Japanese office Junya Ishigami + Associates is the winner in the contest to build the ‘Port of Kinmen Passenger service Center‘ located on the chinese coast, 190km East of Taiwan. The competition brief called for a world-class ferry terminal that provides both touristic and recreational activities in addition to functioning as a port-of-call for chinese and international cruise operators.

The program for the new  Port of Kinmen Passenger Service Center includes domestic arrivals, cross-straight departures, port offices, commercial outlets, equipment rooms and administrative areas. Phase 1 of the project will have a total floor area of 36,080 square meters, with phase 2 expanding the scheme to a total of 42,480 square meters. The new center will eventually accommodate 5 million passengers annually.

Second PriZe, Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Inc. / Thomas W. Wiscombe.

Third PriZe, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects / Lorcan O'Herlihy.

Honorable Mentions 1 and 2.- Miralles Tagliabue EMBT SLP. / Benedetta Tagliabue. // Josep Mias Gifre.

The components of short-list were.-

Number 13. Josep Mias Gifre. Nationality.- Spain.
Number 14. Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects / Lorcan O'Herlihy. Nationality.- USA.
Number 13. Junya Ishigami + Associates. Nationality.- Japan.
Number 13. Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Inc. / Thomas W. Wiscombe. Nationality.- USA.
Number 13. Miralles Tagliabue EMBT SLP. / Benedetta Tagliabue. Nationality.- Spain.

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Junya Ishigami, born in Tokyo, Japan (1974). Education:
1994 - 1998 Musashi Institute of Technology. 
1998 - 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Professional experience:
 2000 - 2004 Kazuyo Sejima + Associates. 
In 2004 he set up his own firm, "Junya Ishigami + Associates". Junya Ishigami questions common understanding of architecture. This allows him to create things beyond trends, established principles and definitions, develop new structures, new spaces and organize the environment differently. He hopes his projects will be able to change the lifestyle of modern architecture radically and fill it with new values.

Main projects:
 Table. Tokyo, Japan, 2005
T. project. (First prize in residential architecture project sponsored by the Tokyo Electric Power Company). Tokyo, Japan, 2005 
Balloon. Tokyo, Japan, 2007
Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT kobo. Kanagawa, Japan, 2008
Yohji Yamamoto New York Gansevoort street store, NY, USA, 2008.

Main awards:
 “low chair and round table” were acquired by the Pompidou Centre. Milan, Italy, 2004, 
SD Prize for “small garden of row house”. Japan, 2005, 
Kirin Prize for “Table” . Tokyo , Japan, 2005, 
First prize in residential architecture project for “t project”. Tokyo, Japan, 2005, 
“Table” shown at the Basel Art Fair by Gallery Koyanagi in 2006 and acquired by the Israel Museum. Basel , Swiss, 2006.

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Published on: May 13, 2014
Cite: "Junya Ishigami wins Port of Kinmen Passenger Service Center competition" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/junya-ishigami-wins-port-kinmen-passenger-service-center-competition> ISSN 1139-6415
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