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The Concrete Building of the Year Award goes to the Estonian National Museum
The Concrete Building of the Year Award 2016 goes to DGT
Architects (Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh, Tsuyoshi Tane) for the Estonian National
Museum in Tartu,
Best Contractor - Riigi
Kinnisvara AS
Best Designer - Novarc
Group AS
Best Construction Works - Fund Ehitus OÜ
Best Concrete Works - Alusehitus
OÜ, BGM Ehitus OÜ, & K-Most AS
Best Concrete Elements - TMB
Element OÜ
Best Concrete - Rudus
AS, TM Betoon OÜ
Best Formwork - Ramirent
Baltic AS
An original building with contemporary architecture that
creates new connections in its environment and elegantly highlights the
advantages of concrete as a modern structural material.
The jury’s comment: ‘This building possesses ambitious
architecture that is rooted in concrete and is composed of a grand dialogue
between concrete, steel and glass.’
The jury’s chairman, Aadu
Kana, said: ‘The quality of the concrete work is also excellent - and on
what a scale! All the way to the rooms at the back, the ‘dark’ storage
facilities, and the hand-polished concrete stairs, each and every person
working on the construction of this building has done an outstanding job. It
stands as a true homage to the Estonian people!’
Special Award for Architecture - Narva beach house
Arhitektuuribüroo JVR
OÜ - Kalle Vellevoog, Andrus
Andrejev, & Martin Prommik
The jury’s comment was: ‘The architects have made sure that
this concrete building merges into the landscape and doesn’t seem to be too
dominating, while still guaranteeing active usability on different levels. A
cast concrete building with complicated configurations.’
The jury’s chairman, Aadu Kana, said: ‘The views are
extraordinary. An interesting terrain with historic and political symbols - a
contemporary approach to an historical and natural environment.’
Special Award for an Architectural Façade Design - the Karl
Storz Video Endoscopy Estonia OÜ production, service, and office building
Arhitektuuribüroo Luhse
& Tuhal OÜ
The jury’s comment was: ‘The surface of the panels on this
well-developed element building has been divided to add diversity, using
horizontal rectangles with the help of dummy joints for this purpose. The two
different forge patterns, combined with smooth unprocessed surfaces, accentuate
playfulness.’
The jury’s chairman, Aadu Kana, said: ‘E-Betoonelement used
titanium dioxide to produce the details on the building’s façade. The aim of
the architects was to achieve a light, charming, and natural-looking concrete
surface.’
Special Award for Cooperation between the Contractor,
Architect, and Manufacturer of the Concrete Element - Lääne-Virumaa villa
Contractor: private individual
Architects: Arhitektibüroo Emil Urbel OÜ (Emil Urbel, Aleksandr Zverev)
Concrete elements: Swetrak
AS
The jury’s comment was: ‘In addition to the concrete-heavy
exterior, copious amounts of pre-cast concrete surface detail also stands out
in the interior. The concrete doorposts only highlight the astounding attention
to detail.’
Swetrak AS is part
of the Consolise Group and was responsible for the excellent realisation of the
concrete elements that wowed the jury.
The Concrete Building of the Year Awards which took place
this year was already the sixteenth time this event had been run. The aim of
the awards is to make people aware of the wider areas of application for
concrete and to acknowledge those people who have used this versatile and
easy-to-shape domestic building material to implement their ideas.
Twenty projects were submitted to this year’s competition.
Qualification involved concrete buildings that were delivered to the contractor
in 2016, as well as any structures and procedures which were used within them.
The jury of the Concrete Building of the Year Awards 2016
included representatives from various Estonian construction associations: Ülar Mark from the Estonian Association
of Architects; Johannes Pello from
the Estonian Concrete Association; Indrek
Peterson from the Estonian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs; Heiki Meos from the Estonian
Association of Civil Engineers; Aivar
Lukk from the Estonian Association of Architectural and Consulting
Engineering Companies; Enno Rebane
from the Association of Construction Material Producers of Estonia; Aadu Kana, the jury’s chairman, and
also construction journalists, Eva
Kiisler from Ehitaja, Liivi Tamm from EhitusEST, and Finnish architect Maritta Koivisto from Betoni.
The Estonian Concrete Association incorporates 56 companies,
organisations, and private individuals, and aims to promote the use of concrete
as a domestic construction material.
The Association of Construction Material Producers of
Estonia incorporates 62 member companies which are involved in the production
and sale of construction materials.