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Student Architects Awarded Top Prize
at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, praised George’s design, for the East London estate, as “an honest, pure form of architecture with residents and the community at its heart and external spaces as important as the buildings.” Joe’s design was similarly hailed as using ‘architecture to increase social sustainability and reverse the current trend for working, playing and shopping in isolation.’ Both winners received a funded Stage Two professional
experience placement with the design led housing and regeneration consultancy HTA. George said: “My design was inspired by the idea of order and chaos and I was also inspired by the strong sense of community you get in the favelas in Brazil. I wanted to build stacked cubed units which when built above and below each other create spaces which could become shared communal spaces. I wanted it to be quite distinctive.” Joe added: “I wanted to change the focus of the Bethnal Green scheme - to make it more social, make it more communal and create opportunities for people to integrate. So there is a launderette, the opportunity for people to start their own social entrepreneur businesses which actually give something back to the community, public transport is prioritised and there are cycle bays. I was really inspired by the idea of social sustainability.” The Bethnal Green estate, recently celebrated its 100th birthday, and
was designed by Victorian architects Joseph and Smithem. It was one of Europe’s first social housing schemes and offered an escape from London’s East End slums. The competition received an excellent response and eight schemes
Two architectural students from Oxford Brooks University have been
awarded the top prize in an open ideas competition run by affordable housing provider Affinity Sutton and RIBA Competitions. Twenty-three year-old George Calver and Joe Williams, 25, both RIBA
Part 2 architectural students, were asked to comtemplate what type of affordable housing scheme might have been built today on the site of Affinity Sutton’s 100 year-old Bethnal Green Estate, and how that design would make a positive contribution to the environment. The judging panel, chaired by Ian Taylor, Partner and Studio Leader
were selected as finalists by our judging panel to spend a week finessing their designs with Affinity Sutton’s partner architects. Mark Washer, Group Finance Director and Design Champion at Affinity
Sutton, said: “We are delighted with the response to our first ever Affinity Sutton Design Competition – Make Bethnal Green. The standard of entries was really excellent and I would like to congratulate George and Joe as worthy winners. There is a huge demand for well designed affordable homes which make a positive contribution to their community and we really want to be at the forefront of good design. Anything we can do to encourage talented young architects to develop an interest in affordable housing can only be a good thing”
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Manchester’s Town Hall Extension and Central Library Buildings to Get Green Make-over
The Manchester studio of BDP, the UK’s largest
inter-disciplinary design practice, has been appointed to modify the interior of Manchester’s Town Hall Extension and Central Library buildings to bring them up to modern green standards. The project to replace, upgrade and provide safe, resilient, flexible and adaptable building services and electrical systems installations throughout the two buildings will enable Manchester City Council to deliver its visionary Transformation Programme, which will see the Council function in an even greener and more energy efficient way, as well as providing improved services for residents and visitors. Michael Whitehurst, BDP Manchester’s Environmental Engineering Director, will lead an inter-disciplinary team of specialists responsible for delivering the mechanical and electrical facets of the refurbishment. The transformation aims to provide better integrated and more effective services to residents and includes evolving from cellular offices to open plan workplaces to improve communication, teamwork and efficiency. The scheme will also help make the building a more sustainable
workplace and a more comfortable environment for customers, visitors and tourists. The work however will be sensitive to the extension’s much-loved architecture and Central Library’s celebrated design. Michael Whitehurst said; “The listed buildings are one of the focal points of the city and have a unique character that we are striving to preserve. But it is obviously a complex task to try and bring such historic infrastructure into the 21st century and make it genuinely sustainable.” Michael continued; “From our experience, we understand that sensitive
integration of modern technologies is an important part in any refurbishment project. Some of the buildings’ internal engineering has reached the end of its useful life and the project will require both very careful planning and delicate execution. Our vision is that the project sets the standard for environmental performance and carbon emissions that changes the misconception that it is too difficult to achieve this in historic buildings.”
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Councillor Nigel Murphy, Assistant Executive Member for the
Environment for Manchester City Council, said: “Manchester has an ambitious plan to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 41 per cent by 2020 and putting energy efficiency at the heart of our own buildings underlines the Council's determination to lead by example. Along with providing state-of-the-art, accessible services to residents and visitors, one of the guiding principles of our transformation programme is improving the environmental performance of these historic gems.” The Town Hall Complex Transformation programme will see the Town
Hall extension and Central Library extensively refurbished by 2014 to deliver state-of-the-art services and to preserve both Grade II*-listed gems for future generations. It will also involve an international design competition to ensure St Peter’s Square provides a world-class setting for both historic buildings. Construction work is due to commence in 2011 with the entire Town Hall Transformation Programme being complete in 2014.
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