Hawkins\Brown

London Festival of Architecture 2010

For this year’s London Festival of Architecture,
Hawkins\Brown was selected to take part in an initiative to partner with shops on Regent Street to collaborate on the creation of Architect/Retailer designed shop windows. Hawkins\Brown was partnered with Oasis, and together with the artist Bob and Roberta Smith and London bee keeper James Hamill, they have created an installation that celebrates the part bees play in the fashion industry in pollinating plants used for fabrics, while simultaneously highlighting the insects’ sorry demise. The window features a solar powered illuminated sign that urges us to ‘grow lavender,’ whilst a collection of working hives form the backdrop to a specially commissioned scale replica hive/model of our very own designed ‘Cor-bee Cube!’ The installation lasts until Sunday 4 July when the window will be recycled, reappropriated or the lavender plants given away so that you can make your very own Oasis in the city.

For further information please click on the links below.

Regent Street TV

London Festival of Architecture

James Hamill

Bob and Roberta Smith

Oasis

Image © Jay Lowdon, Creative Consultant

25nominate25

Buro Four is turning 25 this year. To celebrate 25 years of delivering project management services to the design and construction industry, they have asked 25 architects who also started out in the 1980s, to nominate a younger practice they think we should all watch out for over the next few years. We at HawkinsBrown were asked to get involved and were only too happy to nominate our top young architectural practice. So who will it be?

The campaign, named 25nominate25, will reach its climax on 30 June when all 25 nominees will be announced at an event at Buro Four's new London offices as part of London Festival of Architecture. On this evening, the 25 younger practices nominated will all get the opportunity to meet the architect who nominated them and exhibit their work. Places are limited, but if you would like to be there to hear the announcement on the 30 June and meet with the 50 practices in question, you can contact Bernadette Swain at bswain@burofour.co.uk to secure your place. All nominations have now been submitted and results will be announced on 30 June.

For more information, you can visit the Buro Four website at www.burofour.co.uk

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010

< We are pleased to announce that we have two pieces selected for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This year’s architecture room is coordinated by David Chipperfield. The first piece (shown above) is a textile 'masterplan' of our proposals for Wellesley Road and Park Lane, Croydon.
Click here to see a movie of the proposals

The second is a study model for “The Annexe”, home to Oily Cart Children’s Theatre.
Click here to see the model in the gallery (foreground).

RIBA Award 2010

We are pleased to announce that the Jarman Building School of Arts, University of Kent has received a 2010 RIBA Award.

Nottingham Lord Mayor’s Awards
for Urban Design 2009

We are delighted to announce that the New Art Exchange has received two awards in the Nottingham Lord Mayor’s Awards for Urban Design 2009 – the New Build Award and the Overall Award.

Education Architect of the Year Award 2009

We are delighted to announce that we have received the 2009 Education Architect of the Year award.

RIBA East Midlands Award 2009

We are pleased to announce that the New Art Exchange in Nottingham has received a 2009 RIBA East Midlands Award.

Structural Steel Design Award 2009

The New Biochemistry Building at the University of Oxford has received a 2009 Structural Steel Design Award.

New Crossrail Station

Hawkins\Brown, as part of a multi-disciplinary team led by Arup/Atkins, has been appointed by Crossrail (CRL) to undertake the detailed design of the new Crossrail Station at Tottenham Court Road. The team will be taking the design through RIBA Stages D, E & F.

The station, which is scheduled for completion by April 2011, is predicted to become one of the busiest on the route. At the Eastern end, it will integrate with London Underground's upgrade scheme to provide an interchange with the Northern Line. The Western entrance at Dean Street will give Soho a much needed transport node by providing access to Crossrail and to the Central Line.

RIBA Awards 2009

We are pleased to announce that Hawkins\Brown has received three RIBA Awards this year.

New Biochemistry Building, University of Oxford

RIBA Southern Region Award held at University of Oxford New Biochemistry Building

New Art Exchange, Nottingham

Highfields Automotive and Engineering Training Centre, Nottingham