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Architectural Competition
Shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Scotswood Expo Architectural Competition has been revealed. Over 140 practices applied to take part in the competition. The twelve shortlisted practices are:
- de Rijke Marsh Morgan Ltd
- Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT)
- Featherstone Associates
- Malcolm Fraser Architects
- JM Architects
- Niall McLaughlin Architects
- Proctor and Matthews
- Sergison Bates Architects LLP
- Space Craft Architects
- S333 Architecture & Urbanism
- Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
- White Arkitekter AB
The next stage will involve the submission of concept designs. Final judging will take place in early December 2008.
The twelve concept designs will be displayed at the following local venues:
West Newcastle Regeneration Centre, The Old Library, Armstrong Road, Scotswood, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 6AU- 11 am - 3 pm Wednesday 12 November 2008
- 11 am - 3 pm Thursday 13 November 2008
- 11 am - 3 pm Friday 14 November 2008
- 4 pm - 7 pm Monday 17 November 2008
- 12 noon - 4 pm Tuesday 18 November 2008
- 4 pm - 7 pm Wednesday 19 November 2008
- 4 pm - 7 pm Thursday 20 November 2008
The Scotswood Expo Architectural Competition is a new international design contest promoted by Newcastle City Council for one of the country’s largest regeneration projects. Run by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Competitions Office, the competition seeks fresh thinking in the design of new housing.
Our aim is to select six design teams to develop innovative housing designs which respond to the challenges of environmental sustainability, adaptability, new ways of living and designing beautiful buildings. The Competition seeks to develop designs for plots to create a family of demonstration houses or prototypes that will be built for the Expo event and sold on thereafter.
The competition site is the centerpiece street (the ‘Expo Link’) in the Scotswood Masterplan. It comprises 60 plots arranged in four terraces around a new linear park. The six design teams will be selected to develop their concept designs for a single house and apply them throughout the four terraces in a number of different ways.
The Competition Preliminary Brief provides further information (Adobe PDF 128KB). The Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is available from the RIBA Competitions Office.
In parallel to this we will be launching an open student competition in November to run alongside the design stage of the professional competition. This will be an interactive competition based on the submission of 3D digital models for cash prizes.