INTERNET STUDIO 2003: FREEDOM PARK, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA
Competition Official Site: http://www.freedompark.org.za

U. of Pretoria, South Africa | Florida International University, USA | Universidad Uniacc, Chile | Universidad Central de Venezuela


MEMORIALS (Shige, Alejandro, Alfredo)
(Request from SA Team) Look at international examples of such spaces of remembrance and try to define what the human experience of these spaces is.

Pentagon memorial Competition 2002: http://pentagonmemorial.nab.usace.army.mil/Documents/Finalists/sld001.htm

Tribute of light, NY 2002:
http://panoramas.dk/fullscreen/fullscreen17.html

WWII memorial.
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=design.asp&subpage=highresimgs
A discussion on the Memorial: http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0101/ob.htm

The New Irish Museum in New York. A Memorial 2 blocks from ground zero. A good discussion about representation vs. design. How far can you go: http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_1102/far/index.html

Immigrant memorial Brazil, (Colonial)
http://www.memorialdoimigrante.sp.gov.br/Inicial.html

Memorial latin America Oscar Niemeyer
http://www.memorial.org.br/paginas/conheca/caderno_tecnico/frame_caderno_tecnico.html

About vietnam memorial, okahoma city and others:
http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0800/ob.htm#

Fisterra Cementery, Cesar Protela
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0207fisterra.asp

Srebrnice Cementery
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0207srebrnice.asp

Urban space competition, Italy
http://www.europaconcorsi.com/db/rec/phpslideshow.php?directory=../recm/images/rec/10219

Australian National Korean War Memorial
Olympic Cauldron, Australia, Shrine, Australia, Sydney International gateway
http://www.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=browse&majorcat=4&minorcat=20&showstyle=1&location=-1&awards=0&browseyears=-1

National Historical Park, Virginia
http://www.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=browse&majorcat=4&minorcat=20&showstyle=1&location=-1&awards=0&browseyears=-1


PARKS (Alex, Cristian, Alfredo)
(Request from South African team) We’d like you to study international examples of made landscapes. landscapes in the grand tradition, and especially examples where a timeline, or even meshes of timelines have been applied in the landscape.
How do people monumentalise place?

West 8, Netherlands:
http://www.west8.nl/presentation/portfolio/expo02.html#Anchorplan
http://www.west8.nl/presentation/portfolio/chiswick.html
http://www.west8.nl/presentation/portfolio/krollermuller.html
http://www.west8.nl/presentation/portfolio/rsplein.html
http://www.west8.nl/presentation/portfolio/trompenburg.html

Park la Villete competition by Rem Koolhaas and B. Tschumi. both are working with layering that unvelas in time. It will interesting to have a plan to see the distances that they use to layer events and time.

FOA, Alejandro Zaera Polo, Yokohama Port (not a park but a artificial lanscape also interesting to see the events in time)
http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/foa_yokohama/pages/foa-yokohama_01.htm

VIA ARQUITECTURA special on memory, landscapes, and urban spaces
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/indice-09.htm
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/09-040.htm
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/09-046.htm
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/09-056.htm
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/09-060.htm
http://www.via-arquitectura.net/09/09-098.htm


PROFILE OF JURY MEMBERS

Please try to set up a profile of the non-South African jury members:

R. Raci Bademli (Turkey)
City Planner, comsultant to UN, Assitant Professor, City Planning, Ankara
http://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.tcl?document_id=4548
Advisor of the GALLIPOLI - PEACE PARK, Turkey

http://www.uia-architectes.org/texte/news/2a1aad.htm

Max Bond (USA)
I am not sure if it is J. Max Bond AIA head of Davis Brody Bond, NY. He was the evaluator of the WWII memorial competition:
http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/charrette/2002/participants.html
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=design.asp&subpage=intro


Olufemi Majekodunmi (Nigeria)
past President International Union of Architects, Practice in Lagos, Nigeria
olufemi_majek@yahoo.com
femi@majek.u_net.com
http://www.uia-architectes.org/texte/england/2aaf1.html

Gerrit Burger (Namibia)


LINKS ABOUT PRETORIA
http://www.go2africa.com/south-africa/gold-reef/pretoria/
http://www.pretoria.co.za/Tourism/gallery.asp
http://www.tshwane.gov.za/
http://www.tshwane.gov.za/pam/default.htm
http://www.pretoria.co.za/Tourism/museums.asp


LINKS ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA

MUSEUMS
San Jose Art Museum Competition, Jan. 2003. Click on Final Submissions (lower right corner) to see entries: http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/art_design/frames.html

Diller + Scofidio. ICA Boston: http://www.icaboston.org/information/thenewica/#


LINKS FREEDOM PARK COMPETITION & NEW MEMORIALS SOUTH AFRICA
News on Freedom Park Competition
http://www.southafricanemb.se/acini.htm

Apartheid Museum
http://www.apartheidmuseum.org


RECENT PRECEDENTS IN ICONING ARCHITECTURE
Norman Foster, Great London Authority: http://www.morelondon.com/more.html
http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/foster_gla/pages/cityhall_01.htm

Swiss RE Norman Foster
http://www.0lll.com/lud/pages/architecture/archgallery/foster_swiss-re/pages/swiss-re_01.htm
http://www.30stmaryaxe.com/
(construction pics) http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/wm/bu/cs/?id=100089
http://www.skyscrapers.com/english/wm/bu/?id=100089