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| Heelis wins RIBA Sustainability Award  Heelis, the Central Office for The National Trust in Swindon by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects has won the RIBA Sustainability Award. Won in a design competition, Heelis is a model low-energy office building on a brownfield site. This striking building has a generous front-of-house space that provides a welcoming reception, a shop and a cafй that is open to the public. The two-storey deep open-plan office is naturally ventilated with a myriad of ventilation chimneys, and is daylit. The performance of the banks of solar panels on the roof is displayed in the entrance hall and the staff's cars are restricted to car-sharers.The RIBA Sustainability Award sponsored by English Partnerships is given to the building that demonstrates most elegantly and durably the principles of sustainable architecture. The other contenders for the RIBA Sustainability Award were: 1. ARC, Hull by Niall McLaughlin Architects 2. National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff by Richard Rogers Partnership 3. UCL - The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London WC1 by Short and Associates The winner will be presented with their Award at a special ceremony at the RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal, on Saturday 14 October at the Roundhouse, London. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |