Date: 14 August 07
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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.
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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
