Awards for rising stars.Byline: By Rebekah Ashby Four Northumbria University Northumbria University is a modern university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. Schools Northumbria offers approximately 500 study programmes through nine Schools:
All four have won awards or commendations in the 2005 Hadrian Awards, which recognise and reward the skills the North-East's architects and architectural students bring to design, regeneration and sustainable community Sustainable communities are communities planned, built, or modified to promote sustainable living. They tend to focus on environmental sustainability (including development and agriculture) and economic sustainability. development. The awards ( run by Riba, Northern Architecture and the North of England Civic Trust ( are supported by One NorthEast and the Northern Architectural Association and sponsored by Ibstock Brick Ltd. Awards are given for inspirational project work. Commendations go to work that illustrates development of some particular qualities of architectural thinking. Awarded entries from Northumbria included a design for a Holy Island visitor centre by Peter Wilson. Peter, 22, was in his final year of a BA Hons course in architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. and management when he submitted his entry. Like the other three, he graduated last July with a first-class degree. He is on a two-year work placement in Newcastle with Ryder HKS HKS Harvard Kennedy School (John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA) HKS Hrvatski Košarkaški Savez (Croatian Basketball Federation) HKS Silver Hake HKS Hong Kong Standard Architects. Peter said: "I created a design that was a metaphor of the island's make-up ( a hostel representing the mainland, a glass bridge representing the causeway and a visitor centre as the island." Peter's project for the Ouseburn Art Gallery also received a commendation and he collaborated on another commended project, Eco-house, on which he worked with students Lee Boxall and Robert Threlfall. Lee graduated in architectural design and management and is on a two-year work placement with Halsall Lloyd Partnership, Newcastle. Robert is on work placement with architects Reid Jubb Brown, also at Newcastle. Robert said: "Eco-house was a third-year design response to the increasingly pressing issue of global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. and the sapping of the Earth's renewable resources. "Our design sought to provide a house which would have very little detrimental environmental impact, and would be able to power and service itself." Also awarded was William Paul, who also designed a Lindisfarne visitor centre. William is on two-year work placement with Ryder HKS. See www.hadrianawards.com |
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