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DEAD HEAT FOR COPPER IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Judges of the 2005 COPPER IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS have announced joint winners Feilden Clegg Bradleys Westfield Student Village, Queen Mary University of London and Marks Barfield Architects Spiral Caf, Birmingham. Other Awards included a Commendation for Page and Parks Maggies Highlands Cancer Care Centre, which also won the Craftsmanship prize. The Awards were presented at an event in London on 21 September. This design-led competition now includes two separate awards for the best recently completed buildings in the UK and in other participating European countries, as well as a cash prize for the best student project from UK schools of architecture and craftsmanship awards. This years Student Winner was Poppy Kirkwood of the Bartlett School with an intriguing water bottling factory project while James Curtis of Oxford Brookes University and Stefan Krakhofer of the University of East London were both Commended. The European Awards saw a clear winner with Kari Jarvinen Ja Merja Nieminens beautiful Laajasalo Church in Finland, and a Commendation for Staab Architektens Service Centre on Theresienwiese, Munich, Germany. The Awards attracted some sixty entries in total and the panel of architect and critic judges commented on the particularly high standard of design and presentation. After much deliberation, the judges eventually declared a dead heat for the UK Architectural Design Awards. The two winning projects are completely different in their intentions, locations, scale and budget but both achieve their aims with panache. Marks Barfield Architects Spiral Caf is an artistic response at a modest scale to a challenging, major urban site. It fully exploits a geometric idea to generate an intriguing form that is nonetheless functional - a simple concept, delivered in a way that is not clichd. In contrast, Feilden Clegg Bradleys Westfield Student Village is a substantial development showing that, even with the budgetary constraints of higher education, architecture of a high quality is possible for student dwellings, using the qualities of copper to contribute to a mixed urban landscape. Copper in Architecture is part of the European Copper in Architecture Campaign, promoted by Copper Development Association and participating copper fabricators. It offers a 1

technical manual Copper Roofing in Detail, RIBA CPD accredited seminars and technical advice, as well as contractors lists and website. Full details of the Awards can be found on www.cda.org.uk/arch. For design inspiration www.copperconcept.org contains numerous project references from around Europe. ends. Word count from Starts.to.ends: 400 words

UK AWARDS Ref: 563/140 002 Caption - Marks Barfield Architects Spiral Caf in Birmingham, Joint UK Winner Ref: 563/140 003 Caption - Page and Parks Commended Maggies Highlands Cancer Care Centre, which also won the Craftsmanship prize Ref: FCB Caption - Joint UK Winner, Feilden Clegg Bradleys Queen Mary Student Village in east London ADDITIONAL PHOTOS Further images of all the award winners and shortlisted projects are available in digital form from Chris Hodson Tel: +44 (0)1242 702741 E-mail: chris@hodsons.com Information for Editors COPPER IN ARCHITECTURE is part of the European Copper in Architecture Campaign promoted by Copper Development Association and participating copper fabricators. We are pleased to provide technical articles on any aspect of the architectural use of copper: please contact Chris Hodson for further information. Contact Details for publication (if required): Copper in Architecture, 5 Grovelands Business Centre, Boundary Way Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7TE Tel: 01442 275700, Fax: 01442 275716 Email: helpline@copperdev.co.uk Webs: www.cda.org.uk/arch & www.copperconcept.org Reader Enquiries to: Copper in Architecture, 5 Grovelands Business Centre, Boundary Way Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7TE Email: mail@copperdev.co.uk Further information for editors, contact (not for publication): Chris Hodson Email: chris@hodsons.com Tel: 01242 702 741 4

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