BCI Awards 2009: Brilliant buildings
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Jubilee Extension
As the British Construction Industry Awards 2009 get ever closer, we look at the schemes shortlisted in the category for Building Projects between £3M and £50M.
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Jubilee Extension
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Extension
Involved creating three new landmark buildings on a 7.5ha site that was once the home of the Raleigh bicycle company.
- Client: University of Nottingham
- Architect: Make Architects
- Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor/Faber Maunsell
- Contractor: Rok Sol
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Coventry
This new cultural focus for the city of Coventry involved reusing an existing building and building a new extension to provide temporary and permanent exhibition galleries.
- Client: Coventry City Council
- Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt
- Engineer: Alan Baxter & Associates
- Contractor: Galliford Try Construction
Royal Institution of Great Britain
London
Royal Institution of Great Britain
A 200 year-old Grade-I listed building has been restored and redeveloped for contemporary use.
- Client: The Royal Institution of Great Britain
- Architect: Farrells
- Engineer: Aecom
- Contractor: ISG Interior Exterior
The Yellow Building
London
The Yellow Building
The new headquarters for Monsoon Accessorize is located on a former industrial site and has a distinctive diagonal, concrete lattice frame.
- Client: Nottingdale/Monsoon Accessorize
- Designer: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
- Engineer: Adams Kara Taylor
- Contractor: Laing O’Rourke
14 Cornhill
London
14 Cornhill
Grade-II listed building in the City extensively re-engineered to create up-to-date office accommodation, with two new floors.
- Client: IVG Asticus
- Architect: DLG Architects
- Engineer: Ramboll
- Contractor: ISG Interior Exterior
Zebra@Lion House
Alnwick, Northumberland
Zebra@Lion House
A flagship, ultra low emissions, two-storey office building, for Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Client: Defra
- Architect: Gibberds
- Engineer: Appleyards
- Contractor: Kier Northern
St Martin-in-the-Fields
London
St Martin-in-the-Fields
The Grade-I listed crypt of this landmark church and three Grade-II listed buildings have been completely upgraded and extended.
- Client: St Martin-in-the-Fields
- Architect: Eric Parry Architects
- Engineer: Alan Baxter & Associates/Max Fordham
- Contractor: Costain
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
The college sits on a prominent city centre site and provides academic space for 1,300 students, a sports facility, outreach centre, performing arts and social spaces.
- Client: Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
- Architect: Nicholas Hare Architects
- Engineer: BDP
- Contractor: BAM Construction Midlands
Bristol Metropolitan College
Bristol Metropolitan College
A new building on the site of an existing school that has been designed to create an easy to supervise environment in three learning clusters, which can be easily altered to accommodate different educational models.
- Client: Bristol City Council
- Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
- Engineer: Arup
- Contractor: Skanska
Stadthaus
London
Stadthaus
This nine-storey residential building in Hackney is thought to be the tallest all-timber residential structure in the world.
- Client: Telford Homes
- Architect: Waugh Thistleton Architects
- Principal Engineer: Techniker
- Contractor: Telford Homes
Bridge Academy
London
Bridge Academy
This new five storey school for 1,150 pupils has been constructed on a small inner city brownfield site.
- Client: DFES/UBS Investment Bank
- Architect: BDP
- Engineer: BDP
- Contractor: Mace
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