Hadrian Awards

The Wynd

2009-12-07 16:49:34

The houses 1-12 Rivergreen, Amble are a distinctive and environmentally responsible development that makes a positive and vital contribution to the character of the environment.

The innovative design creates a scheme of highly distinctive residential properties that respond directly to the exceptional coastal location, creating shelter from the prevailing northeasterly winds, maximizing views from the dwellings in two opposing directions while manipulating the built form to create a gentle transition from the open countryside to the urban development of Amble.

The development has been awarded an EcoHomes Excellent rating by the Building Research Establishment.

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Public Square

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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art and the Public Square development has successfully transformed the former, disparate space into a vibrant public space in the heart of Middlesbrough.

The Gallery itself provides a venue in which Middlesbrough Council can display its own collection of contemporary art, and provide a home for touring exhibitions of the highest quality.

The building is of contemporary design, and has already attracted significant praise for its architectural design.

The building provides a stunning backdrop to the new Public Square which in itself has provided a venue for a range of activities including the BBC’s “Proms in the Park” concert.

Sunniside Gardens

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"An enhanced and improved Sunniside Gardens that would help raise the profile of the City Centre and become a focus for regeneration activity in the wider Sunniside area".

"It is considered desirable that the essential qualities of the Gardens be sustained into the 21^st century but expressed, perhaps, in a more modern idiom".

Utilising the above concepts has led RLD to design a contemporary place for the City and the area. It is one that will help restore confidence to Sunniside and assist the wider regeneration of Sunderland.

Kielder Observatory

2009-12-07 16:48:10

Designed specifically for amateur astronomers, the accessible pier form of this small observatory includes an observation deck for private telescopes.

The elevated, all-timber structure touches the ground lightly while providing an excellent vantage point.. By day, a belvedere in its forest setting; when opened up for observing, the rotated turrets and opened shutters make it expressive and dynamic.

The observatory houses two permanent telescopes, one attached to the warm room, the other mounted in the large turret acting as the pier 'destination'.

The observatory is entirely self-powered by a 2.5kW wind turbine and roof-mounted photo-voltaic panels. Build cost: £450,000.

Kendal College

2009-12-07 16:49:10

Taylor Young worked closely with Kendal College to craft an exciting and dynamic scheme, providing a design that transforms the experiences of learners and staff to improve educational attainment. The re-development encompassed the creation of a new Entrance block and Construction and Heritage Centre and refurbishment of existing buildings.

The design ambition for the Construction and Heritage Centre was to create working environments that stimulate students to explore what is possible with modern construction techniques and materials, and to demonstrate how traditional skills such as stonemasonry can play a major part in contemporary design.

St Andrew\\\'s Church

2009-12-07 16:49:34

St. Andrew's Church, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne

St Andrews Church is a local ecumenical partnership formed in 2003 between Benton Methodist Church and Forest Hall United Reformed Church.

The church, including various smaller rooms, was built in 1904 on a sloping corner site with two halls added in 1937 and 1957.

This project includes a new entrance and foyer, capable of being used as overflow space to the church, together with major internal alterations to improve accessibility, storage, toilets, kitchens and disabled facilities. New stairs and a lift serve all four levels and car access is now provided to the new entrance.

Lifestyle Academy, Newcastle College

2009-12-07 16:49:10

The Lifestyle Academy at Newcastle College creates a centre of excellence on a local, national and international stage. The building provides a ‘new build' facility for the college departments of Hair and Beauty, Sport & Fitness, Food & Hospitality and Travel & Tourism. These facilities include classrooms, tutorial spaces, IT suites, a student learning centre and lecture theatres. In addition specialist training areas are required for each discipline including the provision of real working environments open to the public, comprising a hair salon, beauty salons, wet treatment ‘spa' area, gym, fitness studio, bar, restaurant and bistro area. Supplementary facilities include staff rooms, administration facilities, stores, toilets and changing areas.

BRUVVER THEATRE (now CLUNY2)

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BRUVVERS THEATRE (now CLUNY2) NEWTON ARCHITECTS

the theatre:

'fits a quart of building into a Listed, derelict, forgotten pint pot of a hole in the ground, on a shoestring, between two Listed C19 warehouses, one by John Dobson.' and

sits behind and below the one external wall , with a new roof floating over its parapet. The enclosure is formed by the surrounding buildings.
is 'in the round', seating 170, six metres below ground level. Other accommodation – dressing rooms, toilets, bar/foyer, administration offices are around and above the theatre.
design principle is to 'touch' the surroundings with all new work distinct, contemporary, of hard industrial materials.
is isolated from noise and light, giving a thermally heavy, stable environment ventilated by assisted stack.

The Lakeside Centre, Killingworth

2009-12-07 16:49:28

The Lakeside Centre is a civic building in the best sense of the word - it enhances the region and the lives of those who live here. Full involvement of the public has helped in the idea of this community leisure centre, the formulation of its contents and in its siting.

Architecturally, the scheme has three elements; a central zone of foyer, fitness, refreshment and viewing areas which binds together the aquatic and sports facilities on either side.

Public reaction to the new facility has been overwhelming. The number of people visiting the centre is well in excess of that anticipated; the target for selling membership for the fitness facility was met within 6 weeks of the buildings launch - a sure sign of the success of this community facility.

Cardinal Hume Catholic School

2009-12-07 16:49:22

GWK were commissioned to design a 1200 place, 11-18 year old comprehensive school that would meet modern day teaching and learning requirements and that the new environment should not feel like a "standard school".

A series of sustainable measures were incorporated including; optimally placed vertical solar control louvres to main facade preventing heat gain, yet still allowing significant natural light.

All general teaching spaces naturally ventilated with environmental chimneys. The tower provides a focal point from the Old Durham Road and is a landmark feature for a community school within the neighbourhood.

The Place

2009-12-07 16:49:24

The Place is an exciting new building providing Sunniside with its own state-of-the-art business and arts centre, accommodating performance space, art gallery/exhibition spaces, a café, meeting rooms and a range of business suites and artists` studios.

The aim of the project was to provide affordable, high quality commercial spaces, targeted to a range of potential occupiers including SME’s and artists. In addition to the commercial spaces available, the building provides a large ground floor café space which opens out into the central atrium, and a flexible performance and conference room. The building also houses a dedicated gallery space which opens up into its central atrium, providing a much needed venue for local artists to exhibit their works.

Tyneside Cinema

2009-12-07 16:49:34

Tyneside Cinema's vision to become the UK's first e-cinema was realised with the completion of an extensive refurbishment and conservation programme that included a dazzling roof extension to house two new cinema screens, a new education suite including film production space and editing suites, and meeting rooms and digital cinema technology to help train the filmmakers of the future. The project uses digital technology to transform the number and nature of people engaged with moving image culture in the North East and in turn to support the development of a competitive media sector across the region.

The Woodlands Estate, Darlington

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A new housing development within a mature park setting in Darlington that has achieved both commercial success and architectural credibility.

Horsley Tower, Northumberland

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A refurbishment and enhancement of a residential Grade II* listed home in the county of Northumberland.

Middle Brunton Garden Tower, Northumberland

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The brief for this project was to design a pavilion garden house for a private client, to enhance the perambulations around their homes’ grounds and provide a retreat for relaxation.

85 City Road

2008-10-15 10:29:51

A weary 1930s warehouse in Newcastle upon Tyne has been given a new lease of life. It was used for storing sets by the former owner Tyne Tees TV, before being purchased by the present owner who commissioned Bill Hopper Design to convert it into IT equipped, speculative office/studio space.

Royal Quays Lock Control Building

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Situated in North Shields, at the mouth of the Tyne River, this lock control building was commissioned as a key part of a wider scheme to transform an old industrial dock into a world class marina, the Royal Quays.

The comprehensive challenge facing the client, Tyne and Wear Development Corporation, meant that the Royal Quays project took a full ten years to complete. Whilst the lock provided the easiest leap of faith to develop, it was the twenty-five acre dock itself which required creative design to make the most of the area.

Whalton Church of England First School

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"It is a real treat to find a scheme that engenders the real spirit of what teaching and learning should be about."

Patterdale Mountain Rescue Centre

2008-10-15 10:29:51

'A satisfying building that will mellow into its site. A credit to all involved.'

The Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team previously operated from a converted barn provided by the Patterdale Hotel. This was adapted to changing needs over the years, but due to limited facilities had restricted the development of the team and the service it offered. This project brief was to design a premises specifically for the Mountain Rescue Teams and their work.

Four Clocks Centre

2008-10-14 16:57:34

‘Radical design has been the saving grace of an interesting but unusable shell.’

Sunderland Winter Garden

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‘A true contemporary scion of its grand Victorian predecessor.’

St Peters Metro Station

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‘The architects have created probably the most exciting station on the whole network.’

No. 1 Ferndene Court

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‘A unique contemporary house exuding individuality.’

The Old Vicarage

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‘An ingenuity that anyone trying to squeeze more out of their home would marvel at.’

River Irthing Footbridge

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'A powerful symbol for a powerful place'

St Michaels R.C. Primary School

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‘Every part of it is a special place with a child-friendly character and sense of fun.’

North Shields Ferry Pontoon

2009-05-13 11:31:49

A companion pontoon to the South Shields ferry pontoon, part of the Newcastle upon Tyne integrated Rapid Transit System. The design is a collaboration of architects and artist, Wolfgang Weileder. The pontoon was built coincident with a new connecting metro station at Backworth. The reception cetnre at the pontoon was to be reflected by an identical building at Backworth, but upside down.

The structure built from steel and glass produced an elegant and fully transparent waiting space. The roof form to enable the building to be used in an upside down position was a "flat cap" shape made from aluminium in a single piece, by a motorway signage company.

Gateshead Regional Performance Centre Landscape

2009-05-13 11:31:49

Working in partnership with Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council and FaulknerBrown architect, Colour:Urban Design Limited have created three new spaces that connect the existing Gateshead International Stadium with a new sports excellence centre. These include a new arrival space for the stadium, a gateway space that links the new facility to the existing stadium, and a courtyard space. Colour UDL's approach makes innovative use of reclaimed materials and bold forms to develop a new branding for the stadium. This includes gabion colonnade structures that provide a visually powerful backdrop, and clear directional elements that link new and old.

St Silas Church and Housing

2009-05-13 11:31:49

Refurbishment of ST Silas church and the construction of Bryan Roycroft Court, Clifford Street, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne.

The Church's objectives were to increase involvement with the surrounding community, make the most of its resources to cut its running costs and create an income for it. BBHA needed new head offices and land for housing.

They decided to lease a third of the Church to Byker Bridge Housing Association for their head offices. They wanted to create a new Worship area and a Church Hall with new kitchen and toilets. The old Church Hall, which was a late addition to the Church, would be demolished to allow the land between the Church and the Metro line to be redeveloped as housing for single homeless people.

Great Cross Trust, Grasmere

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Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall Ltd were briefed and commissioned by the Great Cross Trust in Spring of 2004 to prepare designs for social housing on a vacant plot owned by the Trust in the village of Grasmere, one of the most beautiful and celebrated villages at the heart of the Lake District National Park. The completed scheme has made available an additional three houses at affordable rents to strictly local residents in a beautiful area where affordable housing is an increasingly rare commodity.

Dance City

2008-10-14 16:57:24

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Dance City's Studios, Dance:Lab Theatre, teaching spaces and offices for Dance organisations are arranged around the drama of a Social atrium: the building and dance community's creative focus. A cafe sits off at the front door, looking out over the new urban square, and a spiral of gathering spaces rise up from it around the main Social Space, acting as individual focuses for the whole building's constituent parts. Big, cellular spaces - Studios and Theatre - are contained in heavyweight diaphragm-brick box wings, with the flexible and open plan administration spaces in a complementary frame and glass L-shaped one.

Gunnerton Church

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Gunnerton is a small village of about 180 people. There are no facilities or amenities apart from the church building, which is listed as grade 2. St Christopher's Church, built in 1900, was based on an award-winning design submitted to the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1898 by J.C Hawes (1876 - 1956) who described it as ‘the best I ever did’. It featured in an article in the British Architect in 1902. Hawes became an Anglican and then a Roman Catholic Priest, and in later life a hermit. He continued to practise as an architect, particularly in Australia.

The Parochial Church Council commissioned Vincente Stienlet to repair and restore the church, but also to provide a meeting area with WC and kitchen at the rear of the building. The church has been restored to its former glory, and now is a community facility for social, education and leisure activities.

Culture Lab

2009-05-13 11:31:49

Responding to Newcastle University's brief to create a unique space to encourage cross-faculty, interdisciplinary collaboration, leading North East architects Dewjo'c transformed the interior of Grade II listed building the Grand Assembly Rooms into cutting edge Culture Lab.

The building is a flagship for the University's new cultural quarter. Dewjo'c successfully integrated a highly sophisticated, technical environment within a building of historical and architectural importance, housing facilities including performance and exhibition spaces, recording studios, multi-media laboratories and an electronics workshop.

The design approach recognised the aspirations of the client as well as the needs of the building. Dewjo'c worked within the budget to incorporate the restoration of otherwise hidden historical features.

Dewjo'c worked closely with the client, city council and conservation officers to create a unique, contemporary intervention whilst maintaining the character of the original 1889 building.

The Old House

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Dating from the C17th the Old House has been carefully restored and the attached barn converted to provide additional accommodation. The exterior character has been carefully retained by repointing the large chimneys and stonework in lime mortar, and re slating the roofs with local slate.

Internally, the existing oak roof structure has been cleaned and exposed, with new oak floors, doors, panelled screens and kitchen fitments, which compliment the house and enhance the spaces to create a warm atmosphere throughout.

The scheme maintains a discreet presence on the street within the historical context of old Ambleside.

Trinity Gardens (Public Spaces)

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Situated at the heart of Newcastle Quayside adjacent to the Law Courts, the site had become neglected in recent years, dominated by a large surface car park and flanked by overgrown, intimidating landscaped banks to either side.

Southern Green Ltd was commissioned in Summer 2000 by Silverlink Properties Plc, to contribute to their competitive bid to Newcastle City for the site. The sites of All Saints and Corner Tower area were originally outside the brief from the City Council, however in order to create a truly seamless transition between the Quayside and the city centre and to ensure improved public access, Silverlink opted to incorporate these neglected green outlying areas, and this gave a winning edge to the submission.

OUSEBURN FARM: REVIVAL

2008-10-14 16:57:34

Ouseburn Farm has existed for over twenty years. For various reasons, including the fact that the land was contaminated and had to be stripped and replaced, the Farm had closed. This project was to extend the one remaining building, the 1999 timber framed, timber clad meeting room and offices of 100sqm. The new brief was for a demonstrably sustainable extension totalling 520sqm. The building has a minimal environmental footprint, by considering sustainability holistically, by designing with climate and not by just ‘bolting on a few green goodies'.

Pelaw Metro Station

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Waring and Netts was chosen as the architect to start the planned modernisation program for the successful twenty year old Tyne and Wear Metro system. The commission was awarded as the result of a competition to completely redesign and rebuild the waiting room and ticket area using futuristic design concepts.

The project is comprised of an enclosed entrance leading to a glazed brick ticket space and a glazed waiting room with automatic doors on the platform, all covered by a new overhead canopy. The ticket enclosure is constructed with stack-bonded glazed brickwork in-keeping with the existing platform materials.

Pelaw is now a flagship Metro station in terms of design, and due to its success our client, Nexus, plan to roll the bespoke design approach out for other stations on the system.

Gateshead International Stadium Regional Hub

2008-10-14 16:57:24

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Gateshead Council's new regional performance centre at Gateshead International Stadium, opened by Lord Coe in May 2006, has built upon the experience gained from a series of five specialist English Institute for Sport complexes completed by FaulknerBrowns Architects in the last five years. Its integration with the Gateshead College Academy of Sport has resulted in a truly sustainable, vibrant hive of activity, in which sport and education are united, and where budding sportspersons and elite athletes rub shoulders together.

Darlington Education Village

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Darlington Education Village is the first wholly integrated and inclusive school to be built in the country in line with new government policy. It successfully combines existing secondary, primary, nursery and special educational needs (SEN) schools into a single integrated campus developing a unique approach to inclusive schools bringing benefits for education both in Darlington and across the country. The village caters for children ages 0-16 and of all abilities.

Horton Park

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The design of Horton Park demonstrates that it is possible to maximise development potential, create modern, practical, flexible and accessible office space while still responding responsibly and sensitively to the historical significance of a site. Such design innovation by Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall Ltd, Blagdon Estate's commitment to a high quality development and the craftsmanship of DP Builders has lead to an exemplary rural office development.

The Jerwood Centre at the Wordsworth Trust

2009-05-13 16:59:58

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The Jerwood Centre at the Wordsworth Trust was built to house the Wordsworth Trust's collections of books, manuscripts, and fine art. Externally Elterwater stone and slate, lead oak and glass clad the building using references to the local traditional building methods but in a thoroughly modern way. Archive vaults and plant occupy the basement and conservation is carried out on the mid level. The top level provides a reading room which is the architectural highlight. Scholars from all over the world come to the building to study to Wordsworth's life and those of his contemporaries.

Generator Studios

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The Generator Studios brand was evolved to appeal to all of the senses and leave a very distinct impression. The entrance is more cafe than reception - the smell of fresh coffee, the sound of the espresso machine and the opportunity to play table football are instantly appealing and welcoming.

Northern Rock Foundation

2008-10-14 16:57:34

An exemplary conversion that redefines a historic building into a contemporary accessible and interactive environment whilst retailing its inherent character.

Venerable Bede C of E Secondary School

2008-10-14 16:57:34

The Venerable Bede Church of England Secondary School in Ryhope, built as a joint venture between the Diocese of Durham and Sunderland Local Education Authority, is named after the local Saint who, in his time, pushed back the boundaries of learning and who was a pivotal figure in the history of the development of knowledge in the Western world.

Cleadon Pumping Station

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An exemplary scheme that marries contemporary design with sensitive conservation of a landmark group of grade II listed buildings.

Northern Institute for Cancer Research,

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In 2004, the world class bio-medical researches of the University of Newcastle`s Cancer Research Unit formed the Northern Institute for Cancer Research in the purpose-built Paul O`Gorman building designed by FaulknerBrowns.

Devonshire Building

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The Devonshire Building is a flagship development for the University of Newcastle which, in many ways, embodies a new approach to providing academic facilities. It is an Environmental Research Facility and it is central to the design of the building that it is demonstrably `green` in terms of a sustainable approach and application of best practice in environmental standards.

Dalton Park

2008-10-14 16:57:34

Dalton Park is a visionary scheme that has brought about a complete transformation of a disused colliery tip site into a striking landscape that offers diverse wildlife habitat, combined with a retail and leisure use. It is this symbiosis between commercial and ecological regeneration that ensures that the scheme will not only be well maintained and financially viable, but provide a catalyst for the widespread economic regeneration of the surrounding community.

The Quadrus Centre

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The Quadrus Centre is a £5 million managed office development. Opened in May 2005, this distinctive lakeside building is set to become a state of the art launch pad for new and growing businesses in South Tyneside.

The striking building offers a bold and imaginative statement at one of the key gateways to South Tyneside. The project demonstrates how a new building can make a challenging design statement and contribute to the landscape character of the wider area. The Quadrus Centre demonstrates an exceptional level of architectural ambition, providing a high quality working environment for occupiers of the building.

Picture House

2008-10-14 16:57:34

UK Land Estates` brief was to provide a cost effective design solution that would provide maximum flexibility and reflect high standards of quality and finish for their new headquarters.