Six Georgian projects in ArchDaily 2022 Building of the Year Awards voting
Selections involving Georgian studios and architects are featured in different categories of this year's awards. Photos: Angus Leadley Brown, Levan Maisuradze, Ketevan Kruashvili.
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Six projects involving Georgian architects have been included among nominees for this year's ArchDaily 2022 Building of the Year Awards, with an online public voting open in the run-up to next month's announcement of the winner of the platform's prize.
In the latest awards from the popular platform that boasts over 13 million monthly readers - architecture professionals and enthusiasts - on its website, six submissions come from bureaus and studios involving creatives from Georgia.
The projects range from residential designs and skating parks in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, to private house and purpose-designed venues, with works by both solo and team authors submitted.
In the Residential category of 2022 nominees, an apartment block next to a former student dormitory in Georgia's capital represents the work by DM Studio and Wunderwerk, with architects Gigi Shukakidze, George Beriashvili and David Makharoblishvili.
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A summary from the authors said the project observed a "need to create a building that reflected a spacious, healthy living environment, unlike the tight constructions surrounding it", with the resulting design spaced across a sloped terrain to offer 35 units to prospective residents.
In the section for Apartments, organisers selected a T-Architects group project that aims to "bring a sign of order in existing, chaotic, and eclectically developed space" in one of Tbilisi districts affected by a lack of coordinated urban planning since the dissolution of the USSR in the early 1990s.
Featuring a "[modernist] grid facade" with a tilting profile starting from the sixth floor and upwards, the 5,900-square-metre design has been projected for the Vake district's Paliashvili street in the capital.
The T-Architects submission for an apartment building in Tbilisi's Vake district. Photos: Nikoloz Maisuradze.
In the Park category, a recreational space idea by David Giorgadze Architects + Maxime Machaidze (LTFR) envisions a skatepark and parkour ground in Tbilisi's popular Mziuri park, across a space of 1,820 square metres in the downtown.
This is the place where kids bond, make new friends and grow; it’s a 'ghetto Disneyland' on a post-soviet land
- David Giorgadze Architects + Maxime Machaidze (LTFR)
In the design, a pathway through a former route of a nearby river "maintains the life of the canal", with young skaters, bicycle riders and other visitors seen as replacing the flow of the water, artificially altered by city authorities following a devastating 2015 flood in the area.
In a departure from the capital city, a house project in the eastern Georgian village of Artana, in the winemaking province of Kakheti, comes via NS Studio and architects Nino Tchanturia and Luka Chaganava.
The 400-square-metre project, situated at the foot of the Caucasus mountain chain, takes advantage of a "breathtaking view" and incorporates the external surroundings in the interior, the authors said.
House in Artana, an NS Studio project located in eastern Georgia. Photo: Nick Paniashvili.
Also in the Houses section, NOA Studio's Mies van der Rohe Award-nominated design brings a concrete-built residence on the sloping landscape of Tbilisi Hills, one of the modern neighbourhoods of the city.
Incorporating ideas of concealing much of the house from the neighbourhood, but also opening the Caucasus mountain range views to its residents, with architects involved in the work noting "feeling of calmness and protection" as one of their major achievements.
Rounding off the selections, a project for the popular Tsiskvili restaurant chain in Tbilisi by Mamuka Chkhaidze represents Studio 9 in the nominations.
Involving a look of the Old Town "ruins", "with a synthesis of old and new materials", the design brings the restaurant to a river bank while incorporating a visual style of an ethnic museum mixed with the principal purpose of the venue.
Nominees for the 2022 award will be in running in the public voting through February 9, with five selections from each category then advancing to the final stage, running through February 17 and followed by an announcement of the ultimate winner.