GUANGMING POST 1من اصل4

-EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT WINS WORLD BUILDING OF
THE YEAR 2017
The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Kunming University of Science and
Technology’s Post-Earth-quake Reconstruction Project in Guangming Village has been
named the World Building of the Year for 2017 at the finale gala of the World
Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin.
The project becomes the 10th to hold the title of World Building of the Year. Last
year, the award was given to Robert Konieczny + KWK Frames’ National Museum in
Szczecin – Dialogue Centre Przefomy. Due to the “high standard of category winners
pre sented in the first two days of WAF”, the super jury has also awarded a Director’s
Special Award to Superlofts   Houthaven in Amsterdam by Marc Koehler Architects.
Winners of the year’s Future Project, Landscape, Small Project, Iran Special Prize and
Best Use of Colour awards were also announced. Continue after the break to see the
winners.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC RESPONDS TO ALLEGATIONS OF MISUSE OF
FUNDS OVER SCRAPPED OMA-DESIGNED MUSEUM
Following her decision to abandon plans for an OMA-designed, upstate New York
museum, artist Marina Abramovic has spoken out in response to al legations that her
institute may have improperly uti lized funds raised through a crowdsourced fund raising
campaign.
The statement targets a recent article published by the New York Post, in which the
authors claim Abramovic had failed to return the $661,452 she raised on Kickstarter
after the project fell through. “The Kickstarter was created to fund schematic de signs
by OMA New York for the building in Hudson, NY,” said Abramovic in a press release.
“The bill we received from the firm for this specific design work was $655,167.10.
We used the Kickstarter funds to pay OMA New York’s design fee.”