Idea House highly commended at Cityscape Awards for Architecture in Emerging Markets 2009

Broadway Malyan’s Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park has been granted full planning permission.

The £16.1m scheme, located in Huyton, Knowsley, will provide state of the art leisure and cultural facilities for the local community. The 6,600m² leisure centre includes two 25m pools; an 8-lane competition pool and a 4 lane training tank complete with movable floor for maximum flexibility of use and accessibility. Spectator seating for around 300 people on the first floor overlooking the main pool will be provided. ‘Dry’ sports facilities include squash court, two dance/ multi-purpose studios, a 120 station fitness suite and a 6-court sports hall, incorporating retractable bleacher seating which will allow an audience of up to 900 people to view sports and other cultural events to be held there. The centre will also house an adult day care centre, ensuring people with disabilities can benefit from the activities on offer and well as within the local area. A bright and airy atrium agora lies centrally within the scheme and acts as a meeting, collection and orientation device for building users and staff, from which all the activities within the centre can be viewed and accessed.

The planning application also included a £5m OurPlace youth facility, for which a funding application has been submitted to Big Lottery Fund.  The 1,400m² ‘OurPlace’ youth centre is a ground breaking, vibrant and exciting facility for the young people of the borough to meet in and enjoy. Although it will be operated independently, it is attached to and sits forward of the leisure centre to interact with the community and knit the local urban grain together in terms of scale and rhythm.

Young people in Knowsley have been working closing with the engineers, architects and designers to ensure the facilities they want and need are provided.  IT, music and arts spaces, advice and wellbeing services, all housed in a welcoming and iconic new building, as well as an outdoor multi use games area, BMX and skateboarding facilities.

The form of the building responds directly to its context and the varying volumes of the internal spaces, creating a dynamic angled roofline. The youth centre projects forward from the main body of the leisure centre, to knit together the local urban grain in terms of scale and massing. A carefully considered angled wall leads back from the road, drawing visitors towards the main entrance of the leisure centre and setting a considered geometry for the scheme which is echoed in the design of a new public square in front of the building. The scheme is designed to meet the BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating and renewable energy will be produced on site through a biomass boiler.

Start on site is anticipated in March 2010 with completion due in Autumn 2011.

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The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) unveiled its historic schools facilities programme at the BSEC MENA exhibition, held in December at ADNEC, Abu Dhabi.

The school facilities program will see the building of 18 new schools across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi starting in mid-2010. Broadway Malyan has been appointed to design nine of these schools, which are the first new schools to be developed under ADEC’s 10 Year Strategic Plan.

The schools will include seven Cycle 1 (Grade KG-5) schools, seven combined Cycle 2 and Cycle 3 schools (Grades 6-12), two Cycle 3 schools (Grades 10-12), and two KG-12 schools. The program will provide learning environments of the highest quality that support current teaching methods and new curricula while supporting the population growth of the Emirate.

“ADEC’s 10 Year Strategic Plan is a historic transformation of the education system that will deliver educational excellence. Providing students with world class learning environments is a key element of our 10 year plan and is the foundation for achieving excellence,” said H.E. Salem Al Sayeri, Acting Director General of ADEC.

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Broadway Malyan is proud to support CRASH’s 2009 No Christmas Card Appeal. CRASH, the construction and property industries’ charity for homeless people, has so far raised £61,994.

CRASH addresses the issues of homelessness by harnessing the skills, products and goodwill of the building industry to improve hostels, day centres, night shelters, training centres and move-on accommodation, for frontline homelessness agencies who work directly with homeless people.

http://www.crash.org.uk/

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 14:25 and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Broadway Malyan celebrated the launch of its landmark £66 million Bournville College scheme last night with VIPs from across the country descending on Birmingham for an event at the International Convention Centre.

The event, organised by Bournville College, allowed attendees to get a sneak preview of plans for the new college and how it aims to act as a catalyst for the £1 billion regeneration of Longbridge.

The college, which has just broken ground on the ex-MG Rover site, is set to become the ‘Learning Quarter’ of the mixed use regeneration programme. The new campus will span 4.2 acres, offering a new learning resource centre, business school, construction workshop and leisure and sport facilities to 15,000 students. Salim Hussain, Lead Architect on the project, said: “The new building represents a significant contribution to the regeneration of Longbridge through its striking design, as well as providing an inspirational and practical learning environment for staff and learners. We look forward to working with all parties to ensure the successful delivery of this major project.”

With support from Advantage West Midlands, the Learning and Skills Council and Birmingham City Council, the new campus is set to open its doors in September 2011, bringing together Bournville’s current 3 campuses under one roof.

The new build is one of 13 colleges that were chosen following a robust and thorough assessment in the review of the FE Capital building programme by the LSC and Sir Andrew Foster.

View Bournville College’s promotional video

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:16 and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Broadway Malyan has scooped two prizes at the 2009 What House Awards held last week in London. Imperial Wharf won the Gold Award for Best Landscape Design, with Beaufort Park, also for developer St George, winning the Silver Award in the same category.

At Imperial Park, the judges were particularly impressed by “the ability of the design to provide a welcoming and attractive landscape appropriate to the scale of the buildings and yet a small scale landscape conducive to sitting and relaxing amongst attractive and inspirational planting and yet on such a large scheme.”

Although not completed, the judge’s awarded the Beaufort Park scheme the Silver Medal, “recognising the standard of design and quality of materials used and implemented to date.”

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 12:23 and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.