Creating Excellence and The Architecture Centre have joined forces as Design West to champion design and placemaking across the South West of England, bringing the public, politicians and professionals together to shape better places. Design West will help to create a better built environment, championing good design, community engagement and the sharing of best practice, […]
Our recent free webinars run together with our Design Network partners, Design Midlands, have been very well received by delegates - if you missed the first two, then take a look at our webinars page where you'll find a link to the recording of each of them, plus a summary of the discussions held. Design […]
To help promote the new National Design Guide, Design Network partners Creating Excellence and Design Midlands are running a series of free webinars providing an overview of the National Design Guide. These will include best practice demonstrations and reflection on the post-covid19 world. The webinars will be interactive, with the Panel using questions and comments […]
Goldsmith Street by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley has won the 2019 Stirling Prize: awarded to the UK’s best new building. The project for Norwich City Council is made up of almost 100 highly energy-efficient homes. Rows of two-storey houses are bookended by three-storey flats, each with their own front door, generous lobby space for […]
I never thought the Barbican Estate and Marmite had anything in common: you probably either love them or you hate them? Well, maybe not. This year (July) marks half a century since residents first moved into the Barbican Estate and with each decade, love for the grey concrete mass on the north edge of the […]
