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Europan winners announced

17 January 2008

Introducing the three UK winners of the world’s largest housing and urban design competition for young architects.

The winners of the Europan 9 - the world's largest housing and urban design competition for young architects - have been announced. CABE runs the UK section of Europan and the three sites in the UK - Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent - attracted submissions from 61 teams across Europe.

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. The event also marked the opening of a new CABE exhibition, Competitions Work. All the designs for the winners and runners-up for Europan 9 are on display, together with other schemes completed after design competitions supported by CABE. These include high-quality housing projects, healthcare and education buildings and public space.

Competitions Work is on from 17 January until 14 February 2008 at New London Architecture, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT.

The full list of winners, runners-up and commendations for Europan 9 is:

Stoke-on-Trent

  • winner: City Slipway by RCKa (Russell Curtis, Tim Riley, Dieter Kleiner & Justin Bridgland)
  • runner-up: Urban Village by Jan Schneidewind, Stephanie Tunka, Thomas Bender & Patrice Begin
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Milton Keynes

  • winner: A Forest in the City by Tom Russell Architects (Tom Russell, Victoria Emmett & Oliver Leonard)
  • runner-up: Farmstead Urban Village by Loop Architecture (Alex Franklin, James White, Phil Catcheside, Nick Warton, Roman Spur & Simon Green)
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Sheffield

  • runner-up: Urban Grafting by Prewett Bizley (Rob Prewett)
  • runner-up: Edge Zip by Sira Warneke, Adrian Truan, Jonathan Crossley, Gael Calvez, Matt Oliver, Tim Saxon, Samira Yacoubi & John Bell
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