Having started its activity in 1994 with the production of cladding aluminum structures, Yukon Engineering has quickly captured the market. The analysis of German facade systems made it possible to identify those properties and characteristics that formed the basis of the U-kon aluminum substructure. Yukon Engineering is one of those companies whose policy is aimed both at improving its own system and at developing the IWF technology industry as a whole.
Over the years of development by the company
- received 5 Technical Certificates of the State Construction Committee of Russia: for cassette mounting method; on the visible method of fixing with porcelain stoneware slabs; on the hidden method of fastening with ceramic granite plates; on the sheet fastening method; for cladding with natural stone.
- over 20 systems developed with the possibility of using variable fastening methods for each type of cladding;
- created network of representative offices in Russia and CIS countries, Western Europe;
- creation own Science and Technology Center, participation in scientific research;
- active participation in the development of Technical Regulations for illegal armed groups; release of "ABC of ventilated facades".
For the period 1997-2012. in Russia and neighboring countries, more than 8,000,000 square meters of U-kon ventilated facades were installed
The aim of the architectural competition held by Yukon Engineering is to find out how successfully the architects managed to use the versatile possibilities of the U-KON structure to create facades of different scales.
46 objects were nominated for this year's competition, the lion's share of which were public and administrative buildings. The number of participants in the "youngest" nomination of the "Projects" award is steadily growing, which means more and more architectural firms are developing their projects, focusing on the U-kon system. And, of course, the alternative voting of the participants of the Ceremony for the honorary prize "Recognition of colleagues" has already become traditional.
This year, according to the results of the jury vote, GRAND PRIX of the Competition (nomination "Best Architectural Arrangement of the U-KON System") and a victory in the nomination "Residential houses and hotels" were awarded to the same object:
Residential buildings No. 15, 17 Mushtari street, Kazan
Architect: LLC "Velp"
Installation: Descartes Engineering LLC
The following buildings and their authors became winners in other nominations:
"Multifunctional buildings"
Multifunctional complex on Shluzovaya embankment, Moscow
Architect: Architectural studio "PlanAR"
Installation: LLC "Simplex-K"
Sports buildings and facilities
Fitness club "La Salute", Moscow
Editing: LLC "Cons-Al 93"
"Shopping centers"
Shopping center "Karvasla", Tbilisi
Architect: Studia Arsi LLC
Installation: LLC "GEORGIAN FASAD GROUP"
"Public buildings"
Railway station building on the territory of the Airport, Tbilisi
Architect: Delta Project 2000 LLC
Installation: LLC "GEORGIAN FASAD GROUP"
"Administrative buildings"
Gazpromneft-Khantos LLC office, Khanty-Mansiysk
Architect: Architectural bureau "a_61"
Installation: FasadStroyMontazh LLC
"Projects"
Gallery project Zhoromsky with a hotel, Vilnius
Architect: Creative group "architipai"
Industrial buildings
Reconstruction of the industrial building, Ufa
Architect: CJSC TAF "Archproekt"
Installation: CJSC "BashStroyproekt"
For the second time, in parallel with the work of the Jury, site users by open voting chose objects worthy of Audience Award … More than 6,000 votes were cast in total. And here's how they were distributed:
3rd place
Hotel "Areda" project, Altai Territory
Architect: LLC "AcademStroyInvest"
2nd place
Hotel, Ivanovo
Architect: NEO-Project
Installation: SK Dom
1st place
Metro station "Gorkovskaya", Nizhny Novgorod
Architect: Nizhegorodmetroproekt
Editing: LLC "Alkon-Trade"
But these are far from all the winners of the VI-th Contest! In addition to the Jury and the users of the site, the management of the Yukon Engineering company also made their choice, making the nomination "U-kon's Choice" a good tradition of the competition. This time it features two winners:
Residential building on Bolshevikov Avenue, Saint Petersburg
Architect: LLC "SPb IA"
Editing: LLC "ANT Group"
Residential building No. 4 Mushtari st., Kazan
Architects: LLC Creative Workshop of Architects Tokarevs (LLC TMT)
Installation: LLC "Facade Standard"
Another innovation of the “U-kon. Art Project 2012 stuck and moved with us to new stages, namely Alternative voting guests of the evening. All participants of the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners had the opportunity to vote for only one object they liked. With a huge margin from other participants in this nomination, the recognition of colleagues received:
Hotel Cruise, Tbilisi
Architect: Avtandil Kvaratskhelia
Installation: LLC "GEORGIAN FASAD GROUP"
The jury of the VI-th Competition:
Georgy DAYNOV (architect, laureate of professional competitions and reviews), Vera BUTKO and Anton NADTOCHIY (bureau "Atrium", Moscow), Nina FROLOVA (architecture critic, editor of the foreign department of ARCHI. RU), Natalia VYSHINSKAYA (editor of the ARCHI. RU news department), Natalya KUCHER (editor of Project Volga magazine, Samara), Vladimir FROLOV (editor-in-chief of Project Baltia magazine, St. Petersburg), Maria FADEEVA (architecture critic, Vedomosti, MARSH), Leonid KRAVCHENKO (Technical Director of FXFOWLE Projects, Member of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), Member of the Union of Architects of Russia, USA, New York)
Alexey KAMENYUK (architect, laureate of professional competitions and reviews, awarded the Gold Medal of the Academy of Architecture of the Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod), Yuri BOLGOV (architect, laureate of the "Yukon Art Project" competition, Nizhny Novgorod), Bureau "OSA" (winner of the Grand Prix of the competition "White Tower" (Yekaterinburg) and "Golden Capital" (Novosibirsk), Yekaterinburg), Olivier JODI (School of Architecture Paris-La-Villette, France), Eduard KUBENSKY (editor-in-chief of the TATLIN magazine, Yekaterinburg).
Yukon Engineering congratulates the winners and participants of the U-kon Art Project 2013 and invites everyone to participate in the next competition!
