december
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Double Win for Eric Parry at
ARK APPOINTMENT
ARK Design & Architecture Ltd
Architect of the Year Awards
has expanded its team with the
appointment of top flight grad- Eric Parry Architects has St-Martin-in-the-Fields to 23 plays a deep concern for the
uate Carl Thomas to the reigned triumphant at the Savile Row, a six-storey office urban context of a building
position of Architectural Architect of the Year Awards, and retail building in the West and the quality of the sur-
Assistant. Carl graduated in the winning both the Richard End. Of the buildings, they rounding public realm.
summer of 2009 from the Fielden Architect of the Year said, “(Eric Parry) had to deal Office Architect of the Year
University of Liverpool’s Master Award and the Office with a fantastically complex was awarded to Eric Parry
of Architecture course with a Architect of the Year Award. set of challenges, and are Architects for the inventive-
1st Class Honours along with a indicative of the architects’ ness of approach
Bachelor of Architecture
T
he Richard Fielden skill in combining new with demonstrated in several build-
(BAHons) from the school in Architect of the Year old in a highly technical, yet ings, including 60
2006. He was nominated for the Award, which celebrates thoughtful manner.” Threadneedle Street and a
Presidents Medals awards 2009 the “best of the best” in the Commercial projects such as recently completed project in
for his Thesis Project titled: The industry, goes to the firm con- the Stirling-shortlisted 5 New Bond Street, where the
Promenade – Drift to Stanley sidered to have made the most Aldermanbury Square and cul- designs are distinctive, but not
Dock. Carl was also awarded significant contribution to tural projects like the new forced, and are carefully
the Peter Tyson prize for: Best architecture in the last year. wing for the Holburne woven into the existing urban
engagement with technology in The judges, who included a Museum of Art in Bath were fabric. The judges felt that
a design project, at the 2008 range of leading figures in the said to display an “intensity” these are important buildings,
School of Architecture Degree architecture industry admired that “has the power to move which, while highly regarded
show for Gorton Towers. the body of work undertaken people,” and the judges com- now, will also be highly
by Eric Parry Architects, rang- mended the firm for being one regarded by future genera-
ing from the renewal of of few working today that dis- tions.
HRH PRINCESS
ALEXANDRA OPENS
NEW HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE CENTRE
The new £3m Health and Social
Care Centre in Teddington by
Nightingale Associates, has been
officially opened by HRH Princess
Alexandra. The 1326msq L-shape
centre is a modular building
under P21 and replaces the exist-
ing clinic facilities. The metal clad
building accommodates four
consult and examine rooms,
community nurses, occupational
therapists, mental health services
and a specialist dental clinic.
Emphasis was placed upon user
consultation throughout the
project with presentations, inte-
rior design workshops and two
public consultation meetings. As
well as landscaping, way-finding
and signage work, the team
worked with Nightingale
Associates Architect and Director mixed use block in Wembley City. It quantity fits easily into the system
of Design Research and
Forum House
covers 21,000m
2
of residential space when they come to dispose of their
Innovation, Richard Mazuch, to for 286 high quality residential waste at collection points positioned
explore how to best use art in
wins sustainable
apartments, 47 per cent of which on each floor and in the courtyard at
the building, providing a fully are mixed tenure affordable hous- exit points. Recycling figures for the
integrated design service to the
housing award
ing. The block also provides first six months are 41.5 per cent,
client. Repeat work has been 1,350m
2
of retail and 750m
2
of which is actually double what LB
secured from the Trust. PRP in collaboration with Quintain, community space, with a basement Brent achieve elsewhere in the bor-
has won the prestigious Best Waste car park for 132 cars and 286 ough (they achieved 20.98 per cent
Initiative Award at this year’s secure bicycle storage spaces. in 2008) and waste collection costs
Sustainable Housing Awards.The Forum House is also the first UK resi- are reduced by 80 per cent, along
Award was presented to PRP and dential development to adopt the with vehicle movements and CO2
Quintain for their work in designing ENVAC system for waste disposal, omissions in the process. The
and developing Forum House, the eliminating the need for residents to Sustainable Housing Awards cele-
first completed block in the use noisy and smelly rubbish chutes. brate the projects and organisations
Wembley City development. Residents collect waste in their built- at the vanguard of housing sustain-
Forum House is the first completed in kitchen bins to ensure the ability best practice.
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