Leadenhall long-listed for the 2019 Mies-van-der-Rohe Award
Great to see that the RSHP designed Leadenhall Building has been long-listed for the 2019 Mies-van-der-Rohe Award! I was proud part of the team working for more than 7 years on the design of the Megaframe, the external strucural system seeing it all the way through to completion. It was quite something. Here you can see a brief viedeo from ARUP about the engineering. Many brilliant engineers involved -many became friends and we still meet up for beers here and then musing about the project! Fantastic times.
"...This is where the architect acts as a synthesizer and enabler, in general terms, coordinating how a building comes together with less effort spend on documentation and more on exploration of the actual design. I like to imagine that these technologies and their use by the architect one day can be called a 'digital craft' where the alienation of man and machine has been finally overcome and has been replaced by a more fluent understanding of the machine and its products."
