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| Cemex Building Award recognizes the best in architecture and construction in 16 countries  Cemex, S.A.B. de C.V. announced the winners of the XXIII Edition of the Cemex Building Award, recognizing buildings that stand out for their constructive, conceptual, technical, and aesthetic solutions.On this edition, the Cemex Building Award registration recorded 500 domestic buildings and 214 constructed in Bosnia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Guatemala, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Thailand and United Kingdom. The jury that evaluated all works consisted of 17 specialists from six different countries. Winning entries of the contest were selected by the new conceptual, technical, and aesthetic solutions applied in their design, construction or use. The Cemex Building Award selects the best buildings constructed in different countries, recognizing the most outstanding project in each of three categories, along with two special prizes. In the edition of the event that is exclusive for projects Mexican, awards were given in nine categories, as well as four special prizes. The winning projects of the XXIII Edition of the Cemex Building Award are: International Winners by Category Housing CR House Bogota, Colombia Project Representative: Architect Martín Halliday Rueda Institutional-Industrial Jumex Museum Mexico City Project Representative: Roberto Velázquez, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo Infrastructure and Urbanism Cinta Costera III Panama, Panama Project Representative: Engineer Helio Boleira Winners of International Special Prizes Sustainable Building Sport City Oaxaca Oaxaca, Mexico Project Representative: Sport City & Deportes Martí, Alicia Andonegni Accessibility Congruence Bernardino Cordero Bernard High School Ponce, Puerto Rico Project Representative: Architect José Antonio Rodríguez Barceló Mexico Winners by Category Single Family Housing Narigua House Santa Catarina, N.L. Project Representative: Engineer Arturo Barbosa López P House Huixquilucan, Estado de Mexico Project Representative: Architect Abraham Cherem Low-Income Housing Balcones de Ecatepec Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico Project Representative: IDECOP, Francisco Carreño Romero Land + Self-built Housing Ameca, Jalisco Project Representative: Architect Carlos Ochoa Fernández Medium and High-End Residential Complex Tres Picos 97 Mexico City Project Representative: D+S Architects, Architect Sonny Sutton Askenazi, Engineer Allan Dayan Askenazi Educational and Cultural Building Jumex Museum Mexico City Project Representative: Roberto Velázquez, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo Public Services and Assistance Sombrerete Community Center Queretaro, Queretaro Project Representative: Architect Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón Commercial and Mixed Uses B"O Hotel San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas Project Representative: Facto Arquitectura S.A. de C.V., Architect Jorge F. Márquez H. Industrial Building Development Underground Production Automated Hall SAPS Atizapan de Zaragoza, Estado de Mexico Project Representative: Architect Rafael Barona Coghlan Urbanism Canyon Recovery Atizapan de Zaragoza, Estado de México Project Representative: Architect Rafael Barona Coghlan Infrastructure San Marcos Bridge Xicotepec, Puebla Project Representative: Engineer Jorge Alfredo Delgado Ramírez, Engineer Jorge I. Colonia Albornoz Winners of Special Prizes Mexico Sustainable Building Sport City Oaxaca Oaxaca, Oaxaca Project Representative: Sport City & Deportes Martí, Alicia Andonegni Accessibility Congruence Chufani Corporate Offices Querétaro, Querétaro Project Representative: Architect Fernando Navarro Ortega Social Impact CRI Building Mexicali, Baja California Project Representative: Constructora Valle Dorado S.A. de C.V., Engineer Gabriela Viridiana Chong de la Rosa Innovation in Techniques and Construction Processes Modular System in Concrete for Permeable Floors San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon Project Representative: Architect Luis Gabriel Orozco Padilla The "Lorenzo H. Zambrano Lifetime Achievement Award" was given to David Serur, recognized for his outstanding career of more than 40 years in the construction industry and his significant contribution to the Mexican engineering. The "Architect Marcelo Zambrano" Scholarship, which supports young Mexican architects in their postgraduate studies, was awarded to Javier Garciadiego Ruiz, who will enroll in the Master or Urban Planning (Housing and Economic Development) in the NYU Wagner School, New York University. Cemex Building Award was first held in 1991 and is one of the most important events in the construction industry. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Construction News :: home page |