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Design Guild Mark 2022 call for entries open
The Design Guild Mark has launched its call for entries for the 2022 awards, inviting designers and companies to submit designs from 22 September 2021 across three categories: furniture; textile, wall coverings, surfaces, carpets and floor coverings; and lighting. The award, from The Furniture Makers Company, is in its 13th year.
designguildmark.org.uk
Cameron Rowley wins The Conran Shop’s Designer of the Future Award Kingston University graduate Cameron Rowley has won the inaugural Designer of the Future Award from The Conran Shop. Established to continue Sir Terence Conran’s legacy of nurturing and promoting new designers, at £40,000 it is the highest value award for UK design. The prize will be invested into developing and marketing Rowley’s design into an exclusive retail product. The judging panel included architect Lord Foster and designer Anya Hindmarch. The judges said: ‘Sir Terence Conran always voiced a philosophy of good design being “plain, simple, useful”. This is a good solution to a frequent challenge; its purpose is easy to see and understand. Elegantly executed, it also serves as a great looking product.’ The award is supported by the Marandi Foundation, a provider of training and educational opportunities for disadvantaged communities and young people in the UK. The dozen finalists and their designs can be found on The Conran Shop’s website:
conranshop.co.uk/new-designers
Sheppard Robson announces new partners Architectural practice Sheppard Robson and its interior design group ID:SR has announced four new partners and several senior promotions across its ofices in London, Manchester and Glasgow. The new partners are Anna Shapiro, Laura Matthews, Marie Leyland (who leads ID:SR in the north of England and Scotland) and Nick Hacking. There are also 12 new associate partners and 19 new associates, as well as other promotions in central support roles. Andrew German, managing partner,
commented: ‘Giving people space to progress is part of the Sheppard Robson DNA, and it’s wonderful to see so many of our team take up senior leadership roles. The promotions recognise the contribution these members of the team make to the continued success of Sheppard Robson, as well as our confident outlook for the future.’
sheppardrobson.com
> Nūr, an
installation at Folkestone Mosque, launches at Folkestone Triennial
Nūr, an Arabic word meaning light, day, illumination, edification and clarity, is an installation at Folkestone Triennial by a collaborative team of architect Shahed Saleem, Malaysian artist Wong Hoy Cheong and Folkestone-based artist Simon Davenport. The installation features a colourful ‘lantern’ in the courtyard of Folkestone Mosque; at ten metres in height, the pentagonal steel structure fitted with colourful acrylic panels hopes to draw in both local residents and Triennial visitors. The tower’s lantern is an ‘incomplete
and precarious’ mashrabiyya (lattice screen) with acrylic panels laser cut with designs from a children’s field trip and workshop. From this, motifs and designs will be developed to feature in the future mosque.
The project follows Wong Hoy
Cheong’s previous installation for the 2017 Triennial, which created a temporary facade on the Islamic Cultural Centre. For 2021, with financial support from
Creative Folkestone, the collaborators led dialogue with the mosque’s congregation and its wider community through surveys, focus groups and workshops in order to gather their ideas and aspirations for the mosque. Issues raised concerned maintenance, the need for new wudhu (ablution) facilities and larger gathering spaces, but also a desire to explore intersections in diversity. An outdoor exhibition will document
the mosque’s history as well as collected oral histories from the community, while the architectural proposal will be shown in the courtyard.
creativefolkestone.org.uk
JRA’s redesign of former Fleet Street Daily Mail building approved
Designs by John Robertson Architects (JRA) for the refurbishment of Grade II-listed Northcliffe House, the former Fleet Street ofice of the Daily Mail newspaper until the late 1980s, have been approved by the City of London Corporation. The proposals include
additional ofice space on the upper three floors; a redesigned hotel-style lobby; an improved ofice environment with internal atrium and new amenities; and roof terraces with urban greening, (to be treated as Covid-friendly ‘outdoor workspaces’). The design references the
newspaper industry and the ‘roaring 20s’ of the building’s heritage.
jra.co.uk
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