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| Zumtobel awards go to Brazil and the USA At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. The Austrian lighting group's award, which carries a purse of EUR 140,000, honours sustainable solutions in architecture and engineering that make pioneering contributions to the future quality of life. In the "Built Environment" category, the jury chose to commend the Brazilian architectural practice Triptyque for its ecologically and architecturally pioneering office building and gallery "HARMONIA 57". The award in the "Research & Initiative" category went to the non-profit design studio Terreform ONE, founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the research project "New York City Resource & Mobility", a visionary master plan that maps out a sustainable future for New York City. As well as selecting the two prizewinners, the jury also awarded honourable mentions to four projects in each of the two categories. In the category "Built Environment" these include a New York High Line design and redevelopment project (James Corner Field Operations); a Centre for Women in Burkina Faso (FARE Studio); the newly developed Elm Park suburb of Dublin (Buchholz McEvoy Architects); and the new California Academy of Science building in San Francisco (Renzo Piano Building Workshop). In the category "Research & Initiative", honourable mentions went to a rural student project at the University of Talca in Chile; a cross-border exchange programme and symposium "Political Equator II" (Estudio Teddy Cruz) involving the USA and Mexico; a highly poetical idea for an office and studio building in Columbia (Husos Architects); and a master plan for a wind park in the North Sea (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) that aims to meet the entire electricity needs of the Netherlands. The 2010 Zumtobel Group Awards will be presented to the winners at a gala evening in Bregenz, Austria, on Thursday, September 9, 2010. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |