As the longstanding chair of the judging panels that have adjudicated the annual RIBAJ competitions run in collaboration with SterlingOSB Zero, I have gained good insights into the possibilities of a building material that many people might view as a prosaic but which is transformed by the rich imaginations of the architect entrants. This was borne out not least by the winner of our 2022 'Retreat' competition - David and Henry Young's 'The Keep', which provided a gripping fictional account of a post-apocalyptic scenario to supplement their evocative SterlingOSB Zero insertions into an ancient Scottish castle, dramatically poised on a cliffside; an approach we felt Giovanni Boccaccio would have approved of.
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