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Camden hostel brings Peter Barber Architects the win at New London Awards 2016
A homeless hostel and a pop-up housing scheme have scooped top prizes at this year’s instalment of the New London Awards. Peter Barber Architects’ almshouse-inspired flats, Holmes
Road Studios in Camden (pictured) was created as a new homeless hostel for the Borough, and named the Overall Winner. The project will house 59 people and provide a courtyard garden with training and counselling facilities. The practice also won the Conservation & Retrofit award
for Mount Pleasant Studios and received a commendation for its Employment Academy scheme in the Education category. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan reaffirmed his commitment
to housing by awarding The Mayor’s Prize to a temporary housing scheme in Lewisham. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ PLACE/Ladywell creates 24 demountable homes on brownfield land which can be moved to a different location. Homebuilding was also high on the agenda as Berkeley
Group chairman Tony Pidgley claimed the New Londoner of the Year Award after his companies built around 40,000 London homes over the last two decades. Eastenders’ aspirations for a bridge in the area were echoed
in The People’s Choice award handed to reForm Architects and Elliott Wood’s Rotherhithe Bridge design. The Ashden Prize for sustainable projects was awarded to
the highly energy-efficient New Studio at Wimbledon College of Art by Penoyre & Prasad. Peter Murray, Chairman of New London Architecture said: “It is no surprise that our key awards have gone to housing, the
lack of which remains at the top of the list of issues that face the Mayor. He added: “Peter Barber’s homes for the homeless have a
dignity, delight and economy that celebrates the social purpose of great architecture; Tony Pidgley has delivered huge numbers of homes at a time when the rest of the industry has struggled to meet targets, while Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners have been at the forefront of developing modern methods of construction to provide truly affordable homes for Londoners. “We hope that the best innovative thinking by London’s pool
of talented designers, developers and constructors can be harnessed by Sadiq Khan and his deputy mayor for housing to deliver the new homes the capital so desperately needs.”
Marks Barfield’s skinny 360-degree view of Brighton & Hove opens
The 162 m-high British Airways i360, designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield Architects, opened to the public on Brighton’s seafront on 4 August and has been hailed as the world’s slimmest tower. The “first vertical cable car” which has a height to width
ratio of more than 40:1 will take groups of up to 200 visitors to a height of 138 metres in a glass viewing pod. Marks and Barfield are best known as the practice that conceived and designed the London Eye and have applied similar innvoation to British Airways i360 The pod uses energy recapture technology as it descends to generate almost half of the electricity required to power its ascent. Architect David Marks said: “British Airways i360 is the
result of a fantastic example of European cooperation. The team includes many key individuals and firms we worked
©British Airways i360
with on the London Eye and it has been our privilege over the past 12 years to see it turned into a reality.”
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