Burj Qatar wins Overall Project of the Year at ME Architect Awards

The iconic Burj Qatar, or Doha Tower as it is also known, won yet another award for its creator Jean Nouvel as it was voted the Overall Project of the Year at the fifth annual Middle East Architect Awards 2012 which were distributed at a gala ceremony in Dubai this week. The award comes soon after the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named the building as the Best Tall Building Worldwide a few days earlier.

As many as 13 awards were distributed at the function which was attended by major industry players from across the region, says a report in mbss-india.com.

US major Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) received three awards viz Large Architecture Firm of the Year, Public Sector, Institutional & Cultural Project of the Year for the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre, Abu Dhabi, while William F Baker of SOM was chosen as Engineer of the Year.

GAJ from Dubai and Sheppard Robson both won two awards each. The former’s Jason Burnside received the Architect of the Year award, while the firm got Hospitality & Leisure Project of the Year award for The Chedi, Korfakkan, Sharjah. The latter was awarded for Sustainable Project of the Year and Commercial Project of the Year for its Siemens Middle East Headquarters at Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.

AGi Architects, based in Kuwait and Spain won Boutique Firm of the Year and Residential Project of the Year for their S Cube Chalet, Kuwait.

Abdulla Al Shamsi from Shape Architecture was named Young Architect of the Year, Holley Chant from KEO was Principal of the Year and Buro Happold was voted Engineering Firm of the Year.