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News Release from: Copper in Architecture | Subject: Copper awards
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 October 2007
Copper awards showcase the best of
European design
Awards revealed an exceptional diversity of important buildings from around Europe - many not widely known or published - amongst the 74 entries.
his design-led competition includes two separate awards for the best recently completed buildings in the UK and in other participating European countries, as well as a cash prize for the best student project from UK schools of architecture and craftsmanship awards Winner of the UK category was Keith Williams Architects' Unicorn Theatre in London
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 29 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Copper In Architecture Awards Results
A group of new mews houses in Dublin, designed wins this year's Copper in Architecture Award.
The cool, calm approach taken with this landmark building and a careful use of materials singled it out for the Award.
The European Winner was the Jewish Centre in Munich designed by Wandel Hoefer Lorch Architekten.
Here, woven bronze mesh linked to transparency and light is a defining theme and its deceptively simple elegance won the judges over.
Three other European projects were highly commended, reflecting the particularly high quality of entries, ranging from a Spanish theatre, which also won an Innovation Award for its exciting approach to copper cladding, to an elegant Estonian museum and distinctive Norwegian science centre located near the arctic circle.
In the UK, two other projects were commended - Allies and Morrison's landmark Planetarium in Greenwich and Feilden Clegg Bradley's elegant Formby Swimming Pool.
The 2007 Student Award was won by Kirsten Hamilton of The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture with a Commendation for Jordan Hodgson of Leeds Metropolitan University.
Finally, Craftsmanship Awards assessed by specialist, expert judges recognise the essential role of craftsmanship in realising designers' aspirations for copper in architecture.
The 2007 Craftsmanship winner was 198 - 202 Piccadilly, London, designed by Robert Adam Architects and executed by copper contractor NDM ., and three other projects were Commended.
This major Awards programme considers architectural projects around Europe using copper in all its forms.
The team of leading architect judges - joined for the first time this year by Make's Ken Shuttleworth and the winner of the last European Award Kari Jarvinen from Finland - were clearly focused on architectural design.
This year, their task was made particularly difficult by the exceptional quality of entries across the board.
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