Glasgow firm scoops Loch Ness visitor centre
Cameron Webster Architects has won a £2.3 million competition to design a visitor centre for Loch Ness.
The Glasgowpractice beat off three other firms – Gareth Hoskins, Mckenzie
Strickland and ANTA – to scoop the job for client Jacobite Cruises. The
tourist facilities, harbour and car park will be built on a 1.6ha site
at Brackla on the shores of the famous loch, allowing the firm to
expand from its existing base at a nearby hotel.
Jacobite director Rod Michie praised all four designs but said
Cameron Webster’s, which uses Caithness stone, local timber and lots of
light, best met their desire for an “iconic visitor centre that is
sympathetic to its surroundings”.
It had also proved most popular with the public at consultation events.
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Broadway Malyan’s eyes on Guide Dogs prize
Work has begun on Broadway Malyan’s design for a new national breeding centre for the charity Guide Dogs
Guide
Dogs hopes that the centre, near Warwick, will allow it to increase the
number of puppies bred from 1,100 at present to 1,550 each year. The
new facility is adjacent to the organisation’s existing breeding centre
and features a series of gull-winged, glulam roofed, steel framed
buildings ranged around a central courtyard.
Each
building will be used for animals at different stages in the breeding
process, initial intake of dogs, mating, whelping, adults, puppies as
well as essential associated dog care and welfare facilities. The buildings are set in specifically designed dog runs and landscaping. It
is hoped that the centre, which also features sustainable elements
including biomass boilers and rainwater harvesting, will be completed
next summer.
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Wilkinson Eyre's New Bodleian awaits chapter and verse
Wilkinson Eyre has unveiled its plans for the £78 million restoration of the New Bodleian library building in Oxford.
The
original grade II-listed building, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and
completed in 1940, houses the library’s extensive collection of books,
manuscripts, papers and journals across 11 floors. Described as a
“book fortress” by the library’s associate director, Richard Ovenden,
the Bodleian wanted to both update its storage facilities and create a
more inviting space to the public.
Existing windows and panels
on the south facade of the building will be removed to create a new
entrance colonnade and the existing plinth will be replaced with new
steps and a ramp.
The
11-storey central bookstack will be removed and replaced with a
basement bookstack, entrance hall and “floating” stacks above the
entrance space. The project is due to be submitted for planning and listed building consent at the end of March 2010.
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Libeskind's Dublin Canal Theatre completes
Daniel Libeskind's €75 million (£68 million)
Grand Canal Theatre project in Dublin has completed, with the grand
opening of the new 2000-seat venue due to take place in a fortnight.
The
seven storey 13,500 sq m main theatre structure, which opens on March
18th, is part of a larger €196 million (£178 million) complex which
includes a 21,000 sq m block to the south and another 33,000 sq m block
to the north providing office and retail space. The buildings are
treated with different cladding systems, with a perforated stainless
steel rain screen featuring glazed strips distinguishing the theatre
from the commercial elements of the scheme.
A
new piazza in front of the complex has been designed as a “grand
outdoor lobby” for public events, while the multi-level internal
theatre lobby provides views onto the piazza and across the waterfront. Libeskind’s team, led by Stefan Blach and Gerhard Brun, worked
with local practice McCauley Daye O’Connell Architects, Arup and Arts
Team (part of RHWL Architects) to deliver the project.
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Cartwright Pickard's Wakefield office block gets go-ahead
A new council office development designed by
Cartwright Pickard Architects has been given the green light by council
planners in West Yorkshire.
Work on the four-storey
building, in Wakefield, will start this summer and is being backed by
English Cities Fund (ECF), a partnership between the Homes &
Communities Agency and developers Muse and Legal & General. The
123,000 sq ft building will hold up to 1,200 people and is the second
phase of the ECF’s Merchant Gate scheme which includes building a new
multi-storey car park to serve Wakefield main line station and will be
completed this May.
Other
features of the first phase include 66 residential apartments, plus
further office and retail space which is due to be completed in August
this year.
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Rivington Hackney school extension wins consent
Rivington Street Studio has won planning
permission for the £6 million extension and refurbishment of a school
in Hackney, east London
Orchard Primary School had been
struggling with a lack of specialist teaching space for IT in its
existing 1920s building and was keen to establish itself as a positive
beacon for the area. The proposed brass-clad, three-storey
extension would house a combined library and IT teaching area, which
could be divided into two to create flexible teaching spaces, as well
as a new street-facing entrance for visitors.
The 675sq m extension, which has won praise from the Hackney design
review panel, also features a large room for parent meetings, also
available for use by the community, plus staff offices and nursery
teaching spaces. The project is one of the first of Hackney’s new
wave of projects funded by the Department for Children, Schools &
Families’ Primary Capital Programme. It is expected to achieve a “very
good” Breeam rating with energy-saving measures such as integrated
photovoltaic panels and exposed concrete slabs to retain thermal mass. The project is due to start on site this summer.
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Fresh images of New Covent Garden revamp unveiled
Fresh images of the redevelopment of New
Covent Garden market, by Foster & Partners and Neil Tomlinson
Architects, have been unveiled.
Four new market buildings
by Neil Tomlinson will be included on the 23 ha site, while up to 1,800
new homes, a hotel, serviced apartment, a supermarket and other retail
and leisurefacilities will be built on the current site of the flower
market to the north.
Foster & Partners is designing this part of the scheme, with three towers of between 25 and 46 storeys-high. A “green route” runs through the heart of the site, linking Vauxhall and Battersea power station.
Meanwhile up to 500 new homes, community facilities and open spaces,
and a new public market, also by Tomlinson, will take up the remainder
of the development. An outline planning application is expected to be submitted to Wandsworth Council this summer.
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Lee Boyd Architects' community hub wins planning
Edinburgh based practice Lee Boyd Architects
has won planning permission for a £3 million community hub in
Gorebridge, Scotland.
The 825 sq m two-storey building
will occupy a site surrounded by a leisure centre, primary school,
church and a proposed supermarket and is intended to help unify the
buildings and make them more accessible to the local community. Orientated
to make the most of natural light and ventilation and clad in local
timber, the structure is arranged into two wings with offices and
childcare facilities occupying both floors of the taller wing of the
building.
A
new community hall which can be divided into three spaces using a
flexible partition will occupy the other wing, while a central café and
communal space will connect the two sides of the building. Funding for the project has been raised by the local community and the Gorebridge Community Development Trust.
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Nouvel's Abu Dhabi Louvre foundations laid
Piling work has started on Jean Nouvel's Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi.
The
huge development is part of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District which
will be home to the world’s largest concentration of cultural
institutions in the world and will also include Foster & Partners’
Zayed National Museum and Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum.
Work
will now progress on the Louvre over the next 20 weeks. A total of
5,638 piles will be driven into the ground, including 4,298 steel piles
and 1,340 concrete piles, amounting to 94.2km in length.
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Brisac Gonzalez tackles Paris sports centre
Brisac Gonzalez has won planning consent for
its competition-winning design for the new £6.5 million Pajol Sports
Centre in Paris
The scheme is part of a regeneration
masterplan for a brownfield site on the Rue Pajol near the Gare du Nord
in the 18th arrondissement. The practice beat four other shortlisted firms to win the commission in late 2006. The practice was asked to create a building that set a new benchmark
for the environmental certification for sports buildings in France.
The design for the 4,060sq m building plays with textures and light to create interest within the constraints of the brief.
A
glazed public entrance space at ground level is sandwiched between a
textured prefabricated concrete panel clad upper floor and a below
ground level martial arts and fitness centre.
Sculpted
north-facing roof openings provide natural light for the main 47m x 42m
sports hall on the top floor, while photovoltaic panels and natural
ventilation will reduce energy consumption. The project is due to start on site next month and is due for completion in 2011.
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Napper's Northumberland media centre revealed
Napper Architects has drawn up plans for a £3.5 million media centre at a school in Northumberland.
The
steel framed structure, clad in anthracite zinc and with a sand-blasted
glass entrance, will provide 1,150 sq m of teaching space. It was
designed in collaboration with staff who will teach at the centre and
has been divided into five separate “zones” designated for everything
from team management to “reflection”.
The building is entered via a dramatic double height space which has been designated the reflection zone.
The
Tynedale Creative and Media Skills Centre will be built next to Prudhoe
Community High School, but will be used by children from four local
schools. The project is one of 15 schemes funded by the
Department of Children Schools and Families to provide exemplar diploma
facilities.
Consultation on the scheme has just been launched and
it is hoped – subject to planning permission – that the work will begin
in 2010 with the building operational by June 2011.
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Zurich Airport mixed-use scheme
Japanese architects Riken Yamamoto &
Field Shop have beaten 90 practices including Zaha Hadid Architects to
design a 200,000sq m mixed-use building at Zurich Airport.
The
practice beat four other finalists – Hadid, US firm Asymptote
Architecture, Swiss practice Dürig AG and Belgium’s Xaveer De Geyter –
with the full 90 entries hailing from 12 countries. The Circle is
a £547 million project to serve the airport’s 22 million annual
passengers, and includes shops and a hotel. The client describes it as
one of the world’s most ambitious airport real estate projects and
hopes it will become a destination in its own right.
The
architect will now develop the initial concept to ensure it fits Zürich
Airport’s financial, design and functionality requirements. Work is due to start in 2012 and be completed by about 2016.
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Feilden Clegg Bradley goes for gold in Worcester
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has released
pictures of its £60 million Worcester University Library & History
Centre, which is progressing despite the government axe falling on
university capital budgets
The highly sustainable
gold-shingled building, on a riverside site in Worcester city centre,
was commissioned by the university and the county council. It is the
first purpose-designed, joint-use facility in the UK, and will serve
students and the general public when it opens in July 2011. The centre
will also feature retail space. Feilden Clegg Bradley said the
11,000sq m building’s form was inspired by the historic Royal Worcester
kilns and the Malvern Hills.
It
has already won a prize for the “innovative” design of the laminated
timber roof, which was estimated to have saved two months of design
work, compared with a steel roof.
Earlier this month, the Higher Education Funding Council for England announced university capital budgets would be cut by 15%.
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A scheme by masterplanner Turley Associates
to turn the former home of the Terry’s Chocolate factory in York into a
mixed-use scheme has been given the green light by city planners –
despite Cabe objections.
The factory closed back in 2005
after US owner Kraft, the food group which has just bought Cadbury,
switched production of its products, including the Chocolate Orange,
overseas. Cabe described the proposal as “not a convincing masterplan for the site”. Turley’s
proposals include reusing four listed buildings and creating new
offices, hotels, shops and restaurants. The proposals, which were 16
months in the making, are expected to create up to 2,700 jobs. English Heritage has backed the scheme, which is being masterminded by GHT Developments.
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Cabe backs Paddington scheme
Cabe’s Crossrail design review panel has lent its support to Weston Williamson’s designs for the Paddington Integrated Project.
The
design review panel was considering a planning application covering the
Hammersmith & City line Underground station concourse, a new
entrance to the rail station and other facilities. It will consider
plans for the Crossrail station separately.
While supporting the current scheme, Cabe expressed concern that designs should not be developed in a piecemeal manner. It
also made some specific suggestions including collaborating with
artists on the design of decorative glazing proposed for the Tube
concourse.
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Chris Dyson redesigns gasworks
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning
permission to create a £200,000 addition to a “writer’s retreat” owned
by author Jeanette Winterson in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire
Winterson,
best known for her novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, acquired the
derelict carbide gasworks, which once provided lighting for a
neighbouring estate, in 1994. She has since been working on the restoration of the main building, which houses the kitchen and central living spaces.
Dyson,
who also worked with the writer on the creation of her shop Verde in
London’s Spitalfields, had been guiding the project and was appointed
to create a new building to house additional bedrooms and writing rooms. Due
to start on site this summer, the new 120sq m single-storey
glulam-built annex will feature a limecrete floor with underfloor
heating powered by a woodchip biomass-burner.
The courtyard space created between the new and old buildings will be filled with a Victorian style kitchen garden.
Inspired by Adam Mornement and Simon Holloway’s book
Corrugated Iron and the corrugated porches of the Victorian cottages on
the site, the annex will be clad in a tin skin which will weather to
create a sensitive contrast to the local yellow stone.
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Madonna's Malawi school on-site
New images of a planned school in Africa being funded by Madonna have been unveiled.
The pop star is bankrolling the Academy for Girls in Malawi – the
African country which her adopted son David hails from – which is
currently on-site and will become a campus for 450 pupils when it is
completed in two years’ time.
New York practice Studio MDA, which was founded by former Zaha Hadid
Architects partner Markus Dochantschi, is behind the design which aims
to use locally sourced materials such as hyrdaform bricks made from
soil on site.
Double roofs are designed to catch the wind to provide natural
ventilation while photovoltaic panels on the roof of the buildings will
help the school be energy independent.
In addition, large
overhangs on the roofs create outdoor shaded space and prevent direct
light from heating up the interior of the building. British engineer Adams Kara Taylor is also working on the scheme along with the New York office of Arup.
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Gary Neville eco-house goes for planning
Make Architects has designed this ultra-sustainable home for England and Manchester United footballer Gary Neville.
Plans for the house, which have taken three years to perfect, have now been submitted to Bolton Council.
The
8,000 sq ft property will be built in the Pennines, and – subject to
approval – would become the first carbon neutral home in the north
west, according to the practice.
The four bedroom house is
designed with a kitchen at its heart, and several wings – with titles
like “eat”, “relax”, “entertain”, “work”, “sleep” and “play” - spanning
off it like the petals of a flower.
It is to be built on a single
level, and has been likened to the Skara Brae Neolithic settlement in
Orkney, because of the way it is built into the hillside.
Neville, 34, plans to build the property on the site of an entire
18th century farming hamlet which he bought for himself and his wife,
Emma four years ago. The couple have already built a 12-bedroom family home on the site, known locally as Top O’ Th’ Knotts.
A
wind turbine will provide power for the property itself and a
neighbouring house, while covering much of the house in a green roof of
meadow grasses and wildflowers will reduce energy usage. The
property, which also features solar panels and a ground source heat
pump, is on green belt land but it is understood that the team hopes
that it will be allowed to go ahead because it falls into the category
of being “truly outstanding and ground breaking”.
The scheme has
already been selected as an exemplar project within the government’s
‘Planning Performance Agreements for Renewable and Low Carbon Energy
Schemes’ programme. If planning permission be granted, preliminary construction work is expected to start later this year.
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Network Rail has go-ahead for Milton Keynes HQ
GMW’s plans for a national centre for Network Rail have been given planning approval.
The firm has created a new, consolidated base for some 3,000 employees currently based in regional centres across the UK. The
37,000sq m scheme was approved by Milton Keynes Council last week and
will now be built on the site of the former National Hockey Stadium. The
building includes a living roof and rainwater harvesting system. There
are also recharging points for electric vehicles and an allotment on
site to grow fruit and vegetables.
Network Rail is aiming to achieve a Breeam Excellent rating for the centre. The
National Hockey Stadium was built by English Partnerships and was used
by England Hockey from 1995 to 2003, until it was declared unviable. It
was used briefly by the Milton Keynes Dons football club but has been
empty since 2007. Work is due to start on site in late summer, and be completed by 2012.
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Sheppard Robson to design Trafford grammar school
Sheppard Robson has won a contract to design a £20 million Roman Catholic boys’ grammar school in Trafford.
Designs
for the rebuilt St Ambrose Voluntary Aided College in Hale Barns will
reflect the college’s religious ethos, according to the practice, with
space at its centre representing the ‘heart of the community’ including
chapel, dining, social and assembly areas. The central space
will be visible from all points and will provide access to all teaching
areas, dispensing with the need for internal corridors.
Cantilevering platforms on the upper levels will boast staff areas, library and ICT facilities. St Ambrose will also feature a sports hall suspended over a new swimming pool. The building is expected to be submitted for planning permission in May 2010, with completion in 2011.
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Fat designs Cardiff TV centre for Dr Who
Fat has drawn up plans for a new BBC TV production centre in Wales featuring a decorative 300m-long facade
The
building, which will host filming of flagship BBC shows including
Doctor Who and Casualty, will be the centre-piece and first phase of a
vast regeneration scheme at the Roath Basin site in Cardiff Bay. The
building’s length reflects the adjacent pitched-roof dock buildings
with the north facade boasting a repeating wave motif described by the
firm as both gothic and space age.
“In line with the diverse
character of the surrounding architecture, the proposed building has a
unique char-acter of its own, which marks it out as an important
cultural building which at the same time responds to the dockside
architecture adjacent to it,” explains the design statement submitted
to Cardiff Council. As
well as the production centre — which also includes a green wall — the
application involves plans for a new bridge to be built across Roath
Basin.
It was designed by Studio Bednarski, and won a competition
launched by the Welsh Development Agency, beating shortlisted entries
by Grimshaw, Yee Associates and Murray Dunlop Architects. The
Roath Basin project, masterplanned by DEGW, includes 92,903sq m of
commercial development space and more than 1,000 new homes.
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New Veterinary College building wins planning
Architecture Plb has been granted planning permission for a new £6 million building for the Royal Veterinary College.
The
facility will act as a gateway to its rural campus, Hawkshead, near
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, and work is due to start on site in March. It is hoped the project will be completed by the end of the year. The firm is now working on masterplans for the college’s two campuses, Hawkshead and Camden, north London.
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7N receive clearance for Inverness Airport Business Park
Inverness Airport has received clearance from Inverness, Nairn,
Badenoch and Strathspey planning committee to construct a new business
park.
A site covering 250 hectares will be developed by a consortium
comprising private and public sector organisations including Highland
Council and Moray Development Company Ltd. Over the long term a range of commercial, industrial, storage,
distribution and hotel facilities will erected on land adjacent to the
airport. These will be separated into a series of “zones” to take account of localised land uses such as woodland, airside and landscape.
Stressing good design the developers have employed 7N Architects to
compile a design code for architects on orientations, elevation and
materials. Extensive landscaping and the planting of some 150,000 trees
are also proposed. The scheme, which abuts the proposed New Town of Tornagrain, was
opposed by Croy and Culloden & Ardersier and Petty Community
Councils.
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Westminster approves Hogarth Architects’ private house
Westminster Council has approved Hogarth Architects’ plans for a £1 million new home in St John’s Wood.
Two
earlier planning applications were turned down with planners citing the
design and appearance of the front facade as reasons for refusal. The
approved design is for a 250sq m, two-bedroom house to replace an
existing single-storey artist’s studio. The size of the proposal could
not exceed the dimensions of the original building so an additional
floor will be built below ground level. The house will feature a green roof and a geo-thermal heat pump.
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Sanaa's Rolex centre set for opening
Sanaa's new Rolex Learning Centre at the
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland will
open at the end of February.
The centre is conceived as an integrated learning environment and includes both study and social spaces.
It
is designed as a single fluid space, with gentle slopes and terraces,
undulating around a series of internal ‘patios’, with hidden supports
for its complex curving roof that will create stunning architectural photography.
The Rolex Learning Center, as the new campus hub, illustrates the vision of the university where traditional boundaries
between faculties are broken down, where mathematicians and engineers
meet with neuroscientists and microtechnicians to envision new
technologies that improve lives, and where the public are inspired and
made welcome.
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