HADRIAN AWARDS

Kielder Observatory.
Photo courtesy of Charles Barclay Architects

The six winners, all displaying outstanding excellence across the judging criteria, were:

Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
Cardinal Hume Catholic School
Gateshead
Lakeside Centre, Killingworth
Kielder Observatory, Kielder
The Place, Sunderland

The Hadrian Awards celebrate the best in architecture and the design of the built environment in the North East and Cumbria. High quality design is essential to creating a good quality of life for people in the region, giving a return on investment for everyone, whether for the public, clients and funders, for communities, or for professionals.

The Hadrian Awards is a biennial scheme that has been running since 1989. The only professionally assessed awards scheme in these regions, it focuses on good practice across the whole of the built HADRIAN AWARDS environment, including architecture, urban design and landscape design. Because the Hadrian Awards operate the unusual criteria that a scheme must have been open for at least a year before it can be submitted, winning an award gives the scheme a clear endorsement of functionality and fulfilment of the brief as well as visual qualities. This sets the awards apart from many other award schemes.

The partners that run the awards, RIBA North East, Northern Architecture, North of England Civic Trust and the Landscape Institute, are all organisations involved in championing, supporting and promoting good design. The winning and commended schemes become flagship examples of good design that are promoted, both nationally and regionally, over the two years following the awards.

Full details of the awards can be viewed on www.hadrianawards.com along with details of past winners and a John Grundy video.

City and County
February 2010