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RIBA and Network Rail recently announced the winner of the Re-imagining Railways design competition, which invited architects, engineers and designers to rethink small and medium-sized train stations to improve the travel experience. The winning design, signed by Edinburgh-based architectural practice 7N Architects, features a reinterpreted clock tower serving as a local landmark and a modular station layout that can be adapted to a variety of sites.
7N Architects’design proposes a flexible system with a minimum of parts, which can be integrated across urban and rural landscapes. The platform canopies feature translucent photovoltaic panels, which would provide most of the station’s energy, aligning with Network Rail’s aspirations to be carbon neutral by 2050. Designed to hold a civic purpose, the clock tower is meant to become a meeting place for the locals. The straightforward design of the station is intended to provide an easily replicable project, significantly impr
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the selection of nimtim architects with artist Katie Schwab for the Becontree Estate’s public realm commission. Looking to redesign 12 neglected and underused corner plots across the estate, the project reimagines these areas as new civic squares in East London.
On the centenary of the estate, RIBA in collaboration with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) is celebrating Becontree’s past and reimagining its future. Six emerging and mid-career architectural practices were invited to propose a way to make neglected corner plots of the estate more valuable spaces for the community, a brief developed in conversation with the community.