Turin, 2 July 2008 - Living Steel today announced winners for its 3^rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing, which presented architects with the task of creating energy efficient, single-family, detached housing that minimises climate change emissions and can withstand temperature extremes, yet is affordable to build and to buy.

Australian firm, Peter Stutchbury Architects, represented by Peter Stutchbury and Richard Smith, is selected as the winner for extreme housing in Cherepovets, Russia, receiving the Jury Prize of €50,000.

According to the Jury's report, the design was selected because "Peter Stutchbury Architecture's scheme represents the kind of thinking the Living Steel competition is meant to inspire, offering a more considered, thoughtful and larger trajectory to the project brief requirements. It is the most memorable of all of the schemes offered in the competition, and the Jury made a 5 to 1 decision to select it as the winning scheme for the 3^rd International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing. It is radically different and has a very imaginative understanding of the landscape theme, and the suggested neighbourhood plan provides an incredible play field for children and park-like setting for the community."

The Jury was hard pressed to select only one winner since so many high-quality schemes were presented. Because of this, it was decided to give Honourable Mention to two additional teams, RVTR of Toronto, Canada, led by Kathy Velikov and Paul Raff, and Bligh Voller Nield (BVN) Architecture, with team members Chris Clarke and Joel Kelder. Each of the Honourable Mention teams receives a €3,000 prize.

"Having been on previous Living Steel juries, the quality of the work represented in this year's entries is of a higher standard, the diversity in the work is greater, and the commitment to the work is greater," said Glenn Murcutt, Jury Chair. "I think this is a consequence of the way Living Steel has conducted the competitions this time where each of the teams have been invited here to present the work. There is a big difference in presenting your ideas in person and sending a set of drawings off for people to interpret."

Living Steel chose to change the format for the 2008 competition, bringing all 12 teams together in Helsinki, Finland, at Historic Suomenlinna for presentations to the Jury. The participants watched from the audience as each team presented their design concepts and discussed their approaches with the Jury.

As the Jury entered deliberations at Hvitträsk, the 24 architects who made up the finalist teams were divided into four groups and tasked in a Design Charrette with master planning of the community. The day began with a Mark Verdier, Professeur à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de NANCY, who conducted a presentation on considerations for community planning. The groups were briefed on the Cherepovets development requirements and then given a day and a half to develop the community's master plan. To select the winning group, each team voted for one of the three other teams to select the winning group. The winning group, Daniel Jenkins, ECD Architects, UK, Lourenço Gimenes, FGMF Arquitetos, Brazil, Pekka Pakkanen, Huttenen-Lipasti-Pakkenen Architects, Finland, Philip Wells, Hugh Broughton Architects, UK, Vimal Jain, ARCHITECTURE PARADIGM, India and Fabio Cibinel, modostudio, Italy, share a €24,000 Architects Prize.

Each team receives a €3,000 honorarium for participating in the competition, as well as their travel expenses to Helsinki paid by Living Steel.

"On behalf of the jury, I would like to say that we commend the organizers of the 3^rd Competition format. We very much appreciated the interactivity between the jury and finalists, the openness of the presentations, and the fostering of shared ideas, kinship and beneficial conversations," said Murcutt. "It represents a departure from traditional formats, and one that really achieves the very dialogue that Living Steel wishes to generate among the world's architects."

In addition to Mr. Murcutt, the 3^rd International Architecture Competition's renowned Jury includes:

• Kimmo Lintula, K2S Architects Ltd., Finland
• Mark Middleton, Grimshaw Architects, UK
• Patricia Patkau, Patkau Architects, Canada
• Sergey Skuratov, Sergey Skuratov Architects, Russia
• Alexei Venediktov, SeverStal JSC, Russia     

Peter Stutchbury Architects will begin collaborating with Russian developer and Living Steel member SeverStal, as well as a local Russian architect, to define their design for construction in Cherepovets. Living Steel plans to showcase a completed demonstration building in late 2009. The homes constructed from the winning design will be part of a community for use by employees of SeverStal JSC, which has a large manufacturing operation in Cherepovets.

"This year's competition was a fantastic opportunity to bring together some of the brightest architects in the world today who are passionate about steel as a sustainable material for residential construction," said Scott Chubbs, Living Steel Programme Director. "We are extremely pleased with the offerings for single-family dwellings this 3^rd competition generated and hope that they serve as further inspiration in the dialogue on sustainable architecture."

Details about the winning design and master plan, Jury report, brief summaries of each finalist presented and more about the 3^rd International Architecture Competition can be viewed at www.livingsteel.org/.

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Editor's Notes

About Living Steel

Living Steel, a worldwide, collaborative programme designed to stimulate innovative and responsible housing design and construction was launched in February, 2005. The programme was developed to help address the unprecedented pressure on infrastructure, communities and the quality of people's lives stemming from growing urban populations.

Becker Industrial Coatings, McDonald Steel Building Products Ltd., Realm Intermediaries (P) Ltd. and Saint-Gobain Gypsum are Associate Members.

Supporting Members of the Living Steel include Associação Portuguesa de Construção Metálica e Mista, Asociación para la Construcción de Estructuras Metálicas, Asociación para la Promoción Técnica del Acero, Bouwen mit Staal, Canadian Institute of Steel Construction, Centro Brasileiro da Construção em Aço, European Convention for Constructional Steelwork, Finnish Constructional Steelwork Association, Fondazione Promozione Acciaio, HERA, Institute for Steel Development and Growth, Instituto Latinoamericano del Fierro y el Acero, International Zinc Association, Korea Iron & Steel Association, Korean Society of Steel Construction, Singapore Structural Steel Society, South African Institute of Steel Construction, Staalinfocentrum - Centre Information Acier, Stahl-Informations-Zentrum, Steel Construction Institute, Steel Framing Alliance and Turk Yapisal Celik Dernegi.

Visit www.livingsteel.org/members to learn more about our membership.

About the Living Steel International Architecture Competitions

The Living Steel International Architecture Competitions were launched to develop innovative approaches to meet sustainable housing needs. Underpinning each competition is the need to address the economic, environmental and social implications of increasing population density and growth.

The combined competitions have a total prize fund of €700,000, making them one of the largest architectural design initiatives in the world, and present architects with the opportunity to bring their vision for effective and affordable housing to life in one of several countries around the world.

The first competition was launched in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 6, 2005, at the XXII World Congress of the International Union of Architects, with a call for expressions of interest to design sustainable housing in Kolkata, India and Warsaw, Poland. In June 2006, UK firm Piercy Conner Architects and architectenbureau cepezed from the Netherlands won the competition and were awarded contracts to complete and develop their designs for construction in India and Poland, respectively. The second competition was announced on World Architecture Day, October 2, 2006, with a call for expressions of interest to design sustainable housing in Brazil, China and the United Kingdom. From more than 1,100 expressions of interest, 18 short-listed firms were invited to submit designs for steel-based residential housing. Winners were announced in September 2007: For Brazil, Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados Ltda, Brazil; for China, Knafo Klimor Architects, Israel; and for the UK, Cartwright Pickard, UK. Visit www.livingsteel.org/competitions for more details.

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