This afternoon Adrian Evans collected the award for Best Healthcare Building in the Building Excellence Awards held at The Stadium of Light. This follows a similar award for Grindon Lane Primary Care Centre and, we understand, awards for Wrekenton and Eaglescliffe Health Centres.
Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th November 2008
Gallery open 10am to 6pm
Bridget Jones: Prints
Screenprints, etchings and relief prints, including the new ‘Edinburgh’ prints.
Catriona Jones: The Architecture of Dressmaking
The work explores how the discipline of dressmaking can inform architectural design, and examines how architecture can learn from craft through the language and techniques of dressmaking.The images show invented tools and imagined spaces created by a guild of architectural dressmakers in the garment district of New York.
This exhibition is part of the 36 Lime Street Open Studios event:
Artists’ workshops open to the public 10am to 6pm, please see www.36limestreet.co.uk or www.ouseburnopenstudios.org for more details.
Language of Visionshowcases works by contemporary artists whose practice has a relationship to the legacy of the Bauhaus. Artists include Markus Amm, Camilla Low, Toby Paterson, Ryan Gander, Lothar Gotz and Andrew Miller.
A series of photographs by Hans Engels, presents the original Bauhaus architecture, constructed by the masters and students of the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1933, in its present condition.
Bauhaus Reviewed 1919-1933, is presented in mima’s Sound Space on the Third Floor Roof Terrace. The selection of recordings from the early 20th century goes deep into the myths surrounding the Bauhaus school and the artists it gave birth to.
The exhibition is part of NorthEast England’s programme of world-class festival and events for 2007, managed by culture10 based at NewcastleGateshead Initiative.
HKS has increased its shareholding to 66%, with the firm’s English arm, Newcastle- and Glasgow-based Ryder, dropping back to 33%.
Ryder executive director Mark Thompson said the London operation, which now employs over 60 staff, was a natural hub from which HKS would expand its international work in areas, including India and the Middle East.
The two northern offices will continue to collaborate with London, he added, but will revert to trading as Ryder Architecture, dropping the HKS name.
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P+HS were in attendance at the LABC Northern Region ‘Built in quality’ awards held at Slaley Hall on Friday evening.
The practice was shorlisted in four categories with the following results:
Jaime collected the award for ‘Best Structural Innovation’ with respect to OCHRE YARDS [Finalist]
Helen collected the award for ‘Best Housing Award or Residential Project’ with respect to OCHRE YARDS [Highly Commended]
Eamon collected the award for ‘Best Partnership with designer/Architect’ with respect to LAWSON STREET HEALTH CENTRE [Finalist], and
Adrian Evans collected the award for ‘Best Public Community Project’ with respect to GRINDON LANE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE [Highly Commended]
After a few months of delay Middlesbrough’s new institute of modern art is due to open on Saturday 27 January 2007.
MIMA’s inaugural exhibition, Draw: Conversations Around the Legacy of Drawing, features a selection of sketches and drawings from some of the most influential and revolutionary artists of the 20th Century.
With pieces from Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, there is something to grab both seasoned art connoisseurs and those that don’t know their Monet from their Manet.
A spectacular opening piece from abstract artist DJ Simpson and rare sketches from Damien Hirst and Pablo Picasso are without doubt the highlights of the MIMA experience, but it wouldn’t be right to reveal anymore and ruin the surprise – you’ll just have to go along to the sneak preview exhibition on Saturday 27th January between 5.30pm and 9pm to find out for yourself.
Please be aware, as well as the EA site there is a further EA site http://www.pipernetworking.com/floodrisk/index.html which gives National Standing Advice to Local Planning Authorities for Planning Applications. Even when the risk is low ie Flood Risk 1, a Flood Risk Assessment may still be required. I have been requested to provide one for a housing project as the site is over 1 ha. Flood Risk 1 is referred to as a “little to no risk area” and is shown unshaded on the maps! The main area that will need to be covered by the risk assessment for this site is that of the impact of surface water drainage. SUDS would be a consideration whether an FRA or not was required. A good starting point to assessing your project requirement is “the matrix” http://www.pipernetworking.com/floodrisk/matrix.html. The site also provides technical notes on flood risk assessment, but hopefully these will be carried out by a consultant.
Heworth Green Ventures are developing a £12m major new office development in the centre of York, design by P+HS, which has just received planning consent.
The development provides over 60,000 square feet of lettable commercial space and houses a replacement for the Minster Medical Practice on the ground floor. The design is highly sustainable, with considerable thought into carbon emissions, using natural ventilation and the use of off-site fabrication for the external skin. The first 20,000 square foot phase has already been let to Hunters.
The whole site is being developed collaboratively between Heworth Green Ventures and Persimmon Homes. The former car park was heavily contaminated and the site had to be excavated to a depth of around 4m with all contaminated spoil removed from site. Rather than fill the site back in again, a basement car park for over 200 cars has been created with a single ramped access.
Work has already started on the piling with the main construction due to start in Autumn 2006.
The site is completed with a high quality landscape scheme and the provision of the first phase of the new link road across to Layerthorp.
The development is being constructed by Tolent Construction, with engineers Alan Wood and Partners.
he proposal includes the demolition of the existing three storey office building occupying the site. The building is currently office accommodation for Broadacres Housing Association.
Broadacres Housing Association intend moving their present headquarters in East Road to new offices in late August 2006 as the organisation has out grown the existing accommodation.An office containing the local housing team will be retained on the site to handle all day to day housing enquiries for tenants including the collection of rents and for meeting facilities. As well as retaining an office the development has also facilitated the provision of 19 much needed affordable homes in the centre of Northallerton where opportunities are very limited.
It is intended that current staff relocate to the proposed new offices within Northallerton. The proposed Housing Office to be built on the site will initially be managed by existing staff.
The site comprises an area of 0.178Ha and it currently houses a three storey office built along the eastern side of the site; to the rear of the site there is secure car parking. The site is accessed from Elder Road to the north and is bounded to the east by the busy East Road. To the West the site is bounded by a 1.2M high brickwork wall and an adjacent nightclub. Given the sites proximity to both the night club and busy East Road a noise assessment has been commissioned.
Director
Joe is a registered architect who joined the practice in 1987 after working in London on complex clean room facilities, becoming a partner in 2000. Joe has specialised in health projects at P+HS, working with Chris Potter on all the practice's major healthcare workload and now acts as project partner on many of the major hospital and healthcare projects in the office.
