LEAF AWARDS
Awin for architecture Despite the global downturn the 2011 LEAF Awardwinners are proof that innovation in the industry is still alive andwell
Nowin its ninth year, the annual Emirates Glass LEAF Awards celebrate the very best architecture that has taken place on the planet in the past 12 months.
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ttracting entries from iconic buildings around the world, the awards
recognise those that have not only had exceptional success, but also shown leadership within their respective fields. Previous winners have
included Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, SOM, Steven Holl and Terry Farrell. This year’s judging panel
comprised Lucy Bullivant, Irving Brauer, Stephen Fisher and
CATEGORY:MIXED-USE BUILDING OF THE YEAR WINNER: THE BOAT ARCHITECT: TODD ARCHITECTS LOCATION: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND COST: £4.9MILLION COMPLETION DATE: APRIL 2010
Judges’ comments: This innovative live/work/leisure building is almost certainly the first of its kind in the city of Belfast. The 14-storey tower incorporates apartments above offices, and a restaurant and bar at ground level. Its highly glazed facades exert solar control via a bespoke external aluminiumlouvre systemwith hardwood shading, and the Boat’s roof is a lightweight construction.
Angus Brown. Selecting the winners from the shortlist proved harder than ever for the panel, causing them to request additional time to reach a decision on an overall winner. The judges said they were
ultimately looking for: "Strategic excellence, marketplace impact and, above all, innovation and practical developments that
challenge and change the way we evaluate the buildings of today." And the winners of each of the twelve categories certainly deliver on all of these points. Here we take a closer look at
each of the winning projects, which collectively set the benchmark for the international architectural community going forwards.
CATEGORY: PUBLIC BUILDING OF THE YEAR WINNER: CITÉ DE L'OCÉAN ET DU SURF ARCHITECT: STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS LOCATION: BIARRITZ, FRANCE COST: €22.4MILLION COMPLETION DATE:MAY 2011
Judges’ comments: This is a exploratory building focusing on oceanic issues, and the educational and scientific aspects of sea and surf. It is designed as a set of simple, low, geometric enclosures, for a permanent collection and exhibition area with a rolling plaza. This is a poetic gestural design sitting between land and sea, and bringing together the best of both.
CATEGORY: PUBLIC BUILDING OF THE YEAR WINNER: BUILDING OF CONTROL CCS ARCHITECT: DIAZ & DIAZ ARQUITECTOS LOCATION: OUTER HARBOUR OF FERROL GALICIA, SPAIN COST: €1.4MILLION COMPLETION DATE: JULY 2010
Judges’ comments: CCS combines structural integrity with a deep sense of its purpose. The structure seems to grow naturally as if extruded out of the harbour wall and is then wrapped by its elegantly designed double skin façade.
CATEGORY: COMMERCIAL BUILDINGOF THE YEAR WINNER: DIAGONAL ZEROZERO TELEFONICA TOWER ARCHITECT: ESTUDIMASSIP-BOSCH ARQUITECTES LOCATION: BARCELONA, SPAIN COST: €66.9MILLION COMPLETION DATE: JANUARY 2011
Judges’ comments: Rising 100m, the office complex is sharp and stylised, yet its serene trapezoidal prism form has a modular curtain wall façade of thin white aluminium profiles like vertical wave forms. Low-iron, extra-transparent glass with patterned ceramic serigraphy reinforces the building’s slenderness, and contributes to solar diffusion and glare control. Inside this organic-looking building, three interrelated levels flow around a 40m high atrium following the slope of the adjacent Plaça Forum, creating direct visual and physical continuity with the city to help people enjoy its civic activities.
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