SCALA Civic Building of the Year Competition, 2005
Commended
Sure Start Links4, Children's Center
This scheme provide facilities for a Sure Start and Neighbourhood Nursery initiative unit within the grounds of an existing school through a partnership between Sure Start, NNI and the neighbouring schools. It involved the demolition of the existing nursery and its relocation within the existing school pending completion.
It complies with ‘Sure Start - A guide to planning and running your programme Spring 2001’ and the DfES ‘National Standards for Under Eights Day Centre and Child minding (Full Day Care)’.
Waterside Special School
Waterside Special School is located in Tipner, at the north-east of Portsmouth Harbour and primarily serves children with emotional and behavioural problems. This new 400 sq m annexe within the restricted grounds of an existing special school serves about 14 pupils, aged 11-16.
The new premises have been designed to operate using low levels of energy, based on high performance insulation, natural ventilation and exposed thermal mass. The £740,000 scheme was completed in May 2004.
Middleton Combined School
The conceptual form comprises a double height rendered rotunda wrapped around two curvilinear wings forming a secure courtyard space in the centre.
The north wing provides teaching spaces for KS1 and foundation stage children with the administration area towards the main entrance.
Lilian Baylis School
This is a flagship, £15 million, 600-place Technology School in Kennington Lane, Vauxhall.
The surrounding context includes the new stands of the Oval Cricket Ground, the iconic gasholders, mid-rise South London tenements and new steel and glass office buildings. The materials for the new school buildings are sympathetic to the local conservation area, so the exteriors of the three main buildings are linked by the use of a multi-colour stock brick, storey-high plinth. This provides continuity with other buildings in the vicinity, and affords a robust external finish at ground level. Above the plinth the elevations are glazed, clad in rain-screen terracotta or rendered.
The Crown and Conuty Courts, Exeter
Sitting just outside the boundary of the old town wall in Exeter’s Legal Quarter, this brownfield site was of archaeological interest. Records also showed that part of the site had been infilled with potentially contaminated material. Limited access for site investigations therefore led to a risk sharing approach that sensibly capped the price and time risks with the relevant party, despite the potential for archaeological finds and contamination.
The project is approximately 10,000 sq m and draws together a number of facilities previously located in separate buildings around the City including Probate, Law Society, Court District Managers, and Police Agencies. The core facilities comprise 4 new Crown and County Courts and 5 new Civil Courts together with courts service offices and custody accommodation.
The Liverpool Blue Coat School
The Liverpool Blue Coat School, Wavertree, Liverpool completed in the Spring of 2004 involved the conversion, extension and remodelling of the existing Grade 2 listed building. It provides the school with state of the art education facilities, and a new architectural image to complement the historic existing buildings.
