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| Open House Contemporary is a year
long programme produced by Open House that provides a forum for
in depth dialogue between the architectural and engineering profession
and clients about how we can ensure the delivery of high quality
design that has a positive influence on people's experience of
their everyday environment. A vital contributing factor to these
discussions are the views of those that live, work and breathe
within these new spaces. |
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"Corus is proud and delighted
to support
Open House Contemporary. It is an exciting programme of work that explores
new developments and thinking in the public realm. We have always worked closely
with designers, architects and the property industry and welcome this forum
for debate an opportunity for an exchange of ideas on design excellence with
regard to future projects across the UK."
Murray Bean
Director Construction Solutions, Corus |
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Summer Lecture Series 2006
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Who Are We Designing For? |
The UK is experiencing
unprecedented investment in the public realm. Initiatives abound
to renew and rebuild our schools, hospitals, town centres, open
spaces and the estates and streets on which we live. For those
in the architectural and construction sector this poses both a
great opportunity and a tremendous challenge. With a change in
the landscape of delivery, tighter financial pressures, less opportunity
to engage with the end user, creative strategies are required to
ensure that that design quality is not squeezed out of the process
and the outcome is not only fit for purpose but inspiring.
Leading Architects - including winners of
Europan 8 UK - will share recent experiences and showcase inspirational
winning designs from their education and housing projects. The talks
are in three UK cities, May-July '06. |
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Charles
Holland, FAT Sorry: now FULL
Tuesday 23 May 2006
6.30pm-8.30pm
CUBE
113-115 Portland Street
MANCHESTER
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Charles
Holland of FAT |
The
government’s ‘Sustainable Communities’ agenda
wants to offer all of us a decent home at an affordable price.
Sounds good but how will that play out in practice? Can a focus
on commercial viability and a drive to meet the numbers, be reconciled
with individual desires for a home that is more than a roof over
one’s head? Charles Holland of FAT presents his practice’s
take on the challenge with respect to the newly completed Islington
Square for client Urban Splash. Intensive and imaginative consultation
resulted in homes that, whilst compact, affordable and developer-friendly,
are tailored to residents’ needs, and inspired by their tastes. |
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Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre
Wednesday 7 June
6.30–8.30pm
Arup Auditorium
63 St Thomas Street
BRISTOL
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Chris Wilkinson
of Wilkinson Eyre |
At
a time of rapid change in the way that children are learning,
design teams have to respond by creating new, more flexible and
inclusive learning environments that serve a range of educational
and community needs. Chris Wilkinson, of Wilkinson Eyre, will be
talking about his experience of designing for ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme
and how his other educational designs including the John Madejski
Academy and City and Islington College, have informed the process.
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Sunand Prasad, Penoyre
and Prasad
Wednesday 21 June
6.30–8.30pm
Allgood Gallery
72-73 Warren St
LONDON NW1
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Sunand Prasad of Penoyre and Prasad |
This
is an exciting time for school design when capital investment is running
at a higher level than at any other time in the past half-century
and the
trend is towards a lifelong and integrated approach to learning.
Sunand
Prasad, of Penoyre and Prasad will be discussing what they understand
the
learning needs of the 21st century to be and how they ensure the
delivery
of inspirational school environments that support these needs. He
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be showcasing projects including The Charter School and the recently
completed Ashburton Learning Village.
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Stephen
Witherford and William Mann,
Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Wednesday 5 July
6.30–8.30pm
Amnesty International UK
17-25 New Inn Yard
LONDON EC2
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Stephen
Witherford and William Mann of Witherford Watson Mann Architects |
How
can we design buildings that last for the long term and that
accommodate social and economic change? Does this mean looking beyond
the contingencies of the brief and our empathy with the individuals
that we
design for? Stephen Witherford and William Mann of Witherford Watson
Mann Architects, newly announced winners of 2006 Europan 8 UK for
innovative housing schemes, will be discussing their interpretation
of the
interplay between present and future needs and role of the city in
this process
of change. The lecture will discuss their design for Europan 8 UK
(Stonebridge Park) and their housing and urban design work in the Lower Lea Valley. |
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