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Architecture should reflect diverse society - CABE
Architects and planners need a new design philosophy to put inclusion at the heart of the development process, says the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
The report, Inclusion by Design, which investigates equality, diversity and the built environment, calls on local authorities and built environment professions to take more notice of the different ways in which people experience buildings and places.
It notes that too often, architects and planners fail to understand how our experience of a place is directly influenced by our social, cultural and economic background. As a result, the design and management of buildings and places unintentionally exclude different types of people.
Richard Simmons, CABE chief executive, said: “Even though accessibility has improved over the last decade, the fact remains that poor and disadvantaged people are far more likely to live in poor quality environments. The professions need to better mirror the diversity of the society they serve.”
However, in some places, inclusive design is already inspiring very good solutions. Public space in Spa Fields, Islington, North London, has been redesigned to create a safer space for women, and gave local young people work experience during the construction.
Other examples of good practice include:
* Health centres that can cater for patients seeking asylum after torture
* Schools with learning spaces that work for pupils with hearing impairment
* Town squares with seating designed in consultation with older people
* Estates that have safe places for young people to socialise.
CABE has also published an Equality scheme and action plan for itself, and is setting up a new group to advise it on inclusive design and equality.
Article by Caroline Jones
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RIBA launches anti-terrorism design contest
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched a new competition encouraging students to think creatively about ‘designing-in’ counter terrorist features into buildings.
The competition, ‘Public spaces, safer places: Designing in Counter Terrorism’, intends to draw attention to the issue of counter-terrorism at the very start of the design process, for places visited and used by the public.
Developed by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), the Home Office, the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) and the RIBA, the brief asks for design responses for a public space in the aftermath of a fictitious terrorist attack scenario in the heart of a major European city.
The competition is launched as part of the RSA’s Design Directions student award scheme, and is open to undergraduates, postgraduates and those in the first year following graduation. There is a £2,000 prize fund for this project.
The RIBA has teamed up with the Home Office to launch a competition for students to create innovative anti-terrorism design solutions.
The competition, which is also being backed by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), is open to all 30,000 students of architecture and design in the current academic year.
Students are being asked to design a public space roughly one hectare in size with security features that do not “compromise the integrity of the environment’s design aesthetic”. The first prize, awarded as part of the RSA’s Design Directions student design scheme, will be £2,000.
Lord West, the Home Office security minister, said: “This competition is a great opportunity for students of architecture and design to make a significant contribution to protecting our country’s crowded places from terrorist attacks. The designing-in of counter-terrorism protective security measures to new buildings at the earliest concept design stage will be crucial to the future of safer crowded places.”
The competition is the latest in a series of measures taken by the Home Office to get architects and designers thinking about “designing out terrorism”.
The RIBA joined forces with the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) earlier this year to set up anti-terrorism design workshops across the country.
Seaside towns given £12 million for redevelopment
Southport, Great Yarmouth, Bridlington and Hastings are the latest places to receive grants from Sea Change, the CABE-led programme to regenerate coastal towns through investment in culture and heritage. The grants, totalling £12 million, were announced by Culture and Tourism Minister Barbara Follett.
Southport will receive £4 million for a project to link the Grade 2 listed Arts Centre, library and art gallery in the heart of the town centre. Improvements will include a theatre, museum and popular music venue.
The promenade surrounding the recently refurbished Royal Hall and Spa Theatre complex in Bridlington will be redesigned, following an award of £3 million.
Great Yarmouth will receive £3 million to regenerate the historic Deneside area of the town. Central to the project is the development of a Grade 1 listed chapel into a new arts centre and community hub.
Hastings will receive £2 million for an artist designed piazza, performance space and cultural community centre.
CABE chief executive Richard Simmons said: “Very strong applications were received from some of the country’s most deprived areas, which this is exactly where we want the money to go. Every single one of these projects will be of enormous benefit to the resort – boosting the local economy and improving people’s quality of life.”
Article by Caroline Jones
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Accordia wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2008
This year’s RIBA Stirling Prize has been won by Accordia, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the Royal Institute of British Architects Building of the Year.
The award is named after the British architect Sir James Stirling, and honours the creators of the most architecturally significant building in the past year.
The winners receive a cash prize of £20,000. The event is run in association with The Architects’ Journal.
This year’s winner was chosen from six buildings shortlisted from the winners of the 2008 RIBA national and European awards. The winner was announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize Dinner at the Arena and Convention Centre in Liverpool on 11 October.
Article by Caroline Jones
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Virtual graduate fair for architecture students
A three-day Virtual Grad Fair for those interested in the built environment industry has been launched by the publishers of Building Design (BD). Graduates can visit exhibitor booths, attend online seminars, apply for jobs, and chat to exhibitors and attendees at the free online exhibition to be held on November 10 – 12, 2008.
Webinars will feature working abroad, work placements, graduate schemes, and routes into the industry for those without a construction-related degree.
Turner & Townsend, Davis Langdon, and Leadbitter are among the exhibitors, and speakers (or typers) include representatives from WSP, Broadway Malyan, and Sheppard Robson.
The event is backed by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
Article by Caroline Jones
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Hopkins Architects to redevelop Edwin Lutyens school
Hopkins Architects has won planning permission to revamp Edwin Lutyens’ Grade II* listed Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead, north west London.
The London-based architects practice has triumphed over 17 other proposals by winning planning permission to redevelop the school.
Over the last 40 years, a string of proposals to revamp the historic 1911 school which lies at the heart of the Hampstead Garden Suburb conservation have come to nothing.
However, after intensive consultation with English Heritage, Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, the Victorian Society, the Twentieth Century Society and the Lutyens Trust, the local authority has approved the revamp of the two listed buildings and 11,000m2 of additional space.
The project is being funded by a Department for Children, Schools and Families grant.
Article by Caroline Jones
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Architects reveal images of world’s first spaceport
Foster + Partners, the architecture, planning and workplace consultancy has released new pictures of the world’s first Spaceport in New Mexico, USA.
The 9,000m2 scheme, which was first revealed in September 2007 will become the new home for Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic venture.
The spaceport will house a spaceship hangar and an astronaut terminal control room, and visitor facilities.
The low-lying building has been designed to blend into the desert landscape and minimise the impact on the historic El Camino Real mission trail nearby.
The New Mexico Space Authority (NMSA), has now tendered for contractors to build the centre.
Article by Caroline Jones
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Sheffield university’s landmark Soundhouse now complete
The University of Sheffield’s state-of-the-art music practice and studio facility, the Soundhouse, is now complete.
The striking development, based on concept designs by careyjones architects and delivered by Jefferson Sheard Architects, is the first building to be completed on the University’s Jessop site this year.
The three-storey building with it’s unique black cube structure is set to become a landmark on the campus.
Professor Keith Burnett, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, said: “The Soundhouse is an innovative addition to the campus and will allow our students to nurture and develop their passion for music in a modern and creative environment.”
The Soundhouse is the first building to be completed in the second phase of the development of the Jessop site, following the completion of the Sheffield Bioincubator in the first phase.
Mike Harris, Director at careyjones architects, said that working with the University of Sheffield allowed careyjones to push the design boundaries for the Soundhouse, with it’s ‘music box’ design creating a stunning piece of architecture that sits well in its surroundings.”
Tom Rhys Jones, Managing Director of Jefferson Sheard Architects, described the project as technically challenging and highly innovative in terms of both the cladding and internal fit out and added that the Soundhouse required construction methods never before used in the UK.
Article by Caroline Jones
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RIBA and English Partnerships reveal sustainability award shortlist for 2008
The RIBA and English Partnerships Sustainability Award is presented to the architects of the building that demonstrates most elegantly and durably the principles of sustainable architecture. The award shortlist is as follows:
- Manchester Civil Justice Centre by Denton Corker Marshall, 1 Bridle Street West, Manchester M3Bristol Brunel Academy by Wilkinson Eyre, Duncombe Lane, Speedwell, Bristol
- Oundle School Science & Technology Centre by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios , Church Street, Oundle, Peterbrough
- Oxley Park by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Oxley Woods, Milton Keynes
Article by Caroline Jones
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Door closes for CABE competition sponsors
CABE’s deadline for potential site sponsors for Europan 10 - the largest housing design competition in the world - has now passed, with the competition set to open in January 2009.Europan is an opportunity for young architects, urban designers and engineers to design innovative housing schemes across Europe, with the aim of delivering real projects.
The event, run by the Campaign for Architecture and the Built Environment in the UK, attracts entrants from 22 European countries.
The competition allow site sponsors to have a strong, design-led vision for a quality project, expert input from CABE and the chance to work with the very best young design teams in Europe.
Article by Caroline
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