The Structural Awards 2013 Winners News

Taizhou Bridge, China

The winners of The Structural Awards 2013 announced. The Awards, organised each year by The Institution of Structural Engineers, celebrate the world’s most talented structural designers and their indispensable contribution to the built environment.

Central China TV Beijing building, OMA

Central China TV Beijing Building, OMA

Once completed, the CCTV building will transform the usually inaccessible environment of media and television production and give access to the public via the ‘Visitor’s Loop’, a dedicated path of circulation.

Zaryadye Park Moscow Design Competition

Zaryadye Park Competition, Moscow

Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins Zaryadye Park competition. In Moscow, on the 12th November 2013, the winner was announced for the international competition to develop the landscaping and architectural concept of Zaryadye Park. This was the consortium headed by the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York).

University of Exeter Forum Project, Devon

University of Exeter Forum Project Devon building

University of Exeter Forum – spectacular new hub for students designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The £48m project provides a new entrance for the University’s Streatham campus and houses new student facilities and teaching accommodation beneath a soaring timber-framed ETFE and copper roof

BarentsKrans Offices, Den Haag Law Firm

BarentsKrans Offices, Den Haag

New home for famous law firm in The Hague, the Netherlands. A successful collaboration between the renowned law and notary firm BarentsKrants and the Amsterdam firm Hofman Dujardin Architects has resulted in a remarkable building renovation in The Hague

Brunner Clerkenwell London Showroom

Brunner Showroom Clerkenwell

Luxury furniture showroom breathes new life into historic Clerkenwell warehouse. International high-end furniture company Brunner has opened its new London headquarters to the public. Designed by McDowell+Benedetti, the showroom and offices occupy a large 3-storey Victorian warehouse space on Rosebery Avenue, near Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell.

Lajeunesse Residence Montréal, Quebec home design

Lajeunesse Residence Montréal, Quebec

Lajeunesse Residence. “We were hired by a young couple to do a complete renovation of a house built by the clients grandfather, now housing its third generation of the same family. They wanted to combine the two existing apartments into a single family house on two levels.”

FC Sevastopol Football Stadium Building

FC Sevastopol Football Stadium building Ukraine

Sevastopol Football Stadium Building, Ukraine – architectural project of new football stadium for FC Sevastopol by Artur Kupriichuk, built on the site of demolished stadium “Chaika”.

Maggies Northeast: Cancer Care Newcastle

Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre Newcastle

Maggies Cancer Caring Centres are for anyone affected by cancer. They are drop-in centres where people, including patients, friends and family can get the comprehensive support they need to help them to live with, through and beyond cancer.

Ruch Chorzow Stadium – Football Arena Poland

Ruch Chorzow Stadium, Poland

The competition involves the construction of a new stadium with a capacity of 12,000 seats, easily upgradeable to 16,000 seats. The request is to build a modern sports center, performing, and secure

The project area includes, in addition to the stadium itself, a regular-size field for training, and a real “sports village” with shops for fans, dining, and meeting places.

Parramatta Stage 5 & 6 Towers Competition

Parramatta Stage 5 & 6 Towers

The proposal for the Parramatta’s stage 5 & 6 commercial towers aims at integrating the towers within the urban fabric of the city by favouring retention of existing public access through the site and providing the city of Parramatta new public destinations.

Bodrum House – New Residence in Turkey

E-House, Bodrum

New Residence in Bodrum: the site is near a seaside settlement named Yahşi in Bodrum, Turkey. The location of the house is not so close to the crowded touristic part of the city in order to have a relaxed life style but still close enough to the facilities in 10 minutes distance.

Taiwan Architecture Awards 2013 Winners

Water-Moon Monastery

After intense debates, the five selection panelists finally decided that the Water-Moon Monastery by Artech Architects is the recipient of the First Prize of 2013 Taiwan Architecture Award. Water-Moon Monastery was established by the commission of the past Buddhist Master Sheng Yen, the founder of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.

Signaux-Captés Montreal: Signals Received

Signaux-Captés Montreal: Signals Received

For Montreal’s Cabaret Underworld, he was commissioned to create a new visual identity with a dual leitmotiv: Build a special link between the building’s inside and outside by designing signage leading to the entrance.