november
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State-of-the-art learning
HLM ARCHITECTS
SEEKS PLANNING
Devereux Architects has in Monkseaton. Ian Lancastle- The ellipse shape of the
changed the way children Smith, Director of the school is very efficient in terms
PERMISSION learn in its latest project, Devereux Architects team, of space and land usage. It is
HLM Architects has recently
Monkseaton High School, af- took up this challenge and en- aerodynamic and due to its po-
submitted the designs for
ter introducing a 360 degree deavoured to create an educa- sition, reduces seasonal heating
Cornwall’s new Brannel School
teaching environment to im- tion environment which and cooling impact. On the ex-
for planning approval. It is
prove performance levels in responds to the way subjects
hoped that the new school,
the classroom. Monkseaton are delivered and learned in
which will cost £16.3 million to
High School has already the 21st Century.
build, will achieve planning ap-
grabbed the headlines for its The innovation carries on
proval by October 2009, with
state-of-the-art facilities and throughout the new school.
construction works starting on
has been commended for its The interior is open, so you can
site early 2010 and the new fa-
green, eco-friendly features. see from one side of the school
cilities completed for the start
But as the new, futuristic, el- to the other, creating ‘passive
of the 2011 academic year. It is
lipse-shaped school opens its surveillance’ to prevent bully-
intended that the school will
doors for the first time, the ing and anti-social behaviour.
achieve BREEAM Excellent. The
pupils will walk into a whole Devereux Architects has also
new school is needed to re-
new learning environment. incorporated ‘toilet pods’ into
place existing Brannel School
the design, so toilets can only
buildings, which have become
The design, beyond the formal be used by one individual at a
beyond economical repair. The
teaching spaces, incorporates a time, preventing vandalism.
new buildings will provide
number of learning areas for Devereux Architects ensured
6,622 square metres (about
students to study independent that the building was posi-
71,000 square feet).
of teachers. The light, airy tioned in the most sustainable
feeling created throughout area on site, reducing the ef-
DESIGN AWARDS TURN
the school encourages ‘open’ fect of heating and cooling.
learning and is a move away The school has an abundance
TO NIGHTINGALE from traditional, ‘institutional’ of sustainable features, not
ASSOCIATES
school design. Commissioned only reducing its carbon foot-
by North Tyneside Council, the print but also creating an envi-
The Viking Day Unit in Margate
£22m contract was awarded to ronment to maintain optimum
and the University of Oxford’s
Devereux Architects to design performance levels during the
Magnetoencephalography
a new community high school school day.
(MEG) Unit have been shortlist-
ed in the Turning to Timber cat-
egory of the annual Builder &
Engineer Awards. University of
Oxford’s MEG Unit, shortlisted
for the award, is a purpose-
built Magnetoencephalography
scanner unit and was designed
by Nightingale Associates for
the department of psychiatry at
the university. The facility is
housed in a single storey build-
ing on a magnetically ‘quiet’
site. The Viking Day Unit in
Margate was also shortlisted.
The project transformed an ex-
isting day unit of six
chemotherapy chairs. The new
building had to deliver space
without functional compromis-
es and attempt to radically im-
prove the patients’ experience.
The landmark
bricklayers and six specialist archi- will be able to cross to the theatre
tectural metal workers from over where they will encounter the
‘lantern’ is lifted
90,000 bricks gently ascending at third floor rooftop restaurant,
a three degree angle. The outer which will have panoramic views
A 32 metre-high ‘lantern’ plat- walls have been built by hand over of the River Avon and the adjacent
form, which will allow visitors to the last nine months and to do Bancroft Gardens.
take in panoramic views across this the tower has been progres- The prominent structure was in-
Stratford, has been positioned at sively encased in scaffolding. spired by the original Memorial
the top of the Royal Shakespeare Helen Holland, former leader of Theatre water tower, which was
Theatre’s new tower. Descent will be by a steel staircase engulfed in flames when the the-
The glass and steel viewing plat- that wraps around the central lift atre was gutted by fire in 1926. As
form, which will accommodate up shaft, offering views through well as becoming a significant new
to 50 people, was built on the many small windows that are set feature for the Royal Shakespeare
ground and lifted into place by a in the thick brick outer walls or Theatre (RST) itself and providing
300 tonne mobile crane. It will sit through the slit windows that stairs and one of two passenger
on the magnificent new Theatre form the corners of tower. On lifts serving all levels of the new
Tower built by eight specialist their descent from the top, visitors theatre, this structure will create a
4 Architects Choice
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