environment magazine

Structural 2011

Project Title = Far Moor Bridge
Location = North Yorkshire

Brief Project Description = Far Moor Bridge is part of the new 350-mile Pennine Bridleway National Trail, funded by the Countryside Agency (now Natural England) and Sports England. The section in the Yorkshire Dales at Far Moor Common, Selside, is a new section of bridleway with a new bridge, across the River Ribble. The commissioning Authority saw an opportunity to build an iconic structure, which would delight walkers and riders while being environmentally sustainable.

Best Small Project 2011

Project Title = The Watson House
Location = New Forest, Hampshire

Brief Project Description = The brief began with the idea of occupying the house for short breaks – a holiday home that is easy to use and the clients wished to live in contact with nature. They wanted a house that offered the opposite to their day to day urban life – a place that breathed, that was open, light, easy to maintain and interacted with the garden and woodland. The brief was clear that the parents wanted to have space between their two teenage children’s bedrooms and their own and also provide a room for guests, but a single social space for cooking, eating and relaxing together.

Project Title The Apex, Arc, Bury St Edmunds
Location Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds is one of England’s best preserved historic market towns, its mediaeval urban structure largely unspoilt. Comprising 10 acres immediately adjacent to the market centre of town, the site of the former Cattle Market has long been an obvious choice for future growth, but successive schemes for the site failed to engage local support. In 2001 St Edmundsbury Borough Council sought a development partner to design, fund and implement a retail-led scheme for the site to safeguard Bury’s trading future.