Search on for Best designed buildings in Hackney Design Awards 2010
By HannahHackney | Monday, May 24, 2010, 15:06
The search has begun for the best new designed buildings and spaces in Hackney, with the launch of the Hackney Design Awards 2010.
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Adelaide Wharf won an award in 2008.
The awards illustrate the Council’s commitment to the promotion and celebration of high quality design within the built environment.
Nominations for buildings or designed spaces within Hackney that showcase high quality design are open until 2 August. Anyone can make a nomination, including architects who have completed a scheme and residents or visitors who have spotted an outstanding building in Hackney.
Entries to the Hackney Design Awards 2010 will be short-listed and judged by an independent panel. The final awards ceremony will be held in November.
Jules Pipe, elected Mayor of Hackney, said: “The Design Awards are a celebration of the great design and architecture in Hackney. The Council continues to encourage excellence in all development as we know that high quality buildings and public spaces make a real difference to our neighbourhoods.”
The Hackney Design Awards have been running every two years since 2004. For the first time, the 2010 awards include a People’s Choice award. This is a chance for anyone not on the judging panel to vote for their favourite from the entries short-listed by the judges.
All short-listed entries will appear in Hackney Today and on the Council’s website in early October. The short-listed entry which receives the most votes from the public will be announced the People’s Choice at the awards ceremony in November.
What can be nominated?
The nomination must be in the borough of Hackney and have been completed no earlier than 1 September 2008 and be fully functioning by the closing date for nominations – 2 August 2010.
Entries for the following types of public or private development are encouraged:
* new buildings – residential, commercial, community, educational or industrial
* alterations to existing buildings – including extensions, refurbishment, conversions or restoration
* parks, gardens, pedestrian or play / recreational areas that include structural design elements.
For more information about the Hackney Design Awards 2010, and to make a nomination, please visit: www.hackney.gov.uk/designawards or e-mail: designawards2010@hackney.gov.uk or call: 020 8356 8141
Comments
I think that the Bridge Academy tinyurl.com/24xpdvt on Laburnum street - really close in fact to Adelaide Wharf, pictured - should be nominated if it has not already in previous years. I walk past it every day and it is such a cool school, I would love to have a look inside. The juxtaposition of it's brilliance to the surrounding derilict estates only seems to highlight the desperate need for even more investment from the council - they are some of the worst in the area I think needing alot fo TLC for the residents left in the few apartments that have not been boarded up and fogotten about.
By zoebow09 at 12:06 on 26/05/10
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