Tintagel Castle Footbridge by architecture studio William Matthews Associates and engineers Ney & Partners has been named the winner of the Building Beauty Awards at an awards ceremony presented by Norman Foster.
Tintagel Castle Footbridge, which sits above a 58-metre drop between two cliffs and reconnects two sides of a medieval ruin, was named the overall winner as well as the winner in the Engineering Award category.
Top: the Tintagel Castle Footbridge won the Building Beauty Awards. Photo by Hufton & Crow. Above: Peter Barber Architects' McGrath Road took home the Building Award. Photo by Morley Von Sternberg
The judging panel for the Building Beauty Awards led by design writer Stephen Bayley described the winning project, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2021, as "perfectly poised". "This was a challenging assignment, given the terrain and the sensitivity of the site as both an ancient monument and a place of natural beauty."
"How best to complement the dramatic context" The answer is not timidity but the kind of boldness that suits the rough and raw Atlantic coast of Cornwall," he said.
"The designers, necessarily, have understood every inch of their canvas and from an intellectual response to the engineering requirements have generated something graceful, perfectly poised, restrained: nothing here is unnecessary but what is necessary has been finessed to the point of beauty."
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