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ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
- Organization & Management,
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Between 1985 and 2008
DDMC's Director
participated in many architectural
competitions, helping to win a few for his
clients, or former employers. In 2007-08,
he
successfully organized and managed all phases of $700
million USD (55,000 sq.m.) international architectural competition
for Saudi Aramco in Dhahran. The SACC
project (called:
King Abdulaziz Centre for Knowledge and Culture)
is to
commemorate the 75th Aramco Anniversary.
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Final 3 day Jury
Review at Saudi Aramco, Dhahran
COMPETITIONS
:
International
architectural competition for Aramco,
KSA - SA Cultural Center
Abu Shum Um $9 Billion USD
master
planning
competition
in Abu Dhabi
Studio ABC International, US Consulate
competitions,
EU
- Dubai
Tennis
development,
Dubai Land, UAE
Local
commercial competition
for G&A, Boston
MIMARI World Trade Center
competition
with Minoru Yamasaki, USA
MIT
competition
for a new School of Architecture HQs., Cambridge
also:
Brwinow district
master-planning competition,
EU
Art Museum competition
for Sta Barbara's University of California, USA
(DDMC
Director) presents site and explains competition rules to 6 semifinalists
First Phase included
25 architectural
teams. Then, our
scoring
system selected
6 best suited design
consultants for
this project. Semi-finalists,
the world renowned architects,
included:
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Atelier Hans Hollein, Austria
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Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
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Oma&Amo, Holland
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Omrania, KSA (Denmark)
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Snohetta, Norway
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ZFP, KSA
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- Directed
selection of 6 best qualified architectural teams for SACC
- Led
presentations for the SACC Board of Directors
- Created
competition rules
- Led
on site meetings with all participants (image above)
- Created
Design Scope of Work for 6 semifinalists
- Led
a meetings with SA's Executive
Directors
- Controlled
outgoing and incoming documentation
- Monitored
and assisted Consultants design process
- Selected
Technical Jurors
- Created
Technical Review Criteria
- Led
Technical Review process
- Created
documents for final Competition Phase
- Selected
and invited international competition Jurors
- Monitored
all preparation works, and final competition phases
- Monitored
contracts and honorariums payments
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SACC COMPETITION - IMAGES:
Zaha Hadid Architects from London placed Second - model
above
Winner Announcing Award Meeting in Saudi Aramco HO
SACC Competition
Winner: Snoheta Architects, Norway
backdoor story:
Snohetta was almost out of phase I
due to its very elevated competition fee request;
understanding
Snohetta 's
chances to win,
our Director
personally insisted on serious cut in financial expectations,
When accepted opened up the
way for a future winner to participate in Phases II and IIII.
Saudi Aramco
would not have such extraordinary, iconic piece of architecture without
hiring
professional competition management company. It took
our teams a
record short time of 5 months, from an idea to a Winner
announcement only
Similar in scale and importance International
Competitions take from 9 to 11 months
to organize.
Total organization,
PM
and architects fees cost was less than 0,4% of a gross construction
budget.
Saudi
Aramco
Cultural Center will be opened to a public in 2012
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