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news PLANNING PERMISSION
Birmingham’s tallest office-led tower receives planning permission
Proposals including Birmingham’s tallest office-led building have been unani- mously approved by the city’s planners. Architect Broadway Malyan has
designed the final phases of the £200 million Beorma Quarter development on behalf of property
Salhia Investments. The proposals include a 30-storey
mixed-use tower with retail space, 155,000 ft2
of Grade A office space and 125 apartments, each of which will have group
a private winter garden with spectacular views across the city. Also proposed are a seven-storey office building with 30,000 ft2
of Grade A
space and a 13-storey building with 69 apartments, four work/live units and ground floor retail space. At the heart of the development is to be a new public square called Orwell Place. The first phase of the scheme – which
included the refurbishment of the former Bullring Markets Coldstore building into
an office complex and innovation centre as well as the development of a new Adagio hotel – was completed earlier this year. Broadway Malyan’s Birmingham-
based Director, Neil Rose, said the latest phases reflected Salhia’s confidence in the city’s long term prospects and the improving economic conditions. Enabling works were set to commence on site December last year.
Contributors sought for international architecture conference in Leeds
The sixth International Conference on Competitions
(ICC), examining
experimentation within architecture competitions, will take place at Leeds Beckett University later this year and is calling for research papers to be presented at the prestigious event. Dr Maria Theodorou, senior in
lecturer architecture at
Leeds Beckett University and organiser of the conference, explained: “The purpose of ICC 2016 is to offer a window into current interdisci- plinary research on the topic of architecture competitions.” Architecture competitions are open
calls to compete for the best design or idea in response to a brief presented by a client through an agency, such as the Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA). Buildings created through a competition process include the Royal Armouries, Wembley Stadium, and the Millennium Bridge in the UK; and, internationally, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Sydney Opera House. Dr Theodorou added: “In recent
years we have, alongside the standard process of architecture competitions used for the procurement of buildings, seen, and continue to see, a surge of
competitions which do not seek to produce a building or an architecture structure, but aim instead to raise awareness and pinpoint current social, political, technological issues in our cities; these aim to entice experimenta- tion by reformulating and resetting the very terms and conditions within which a problem is posed or arises.” Taking place from 27-29 October
at Leeds Beckett University’s Rose Bowl, followed by a visit to London, the ICC 2016 conference will include a professional organisations’ panel discussion and is supported by RIBA Competitions
and the UIA
(International Union of Architects). This year will be the first time that
the ICC is held in the UK. As with previous ICC conferences, architecture competitions will be considered as a complex research topic rather than as a mere practical activity in which architects and architecture students take part regularly. The history of
competitions, their
organisational, legal and conceptual framework, the role of clients and professional organisations, are all aspects which will be put under scrutiny by researchers and practition-
ers. The specific focus of this year’s conference is to frame the various aspects of competitions within the concept of experimentation. Dr Theordorou said: “We are
looking for papers that aim to broaden our understanding of the category of
experimentation, with and
within architecture competitions, by examining, historically or otherwise, the various types of competitions, the effects of architectural representation ‘idioms’ deployed, as well as the social, financial and political motivations and impact competition might have or had in the past. “We aim to cover all aspects of
architectural/design competitions’ experimentation and merge in the ICC2016 UK both a practice-oriented and theoretical approach to the subject by opening up this call for papers to independent actors/various entities as well as to professionals and scholars in the field. During the conference all voices can be heard and debated.” To submit an abstract, please see
www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/icc2016/ for details. The closing date is 3 May and all abstracts will be printed and published online.
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