Alex de Rijke: Difference between revisions

In 2006 de Rijke and dRMM designed and built 'Naked House', a research prototype, flat-packed cross-laminated timber (CLT) house for global adoption. This was installed at the exhibition 'Industry!' in Oslo with an accompanying manifesto declaring, 'Timber is the New Concrete'. De Rijke and dRMM then built the first UK school buildings constructed in CLT, the Kingsdale School Music and Sport buildings 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trada.co.uk/case-studies/kingsdale-school-southwark-london/|title= TRADA Case Study Kingsdale School London|publisher=Timber Research And Development Association}}</ref> In 2009 de Rijke led a dRMM competition project for a 100m span timber stadium for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 de Rijke devised cross-laminated hardwood (Tulipwood CLT) with AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council) and ARUP for dRMM’s London Design Festival project, ‘Endless Stair’.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.londondesignfestival.com/endless-stair|title= Endless Stair, LDF Landmark Project|publisher= London Design Festival|access-date= 6 November 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170723083208/http://www.londondesignfestival.com/endless-stair|archive-date= 23 July 2017|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The development of cross-laminated tulipwood was then demonstrated in dRMM's design of Maggie’s Oldham 2017, the first CLT hardwood building in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/drmms-oldham-maggies-is-the-first-clt-hardwood-building-in-the-world/10020917.article|title= dRMM’s Oldham Maggie’s is the first CLT hardwood building in the world|publisher= The Architects' Journal}}</ref> dRMM received the UK's top architecture honour in 2017, the [[RIBA Stirling Prize]], for the design of Hastings Pier, for which de Rijke was the project architect.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/31/walking-tall-hastings-pier-wins-the-riba-stirling-architecture-prize-de-rijke-marsh-morgan|title= Walking tall: Hastings pier wins the Stirling architecture prize|publisher= The Guardian}}</ref>

 

 

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