Hadrian Awards
The Hadrian Awards celebrate and promote the best architecture and design throughout the built environment in the North East and Cumbria. Architecture and design play a key part in the creation of a high quality environment and through this, economic regeneration and the improvement of quality of life for everyone in the region.
Since its inception in 1989, it has grown to become the leading award scheme of its kind in the region. Beginning with an emphasis on new architecture, it has grown to recognise work across the full range of architecture, urban and landscape design and building conservation. This includes complete new buildings, conversions, conservation, remodelling or extensions, place making, street, landscape and urban design.
The awards are run biennially by a partnership of North of England Civic Trust, the Royal Institute of British Architects and Northern Architecture.
Award-winning schemes have ranged from major public projects for education or sport, to sensitive rural interventions and exemplary schemes for regeneration of historic areas and buildings; the 2007 award-winning schemes ranged from £120,000 to £24m, from ‘The Struggle’ in Ambleside to a campus in Darlington.Entry conditions encourage all sizes of practice (and therefore project) to participate, including smaller ones for whom the cost of entry means they are are normally absent from national and commercial awards. Hence, the Hadrian Awards represents the most comprehensive demonstration of what the region is capable. A look at www.hadrianawards.com will give an indication of the diversity of projects involved.
Details of the 2009 awards can be found here, and information on the Hadrian Awards 2011 will follow later this year.
