Sydney’s One Central Park by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects is the Overall Winner at 2014 LEAF Awards, announced by the Leading European Architects Forum at a presentation in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The winning projects in 2014 are located across the globe from Johannesburg to Jordan. With thirteen categories spanning single occupancy residential to urban design, the annual awards program recognises “buildings that are setting the benchmark for the international architecture and design community.”
Sea Mirror by Yann Kersalé is a series of 2880 programmable, coloured LED lights that illuminate the site at night.
Image: Simon Wood
One Central Park also took out the title of Best Sustainable Development of the year. “The incorporation of [a Central Thermal Plant and Water Recycling Plant] alone sets the development apart,” said the judges, “but it’s the astonishing cantilevered Heliostat with its array of adjustable mirrors forming a shimmering canopy, and the vertical gardens and green terraces providing a curtain of foliage turning the pristine floor to ceiling glazing into a high tech ‘tree house’ that delight in equal measure.”
On the judging panel were: Carlo Castelli (AECOM), Alan Crawford (Crawford Partnership), Firas Hnoosh (BDP), Božana Komljenovic (Zaha Hadid), Rysia Suchecka (NBBJ) and Lev Libeskind (Daniel Liebeskind).
Read John de Manincor’s review of One Central Park from the Urban Housing special issue of Architecture Australia.
Full list of winners:
Mixed-Use Building of the Year
Esas Aeropark (Istanbul, Turkey) – Tabanlioglu Architects Melkan Gursel & Murat Tabanlioglu
Residential Building of the Year – Single Occupancy
P house (Sao Paulo, Brazil) – studio mk27
Residential Building of the Year - Multiple Occupancy
Seto (Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima) – Mount Fuji Architects Studio
International Interior Design Award
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Wilmotte & Associés SA
Commercial Building of the Year
Cultura Bookstore (Sao Paulo, Brazil) – studio mk27
Hospitality Building of the Year
Steyn City Club House (Johannesburg, South Africa) – Boogertman + Partners Architects
Refurbishment of the Year
BIG Library (Gourdon, France) – CoCo Architecture and Atelier RK
Public Building of the Year
London School of Economics and Political Science, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (London, UK) – O’Donnell + Tuomey
Best Sustainable Development of the Year
One Central (Sydney, Australia) – Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects
Best Future Building of the Year - Drawing Board
The Ring House (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) – MZ Architects
Best Future Building of the Year - Under Construction
Mongkok Residence (Hong Kong) – Aedas
Special Commendation
Luoyuan Church (Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China) – INUCE AG, Dirk U. Moench
Urban Design of the Year
A Gateway to Petra (Wadi Musa, Jordan) – Maisam Architects & Engineers
The Overall Winner
One Central Park (Sydney, Australia) – Ateliers Jean Nouvel and PTW Architects
