Hot Dip Galvanising Awards 2002

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(2002), "Hot Dip Galvanising Awards 2002", Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, Vol. 49 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/acmm.2002.12849faf.003

Hot Dip Galvanising Awards 2002

Hot Dip Galvanising Awards 2002

Keywords: Galvanising, Awards

The Imperial War Museum - North (IWM-N) in Manchester, UK, and the refurbishment of Silversmiths Workshop in London were the joint winners at the tenth annual Hot Dip Galvanising Awards ceremony held recently in London. A self-build house, the Breaks Coombes House and the “Stepping Stones” footbridges and picnic table received Highly Commanded awards (Plates 2 and 3).

Plate 2 Joint winner: The Imperial War Museum - North, Manchester by Studio Libeskind, Berlin (© Galvaniser’s Association)

Plate 3 Joint winner: The Imperial War Museum - North, Manchester by Studio Libeskind, Berlin (© Galvaniser’s Association)

The judges, Jolyon Brewis of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners Ltd, Phil Williams of the British Constructional Steelwork Association and David Baron, general manager of Galvanisers’ Association, could not decide between two very different projects and so awarded them a joint first prize.

Daniel Libeskind’s IWM-N for its imaginative use of galvanising in the Air Shard, which forms the museum entrance. The exposed galvanised steel structure relates the museum to the former industrial harbour of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Plasma Studio for its very unusual and highly creative use of galvanised steel grating to form a translucent, internal, spiral landscape in its imaginative refurbishment of Silversmith’s Workshop, London (Plates 4 and 5).

Plate 4 Joint winner: Silversmith’s Workshop Refurbishment by Plasma Studio, London (© Galvaniser’s Association)

Plate 5 Joint winner: Silversmith’s Workshop Refurbishment by Plasma Studio, London (© Galvaniser’s Association)

A Highly Commended award was made to Burd Haward Marston Architects for their innovative, low cost modern family house, Brooks Coombes House, that was built by the client, but not limited by commonly understood “self build” methods or materials of construction and the resulting low-tech aesthetic. Instead it used available specialist technology, such as galvanising, rather than hand craft tradition (Plate 6).

Plate 6 Highly commended: The Brooke Coombes House, London by Burd Haward Marston Architects, London (© Galvaniser’s Association)

A second Highly Commended award was made to Simon Beeson at Linlithgow for “Stepping Stones” - a sores of galvanised steel platforms filled with granite setts. Two of these stepping-stones are bridges, with silvery galvanised steel cross-bracing railings and weathered oak hand rails. The middle one forms a place to sit at the edge of the pond (Plate 7).

Plate 7 Highly Commended: Stepping Stones by Simon Beeson, Linlithgow (© Galvaniser’s Association)

Details available from: Galvaniser’s Association, Tel: +44 (0) 121 355 8838; Fax: +44 (0) 121 355 8727; E-mail: ga@hdg.org.uk; Web site: www.hdg.org.uk