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Green Steel Award Goes to Airport Building by KMA
These days airports are the last place that we think about green things happening, as jet fuel is burned by the ton and square miles of land are flattened for parking lots.
These days airports are the last place that we think about green things happening, as jet fuel is burned by the ton and square miles of land are flattened for parking lots and access roads. Nobody thought much about airport buildings either, when they showed up for the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction Awards, all expecting that the amazing steel fabrication for the new Royal Ontario Museum would walk off with all the prizes.
Instead, Daniel Libeskind and team could just say huh? and accept an award of merit as Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects Inc. walked away with the heavy hardware (top prize, the award of excellence, and the Green Building Award) for their Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute at Toronto's Pearson Airport. It makes sense; the ROM is built of steel but it is all covered up in drywall now; the Institute celebrates it and exposes it.
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Instead, Daniel Libeskind and team could just say huh? and accept an award of merit as Kleinfeldt Mychajlowycz Architects Inc. walked away with the heavy hardware (top prize, the award of excellence, and the Green Building Award) for their Fire and Emergency Services Training Institute at Toronto's Pearson Airport. It makes sense; the ROM is built of steel but it is all covered up in drywall now; the Institute celebrates it and exposes it.
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