2019 GAGAs winners

Last Friday we attended the annual Galvanizers Association Awards – more affectionately known as The GAGAs. It was a great event, held at the Royal Aeronautical Association HQ in London.

The GAGAs are a chance for fabricators, constructors, engineers, architects and artists to showcase a project they have worked on in involving galvanizing. They do this by submitting an entry into one of the following categories:

• Galvanizing in Architecture
• Galvanizing in Engineering
• Galvanizing in Detail
• Sustainability Award
• Duplex Awards.

The Galvanizing Association received many amazing entries and it was great to attend the awards and see the details of each shortlisted project.

It was also a special year for the Galvanizers Association as they celebrated their 25th year of hosting the awards.

The winners of the 2019 awards are as follows:

• The Rising Path in Cambridge by the chadwick dryer clarke studio who won the Galvanizing in Architecture Award
• Conservation of Catrine Weir by Addison Conservation + Design who won the Galvanizing in Engineering Award
• Palas Cinema in Galway, by dePaor who won the Galvanizing in Detail Award
• Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre by Brightblue Studio who won the Sustainability Award
• Nine Elms Thames Path Pavilion by Studio Weave who won the Duplex Award.

A few extra awards/commendations were also given out:

• Jailmake received a Special Mention for their RHS Rootbench which featured at the 2017 Chelsea Flower Show
• Stephen Taylor Architects were Highly Commended for the Cadix Housing project in Antwerp
• The Eden Project by Grimshaw Architects also won the highly prestigious ’25 Years Winners’ Winner Award’.

Further information about each of the winners plus the projects is available here.

If you are interested in entering the 2020 GAGAs, click here.

Thank you to the Galvanizers Association for another wonderful event!