Brunel Award
Brunel Award | |
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Awarded for | Some of the best projects in railway architecture, graphics, industrial design and art, technical infrastructure and environmental integration, and rolling stock, as well as examples of overall design quality across the world's railways. |
Presented by | The Watford Group |
First awarded | 1985 |
Last awarded | 2014 |
Website | Brunel Awards |
The Brunel Awards are given to railway companies, to encourage outstanding visual design in railway architecture, graphics, industrial design and art, technical infrastructure and environmental integration, and rolling stock. The name is assigned to them in honour of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, founder of the Great Western Railway, and designer of the giant ship SS Great Eastern.
History
The Brunel Awards were first awarded in 1985, during the celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom presented the inaugural awards, at a ceremony in Bristol, England.
Awards | Year | Place | Organiser | Occasion |
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1st | 1985 | Bristol | British Rail (BR) | 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway. |
2nd | 1987 | Vienna | Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) | 150 years of rail transport in Austria. |
3rd | 1989 | Amsterdam | Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) | 150 years of rail transport in the Netherlands. |
4th | 1992 | Madrid | RENFE | 50th anniversary of RENFE, opening of the LGV Madrid-Seville, Expo 92 and Summer Olympic Games, 1992. |
5th | 1994 | Washington DC | FoRTE | Foundation for Railway and Transportation Excellence. |
6th | 1996 | Copenhagen | Danske Statsbaner (DSB) | |
7th | 1998 | Madrid | RENFE | 150 years of rail transport in Spain. |
8th | 2001 | Paris | SNCF | Entry into service of the LGV Méditerranée. |
9th | 2005 | Copenhagen | Danske Statsbaner (DSB) | |
10th | 2008 | Vienna | Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) | |
11th | 2011 | Washington DC | Center for Industrial Design in Transportation, Inc. | |
12th | 2014 | Amsterdam | Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), ProRail | 125th anniversary of Amsterdam Central Station and 175 years of rail transport in the Netherlands. |
Categories
Beginning with the 2011 award ceremony, there have been five categories of award; the third category is new.
- Category 1: rail stations
- Category 2: technical infrastructure
- Category 3: freight and railroad support buildings
- Category 4: industrial design, corporate branding, graphics, furnishing
- Category 5: rolling stock
See also
References
External links
- The Watford Group website, Brunel Awards page Archived 2020-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
- The ninth Brunel Awards (2005) on the website of the organiser, the DSB.
- The tenth Brunel Awards (2008) on the website of the organiser the ÖBB.
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- Great Western
- Bristol and Exeter
- Bristol and Gloucester
- Bristol and South Wales Union
- Cheltenham and Great Western Union
- Cornwall
- Dartmouth and Torbay
- East Somerset
- Great Western and Brentford
- Llynvi Valley
- Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton
- South Devon
- South Devon and Tavistock
- South Wales
- South Wales Mineral
- Taff Vale
- Vale of Neath
- West Cornwall
- West Somerset
- Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth
- Angarrack viaduct
- Avon Bridge
- Bath:St James's Bridge; Skew Bridge; St James' Viaduct
- Bishop's Bridge
- Chepstow Bridge
- Chippenham viaduct
- Clifton Suspension Bridge
- Cornwall Railway viaducts
- Cumberland Basin swing bridges
- "Devil's Bridge", Uphill
- Gatehampton Railway Bridge
- Hungerford Bridge
- Landore Viaduct
- Loughor Viaduct
- Maidenhead Bridge
- Moulsford Railway Bridge
- Royal Albert Bridge
- Somerset Bridge
- Three Bridges, London
- Usk Bridge
- Wharncliffe Viaduct
- Windsor Bridge
- Great Western Steamship Company
- SS Great Western
- SS Great Britain
- SS Great Eastern
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern (1857 photograph)
- SS Archimedes borrowed by Brunel, used for propeller tests
- Brentford Dock
- Bristol Harbour
- Cumberland Basin
- Underfall Yard
- Millbay Docks
- Westport Canal
- Atmospheric railway
- Balloon flange girder
- Baulk road
- Broad gauge
- Brook House, Steventon
- Crew's Hole tar works
- Crystal Palace water towers
- Great Exhibition (Brunel on committee)
- Malmaison Hotel, Reading
- Renkioi Hospital
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Institution of Civil Engineers (VP from 1850)
- Abraham-Louis Breguet (trained Brunel)
- Robert Pearson Brereton (Chief assistant)
- Marc Isambard Brunel (father)
- Sophia Kingdom (mother)
- Lindsey House (childhood home)
- University of Caen Normandy
- Lycée Henri-IV
- Henry Marc Brunel (second son)
- Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (picture commissioned by Brunel)
- Brunel Manor (commissioned by Brunel for his retirement)
- Sarah Guppy, whose portrait was painted by Brunel
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- Statues of Brunel
- Brunel Museum
- Being Brunel
- Blue plaque, 98 Cheyne Walk
- List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks (SS Great Britain #97)
- Brunel University London
- NR Brunel (Network Rail typeface)
- Brunel Award
- 100 Greatest Britons (Brunel #2)
- Two Brunel £2 coins in 2006
- 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony featured Brunel
- Brunel (opera project)