Two graduates from the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at Nottingham have won a prestigious competition sponsored by Nationwide; the Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards 2010.
Jonathan Davey and Matthew Kidner, who completed their Part 2 Diploma in Architecture course in 2009, won the overall 1st prize (of £3,000) at the awards’ ceremony held on the 8 June 2010 at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London, for their work on the Zero Carbon Housing Scheme in The Meadows, Nottingham. The award was presented by Wayne Hemingway MBE of Hemingway Design, Sunanda Prasad immediate past president of the RIBA, and Graham Beale Nationwide's chief executive.
The competition, run in partnership by Nationwide and RIBA, is the second in a series of annual competitions open to undergraduate architecture and design students. For 2009-2010 the theme was “Suburban Urban – secure and green” and the prize was awarded for ‘a design of an individual home, or group of homes, as well as the wider community in either new build or refurbishment projects’.
The aim of the competition is to stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how people can live in a more sustainable way in the future – picking up key characteristics of what might be recognised today as a ‘suburban’ lifestyle.
Download a PDF of the work the students submitted for this competition of the work the students submitted for this competition.
For further information contact:
Swinal Samant
Lecturer in Architecture
Department of the Built Environment
e: Swinal.Samant@nottingham.ac.uk
Posted on Thursday 6th January 2011