Whitehaven Central Harbour Site Competition
Britain’s Energy Coast Cumbria and Magnus Homes invite submissions to a two-stage, International Open Design Competition for a circa GBP £10m mixed-use development on a prominent site overlooking Whitehaven Harbour. The 2,600m2 [0.26Ha] site occupies a fantastic setting adjacent to Whitehaven Harbour and represents one of the most impressive current development opportunities in Cumbria.
Over the past decade, the former working port has been transformed into a thriving marina for leisure craft, with significant investment in associated public realm improvements. The redevelopment of the site presents an opportunity to continue this regeneration via the contribution of an active harbour frontage, with improved visual and pedestrian links to the town centre.
The design competition is open, but not limited to: architects, designers, artists, product designers, and related disciplines. The Architecture Foundation encourages design teams to suggest flexible and innovative yet realisable designs for this permanent structure. For more information, go to the competition’s official website. Seen at Death by Architecture.
Stratford Kiosks Competition
The Architecture Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an open international competition to design a permanent yet flexible, free standing group of kiosks in Meridian Square, Stratford, London, for use before, during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Situated at the front of Stratford Regional Station and hosting a variety of uses, the kiosks will serve as key venues for information, orientation and services within the rapidly changing town centre.
The design competition is open, but not limited to: architects, designers, artists, product designers, and related disciplines. The Architecture Foundation encourages design teams to suggest flexible and innovative yet realisable designs for this permanent structure. For more information, go to the competition’s official website. Seen at Death by Architecture.
Women at War / Charlotte Wilson
Charlotte Wilson, recently graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University, shared with us her Final Major Project, which tells the story of ‘Women at War’, whilst dealing with the re-modelling and re-animation of a 1960s underground cold war bunker.
Situated within a unique cliff side location in Bempton lies the RAF Bempton bunker. Disintegrating and of great historical interest, it is proposed the site will be sensitively renovated and reclaimed.
The Calls winning proposal by Fletcher Crane Architects
Architectural Team: Fletcher Crane Architects / Toby Fletcher, Ian Crane and Sam Stevens
Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood/Gary Elliott, George Georgiou
Building Environment and Services Engineer: Skelly and Couch/Mark Skelly, Matthew Chantzidakis
Quantity Surveyor: Quantem Consulting/Dan Watson
Landscape Architects: Whitelaw Turkington/Ian Turkington
Stoke-on-Trent Bus Station Proposal by Austin-Smith: Lord
Austin-Smith: Lord recently came runner up in a high profile bus station competition in Stoke-on-Trent, winning the public vote but not selected by the client.
The Austin Smith Lord team, consisting of JMP Transport Engineers, Curtins Structural Engineers and Hilson Moran on Environmental and M&E were supported in the provision of costs by Gleeds and Project Management input from RLB ,worked closely in the 4 week design period to develop an exciting and innovative scheme which found favor with both the public and their peers.
Strata SE1 / BFLS
Architects: BFLS
Location: London, England
Structural/M & E Engineer: WSP Group
Acoustic Consultant: Acoustic Logic Consultancy
Environmental Advisor: URS Corporation Ltd
Construction Advisor: Brookfield Construction UK
Client: Brookfield Europe
Landscape Architect: Townshend Landscape Architects
Wind Engineer: RWDI‐Anemos Ltd
Wind Turbines: Norwin AS
Project Area: 306,000 sqm
Budget: £113.5m
Project Year: 2007-2010
Photographs: Will Pryce, James Brittain, Edmund Sumner, BFLS
Seven Meadows Farm / SPS Architects
Architects: Sanders Pepper Smith
Location: Stithians, Cornwall, England
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Paul Woy
Update: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion / Jean Nouvel
We shared the news of Jean Nouvel’s Serpentine Gallery with you as soon as it was completed at the beginning of July. Today, we’re featuring Jonathan Glancey’s talk with Nouvel about his red ‘sun machine’, the 10th design to grace the Serpentine’s grounds. Nouvel describes the pavilion as a “simple place” that can accommodate the needs of its users, from providing a place to sit down to the amenities for a friendly game of ping-pong.
More about the pavilion after the break.
Bartlett School of Architecture Year 1 Program Videos
The Bartlett’s BSc degree programme aims to develop a creative, diverse and rigorous approach to architecture and design from the outset. Year 1 is centred on the design studio and is taught to the year as a whole. Students observe, draw, model and design, based in the School’s design studios and workshop from the first week onwards.
You can now see three videos of the Year 1 program, including a sketchfilm by Brook Lin, who sketched for 13 hours, transformed in a 10 minute film. For more information click here. See the other two videos after the break.
1st Roots Architecture Workshop
Roots Architecture is an international workshop aimed at making the connection between humanitarian, emergency and other basic architecture provision in the developing world, and that of the world music community, as showcased at Womad. The idea is to inspire both the general public and the architectural and built environment communities both in terms of materials and projects .
The workshop is organized by Fourth Door Research in association with Tangentfield. There will be running workshops through the course of the festival, along with talks, an information bazaar and internet links with various projects around the world. The workshops are being led by experienced professionals in the field, including Architecture Sans Frontier UK, and the humanitarian architecture practice TYIN Tegnestue from Norway.
For more information, click here.
A New Landmark for Aldgate International Competition submission by Sean Gair
Sean Gair shared with us his submission for the New Landmark for Aldgate International Competition. Within the historic area Aldgate, on the eastern edge of the City of London, GINA (Global Information Network Amplifyer) could stand for the duration of the year 2012, coinciding with the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
Royal Parks Foundation Drinking Fountain Competition
The RIBA is delighted to announce the launch of an international open design competition on behalf of The Royal Parks Foundation and Tiffany & Co. Foundation for the design of a new drinking fountain which can then be installed throughout the Royal Parks in London. The programme, called Tiffany – Across the Water, focuses on ornamental and drinking fountains in the capital’s eight Royal Parks and will see the creation of a stunning new fountain in St James’s Park, restoration of the Italian Gardens in Kensington Gardens, as well as improvements to drinking fountains to benefit the Royal Parks’ 37 million visitors each year.
The competition challenge will be to create a well-designed drinking fountain to replace older Parks’ fountains which cannot be restored. The winning designer will see their work turned into reality in the Parks, with the hope that the design will eventually be adopted in other green spaces around the world. For more information click here. Seen at Death by Architecture.
1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces exhibition by Pasi Aalto
Architectural photographer Pasi Aalto sent us this photos of the 1:1 – Architects Build Small Spaces exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. From these nineteen concept submissions, seven were selected for construction at full-scale.
This photos belong to the project designed by Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The exhibition started on Tuesday and will be on display till August 30. You can see more photos by Pasi Aalto after the break.
London Festival of Architecture
The Festival in 2010 will be a city-wide celebration of architecture in the capital. As London gears up for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games we look at ways that planners, architects and local communities play their part in the development of ‘The Welcoming City’.
Everyone is invited to join the Festival community, to develop projects to take part in debates; to investigate ways that London can be made a better place to live, work and play; to explore the city through guided walks and bike rides and to examine change in the capital in a celebratory way.
A wide range of independent events will surround a number of core activities – some focused on high profile weekend events – others taking place throughout the Festival period. For a complete list of event, go to the festival’s official website.
The UK Architecture Students Self-Actuated Projects Conference
On June 24th the easaUK team, backed by SCHOSA, is hosting conference for UK students of architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. The conference is a chance to return the energy generated by easa010 returning to the country that not only spawned it, but that also has a great, now lost, tradition of Winter Schools. The conference, organised and run by the easa010 team, is intended to spread the experience the team has gained over the last 2 years around institutions unable to be part of the European event, with the aim of creating a similar UK based event.
Talks will cover the history of Winter School and EASA, team building, fundraising, promotion and the media and legal considerations. All talks will draw directly from the experiences the team has gained from working on EASA, running smaller workshops and the easaHQ gallery. Delegates will have the chance to debate all topics and there is a provision in the timetable dedicated to networking, giving the delegates the opportunity to discuss future conferences and events.
More info can be found here.
Broadcasting Place / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Location: Leeds, England
Client: Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University
Budget: £50 million
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Cloud9Photography & Sapa: Architectural Aluminium Solutions
Critical Subjects: Architecture & Design Winter School 2010
Mantownhuman hosts Critical Subjects, Architecture & Design Winter School on 17-18 November. Critical Subjects is a unique opportunity for 20 or so of the keenest students in the country to engage in a series of intellectual architectural design challenges facilitated by leading names in the field.
Over the course of a day and a half, they will explore topics such visionary architecture, social criticism, historical-thinking and the nature of Good Design. Workshops will provide an open dialogue on classic texts and film, as well as sessions on measured drawing, the politics of design, human creativity, culture, development and the role of expertise. This experimental event will take place at The Kowalsky Gallery, Great Sutton Street, London EC1.
For more information click here.
Heating Infrastructure Building / Levitt Bernstein Associates
Architects: Levitt Bernstein Associates
Location: Liverpool, England
Client: University of Liverpool Energy Company (ULEC)
Structural Engineering: Curtins Consulting
Main Contractor: Emcor Engineering Services Ltd
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Eddie Jacob
The Klinik Hair Salon / Block Architecture
Architects: Block Architecture
Location: London, England
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Services Engineer: Furness Green
Main Contractor: Matteblak Ltd
Client: Anna Forsling
Project Area: 67 sqm
Budget: £157,550.00
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Leon Chew
Northwich Vision Cultural Centre Proposal / SVESMI Atelier
Architects: SVESMI/Atelier MS B.V., Rotterdam
Location: Northwich, England
Collaborators: Alexander Sverdlov, Gonzalo Rivaz, Francesco Vedovato, Victor Vila Grarcia, Mick van Gemert, Orcun Koken, Magnus Svensson, Maria Lisogorskaya, Durk Landman, with participation of Wessel Vreugdenhil
External advisor: Felix Madrazo (IND)
Surveyors: Leo de Jong (1st phase) Dooley Associates, Manchester (2nd phase)
Structures: ARUP, Amsterdam – London
Services: ARUP, Amsterdam – London
Sustainability: Peter Mensinga, ARUP Amsterdam
Landscape Architecture: Marc Ryan, Rotterdam – Toronto
Project Area: 7,000 sqm
Project Year: 2009
