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Through their thoughtful architecture, the four long, parallel structures that constitute this waste treatment plant achieve the facility’s central tenets: to connect with its environment, and to engage visitors. The sculpted buildings, which process 450,000 tonnes of waste each year, sink at one end into the rising topography and receive ample natural light inside. Visitors can enter via a plaza dotted with local orange trees to tour the plant and learn about energy conservation. israelalba.com

Valencia Waste Treatment Plant

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2017
People’s ChoiceBuildings Over 1,000SqM
Location
Tarragona, Spain
Firm
Gimeno Guitart, Spain
2022
WinnerBuildings Over 1,000SqM
Location
Shaoxing, China
Firm
UAD(ACRC), China
2014
WinnerBuildings Over 1,000SqM
Location
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Firm(s)
Marlon Blackwell Architect, Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects
Team
Marlon Blackwell, Mark Herrmann, David Jaehning and Joe Stanley with Meryati Johari Blackwell, Jonathan Boelkins, William Burks, Angela Carpenter, Craig Curzon, John Dupree, Conley Fikes, Laura Lyon, Sarah Menyhart Bennings, J. B. Mullins, Bradford Payne, Michael Pope, Kimberly Braden Prescott, Stephen Reyenga, Reese Rowland, Michelle Teague, Jim Thacker, Christopher Thomas and Wesley Walls.