Awards of 2011

A distinctive new hotel in the centre of Doncaster, an historic town in South Yorkshire in the north of England, is the first UK project to be clad with Luvata's Nordic Green Living pre-patinated copper.

The Culture Building houses one of the largest concentrations of culture in the Netherlands: a theatre, a pop stage, an art education centre and a library brought together under one undulating roof, aimed to create an open and inviting iconic arts centre, which at the same time gives enough space for the individual organisations to express themselves and be recognised as independent entities.

On a former location of an old graphical printing house, the apartment complex fits in snugly between a row of 18th century warehouses on a compact location in the historical city centre of Groningen.

The station is designed as a unique space that contains within itself the functions covered atrium, waiting room, bar, ticket office, selling newspapers and cigarettes, covered access to the track connection to the existing shelter.

Incognito Theatre Group is a vibrant amateur theatre group with its own building in Friern Barnet, London which it has occupied since 1948. It produces some six plays a year of award winning standard. Entirely voluntary funded we have built a new foyer, workshop and control box to replace a set of worn out ad hoc lean-too extensions.

Located in a clearing in a pine forest, the Chapel was originally built in the 50s for the electrical station workers. The building is shaped by only one volume, with rectangular plan 10 x 7 metres. It is covered by a self supporting precast concrete plan which defines a parabolic section with 6 skylights. Party walls were covered by brick façade walls with the main entrance in one of them. The chapel is being converted in to a community space for a new residential building that currently occupies the plot of the old electrical station.

The new indoor swimming pool in Kantrida is part of a re-qualification design of a beautiful area of Rijeka which includes an existing 50m. outdoor pool and is overlooking the sea.

The city of Turku has gone through many changes during its 700 years of history and architecture reflect different stages of that history. The last stage in architectural progress, newest modernism, is exhibited by Ikituuri student apartments. The copper tower was designed by Architecture Office SIGGE Ltd. It is an oval 12 story building with copper facades manufactured by Luvata Pori Ltd. These 'green living' facade cassettes give the building a streamlined and extraordinary textural feel and look.

The objective of the conceptual design was to improve the spatial situation of the building ensemble and to remain within the financial limits of the parish.

The MUCAB complex (Museum, Music School and Center for Local Development for Women and Youth, Daycare/Child Assistance Center), located in the town of Blanca, was designed to be a core for local representation, where a new kind of urban tension is created to foster activity in the environs of the Segura River.

The winning concept behind the ‘a mezza voce’ proposal for the architectural competition of Helsinki Music Centre (held in 1999) was the idea that the new building should harmonize with and unify the Töölönlahti bay area in the centre of Helsinki.

The site is the unresolved semi-light well between the main Royal Academy of Music building, the Jack Lyons theatre, and Burton’s terraces to the north. The design is conceived as a ‘single cell’ element of contrasting yet sympathetic form that fits into place like a piece in a puzzle.

The extension to this grammar school, built in 1975, was an effective way of reorganising the urban space and creating a fitting prelude to Würzburg’s baroque old town.

Local power production company, Skelleftea Kraft have a new headquarters building adjacent to their existing office building in the northern town of Skelleftea.

Located directly near the 'Berlin Wall Documentary Centre' and the 'Berlin Wall Memorial', the project includes the refurbishment of an old 8-storey-building from the 1970s to a hotel, two new entrance-buildings and a bistro along the Ackerstrasse in Berlin-Mitte.

The stair as the heart of the house…interactive…connecting…all circulation united into one space…a white skin wrapping it…a blanket of timber…a sky of bronze…the wires as a mathematical game… spaces created, glimpsed. The memories of life, of those lived and those yet to be made… for spirituality…for mind and soul… to surprise and inspire.

Inside the new Sports Centre of Aranjuez this sports hall is the most representative building of the whole compound because it is ideally situated in the complex centre and due to its resounding appearance. The hall comprises a multi-purpose court which is equipped for basketball, football and volleyball. The building also includes a gym, changing rooms, offices and other auxiliary spaces. It has a capacity of 1.245 spectators.

The refurbishment and extension of an established day centre in Kings Cross for young homeless people. Clients use the centre for anything between minutes and years, and can present tragic life-histories and challenging behaviours.

A 1930’s bungalow, was demolished to make way for a bespoke 5 bed-roomed, 4 bath-roomed sustainably resourced bronze clad house. Burrell Architects worked with CABE and Inspire East and put the scheme through a public review that usually only takes place for large multi unit housing developments. The scheme was unanimously and supported by the design review and following negotiation with the local planners the scheme was approved in 8 weeks under delegated powers.

The synagogue of Jászberény is a mystical memory from my childhood long gone. In the 60s it was refurbished beyond recognition, more precisely ruined. It became the city library. Later I had the chance to transform and expand this building reminiscent of a shoe box. I tried to restore some of the childhood memory.

The Town Hall in Castillejo de Mesleón, Segovia, Spain, needed a restoration and extension. The building was built for the first time in1931 and its main use was as public school. The challenge was to restore and build a construction according to modern times, but integrated in the traditional architecture of the area. We found in COPPER the perfect material to link both concepts.

Restoration of the ruins of Santa Maria Church (Cazorla, Spain) Intervention in the Santa Maria Church in Cazorla represents a clear commitment to retrieving the ruins of this unfinished temple, both for contemplation purposes and the use of the space for cultural activities in keeping with its heritage values.

A £11.5m Refurbishment of 1960’s Student Union building. The ‘active frontage’ to the new plaza (of the student union redevelopment) is important to the campus masterplan. It provides a new identity for the Students Union – a high quality destination.

The design came up as the result of an architectural competition. It is divided into two stages, according to WPiA team. The first of the first stage, which is the eastern didactic building with an entrance hall complex is now completed. The second task is the research building closing entire complex from the west. In the future a library is going to be built along the southern alley. Due to heritage conservators decision and other circumstances the whole complex had to be moved north from the library and a connector built in between.

The ‘Tex-Tonic House 1’ offers a very successful synthesis of sensitivity to the given context, deep understanding of the client’s brief, ergonomic functionality, aesthetic appeal, groundbreaking use of materials and technology, and thoughtful distribution of volumes. Further, it shows our sheer enjoyment in working with natural materials. Our enthusiasm is the continuous development of new finishing techniques in tandem with new architectural forms and tectonics.

Paul Davis + Partners has completed the restoration of the Grade II Listed St George’s Church in London’s Tufnell Park Conservation Area. The project included an extensive refurbishment programme to return the building to its former use and created a stunning, modern intervention to provide a permanent home for the growing congregation.

Since the congregations of the main religions are decreasing quickly many empty churches have been torn down or restructured. That’s the reason why every architect can consider himself very lucky if he has the opportunity to build a new church.

In the midst of numerous sculptures at the open-air museum of Wander Bertoni, we chose to reduce the new museum building to a roof to protect its content: an enormous egg collection.

Building Design Partnership were commissioned in May 2007 by the University of York to design the Cluster 1 buildings that form the first phase of the new Heslington East campus. The Ron Cooke Hub will be the public face of the Heslington East development. It is the building through which visitors from outside the University will enter the Cluster and as such is the most significant location on the site.