Design

G.R.A.D Graduate Retention and Development

Plus 3 Architecture & Northern Architecture

From March 2010

The GRADs at work

Northern Architecture in partnership with Plus 3 Architecture and with support from Newcastle and Northumbria universities has recently launched the GRAD project with the aim of assisting recent architecture graduates who find themselves un- or under-employed. The project will enable the GRADs to continue to gain relevant experience, work with their peers and develop their management and other core skills. In addition, the project aims to retain creative, qualified graduates within the region and give them opportunities to engage with the development opportunities in the local area.

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A guide to delivering Age Friendly Communities.

North

January 2010

In September last year Northern Architecture were commissioned by the Northern Housing Consortium to work with a group of Tyneside residence on a series of workshops to investigate how the design of our neighbourhoods could be improved to better reflect the needs of older people (click here to read the news item at the time). Northern Housing Consortium have now produced a document summarising the results of this and other research they've undertaken, offering a guide to delivering age friendly communities . Click here to go to the Northern Housing Consortium site and to download the guide.

Hadrian Award Winners 2009

North East and Cumbria regions

December 2009

Kielder Observatory

Six scheme were awarded Hadrian Awards and three schemes Hadrian Award Commendations in 2009.

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The Hadrian Awards - Celebrating and Promoting Excellence in Architecture and Design in the North East of England and Cumbria

The Hadrian Awards are the principal awards scheme for architecture and design in the North of England; they celebrate and promote the best in architecture and the design of the built environment in the North of England. Go to www.hadrianawards.com to see all the past winning Hadrian Awards scheme, a directory of good design for the region.

Building for Life assessor training

Northern Architecture is working with CABE to facilitate a Building for Life assessor training session in December 2009.

Regional case-studies of good architecture and design

From all over the North East and Cumbria

2001 - now

Whalton Church of England First School, Darbyshire Architects, winner 2001

If you are looking for good examples of houses, offices, conversions, public buildings, schools and other types of buildings or projects in the North East and Cumbria, then start with www.hadrianawards.com. The on-line directory for the Hadrian Awards has just been updated with images and information about all 31 award-winning and commended schemes from 2001 to 2007. The directory carries text describing the brief behind the project, the architect’s response, the scheme cost and design team details, as well as images and (for more recent schemes) plans and the jury’s view of the scheme. The schemes can be searched by location, type, architect, value, or date. For each of the 7 award-winning schemes for 2007 a specially commissioned short film takes you through each building and gives you the views of its users.

Good Design in Old Places

The Place, Sunderland

25 February 2009

The Place, Sunniside, Sunderland (Reid, Jubb, Brown Architects, Kathryn Hodgkinson artist)

Officers and councillors from local authorities across the North East will descend on Sunderland in February to look at how new ‘contemporary’ architecture can not only sit successfully alongside historic buildings, but also enhance whole areas that already have their own distinctive historic value.

Designing for Life – the region speaks on sustainability

The North East

October 2008

Northern Architecture have published a major document that presents a 10-point action plan on sustainability in the North East; the plan is the collective view of a substantial cross-section of people in the North East as their response to the major challenges of creating sustainable developments in the region.

Designing for Life – a sustainable development directory for the North East

The North East

October 2008

As an addition to ‘Sustainability in North East England – a view of our responsibility’ (the publication described above) Northern Architecture has published a directory listing existing organisations that already have some involvement in the North East in one or more of the spheres of sustainable development discussed in the main document. The directory therefore gives a regional picture of the context in which the recommendations in this document should be seen as taking place.

People, places, architecture

Architecture, regionalism and the North East - Professor Steven Moore's reflections on the North East arising out of his visit to Northern Architecture as an 'Inspiring Internationalist'.

Design Awards – costs and benefits

Design Awards are a good way of showing your commitment to good design, and finding examples of good design in your area to support, celebrate and point to. Northern Architecture and the North of England Civic Trust have just published a new case study about the costs and benefits of local authorities running awards schemes as part of their work for the local authority Design and Historic Environment Champions in the North East.

What Might an Age Friendly Community Look Like in the Year 2020?

Northern Housing Consortium has invited Northern Architecture to get involved in their major, cross-disciplinary project with a central theme of inclusive design and you can get involved too.