NEWS
News brief... NEWDIRECTOR FOR
NIGHTINGALE NightingaleAssociates has appointed a newsenior director, Tony Burley.A specialist healthcare architect, Tony is based in London, andwill be heavily involved in business development, implementing bids and major project delivery in both the UK and overseas.
STRIDE’S £18M
SCHOOL REFURB Stride Treglown has submitted plans to upgrade MorristonComprehensive, one of Swansea’s biggest secondary schools. The plans have been submitted on behalf ofCity and County of Swanseawho are seeking planning permission for this new £18milliomcomprehensive school. If approved, the schemewill see existing classroomblocks replaced with a state-of-the-art teaching facility. It’s hoped constructionworkwill start in July,with completion due byChristmas 2014
GREENLIGHT FOR
ASSAEL SCHEME Planning permission has been granted forAssael Architecture’s residential scheme,whichwill regenerate a strategic brownfield site in South Harrow, London. The £9million development of 50, one to four bedroom, dwellingswill be built on the site of a former petrol filling station by developer and house builder ClearviewHomes.
ORMSAPPOINTS ORMSArchitectureDesign hasmade two in-house appointments - John Storry and JaniceCarr - bringing the number of associate directors on theORMS board to four.
The Brick Awards
South African architect Peter Rich’s Interpretation Centre steals the show
The winners of the Wienerberger Brick Awards 2012 have been announced at a ceremony in Vienna’s City Hall. Five international architects were awarded for their outstanding work, for projects using brick as a constructionmaterial.
T
he five-person jury chose South African architect Peter Rich as Grand-
Prize winner and winner of the category Special Solution with Brick for theMapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa. The Non-Residential
Building category was won by Scottish architectural firm NORD for its innovative electrical substation for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Architect Bart Lens
convinced the jury in the Single Family House category with his project titled – ‘The Rabbit Hole’. The Portuguese architects and brothers Francisco andManuel Aires Mateus received the Residential Building Brick Award for their ‘house for elderly people’ in Alcácer do Sal.While in the final category, Conversion, Slovakia’s
Pavol Paňák scored a win with his personal architectural, brick-
built hideaway. The Brick Awards, which
have been presented in a two- year cycle by the world’s largest brick producer, recognise particularly successful examples of modern brick architecture. The award is endowed with a total of €27,000 in prize money. “With theWienerberger Brick Award, we want to cast a spotlight on the innovative and versatile use of brick in today’s modern architecture,” says Wienerberger CEO Heimo Scheuch. “All of the projects
Grand-prize winner, theMapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, reinter- prets ancient vaulting techniques whilst utilising themost sophisticated constructionmethods.
New space built by socialmedia
Over 200 participants are taking part in creating and making a space at Southbank Centre - turning a disused space into a collaborative Festival Village. The project is a unique take on 'co-design' and 'co-make'
processes: volunteers fromall walks of life have signed up to design and build the space fromscratch, guided by Lyn Atelierworkingwith Southbank Centre's in-house teams. It's a bold step by the Southbank Centre using fresh, young designers and totally transforming a disused space through collaboration. Collaborative design is an
exciting newapproach to designing and delivering
spaces. Facilitated by experienced designers, the process involves engaging a community around a space and encouraging themto get involved in all aspects of creating andmaking it. The aim is to harness people's collective ideas to co-design the brief and ensure the space is truly fit for purpose. The co-making of the space also gives participants an opportunity to get physically involved inmaking
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