Information Based Architecture

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Information Based Architecture IBA, is a young office for architecture, urbanism and design, set up in London in 1998, as a partnership of the architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit. The practice is ambitious and interested to develop an architecture that is Fresh, New, Conceptual and Coherent. The practice was shortlisted in 2002 for the Young Architects of the Year Award in the United Kingdom. In 2003 & 2004 the office received a scholarship for research from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Information Based Architecture has participated successfully in many invited international competitions, such as the Sarajevo Concert Hal International Competition in Bosnia, and the International Competition for the planning of the central part of Narva, an urban square and hotel, in Estonia. In September 2004 Information Based Architecture won the international competition for the design of the 610 meter tall Guangzhou TV-tower in China, 100.000sqm and a budget of 220 million dollars, which is now under construction, and due to be completed in 2010.

Currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, IBA continues its work on projects in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, China and Ghana. The work ranges from small to large-scale projects, continuously studying and experimenting on the architectural, -interior and urban scale.

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