A transformation and expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales into two buildings connected by a public art garden has won the ‘large-projects-over-$10m’ category in the inaugural Australian Steel Institute (ASI) Steel Sustainability Awards.
Almost doubling the exhibition space, the building project employed latest sustainable practices including reuse of materials and achieved world-leading 6-star Green Star accreditation.
Building services company Arup entered the project for the awards, with designer SANAA and Architectus as executive architects; Arup as engineer; Richard Crookes Constructions as head contractor; and SSA certified Samaras Structural Engineers as the steel fabricator.
The art gallery was one of six projects or initiatives honoured on February 20 for delivery of sustainable steel solutions in the Australian built environment.
A video of the winners and highly commended can be viewed at the following page:
Art Gallery of NSW - winner of Large Projects category
The winners of the other three categories were:
Highly commended project and initiatives were:
The biannual awards cover the entire steel supply chain, including architects, designers, engineers, steel manufacturers, distributors, fabricators, processors, builders and constructors.