path which like the museum, forms after the shifting inclinations of the terrain. The locals and visitors will be able to admire the clear shape of the gallery which appears as a sculpture or a piece of land‐art.





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Visualization, Interior




“Greenland National Gallery for Art will play a significant role for the citizens of Greenland and the inhabitants of Nuuk as a cultural, social, political, urban and architectural focal point that opens towards the city and the world through its perfect circular geometry and shape”, said Bjarke Ingels.





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Project Details:

GREENLANDS NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

PROJECT: Greenland National Gallery

CLIENT: Nunatta Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivia

SIZE: 3,000 m2

LOCATION: Nuuk, Greenland

COLLABORATION: TNT Nuuk, Rambøll Nuuk, Arkitekti, MIR, Glessner Group

PARTNER IN CHARGE: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Pedersen

PROJECT LEADER: Jakob Henke

TEAM: Daniel Selensky, Ji –young Yoon, Gul Ertekin, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Zenaro, Johan Cool, Nicklas Antoni Rasch

Find floor plans, sections and many BIG-style diagrams in the image gallery below. All images courtesy of BIG.







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