Press release
\n14.03.2012<\/p>\n
On a national thematic Concrete Day, the Concrete Association of Estonia announced today winners of \u2018The Concrete Construction of Year 2011\u2019 Award at an seminar event held in the Tallinn University of Technology.<\/p>\n
Concrete Construction 2011\u00a0<\/strong>in Estonia is \u2018Cromatico\u2019 sound sculpture<\/strong>, located on the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.<\/p>\n Grand Prix Award of the competition was granted to sculptor\u00a0Lukas K\u00fchne <\/strong>from Germany.<\/p>\n Constructor Award \u2013 Andrei Kervali\u0161vili, Nordecon Betoon O\u00dc \u2018Cromatico\u2019 is a visualisation of chromatic musical scale. It consists of 12 concrete chambers (which illustrate one octave of the black and white piano keys). Each chamber of the concrete band shell reverberates in a different pitch.<\/p>\n According to the sculptor, the \u2018Cromatico\u2019 project was realised for The European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 in cooperation with an international culture platform Tuned City (tunedcity.net).<\/p>\n Comments of the jury: Very thin walls of the sculpture, poured from monolithic concrete directly on location, required extremely skilful workers. The sculpture is a complicated engineering solution, in which the artist\u2019s vision of sounds and their travel through the chambers meet well with technical realisation.<\/p>\n \u2018Cromatico\u2019 gives concrete a new role as an acoustic element. The quality of technical concrete work is very good. The conception’s magic lies in the factthat the sculpture consists only of concrete and of no other additional gadgets or materials. The installation has also been placed successfully into the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n Aadu Kana<\/strong>, chairmain of the jury: Estonia has received a sound sculpture that is unique in the world. It was brought to life from the inspirational ideas of Lukas K\u00fchne and Mikko Fritze by enthusiastic cooperation of a concrete specialist Mait R\u00f5\u00f5musaar (Nordecon Betoon O\u00dc).<\/p>\n It is also remarkable due majority of the project was done as pro bono <\/em>by all parties, <\/em>as a sincere and voluntary commitment. This is best possible advertising for concrete as such.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special award \u2013 apartment buildings at Helme 14 <\/strong>(address: Helme St., Tallinn)\u00a0\u2013 was granted to\u00a0<\/strong>Arhitektib\u00fcroo JVR O\u00dc <\/strong>(architects Kalle Vellevoog and Velle Kadalipp) and to\u00a0<\/strong>AS E-Betoonelement\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 based on the performance of different pretentious high-quality concrete surfaces with novel technology.<\/p>\n Comments of the jury: Architect and the developer have found a way to use several diverse concrete surfaces utilizing different technologies.<\/p>\n To enable graphic concrete representations, they have found an individual novel solution that is several times more cost-effective than the ones used before. The result is eye-catching and of high quality.<\/p>\n The technology of making rubber moulds for casting concrete surfaces expands the options of architects and customers in creating concrete surfaces that are visually rich.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special award \u2013 residence building in Tabasalu\u00a0<\/strong>(address: Lehe 8, Tabasalu, Harku Municipal, Harju County)\u00a0\u2013 was granted to Palm E <\/strong>Arhitektib\u00fcroo<\/strong>O\u00dc\u00a0<\/strong>(architects Eero Palm and Pille Noole) and to customer Priit Altpere\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 for good cooperation between the customer and the architect.<\/p>\n Comments of the jury: Good work from the architects \u2013 at first glance it is not obvious at all that the object is an element house. The concrete surfaces and construction work are of high quality. The display of concrete surfaces inside the building have not been exaggerated; instead, concrete forms a harmonious entity with other materials. This is a home with character of its own, built with high skill and determination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special Award of Ehitaja\u00a0<\/em>magazine \u2013 to\u00a0AS Kontek Int<\/strong>\u2013 for conducting a high-quality building work of the biological filter building at the Tallinn waste-water treatment plant.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special Public Award of Internet portal \u201eEhitusuudised.ee\u201c (i.e. Building News, published by AS \u00c4rip\u00e4ev) for\u00a0the biological filter building at the Tallinn waste-water treatment plant<\/strong>, based of readers’ vote.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u2018Concrete Construction of the Year\u2019 competition, held for the twelfth time this year, aims to introduce the broad possibilities of the use of concrete to the public and recognise the people who have used this local Construction material to realise their ideas: concrete offers numerous possibilities and can be formed in countless ways.<\/p>\n 11 works were entered in the competition this year. The competition was open to concrete constructions, structures and processes transferred to clients in 2011.<\/p>\n The jury of the \u2018Concrete Construction 2011\u2019 competition comprised representatives of Estonian construction associations: the Concrete Association of Estonia (Toomas Laur), the Union of Estonian Architects (Hindrek Kesler), the Estonian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs (Indrek Peterson), the Estonian Association of Civil Engineers (Heiki Meos), the Association of Construction Material Producers of Estonia (Enno Rebane), the Estonian Association of Architectural and Consulting Engineering Companies (Martin Aunin), Aadu Kana, the chair of the panel, as well as construction journalists Eva Kiisler from Ehitaja\u00a0<\/em>magazine, Liivi Tamm from the \u00c4rip\u00e4ev\u00a0<\/em>newspaper and Maritta Koivisto from Betoni\u00a0<\/em>magazine (Finland).<\/p>\n The\u00a0<\/em>Concrete\u00a0<\/em>Association of Estonia is an association that promotes the use of concrete as a <\/em>locally produced\u00a0<\/em>construction\u00a0<\/em>material. The association comprises 47 enterprises, organisations and individuals.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n For further information please contact:<\/p>\n Aadu Kana<\/strong>, chair of the jury of the \u2018Concrete Construction 2011\u2019 competition,\u00a0Authorised Engineer of Estonia Peeter Kokk<\/strong>, Managing Director, Concrete Association of Estonia www.betoon.org<\/a> Press release 14.03.2012 On a national thematic Concrete Day, the Concrete Association of Estonia announced today winners of \u2018The Concrete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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