Britannia National homebuilder design awards 2002

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BRITANNIA NATIONAL HOMEBUILDER DESIGN AWARDS 2002 IRISH HOMEBUILDERS SHOW THE WAY Design awards demonstrate rising standards of new housing A high-density development of 81 apartments and 16 houses on a site of only 2.5 acres (about one hectare) in Clontarf, a fashionable suburb of Dublin, designed by O'Mahony Pike Architects for M K N Property Group, has been judged the Best Development of the Year in the Britannia National HomeBuilder Design Awards 2002. A four-bedroom detached house in Holywood, Co Down, Northern Ireland, designed by Des Ewing chartered architect for Cool Projects, has also won the award for the Best New House of the Year in the United Kingdom. The awards, which celebrate their 22nd anniversary this year, are sponsored by Britannia Building Society for the second successive year. Two key note speakers addressed the Awards with Lord Falconer QC, Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Regeneration and Neville Richardson, Group Deputy Chief Executive of Britannia Building Society highlighting the importance of these awards. The judges are given in ten different categories for the best new housing designed by architects for homebuilders. Most of the apartments in the award-winning development of the year at 150 Howth Road, Clontarf, have views over the adjoining Clontarf golf course, while the houses are set back from Howth Road and are surrounded by the long suburban gardens of existing housing in the area. The judges said of this development: "It was the stylish clean lines and the quality of design and construction of the four-storey apartment buildings that impressed he judges most, but there was also praise for the four different house types designed to suit all tastes, especially the two-storey courtyard houses with roof terraces, and the three large detached houses, each planned around an integral patio that creates an external room to each house." Of the best new house of the year at 4 Croft Rise, Croft Road, Holywood, the judges said: "It is a model of clean, uncluttered modern design: bright, airy, crisp and colourful. The simplicity of the external design coupled with interiors of such quality demonstrated convincingly the value of employing a talented architect." The award for the Best House in England went to the Ricard house type at Lacuna, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, designed by Clague architects for Environ Country Homes in a joint venture with Sunley Estates. The award for the Best Landscaping of a Development went to Juliette Johnson for Stonegate Place, a development by Environ Country Homes at Wye, near Ashford, Kent. Coalhill, a development of 22 apartments on the waterfront at Leith, two miles north of the city centre of Edinburgh, won the award for the Best Apartment Building. It was designed by Allan Murray Architects for Buredi, a joint venture by the Burrell Company and the EDI Group, which is wholly owned by the City of Edinburgh Council. For the first time in the history of these awards, the judges declared joint award winners for the Best Restoration and Conversion. One was for Britannic Park, the restoration of the former headquarters of Britannic Assurance and its conversion into 95 apartments for CALA Homes (Midlands) by the Malcolm Payne Design Group. The other was the Hoffmann Building in Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1, a restoration of the former Shoreditch Technical Institute and its conversion into 41 loft apartments by architects Hunter & Partners for Copthorn Homes. The award for Best Use of Brownfield Site went to Crosby Homes (Special Projects) for The Point at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, a development of 105 apartments and nine houses designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, which also gained a commendation in the category for Best Development of the Year. Feilden Clegg Bradley and Crosby Homes (Special Projects) also gained a commendation for Century Court, a development of 96 apartments, in the category for Best Apartment Building. The award for the Best House of the Future went to the Millennium Eco House at the University of Nottingham. This four-bedroom detached house was designed by Maber Associates for David Wilson Homes, who funded and built the house for the School of the Built Environment at the University of Nottingham to enable research to be carried out on novel techniques for upgrading the thermal performance of buildings. Allcourt, a development of 20 cottages and apartments at Lechlade-on- Thames, Gloucestershire, designed by architects Batterton Tyack for Beechcroft Developments, won the award for Best Retirement Development. Best Partnership Housing was the first phase of the redevelopment of Angell Town, Brixton, London SW9, designed by architects Burrell Foley Fischer and built by Higgins Construction for the London Borough of Lambeth. Finally, the award for Best Project at Design Stage went to Copthorn Homes for Abode, a development of 82 houses and apartments designed by Proctor Matthews Architects at Newhall, a new residential neighbourhood for Harlow, Essex, which will eventually have 2,800 homes with supporting amenities. Barratt Southern also gained a commendation for their Ashfield house type at Newhall, designed by Robert Hutson Architects. Neville Richardson, Group deputy chief executive of Britannia Building Society, said: "These awards not only recognise the great achievement across the industry, but they go a long way to raising the standard of today's housing. "Britannia is delighted to be the sponsors of these awards, as it complements the Society's range of innovative products which sits alongside its mortgage products, such things as the Self Build mortgage, Removal service and HomePro which finds professional trades persons. I congratulate all of today's winners." All award winning and commended schemes will be featured in Planahome Home Plans 2002, to be published in June. This will also contain the top ten entries for the Manser Medal 2002, an award for the best one-off house designed by an architect.# For further information, contact Michael Hanson, Editor of Planahome Home Plans, on 020 8942 2360 or Lise Bulloch, Press Office Manager at Britannia Building Society, on 01538 393076. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/05/07/20020507BIT00970/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/05/07/20020507BIT00970/wkr0002.pdf