People, Place, Planet - Lecture by Alison Brooks Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects Talks and lectures
People, Place, Planet #3: Lecture by Alison Brooks Our People, Place, Planet programme showcases the diverse people behind great placemaking as we continue our 2021 series with leading experts in sustainable design. We are delighted to welcome one of the leading architects of her generation, Alison Brooks, for this event. today 9 March 2021, 2.00pm to 3.30pm
Our People, Place, Planet programme showcases the diverse people behind great placemaking, progressive climate action and innovation.
Alison Brooks: Material, form, poetry, allegory
Alison, Principal and Creative Director of Alison Brooks Architects, is one of the leading architects of her generation. She has developed an international reputation for a
Five design teams have been shortlisted to masterplan a huge £8bn regeneration project in south-east London.
They include leading practices such as Alison Brooks, Mikhail Riches and Shard architect William Matthews as well as emerging names including Jas Bhalla Architects and Madeleine Kessler, co-curator of the British Pavilion at the delayed Venice Biennale.
The 250-acre scheme, known as Thamesmead Waterfront, is set to provide at least 11,500 new homes plus commercial and leisure space across more than a mile of undeveloped river frontage at the sprawling estate made famous by the film A Clockwork Orange.
Source: Peabody
A competition winner for the site will be named in April
Resilient Architecture
âWe are not here to build for other architects, we are here to build for all of humankind.â
– A+Award Winner Bjarke Ingels (BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group).
The
Architizer A+Awards is the worldâs largest and most democratic architectural awards programme, honouring the yearâs best buildings and spaces from around the globe, judged by prestigious figures in the art and design industries, as well as members of the public “to remind the world how design affects people’s everyday lives, particularly in a time of unprecedented global uncertainty.” In collaboration with
Aesthetica, the 2020 A+Awards received over 400,000 public votes on 5,000+ entries from over 100 countries worldwide.
Plans for a Maggie s Centre by Alison Brooks Architects on a site in Taunton, UK, have been halted after the local council voted against leasing land for the scheme.
The cancer care centre, which had been granted planning permission by the former Taunton Deane Borough Council in 2019, is designed for a small parcel of land within Galmington Playing Fields – a play area close to Musgrove Park Hospital.
However, the authority has now been replaced by Somerset West and Taunton Council, which has blocked plans to lease the site due to public backlash and the potential loss of communal green space.
The 1,341 acres of Whalley that is defined as Surrey City Centre will be transformed by these projects, which are set to create over 60 new towers with a height of at least 25 storeys. Many of these towers are far higher than the benchmark used for analysis, including several towers 50 storeys or greater.
Surrey City Centre’s major development activities as of December 2020: approved (green/left); under construction (red/centre); and proposed (grey/right). (Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association)
Approved developments
To date, the City of Surrey has approved 12,681 homes, 1.95 million sq. ft. of office space, and 135,134 sq. ft. of retail space.