SACKLER BUILDING PUBLICATION
August 2010
A new book on the Sackler Building for the Royal College of Art will be published by CLC Editions at the end of August. The fully illustrated book outlines the recently constructed designs for the RCA's new Painting Department in Battersea. The book is in paperback, 256mm x 172mm, 62 pages,14 colour spreads and drawings. ISBN 978-0-9566084-0-6.
ALDEBURGH MUSIC CAMPUS AWARDS
July 2010
The Aldeburgh Music campus has won two Quality of Place awards, for conservation and design, and a D&AD award for the buildings' hand painted signage. The project has also been awarded the AJ national Small Projects award, an RIBA regional award and an RICS regional award.
LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN THEATRE
May 2010
Haworth Tompkins have submitted a planning application to rebuild the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool’s historic Hope St. Developed in close collaboration with theatre practitioners, the new building will provide a new 400-seat thrust stage auditorium, a community theatre studio, rehearsal space, workshops and offices for the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust. Front of house spaces will include a new pavement café, a theatre bar and a reincarnation of the famous basement Bistro.
Designed to be naturally ventilated throughout, the theatre incorporates a number of low energy strategies and is on course to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating. The project will be built of red brick and will incorporate a new west frontage on Hope St comprising 105 life-sized, abstracted portraits of Liverpool people transferred onto cut aluminium shutters, as a physical representation of the community to which the theatre has always belonged.
Steve Tompkins, director of Haworth Tompkins, said: “The 1970s version of the Everyman is part of Liverpool’s heartbeat. In developing our proposals for the new Everyman with the LMTT team, we have tried to honour its unique spirit while equipping it for a new generation of brilliant theatre”.
Liverpool Everyman Website
RIBA AWARDS
May 2010
Haworth Tompkins have been awarded RIBA Awards for three of their recently completed projects: The RCA's Sackler Building in Battersea London, Sites 1 and 7 at Liverpool One which was a collaboration with Dixon Jones and the Music Campus at Snape Maltings Suffolk. The 3 projects are among the 102 winning buildings which will provide the 6 projects nominated for this year’s Stirling Prize.
RIBA Website
NATIONAL THEATRE
May 2010
Haworth Tompkins proposals for the redevelopment of the National Theatre were exhibited in the theatre's Foyer over the weekend of 8-9 May 2010. The exhibition forms part of the pre-planning consultation on the project which will provide a new extension on Upper Ground to create space for additional educational facilities, refurbish the Cottesloe, remodelling the front of house including opening up the north east corner to the river and carrying out environmental improvements to the terraces and pedestrian areas.
Nichoals Hytner says of the new proposals 'We're proud of our building and proud of the work we bring to our audiences. But if that work is to keep developing, then our building has to develop too.' A planning and listed building application will be submitted in the summer.
MARTIN CREED NEW YORK EXHIBITION
May 2010
Haworth Tompkins have assisted Martin Creed with an art installation at the Gavin Brown's Enterprise gallery in New York. The work consists of over 100 different marble planks and is described by the New York Times as 'a stunning, seemingly encyclopedic testament to nature’s beauty and variety'. The exhibition runs until 19 June 2010 at 620 Greenwich Street, at LeRoy Street, West Village.
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Martin Creed
RICS AWARDS
May 2010
The renewal of Snape Maltings has jointly won the RICS East of England Conservation Award. The project, to provide new music facilities for the Aldeburgh Music campus and new residential and retail accommodation for Johnny and Alesha Gooderham, brings back to life a substantial group of derelict 19th century buildings on the Suffolk Coast.
The Aldeburgh Music project includes the Britten Studio (a new build orchestra rehearsal space and 350 seat recital hall) and the Jerwood Kiln Studio, along with new practice rooms and foyer space. Another component of the scheme, the Dovecote Studio, was converted from the ruins of a Victorian dovecote and has already won the UK Small Project Award. The Gooderhams' project includes the conversion of former malt drying buildings for residential use and additional retail space for the successful House and Garden shop.
The judges reported that the standard of this year's shortlist was exceptional, but that the maltings was a worthy joint winner. Steve Tompkins, director of Haworth Tompkins, said “We are very proud to win this award amongst such impressive competition. Snape Maltings has an astonishing sense of place and I hope our work has managed not only to protect that quality but to extend it for a wider range of artists, audiences and visitors."
CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK
May 2010
Haworth Tompkins are pleased to be associated with Clerkenwell Design Week which is a three-day annual festival between 25-27th May, celebrating design’s creative richness, its social impact and its power for change.
The festival programme of seminars, workshops and debates tackles key issues from a design standpoint. Big design names and inspirational thought leaders will spearhead an event crammed with left-field thinking, off-the-wall performances and presentations to challenge all your preconceptions.
To register for free entry please visit www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com
BISHOPS PALACE, KINGSTON
April 2010
Planning Permission and Conservation Area consent has been granted for the Bishops Palace site in Kingston upon Thames. The scheme, which was designed by Haworth Tompkins for Canadian and Portland Estates plc, consists of a radical remodelling and extension of an existing 1970s retail and leisure development. The designs seek to improve accessibility and connections to the river, and provide an architectural presence more befitting of its prominent position on the river.
SCOTSMAN STEPS
April 2010
Haworth Tompkins are working with Martin Creed on a project for the Scotsman Steps in Edinburgh. The artwork, which is being commissioned by the Fruitmarket Gallery, consists of cladding the existing treads and risers with different coloured marbles from around the world. The work is a development of a collaboration with Martin Creed at the London Library project where the WC floors were in coloured marble tiles. The artwork is being implemented as part of the restoration of the Scotsman Steps and is due to be completed later this year.
RICS AWARDS
April 2010
The Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, the National Theatre Studio and Snape Maltings have all been shortlisted for the RICS Awards 2010. The awards are announced in May.
RIBA AWARDS
April 2010
The Sackler Building, Snape Maltings and a joint submission by Haworth Tompkins and Dixon Jones for sites 1 and 7 at Liverpool One have been shortlisted for a RIBA Award and the winners will be announced in May.
OPEN AIR THEATRE
April 2010
10 years after having carried out the renovation of the Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Haworth Tompkins have submitted a planning application for new back of house, box office and administrative accommodation to complete the scheme. The project is due to be implemented in winter 2011.
HERBERT ART GALLERY
April 2010
The Herbert Art Gallery has been named the Guardian's Family-Friendly Museum of the Year 2010. Haworth Tompkins completed the first Phase of the redevelopment of the Museum consisting of new gallery and education spaces a new cafe and a Creative Industries Centre including an recording studio and editing suites.
Online Article
DESIGN MUSEUM
March 2010
Haworth Tompkins have been shortlisted by the Design Museum to create a new home in the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington. The other shortlisted practices are David Chipperfield, Caruso St John, Stanton Williams, John Pawson, Tony Fretton and Dutch architects Claus En Kaan. The Design Museum hope to select an architect from this shortlist in April.
THE LONDON LIBRARY
March 2010
The books have been have moved into the latest phase of work that has been completed at the London Library. This phase of work includes creating a new reading room from a former light well, remodelling of the Art Room, extension to the 19th Century book stacks and creating new internal links. The works are continuing with the refurbishment of the entrance and catalogue area completing Phase 2, which is due in August this year.
BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE
March 2010
The Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre has opened after a 2 month restoration and refurbishment programme overseen by Haworth Tompkins. This is the first phase of a two phase project which will be completed later in the year and includes a new floor, decorations, curtains, lighting and power. The project seeks to bring out some of the more eccentric qualities of the original Grade 2* building after many years of institutionalisation and is seen as a testing bed for a larger project currently under discussion.
SOUTH BANK ROOMS AT COIN STREET
March 2010
Haworth Tompkins have been working with Coin Street Community Builders to develop the basement shell of their neighbourhood centre to provide new meeting and conference facilities and a new community medical facility. The new facilities, which were opened at the beginning of February, includes a major new art work by Antoni Malinowski entitled 'Reflected in Blue' which dominates the new Foyer space.
ARCHITECTS JOURNAL SMALL PROJECT AWARD
March 2010
The Dovecote at Snape Maltings for Aldeburgh productions has been awarded the 2010 Architects Journal Small Project Award. The project inserted a new prefabricated coreten shell into the ruined brickwork of the former Dovecote. The cor-ten shell was insulated and lined in plywood to create a new studio space for artists in residence.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
March 2010
The recently completed Sackler Building for the Royal College of Art and the Dovecote Studio at Snape for Aldeburgh Productions have featured in British and International publications.
A building feature of the Sackler Building was published in the Architects Journal 26.11.09 whilst the Dovecote Studio featured in the Architects Journal Technical & Practice section 21.01.10. The Korean publication C3 published an article on both Aldeburgh Music and the Dovecote Studio in their January 2010 issue.
BUILDINGS OF THE DECADE
January 2010
Haworth Tompkins temporary theatres at Gainsborough Studios and Kings Cross have been selected amongst Kieran Long's buildings of the decade.
Kieran Long, editor of the Architects Journal says: "The other projects on my list are highly subjective of course, and are moments I remember as very special in the nation’s architecture of the last ten years. The Almeida Theatre’s temporary inhabitation of Gainsborough Studios in Shoreditch (2000) and a bus shed in King’s Cross, London, (2001) were orchestrated by Haworth Tompkins and were a sign of that practice’s command of cultural venues that it played out through the decade."
Online Article
EUROPEAN HOUSING CONCEPTS PUBLICATION
January 2010
Haworth Tompkins have two projects published in a new book titled European Housing Concepts 1990-2010 by Luisella Gelsomino and Ottorino Marinoni and published by Editrice Compositori. The book is a sweeping critical repertory of the design orientations of residential architecture in Europe, offering a significant overview of built works and emerging trends spanning the period of 1990-2010 and includes articles on Newington Green Student Housing and Iroko Housing.
SACKLER BUILDING OPENS
November 2009
The Royal College of Arts new Painting School, which is to be named the Sackler Building, has opened with a show of works by students from the last 10 years.
Created in the shell of a single story factory - the original building has been transformed into a series of new day lit spaces under a dramatic new roof form, by inserting a new independent steel structure within the existing brick enclosure. This significantly increases the height of the building, providing several extra large studios along with a mezzanine level, which will house a number of individual workspaces, whilst retaining an open plan environment.
The Sackler Building is the first phase of the RCA’s ambitious plan for a major new campus in Battersea. The campus will eventually house the Schools of Fine Art and Applied Art, and also provide accommodation for start-up units for new businesses in the fields of art and design as well as a gallery and lecture theatre. The second phase - adjacent to the new Painting Department - starts on site in January 2010.
The project has been published in the Architects Journal 26.11.09
Online Article
HAYWARD GALLERY
November 2009
Haworth Tompkins have been commissioned to assist the South Bank Centre with a programme of repair and maintenance work that is being carried out on the Hayward Gallery in the first half of 2010. This work builds on the new entrance pavilion, a collaboration with Dan Graham, that was completed in 2003.
BUILD-ON PUBLICATION
October 2009
Haworth Tompkins have two projects published in a new book titled Build-On: Converted Architecture and Transformed Building edited by R. Klanten and L. Feireiss and published by German publishers Gestalten. The book explores a range of international projects that bring new life and function to existing structures and includes articles on the Young Vic and the North Wall Arts Centre.
UNIVERSITY OF KENT
October 2009
Haworth Tompkins were shortlisted for, and were one of the runners up in the competition to design a new music space for the University of Kent. The brief called for a flexible 350-seat rehearsal and performance space, music practice rooms and a new foyer. Haworth Tompkins proposal created a double height colonnade to shade the south facing foyer and protect the pedestrian routes past the building. The main auditorium combined natural light and a rich palette of natural materials to create a well-balanced and flexible acoustic environment.
WHITWORTH ART GALLERY
October 2009
Haworth Tompkins submission for the RIBA run Whitworth Art Gallery Competition is being exhibited along with the other entries at the Whitworth Art Gallery throughout October. The winner of the competition will be selected to upgrade the facilities of the Grade II-listed gallery and design a new addition to the building’s south-west side, overlooking Whitworth Park. The other shortlisted practices are Amanda Levete Architects, Edward Cullinan Architects, MUMA and Stanton Williams Architects who were selected from 140 entrants.
The Whitworth Gallery
ALDEBURGH DOVECOTE STUDIO
October 2009
Following the opening of the Britten and Jerwood Studios in May 2009, Haworth Tompkins have completed a new studio for an artist in residence which forms the second phase of their redevelopment programme. The new studio is formed from by a prefabricated coreten steel shell that was craned into the ruined brick walls of the original dovecote. The steel shell has been lined with plywood and contains a double height studio and mezzanine study areas with views over the adjacent reed marshes.
CHELSEA BARRACKS
September 2009
Haworth Tompkins and Churchman Landscape Architects have joined Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands in their bid to master plan for the Chelsea Barracks site. The other nine teams on the shortlist include:
- Alan Baxter & Associates LLP, Paul Davis and Partners, Liam O’Connor Architects, Heatherwick Studio, and Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
- Porphyrios Associates and Allies and Morrison, Townshend Landscape Architects
- Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, KPF London, Paul Murrain, ZEDfactory, Merrill Pastor Colgan Architects, Gillespies Landscape Architects
- Dixon Jones Limited, Glenn Howells Architects
- Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, AHMM, Macreanor Lavington Architects, Alison Brooks Architects, Grant Associates
- Terry Farrell and Partners, Panter Hudspith, Peter Barber Architects, Chris Dyson Architects
- Hamiltons Architects and Think Place and Patel Taylor
- Robert Adam Architects, Ash Sakula Architects, LDADesign
- Squire and Partners and Kim Wilkie Associates
The Architects' Journal
CHARLESTON TRUST
September 2009
Haworth Tompkins have been shortlisted to participate in a competition for the Charleston Barn Project in East Sussex. Charleston is the former home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and is now cared for by the Charleston Trust. The new project aims to extend the visitor facilities through the restoration and development a Grade II-listed barn and other buildings around the site.
The Charleston Trust received 115 entries for the competition. The other finalists are 6a Architects, Caruso St John, Dow Jones, Purcell Miller Tritton, Tony Fretton and a partnership between Jamie Fobert and Julian Harrap.
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The Architects' Journal
