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The Building Design:
This year, the competition will focus on public buildings in the coastal environment of Southern California.
Students entering Challenge 1 will design an Environmental Museum and Interpretative Center and students entering Challenge 2 will design a Park Office and Snack Bar.
Both buildings will be located in the new Orange County Great Park, in Irvine, California.
The competition objectives are to encourage and reward excellence in architectural planning and design that integrates environmentally responsive design strategies.
Competition participants will have the opportunity to explore energy efficiency as a basic standard of building design, incorporate principles of sustainability in the choice of building materials, water use, building design, and building site, investigate new building materials & methodologies thatOMA to Design Campus Building for Cornell University Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has signed with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (USA) to design the new Millstein Hall. The new building will be used by the College of Architecture Art and Planning and will accommodate classrooms, studio's and office spaces for each of the college's departments. It will also offer a major lecture hall as well as a boardroom. OMA's design will enable integration with an already existing building, which, in previous design concepts, had been earmarked for demolition.Cornell chose to work with OMA because 'they are particularly innovative in the use of program and its relation to the design of space.
The building design with its curved front and arched entry was well received by the city and conceals the industrial features of this manufacturing facility by helping it blend into the landscaped surroundings. This is the sixth building project DeMattia has done for ZF, a leading worldwide automotive supplier of driveline and chassis technology. DeMattia Group is an ISO 9001 certified, full-service real estate development, design and construction management firm. DeMattia offers innovative solutions in site selection, land planning, design/build construction, architecture, engineering, construction management, Interior Design and property management.
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