Delegates at the show voted the Birmingham International Convention Centre to victory in the business centre category of the MIPIM ’94 Awards. The complex has 11 meeting halls around a central mall as well as a 1,500-seat conference hall and a 2,000-seat symphony hall.
There was further British success with Manchester’s Piccadilly Village taking the prize in the residential category. The urban regeneration project was conceived by Central Manchester Development Corporation.
In the office award category, the UK nominations of Canons House in Bristol, New Square at Heathrow and Plymouth’s Windsor House lost out to the Anciens Docks de Marseille refurbishment project.
The shopping centre award went to Paris’ Carousel du Louvre; it beat the Courtyard in Letterkenny and Tunbridge Wells’ Royal Victoria Place Centre.