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News Release from: Akzo Nobel
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 January 2008
Airport project wins Sikkens sponsored
LEAF award
At the Sikkens sponsored LEAF award, International Interior Design category, the winning project was the new Qantas First Lounge at Australia's Sydney International Airport.
This prestigious event, organised by the Leading European Architects Forum, recognises excellence, innovation and development in design and build This year the awards presentation and dinner was held at London's Waldorf Hilton Hotel and hosted by RIBA Past President, Maxwell Hutchinson
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 13 Oct 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over 300 of the industry's leading architects and designers were on hand to hear the decisions of the independent jury of professionals.
With 150 entries from 33 countries, and covering 11 distinct categories, the 2007 event demonstrated the growing significance of the LEAF awards among architects and designers worldwide.
In the Sikkens-sponsored International Interior Design category, which recognises the best interior design for either a new-build project or an interior renovation, the winning project was the new Qantas First Lounge at Australia's Sydney International Airport.
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Sikkens and Crown Trade products have been used in a comprehensive project to refurbish a Louisiana style paddle steamer which houses an Old Orleans Restaurant, based on a Thurrock lakeside.
Designed by architects Woods Bagot, this new state-of-the-art facility provides optimum levels of comfort, service and luxury through superior interior design, and forms part of an ongoing upgrade programme being carried out in anticipation of Qantas taking delivery in 2008 of its new Airbus A380 fleet.
Products from Sikkens' Synteko range were used to give all of the new lounge's parquet floors a high quality, hard-wearing, professional finish.
The range includes: Synteko Solid Oil, an alkyd-based, high solid oil which provides an attractive, smooth surface with excellent wear resistance, specially suited to commercial areas; Synteko Extra, a waterborne, one-component, low-odour floor finish for hardwood floors in residential and commercial areas; and Synteko Urethane, a polyurethane alkyd floor finish for softwood and hardwood floors in interior residential applications.
The interior design of the project creates a series of zones - from lounge areas and spa to restaurant and library - to ensure maximum appeal across a wide spectrum of passengers and their requirements.
The ambience of each zone is achieved by the effective use of colour, combined with high quality materials and finishes, including natural shades of red, brown and aubergine.
From the vertical garden in the reception area to the marble bar in the restaurant section, the overall result is an atmosphere of luxurious tranquility.
The Qantas First Lounge project had strong competition for the top prize.
Other nominees for the International Interior Design Award included the Home Couture showroom in Berlin, the Cosmo Grill in Munich, the Arola Restaurant at the Renia Sofia Museum in Madrid, Unilever House in London, and the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Toronto.
The LEAF Awards are open to all companies, technologies and individuals, with offices in Europe, that have made an outstanding contribution to the world of architecture, and who continue to set the benchmark for the buildings of tomorrow.
Sikkens is a major international brand owned by Akzo Nobel, the world's biggest paint company, which develops and supplies innovative coatings products and painting systems for architects, specifiers and interior designers.
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