We’d like to take the opportunity to introduce you to one of our Honorable mention winner for our "Monte D'Oiro Wine Hotel" competition – Matthew Baird, Ines Gulbenkian, Will James and Robert Estrin from United States!
Honorable mention from United States
Baird Architects is an architecture, planning, and design firm based in New York City and Mount Desert Island, Maine. Founded in 2002 by Matthew Baird, the firm has grown to 18 architects and planners and has built both public and private works in the US, Europe, and Asia. Our work ranges in scale from large campus programming and planning to compelling architectural detailing, all united by our commitment to exceptional design. Our investigations into the unique cultural and material language of each project are tempered by a sensitivity to economic and environmental concerns, and we exploit these constraints to generate novel building forms and planning concepts.
We are currently working on a range of projects: a master plan for an art museum in Philadelphia; an artist-in-residence complex in Rockland, Maine; a boutique hotel in Bozeman, Montana; and a number of ground-up residences on various sites in the USA. We are driven to research and to make compelling contemporary architecture that reflects a set of values particular to a people and place. We aspire to build in a way that does not exacerbate, but rather seeks to mend climate change.
Architecture, to us, is ultimately an act of optimism, whereby a culture can express its best intentions through engaging structures and spaces that push the art of habitation to compelling new levels.
Competitions offer us a chance to think about new design challenges, like Monte D’Oiro's winery, to express new ideas and to share that thinking with a larger group that might not be in our daily architectural milieu.
Our advice to those who are struggling to decide whether to do more competitions? Have fun, dream big, and just do it!
Submit a masterplan for an industrial park in Houston, Texas
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Design a sustainable artists residence in honor of Antoni Gaudi
Design a movie pavilion set in the stunning scenery of northern Iceland
Design meditation cabins to help Tokyo citizens destress and reconnect
Design a structure that would function as a source of education on past events or a method of raising awareness of ongoing injustices
Use architecture to create different emotional states
Present your best work and submit your favorite architectural visualization
Design an iconic new skyscraper constructed from timber
Design affordable housing in Las Vegas
Design a pavilion to exhibit rammed earth as a building material
Design a new concept of small-scale home
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