Buro Happold projects scoop two wins and five commendations
Buro Happold performed very well at this year’s Civic Trust Awards, held this week in Newcastle. The Awards are granted to outstanding examples of architecture and environmental design, taking into account the benefit each project brings to its local area, as well as the quality of design.
The practice provided a variety of engineering services for seven of the winning projects, two of which were award-winners and the other five commended. Buro Happold’s building services and access consultancy performed especially well, with building services featuring in five out of the seven schemes, and access consultancy in three.
Building services and access design highlighted
Buro Happold provided the building services design for the Roundhouse theatre in London; a 3,500-seater performance space converted from its previous incarnations as a railway shed, gin warehouse and music venue.
Commended projects for which the practice provided building services expertise were the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance, which has been transformed into an attractive and popular local facility, and the state-of-the-art Leeds Discovery Centre museum. Buro Happold also provided building services engineering for the West London Academy in Ealing, which provides nursery, primary, secondary and special needs education for over 1,700 pupils, and for Hazelwood School in Glasgow; a cleverly-composed school for children of all ages with a range of disabilities.
Buro Happold provided access design as well as building services for both the Leeds Discovery Centre and Hazelwood School, and for the award-winning North Wall Performing Arts Centre in Oxford, which has transformed a listed but disused Victorian swimming pool into a vibrant arts facility.
In addition, the practice provided fire engineering services to St Vincent Place – previously an unattractive car park and now a sensitively-designed public space – and structural engineering design for the West London Academy.
“I am delighted so many projects we have been involved with have performed well at the Civic Trust Awards,” said Steve Macey, Buro Happold’s project director on the Roundhouse theatre. “I’m especially proud of our performance in both the building services and access fields, as we are profoundly committed to both environmentally sustainable building services design, and to access and inclusion for all.”
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