SIX Student Awards for Architecture 2008

This annual exhibition and student awards, which is run in collaboration with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, offers a rare opportunity for the public and profession to see the best work of students from all six of Scotland’s Schools of Architecture together. The single focus and high profile of the awards provides an excellent chance for the public and profession to view the standard of ideas and student work from Scotland’s most talented, emerging young architects. SIX is part of ACCESS to Architecture, a programme of events and activities informed by Scotland’s Policy on Architecture.

The SIX Student Awards are comprised of 5 awards: the RIAS Silver Medal for best fifth year student (£1200 prize); The Lighthouse Award for best third year student (£800 prize); Urban Design Award which is open to students and groups from any year (£1000 prize); The Sust. Award, which is open to all students (£500 prize) and The RIAS Drawing Award, also open to all students (£1000 prize).

SIX Winners 2008

RIAS Silver Medal
Winner	James Tait	Strathclyde
Highly Commended	Emma Bush	University of Edinburgh
The Lighthouse Award
Winner	Fiona MacDonald	University of Edinburgh
Highly Commended	Jonathan Black	Glasgow School of Art
Highly Commended	Michael Fedak	Glasgow School of Art
Commended	Sara Oxley	University of Edinburgh
Urban Design Award
Winner	Sean Joyce	Glasgow School of Art
RIAS Drawing Award
Winner	Arman Bahram	Edinburgh College of Art
Commended	Charlotte Hodges	Edinburgh College of Art
Sust. Award
Winner	James Tait	Strathclyde University
Highly Commended	Elidh Henderson, Andrew McEwan, Martin Tarnawski	Strathclyde University

The judges for this year’s awards were:

Morag Bain, Project Director, ACCESS to Architecture
Arnie Dunn, President, RIAS
Ian Gilzean, Chief Architect, Architecture Policy Unit, Scottish Government
Roisin Heneghan, Heneghan and Peng
Charlie Baker, Urbed

Scotland’s six schools of Architecture are:

Dundee School of Architecture
Edinburgh College of Art
Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, Aberdeen
University of Edinburgh
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

SIX Winner Images 2008 - Click to view larger versions

James Tait - Strathclyde

Sean Joyce - Glasgow School of Art

Fiona MacDonald - University of Edinburgh

Elidh Henderson, Andrew McEwan and Martin Tarnawski - Strathclyde University

Arman Bahram - Edinburgh College of Art

Top Image: Elidh Henderson - Strathclyde University

SHIFTS

SHIFTS projects you into the future of Scotland's Central Belt and gives you a glimpse into the year 2057.

Imagine the transformation of the M8 into a major tourist attraction running through Scotland's Central Forest. Imagine the creation of a new canal, connecting the west and the east coast, wide enough to carry a floating opera house or a football stadium. Imagine a decentralisation of political and economical power, producing local decision-making structures that support local identity, culture and production. Imagine Scotland relying only on hydro and wind power, being Europe's main export nation of green energy.

Imagine the Central Belt not as a zone to move through but to move to. Imagine a life that is faster and slower at the same time, a life that is healthier, greener and more fun. Imagine that SHIFTS have happened.

Four International project teams, led by the Scottish architecture practices Cadell2, Collective Architecture, GRAS and vD&B, have developed scenarios and propositions that speculate about shifts and transformations that could have happened in the years up to 2057. SHIFTS' and the projects' original focus lay in the topics of movement and transport in the Central Belt. The projects as they have evolved extend the meanings of 'movement' and 'transport' to embrace social, cultural, economic and political aspects and the implications these will have for the built environment and its usage.

Part of the ACCESS to Architecture programme supported by the Scottish Executive.

Image credit: Peoples Dock, Collective Architecture

The Lighthouse, Glasgow
18 August – 14 October 2007
Gallery 4

You appear to have JavaScript disabled. We can not automatically forward your browser. Click here to be forwarded

SIX Student Awards for Architecture 2007

The SIX Architecture Awards are presented annually by The Lighthouse to students from Scotland’s six Schools of Architecture. The scheme is part of ACCESS to Architecture, a programme of events and activities informed by Scotland’s Policy on Architecture.

This year’s SIX Awards were presented to the following students at The Lighthouse on Friday 16 August 2007.

RIAS Silver medal for best fifth year student
Winner: Liam Madden, Strathclyde University
Highly commended: Paul Taylor, Mackintosh School of Architecture

Lighthouse award for best third year student
Winner: George Woodrow, Edinburgh University
Commended: Lucie Vejmelkova, Edinburgh College of Art

RIAS Drawing Award
Winner: Paul Taylor, Mackintosh School of Architecture

SUST: Award
Winner: Liam Madden, Strathclyde University

Exhibition Touring Information:
The Gallery, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, 131 Rottenrow, Glasgow
1 Feb – 24 Feb 08

Proposals for the development of a new textile mill and an associated masterplan for the Condorrat area of Cumbernauld earned Liam Madden the RIAS Silver medal and the SUST: Award in the prestigious “SIX” Architecture Awards. The Strathclyde University graduate, now working with award-winning practice NORD, envisaged the creation of a mill to process hemp as an insulation material and building product as the catalyst for social and economic regeneration of the area. The proposed mill would at once introduce a new employer into an area of economic decline and capitalise on the existing agricultural infrastructure, thus breathing new life into an endangered workforce.

“I see the mill as the keystone of a strategy to redevelop the area,” says Madden. “Currently, clear boundaries exist between the edge of the town and its rural hinterland, but by redeveloping the area it will be possible to reconnect the town’s resident population with the landscape on which it has historically relied.” Madden’s masterplan also addresses the issue of the over density of housing by restructuring areas, creating trade-offs between density and sustainability

The Glasgow Death Compendium, a proposal for a specially created cemetery/ crematorium/ memorial, devised by Mackintosh School of Architecture graduate Paul Taylor, won the RIAS Drawing Award and a commendation for the Silver Medal.

“The aim of the Glasgow Death Compendium,” says Taylor, who is now working with Rick Mather Architects, “is to provide a central, municipal place for the City of Glasgow to bury, cremate and remember its inhabitants; to create a place where life and death convene.”

Taylor identified the point where Glasgow’s two rivers, the Kelvin and Clyde, meet as the site for his development. “The site itself is an archive. Now a hinterland, the edges to both rivers at this territory point towards their industrial heritage: a dock, a graving dock, a quay.” The ambition of the project is also to complete the Kelvin Walkway,

The Lighthouse Best 3rd year Award went to George Woodrow of Edinburgh University. The Urban Design prize was not awarded.

The judges for the 2007 Awards were:
Mary Arnold-Forster of Dualchas Design; Nick Barley Director of The Lighthouse; Dick Cannon of Elder and Cannon Architects; Arnie Dunn President of the RIAS; Pauline Gallacher (Chair) Acting Director of ACCESS to Architecture; Mary Roslin and Tatjana Schneider, Tutor and researcher Sheffield University.

Liam Madden, Strathclyde University (Click to see full image)

George Woodrow, Edinburgh University

Lucie Vejmelkova, Edinburgh College of Art

Paul Taylor, Mackintosh School of Architecture

Northern City (Between Light and Dark)

A part of the Six Cities Design Festival, 17 May – 3 June 2007

This exhibition explores the dual nature of Edinburgh, a city whose physical development has been strongly linked to philosophical thought and literary movements. Edinburgh has a schizophrenic nature, caught between the rational and the irrational, nostalgia and modernity, the urban and the natural. Northern City re-presents Edinburgh through four collaborations between leading Scottish architectural practices and award winning artists. Participants include: Metis; Mark Dorrian + Adrian Hawker; Victoria Clare Bernie; GROSS. MAX; Nathan Coley; Dalziel + Scullion; Sutherland Hussey Architects.

The Northern City exhibition, originally shown in the Lighthouse, Glasgow has been re-presented as a series of installations across the city of Edinburgh for the Six Cities Festival. All are situated within the city centre of Edinburgh and can be visited within one day. All venues have free entry. Venues include: The National Portrait Gallery, The Scottish Parliament, The roof of the MWB Business Centre, St Andrew’s Square and St Giles Cathedral.

WE MUST CULTIVATE OUR GARDEN
By Nathan Coley
The roof of
The Herald Building
MWB Business Centres LTD
9 - 10 St Andrew Square
Edinburgh
EH2 2AF
17 May - 2 September 2007

NORTHROOM
Metis: Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker and artist Victoria Clare Bernie
The Scottish Parliament
The Royal Mile
Edinburgh EH99 1SP
17 May – 1 June 2007
Fri – Mon 10.00am – 3.15pm
Tues – Thurs 9.00am – 7.00pm

OLD TOWN NEW TOWN NO TOWN
GROSS. MAX.
National Portrait Library
1 Queen Street
Edinburgh EH2 1JD
17 May – 3 June 2007
Daily 10.00am – 5.00pm
Thursdays until 7.00pm

LATITUDE
Dalziel + Scullion and Sutherland Hussey Architects
St. Giles Cathedral
The Royal Mile
Edinburgh EH1 1RE
22 May – 3 June 2007
Mon – Sat 9.00am – 5.00pm
Sun 1.00am – 5.00pm

Architrailer: On the Road

ArchiTrailer is a second hand Sunseeker Deluxe trailer tent. It has become the stimulus for an experimental collaboration between Chris Stewart Architects and The Lighthouse Education Team that challenges the conventions of architectural exhibitions and educational workshops.

This summer ArchiTrailer traveled to 3 of the projects featured in the Architecture in Scotland 2004 - 2006 exhibition, exploring the idea of place by engaging residents and locals in unique events. The events aimed to provoke a debate on place by their unusual juxtapositions, or by involvement (as participant or organizer) in something rare, special and memorable.

ArchiTrailer: On the road, features a film documenting the trailer’s travels by Rob Kennedy and the ArchiTrailer Team, along with a cameo appearance by the ArchiTrailer itself.

30 September – 3 November 2006
The Lighthouse, Young Designers Gallery, Level 2

Architecture in Scotland 2004 – 2006

Architecture in Scotland is a biennale review of Scottish architecture, featuring urban, suburban and rural architecture and landscape projects. The exhibition and accompanying publication reflect the diversity of building projects in Scotland today.

The third in this series of reviews looks specifically at defining “place”, highlighting Scotland’s most recent and distinct projects and opening up a discourse around ideas of place through an examination on issues that are particular to each.

The projects are:

A’Chrannag, Rothesay, Bute by Gokay Devici
The Drum, Bo’ness, West Lothian by Malcolm Fraser Architects
JKS Workshops, Clydebank, Glasgow by gm + ad architects
Non-places by n/a
Pier Arts Centre. Stromness, Orkney by Reiach and Hall Architects
Robin House Children’s Hospice, Balloch, Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park by Gareth Hoskins Architects
Seton Mains House, Longniddry, East Lothian by Paterson Architects
The Storr; Unfolding Landscape, Trotternish, Skye by nva

Contact information:
catriona.duffy@thelighthouse.co.uk

A touring exhibition created by The Lighthouse which is part of the National Programme of activities informed by the Scottish Executive's Policy on Architecture.

Exhibiton Dates:
Start date - 1 April 2006
End date - 5 June 2006
Private view date – 6 April 2006
The Lighthouse
Gallery 4
level 4

Touring Dates:
1 July - 5 Aug 06 : Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
9 Oct - 30 Nov 06: RIAS, Edinburgh
Showing 2007: Orkney Museum , Kirkwall

Scottish Architecture

SIX Student Awards for Architecture 2008

SHIFTS