DiMH 2021 AWARDS Project of the Year Refurbishment Award
The Project of the Year – Refurbishment Award went to The Kantor Centre of Excellence: The Anna Freud Centre and The Pears Family School, in central London, designed by Penoyre & Prasad.
menus in the new main kitchen. While the existing building had felt ‘closed in’ and dark, removing unnecessary additional walls and service boxing, and adding more glazed screens, ‘transformed’ the main social area and corridors into ‘light, spacious areas, with improved visibility and safety’.
A ‘real team effort’
Also Highly Commended was the new Lowther Dementia Hub at St Andrew’s Healthcare’s Northampton site, ‘a place to live safely and well, with dignity, independence, and choice’. The four wards – one female, and three male – are ‘tailored to meet the physical and mental challenges presented through the complex progression of neuro-degeneration’. The entry explained: “The design process was a real team effort, involving clinical, therapy, and estates personnel, plus service-users, and the finished building reflects this. Visual aids – memory boxes, coloured doors, and prompts – help create a building that is easy to use, reducing confusion and frustration. Dementia-friendly taps were specified, supporting independence, but monitoring changes in cognitive ability. Circadian
rhythm lighting and acoustic softening create spaces where cognitive impairments are supported, rather than challenged by harsh or over-clinical aesthetics. Interiors are spacious, and, wherever possible, flooded with natural light, with access outdoors prioritised.” A social hub, based on the Dutch ‘De Hogeweyk’ concept of a ‘dementia village’, incorporates ‘familiar landmarks to give a sense of normality’: a bus stop, launderette, and post office, routes to wander, and seating.
Project of the Year, New-Build, UK The sixth award, for Project of the Year New-Build UK, went to the new Inspire CAMHS inpatient unit in Hull’s Walker Street, designed by Gilling Dod Architects for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. Serving Hull, East Riding, and north/ north-east Lincolnshire, Inspire also won the Best Clinical Team of the Year Award (see page 21). The entry said: “An innovative and collaborative project that transforms CAMHS provision across the region, and realises the goals of NHS’s ‘Transforming Care’ Agenda. The new service, designed with young people for
Project of the Year New-Build UK Award
young people, puts specialist care in the heart of the community, with an innovative architectural design addressing technical, budgetary, and planning challenges, creating truly flexible, nurturing, and therapeutic spaces.”
The award was presented by to Modern Matron at Inspire, Paul Warwick, of the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, and Andrew Arnold, a director of Gilling Dod, and his colleagues, Kevin Hilton and Robin Graham, by Philip Ross and Jonathan Campbell.
New Broadmoor Hospital Highly Commended was the new Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire (West London NHS Trust and Kier) – which has replaced the original hospital opened in 1863, and was ‘purpose built to provide a safe, therapeutic environment for the care, treatment, and rehabilitation, of patients needing psychiatric care in a high-secure setting’. It has 234 beds, and was designed ‘to support an ethos of hope and recovery’ in a high-secure environment, focusing on space and natural light, with staff, patients, and carers, ‘involved at every stage in
The Inspire CAMHS unit on Hull’s Walker Street, designed by Gilling Dod Architects.
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