"Sero Sed Serio"
An Turas - Scottish Building of the Year
October 2003
The Tiree shelter project 'An Turas',A Journey, was today named as the winner of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Award for Architecture - The Best Building in Scotland
Culture Minister Frank McAveety congratulated the project team for winning Scotland's most prestigious award for architecture. "It is a very modest rural project, and it seemed the outsider among high profile buildings, but the judges have clearly recognized the pleasing poetry and the purity of the design.
Designed by Sutherland Hussey Architects with artists Jake Harvey, Donald Urquhart, Glen Onwin and Sandra Kennedy, it won both the RIBA Award 2003 and the Royal Scottish Academy Gold Medal for Architecture 2003 and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for Architecture.
An Turas is essentially a shelter for ferry passengers with views of the bay but it also works as a sculptural form in the landscape, it explores the sensory experience of views and shelter. Its a very moving piece of architectural sculpture on the remote Hebridean island of Tiree
The winning architects - Sutherland Hussey - will receive
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