11/01/2010
Saatchi Gallery Oil Room opens
The Richard Wilson’s site specific oil installation ’20:50’ has recently opened at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, London. The piece 20:50 was first created in 1987 and was shown as a permanent installation at the Saatchi Gallery’s first home in Boundary Road. Richard Wilson is one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors. He is known for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction and are characterised by concerns with size and structural daring.
20:50, 1987 Used sump oil, steel, dimensions variable
Image courtesy of the Saatchi Gallery, London © Richard Wilson, 2010
5/11/09
BD Healthcare Architect of the Year
In recognition of our work in heathcare we have just been named Building Design's Healthcare Architect of the Year 2009. The Architect of the Year awards are aimed at rewarding the practices behind excellent built projects and we were given the award following our work on Kentish Town Health Centre, Sunshine House, Norwood Hall and for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
12/11/09
Building Better Healthcare Awards
Kentish Town Health Centre wins the Best Primary Care Award at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009 while our client Dr Roy Macgregor scooped the award for Design Champion of the Year.
07/12/09
Celebration of a Life of an Architect: Victor Kite
We recently held a celebration for our colleague Victor Kite who sadly passed away this year. Friends, family and colleagues gathered together at Westminster Academy to reflect on Victor’s work at AHMM and YRM as well as his huge influence on the people who worked with him.
4/11/09
Brick Awards for Bath House
and Church Street
The Brick Awards recognises excellence in design and construction using brick and at the recent awards our Barking Central II Bath House project won 'Innovative Use of Brick and Clay products' and our Church Street project won 'Best Public Housing Development'.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/doing/doing_barking_central_ii.php
14/10/09
Yellow Building
wins
BCIA Building Award
The Yellow Building has been awarded the Building Award at the British Construction Industry Awards. The award is given for excellence in both architecture and engineering. These Awards are all embracing, with the judges considering many aspects from procurement, performance against prediction, quality of design and construction, safety, innovation, sustainability, usability and benefit to the community among many others. http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/done/done_notting_hill_village.php
23/07/09
Kentish Town Health Centre shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize
We have been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the second year running; in 2009 for Kentish Town Health Centre and in 2008 for Westminster Academy
At this year’s awards Kentish Town health Centre’s Dr Roy Macgregor was presented with the RIBA Client of the Year special award. Recognising the extraordinarily high standard of this year’s shortlist and the different skills involved in architectural patronage the RIBA Chief Executive Richard Hastilow CBE presented Dr Macgregor and all six shortlisted clients with the award in what he described as ‘an exceptional year with remarkable clients’.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/done/done_kentish_town_care_centre.php
09/10/09
We are working with Bovis Lend Lease who have been shortlisted for Wandsworth Council’s £300 million BSF programme
The Wandsworth BSF programme is one of the largest BSF schemes in London. This 10 year programme involves the rebuilding or remodelling of all 16 of the borough’s secondary schools and secondary special schools. The preferred bidder will be announced late 2010.
30/09/09
Barking Town Square Arboretum officially opened
At Barking Town Square the local MP, the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP, has opened the Arboretum and unveiled the plaque to commemorate the project winning the European Public Urban Space Award 2008. Barking Town Square is funded by Redrow Regeneration and designed by Muf in collaboration with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The Arboretum is the second stage of the delivery of Barking Town Square and completes the project. It has a drinking fountain, trees, an undulating playful landscape and a public stage.
The accompanying exhibition in The Gallery at Barking Learning Centre presents work by The Royal College of Art who collaborated with the librarians of Barking Learning Centre, Yemisi Blake, Spread the Word, children and young people of Barking and Muf architecture/art.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/doing/doing_barking_central_ii.php
24/09/09
Shortlisted for Chelsea Barracks
Working in collaboration with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Macreanor Lavington Architects, Alison Brooks Architects and Grant Associates we have been shortlisted for the Chelsea Barracks development in London along with nine other teams. All 10 bidders have submitted their initial ideas to the judging panel who will now whittle the list down to three. The final three will go forward in a competition to select the winner.
13/10/09
Church Street has been awarded a CABE Building for Life Silver Standard
Our Church Street project for the One Housing Group is on the site of a derelict shirt factory in London. Building for Life chairman, Wayne Hemmingway, said “Building for Life is the best way for everyone to understand design quality on the same terms, so the goal of seeing good ordinary homes everywhere can become a reality.”
16/07/09
Skills Pledge signed with Birmingham schoolchildren
As part of our work on the £2.4 billion transformation of all the city’s secondary schools through its BSF programme we have signed a “skills pledge” with Birmingham school children. This pledge aims to help the children gain a head start in the world of work by helping the city’s pupils with a range of work-related activities, including CV writing, work experience, apprenticeships and mentoring.
01/08/09
New cladding envelope installed at Angel Building
Installation of the new cladding envelope begins the transformation of The Angel Building, Islington. This mixed-use scheme for Derwent London will be completed by early 2010.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/doing/doing_angel_building.php
05/03/09
Re-designing the Royal Court Liverpool
After an invited competition we have been appointed to redesign the Royal Court Liverpool. A funding campaign will soon be launched to raise the necessary £12m for the desired scheme which has been approved by the board of trustees.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/doing/doing_royal_court_liverpool.php
22/09/09
Westminster Academy students celebrate after impressive exam results
At GCSE level 72% of Westminster Academy students have achieved 5 or more subjects with higher grade passes. This is a huge improvement in the number of students attaining 5 or more subjects at grade C and above: from 43 % last year to 72% this year.
In the Sixth Form@Westminster Academy students achieved a 95% pass rate with 75% of students passing with A-C grades and 100% of students gaining places at university including LSE, Queen Mary’s and Durham.
http://www.ahmm.co.uk/projects/done/done_westminster_academy.php
14/10/09
Projects Stateside
We have started work on a number of feasibility studies in the United States. Projects include the conversion of a 1903 warehouse into a boutique hotel, a new urban high density housing scheme and a number of private residential projects.
12/10/09
Bartlett School of Architecture
collaboration
Continuing our close links with the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, we are once again providing practice support for post-graduate Diploma students. For the fourth year running, Associate Director, Philip Turner continues his involvement in Simon Herron and Susanne Isa's Unit 16.
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/programmes/units/unit16.htm