Europan 9 winners celebrate
An ambitious scheme seeking to attract people back into Stoke-on-Trent and a child-friendly scheme in Milton Keynes are the winning housing designs in the Europan 9 competition for young architects. The winners, selected from 61 teams across Europe, submitted housing designs for three sites across England, providing a total of up to 500 new homes.
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Competitions really work
The Europan winners feature in a new CABE exhibition at New London Architecture in London showing what design competitions can achieve. Competitions are one of the best ways to procure well-designed buildings and places. The exhibition, free to enter, runs until 14 February.
Architecture centres boost
Twenty-one architecture and the built environment centres around England are to receive a total of £1.8 million in CABE funding over the next two years to deliver projects that encourage communities to get involved in changes to their built environment. The work of the architecture centres is geared to their regions and reflects local issues.
Building for Life awards call
CABE and the Home Builders Federation are calling for entries for the 2008 Building for Life awards. The awards recognise schemes that demonstrate best practice in housing and neighbourhood design. If you know of a great new scheme that you think deserves recognition, let us know by the end of March .
Arise, Sir John
John Sorrell, who has chaired CABE since 2004, has been knighted in the new year’s honours list. Sir John receives the honour for services to the creative industries.
Chairing design reviews
We’ve produced a short film featuring Paul Finch, who chaired design review for eight years, explaining in his inimitable way how to chair design review meetings.
Summer school 2008
Summer may seem ages away, but bookings are open for the 2008 CABE urban design summer school, taking place in NewcastleGateshead from 22-25 June. Show us your favourite successful place and you could win a free pass.
Design review comments
CABE’s design review panel believes that this London City-fringe mixed-use scheme fails to relate to the grain or character of south Shoreditch in terms of use and scale – so we don’t think the proposal should gain planning permission as it is currently proposed.
We have applauded the design team’s sensitive design for this mixed-use development of residential and commercial, along with a hotel, on the Thames near Hampton Court Palace.
We are unconvinced by plans in Northampton for up to 3,500 homes with a new local centre including schools and other facilities. We recommend a comprehensive rethink of the masterplan design to take account of the local topography, landscape, spaces and housing typologies.
We have doubts about proposals to expand this historically and architecturally significant village in Dover with up to 1,210 new homes. We favour a solution that responds more successfully to the existing building stock and the beautiful landscape setting.
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We’re looking to improve our website – and we’d love your help. Complete our short online survey and we’ll post you one of our great 2008 CABE desk calendars.
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Publications
Report based on research by Ipsos MORI providing a picture of how design quality and other factors affects the experiences of residents.
Briefing setting out what CABE will do to address the issues of sustainable design and climate change, and the action we think is urgently needed.
Briefing summarising CABE’s review of 10 streets, looking at design development and implementation, to unlock the lessons learnt.
Client guide for all involved in the design and building of new secondary school projects, taking readers step by step through the schools building process.
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Did you know?
You can now sign up for subject-specific newsletters and order our publications online by registering with CABE.
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Events
Until March 2008
London
Training for senior public sector managers to highlight links between street design quality, funding and performance, focussing on the government’s new Manual for streets.
Until March 2008
Across England
Series of seven regional taster sessions explaining CABE Space’s toolkit for measuring public space design quality.
20-21 February 2008
Rich Mix, London
Day-long symposium with associated guest lecture seeking to draw lessons for the future from the British new towns experience.
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Jobs at CABE
Senior planning advisor
We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic planner to join our design review service.
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