2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards Winners and Finalists
Revealed at Greenbuild
TORONTO (October 11, 2011) - The winners of the
2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards were announced at the U.S.
Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and
Expo, showcasing excellence in holistic retrofitting projects from
around the world.
Zerofootprint Founder and CEO Ron Dembo made the announcement
during his breakout session on energy benchmarking and the
importance of improving our older, existing stock of urban
buildings to fight climate change.
The 2011 competition was run in partnership with the John H.
Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University
of Toronto.
Winners were
chosen by a jury of experts in architecture, design, and
engineering: Canadian architect John Patkau; Edward Mazria,
Architecture 2030 Challenge founder; Thomas Auer, energy efficient
building design expert; Michael Ra, Front Inc. founding partner;
Michelle Addington, Yale Architecture professor; and Dana Cuff,
UCLA Architecture professor and Founding Director of sustainable
urban design think tank CityLAB.
Winner in the institutional Category was HKW Building, RWTH
Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (See above)
"The Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards is certainly a significant
competition since re-skinning will become the most important design
task for the next decades - if we want to seriously reduce our
greenhouse gas emissions," says juror Thomas Auer.
"The quality of the submissions had been very exciting,
technically as well as aesthetically, which underlines the
potential and importance of re-skinning."
The Palms, a house in Venice, California designed by Daly Genik
Architects, won the prize for Best Overall Project 2011. The most
notable feature of The Palms is a sheer white exoskeleton made from
locally sourced recycled steel, which transformed the look of the
house and significantly expanded the outdoor living space without
increasing the site's footprint.
"The Palms is an outstanding example of an architecture project
that can transform our cities to fight climate change," says Ron
Dembo.
"The design is energy and water efficient, replicable, and
beautiful. This project demonstrates that re-skinning existing
buildings to reduce their environmental impact does not have to
mean limiting the quality of materials, the use of smart
technologies, or the aesthetics of the final product."
The 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards winners are:
Residential Category
• Winner - The Palms, Venice, California, Daly Genik
Architects
Institutional Category:
Institutional Category:
• Winner - HKW Building, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen,
Germany (iParch, Imagine Envelope)
• Finalist - Centre for Justice Leadership, Humber College,
Toronto, Canada (Gow Hasting Architects)
• Finalist - Artscape Wynchwood Barns, Toronto, Canada (du
Toit Architects Ltd.)
• Finalist - Percy Gee Building, University of Leicester,
Leicester, England (Shepheard Epstein Hunter)
Commercial/Industrial Category
• Finalist, Honourable Mention for Community Benefits - King
and King Headquarters, Syracuse, New York (King and King
Architects)
• Finalist, Honourable Mention for Resource Efficiency
- 21 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand (Peddle Thorpe
Aitken)
• Finalist, Honourable Mention for Reproducibility - Ergo
Tower, Milan, Italy (Aste and Finzi Architetti)
• Finalist, Honourable Mention for Innovative Technology -
First Canadian Place, Toronto, Ontario (B+H Architects, Moed de
Armas and Shannon)
• Finalist, Honourable Mention for Aesthetics and Community
Benefits - Orange Cube, Lyon, France (Jakob +
MacFarlane)
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