Brunel Award
The Brunel Award is a distinction with which railway companies are recognized for outstanding achievements in the fields of architecture, graphics, industrial design, art, technical infrastructure, embedding in the environment and rolling stock. The name of the award pays homage to the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel , the founder and builder of the Great Western Railway .
The prize is awarded by the Watford Group , an international voluntary organization made up of architecture and design professionals.
Awards ceremonies
The awards ceremonies are organized by railway companies and take place every two or three years in different locations. The first venue was the British city of Bristol in 1985 , one of the endpoints of the Great Western Railway. The award ceremony was then carried out by Queen Elizabeth II.
year | place | organizer | Special reason for the event |
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1985 | Bristol | British Rail | 150th anniversary of the Great Western Railway |
1987 | Vienna | Austrian Federal Railways | 150 years of railways in Austria |
1989 | Amsterdam | Nederlandse Spoorwegen | 150 years of railways in the Netherlands |
1992 | Madrid | Renfe | Renfe 50th anniversary, opening of the Madrid – Seville high-speed line , Expo 92 and 1992 Summer Olympics |
1994 | Washington, DC | Foundation for Railway and Transportation Excellence | |
1996 | Copenhagen | Danske Statsbaner | |
1998 | Madrid | Renfe | 150 years of railways in Spain |
2001 | Paris | SNCF | Opening of the LGV Mediterranean |
2005 | Copenhagen | Danske Statsbaner | |
2008 | Vienna | Austrian Federal Railways | |
2011 | Washington, DC | Center for Industrial Design in Transportation | |
2014 | Amsterdam | Nederlandse Spoorwegen, ProRail | 125th anniversary of Amsterdam Centraal station and 175 years of railways in the Netherlands |
Categories
At the beginning, awards were given in four categories; Category 3 was added in 2011:
- Category 1: train stations
- Category 2: Technical Infrastructure
- Category 3: Freight stations and other infrastructure structures
- Category 4: industrial design, brand management, graphics, equipment
- Category 5: Rail vehicles
Web links
- Brunel Award (English)