Living Steel announces winners of
sustainable housing competition
 Living
Steel announced the winners of its International Competition for
Sustainable Housing at the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum III in Vancouver.
The competition called for designs that could
be built in two locations: Warsaw in Poland and Kolkata in India.
Architectenbureau cepezed from the Netherlands has won the competition
for a design to be built in Poland. The competition for India has
been won by UK architects Piercy Conner Architects. Each firm will
be awarded a prize of €50,000 (approximately $65,000 US) and
a contract to develop their designs for construction.
The winners were selected by an jury chaired by
internationally-renowned architect Glenn Murcutt and approved by
the International Union of Architects (UIA).
The Jury selected winners from a short-list of
10 architecture firms for the Polish competition and 8 for India.
Each company making it on to the short-list received an honorarium
of €10,000.
They were asked to design buildings that advanced
the concept of sustainable housing in each location, demonstrating
the value and performance of steel in improving economic, environmental
and social performance. |
