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Europan 9 Winners AnnouncedThe winners of the Europan 9 - the world's largest housing and urban design competition for young architects - have been announced.
RCKa won for their City Slipway scheme for Stoke-on-Trent.
This ambitious project - which will see up to 300 new homes being built - aims to revitalise the city centre by encouraging people back from the suburbs and surrounding towns.
A central public route down to the city's Caldon canal is proposed together with a striking apartment building and terraced housing that responds sympathetically to the site.
In Milton Keynes, where the site will provide some 150 new homes, Bristol-based Tom Russell Architects won with A Forest in the City.
This brings together family housing with mews housing and also successfully rises to the challenge of preserving a unique identity for the city as it continues to grow.
The jury will award a winner for the site in Sheffield in Spring 08: there are two runners-up who will receive feedback from the judges and the client (Sheffield City Council) and then the opportunity to further develop their ideas.
The high-quality of the winning schemes shows what we should expect from urban design and new housing.
What the schemes also show, however, is the value of design competitions in attracting keen design teams and encouraging the very best design.
The winners were announced on 16 January 2008 at New London Architecture.
more: www.europan.org.uk/... (426)
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