The Brewhouse and Trident Park project adds another significant award to its already impressive list of honours. Announced on 5 November in an awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, the Building Awards has awarded The Brewhouse and Trident Park project International Project of the Year 2024. The award was collected by Mr Jonathan Shaw from ritchie*studio, the globally renowned architectural practice that led the regeneration project.
The Brewhouse and Trident Park project was shortlisted in the International Project of the Year 2024 category together with Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, a stadium in New York City; Skylight, a new commercial build in Madrid and Oaks Phase 1, a residential build in Prague.
During the ceremony the judges’ commented about the project: “This project meets all criteria with a stunning retrofit of an old brewery into working and leisure spaces, featuring a thermally active building system and achieving a 55% reduction in whole life cycle CO2 emissions.”
Coinciding with the awards’ 30th anniversary, more than 1,000 of the industry’s finest got together to celebrate these major global awards. The star-studded event saw 19 firms and individuals claim 21 prizes.
“It is again a great honour to be recognized among so many other international quality buildings and developments. We are immensely proud of this industrial regeneration project that is a first of its kind on the island,” commented Mr Michael Farrugia, Director of both Simonds Farsons Cisk plc and Trident Estates plc, as well as deputy CEO of the Farsons beverage business, on this latest award.
Winner of several national and international prestigious awards since its inauguration in June 2023, the €86m Farsons Brewery regeneration project has seen one of Malta’s finest 20th-century industrial buildings transformed into a vibrant green office campus and world-class business destination. The project was spearheaded by London-based ritchie*studio, led by renowned architect Ian Ritchie, in collaboration with Prof. Alex Torpiano's engineering-focused Maltese practice TBA Periti, and celebrated environmental physicist Doug King.