december
News brief...
Triumph at RIBA White Rose Awards
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S ENTERPRISE
CENTRE SECURES
PLANNING PERMISSION
Earlier this year, Nightingale
Associates secured a contract
to design the £5m Women’s
International Centre for
Economic Development
(WICED), to be situated in
Liverpool’s city centre. The
project has now taken a signifi-
cant step forward after
Liverpool City Council
approved the plans. The
2,000sqm centre is the first of
its kind in the UK and will be
located in the heart of
Liverpool. Expected to help
3,000 women set up businesses,
creating 4,500 new jobs over HLM Architects swept the board at of excellence for the treatment of It shows that good design in PFI/PPP
the next ten years, the plan- the recent RIBA White Rose Awards, cancer and blood disorders. Projects is thoroughly achievable.”
ners congratulated Nightingale for its excellent design of The Nick Beecroft, Director at HLM The Queen's Centre for
Associates on their design. Kier Queen's Centre for Oncology and Architects, said: “We are thrilled Oncology and Haematology has
North West have been Haematology at Castle Hill Hospital with the awards, which truly posi- also been short-listed for the Public
appointed to head up the con- in Cottingham, East Yorkshire. tion this hospital as a UK Centre of Private Finance Awards 2009, for
struction of the scheme that The project won four major Excellence. This project is a great the Best community / user involve-
begins later this year. awards including: The RIBA example of what can be achieved ment in a project category.
Design Award - Best New with collaboration and teamwork
Building; The White Rose Award - between the client, project team Project team
Gold Medal; Best landscape and all other stakeholders. It has Architect: HLM Architects; Client: Hull
Award - Commendation and Best created a ‘healing environment’ & East Yorks Hospitals NHS Trust;
Client Award. that complements its beautiful sur- Structural Engineer: White Young
Completed in June 2008, The roundings, that shows innovation, Green; Services Engineer: Hulley &
Queen's Centre for Oncology and and which will make a real differ- Kirkwood; Environmental
Haematology at Castle Hill Hospital, ence to 1.2 million people. Winning Consultant: Enviros Consulting;
which was designed by HLM so many awards for such a high Project Manager: Gleeds; Contractor:
Architects (architecture, interiors profile project also reinforces HLM’s Shepherd Construction; Construction
and landscape) and built at a con- growing design profile and our Contract Value: £42m and Gross
ABU DHABI HOTEL struction cost of £42 million, has reputation for high quality internal area: 19,900 sqm.
WELCOMES F1 already been recognised as a centre Healthcare and Public Buildings.
The Abu Dhabi-based Aloft
Hotel designed by RMJM
recently welcomed its first
John McAslan + Partners celebrates dual
guests in time for the Etihad
Airways Abu Dhabi Formula
win at Architect of the Year Awards
One Grand Prix. With less than
a year scheduled for the main
John McAslan + Partners received the using up to 10 per cent of its pretax a very different place to the world in
construction of the hotel,
World and Transport Architect of the profits - has set up linked pro bono 2007 and the work submitted by
RMJM implemented a meticu-
Year Awards. Tony Skipper, schemes, some working in partner- John McAslan’s office exemplified a
lous planning programme to
Managing Director at John McAslan ship with the Clinton Global real commitment to sustainable
ensure the doors would be
+ Partners, who accepted the awards Initiative, including a Strategic development at every level.
open for the last race in the
on behalf of the practice, said, “We Development Framework for the The accolade for Transport
Grand Prix season on 1st
are thrilled to have John McAslan + School of Genocide Studies in Kigali, Architect of the Year was given for a
November. RMJM is also
Partners’ work recognized by the Rwanda, as part of the world- portfolio of projects. The practice is
designing the iconic ‘Capital
AYA and it is wonderful for our renowned Kigali Memorial Centre. currently working on the £450M
Gate’ tower on the same micro
teams who have all been working Of the World Architect of the Year development of the Grade I listed
city site being constructed
incredibly hard. It has been a tough award, the judges said that JMP King’s Cross station in the heart of
around the thriving Abu Dhabi
time for the architectural profession “stood out in particular for the London, a project that forms the cen-
National Exhibition Centre. The
over the past year, so it is also impor- strong connection that was evident trepiece of what will be the most
tower has been submitted to
tant to congratulate everyone on the between the architecture, the place significant piece of urban regenera-
the Guinness Book of World
shortlist, which displays a fantasti- and the people. The world in 2009 is tion in Europe.
Records for being the most
cally diverse range of quality
inclined building in the world,
architecture.”
which, with a lean of 18
JMP’s most challenging recent pro
degrees, inclines 14 degrees
bono project, set up through the
more than the famous leaning
$100m Clinton Hunter Development
tower of Pisa.
Initiative in Malawi, supports the
Malawi government’s scheme to
develop free primary education for
all children in well-designed build-
ings. The first target was to provide
10 buildings across three sites, with a
typical classroom block budgeted to
cost a maximum of $20,000. The
schools are now set to be rolled out
across the country. In many of its
projects, John McAslan + Partners -
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