Excellence rewarded
27th June 2017

A private residence said to be ‘a modernist take on a country house’ was this week announced as winner of both the Overall Schueco Excellence Award and the Individual House category in this year’s Schueco Excellence Awards for Design and Innovation.

The winning entry, in the Oxfordshire countryside, was designed by Richard Meier of the US-based practice, Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP, its first domestic commission in the UK.

The winners in the other Award categories were: Two Tabernacle Street, Shoreditch, London (Commercial Building and Steel Project); Newport Street Gallery, London (Cultural Building); The David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge (Education Building); Altnagelvin Radiotherapy Unit, Londonderry, Northern Ireland (Health Building);Murray Road, Wimbledon (Individual House Improvement); 234 Bath Road, Slough Trading Estate (Refurbishment Project); Tapestry, King’s Cross (Residential Project); Alumet Systems (UK) – Specialist Contractor.

The judges also felt that Alumet Systems merited the Specialist Contractor Award for an outstanding performance which at one point saw the company running three major London residential contracts simultaneously: the 48-storey Baltimore Tower at Canary Wharf, the Merano Residences in Vauxhall and Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey.

In addition to the outright winners in each category, Brighton College Music School, Brighton was commended in the Education category and two London houses, one in Hackney and one in Clapham, were commended in the Individual House Improvement category.

Organised by Schueco UK in association with RIBA Journal, the Schueco Excellence Awards, now in their fourth year, were set up to identify and celebrate the very best in building design incorporating Schueco systems in Britain and Ireland, supported by evidence of creative collaboration between all members of the build team.

The panel of judges for the 2017 Awards consisted of Chair, Eleanor Young (executive editor of RIBA Journal); Steven Kennedy (associate principal at Grimshaw); Steve Mudie (partner specialising in façades at alinea consulting); Pankaj Patel (founding director at Patel Taylor Architects); Paul Savidge (managing director of Wintech) and Cindy Walters (director and co-founder of Walters & Cohen Architects).

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