Renato Benedetti

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Renato Benedetti
BornNovember 1962 (age 60)
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OccupationArchitect
Awards
Practice Benedetti Architects
BuildingsBAFTA Headquarters, Piccadilly, London

Terni Bridge, Italy
Connock & Lockie, Bloomsbury, London
Eleventh Church, Clerkenwell, London
Brunner Headquarters & Showroom
Scale Lane Footbridge, Hull

Castleford Bridge, Yorkshire

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Renato Benedetti (born November 1962) is a Canadian born and educated architect. He studied at the University of Waterloo and has practiced in London since 1989. He founded Benedetti Architects in 2016 following twenty years of partnership with Jonathan McDowell as co-directors of the multi award-winning practice McDowell+Benedetti. Celebrated projects by McDowell+Benedetti include Scale Lane Bridge in Hull and Castleford Bridge in Yorkshire.

Renato is a Built Environment Expert for the Design Council, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was a founding committee member of the London Festival of Architecture. He has been a competition judge for the RIBA since 2003 and was Chair of the judging panel for The Wall, [note 1] [ref 1] international design competition in 2016. He has judged numerous international awards and was a member of the RSA Art for Architecture Awards panel (1998-2004).

Education

Significant Buildings

Practices

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions

Teaching

Notes

  1. "The Wall is a Christian organisation seeking to build a national landmark in the UK. The Wall of Answered Prayer will be an architectural sculpture consisting of a million bricks, each of which will represent a prayer which Jesus has answered." "Home Page". The Wall. Retrieved 8 October 2016.

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References

  1. "Judge Renato Benedetti". The Wall. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  2. Rowan Moore (28 July 2013). "Scale Lane Bridge, Hull – review". The Observer. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  3. "Castleford Bridge". Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan. Channel 4. September 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  4. "Home Page". Benedetti Architects. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  5. "World Architecture Festival 2014 day two winners announced". Dezeen Magazine. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  6. "Review Panel Membership" (PDF). London Borough of Southwark. Retrieved 6 June 2017.

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