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RISE commended in national awards
17 July 2012
RISE – the landmark public artwork on Belfast`s Broadway Roundabout – has been highly commended at the national Structural Steel Design Awards, which were held in London recently.
The 37.5 metre high sculpture – by the Nottingham artist Wolfgang Buttress – was one of 29 projects shortlisted for the prestigious annual industry awards.
The six overall winners included the Peace Bridge in Derry/Londonderry. Other winners included both the main Olympic Stadium and the new Velodrome in London, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the M53 Bidston Moss Viaduct strengthening project and the new footbridge in Salford`s MediaCity UK.
RISE was one of only two projects outside England to be commended at the awards. The judges said that RISE was “impressive for its geometric form and precision” adding that “intelligent analysis, precision fabrication and safe assembly on a road-locked site have produced steelwork of fine quality” and describing the finished sculpture as “a stunning and popular landmark”.
Two globes, one inside the other, cast in silver and white steel, symbolizing the rising of the sun, RISE is made up of more than 65,000 individual parts and was manufactured by M Hasson and Sons Ltd of Rasharkin.
Standing 37.5 metres – or 123 feet – the sculpture is a metre taller than the spires of nearby St Peter`s Cathedral, three metres taller than the Albert Clock and twice the height of Gateshead`s `Angel Of The North` – and just 8.5 metres shorter than the Statue Of Liberty. It is 30 metres in diameter and weighs the equivalent of six double-decker buses.
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