City of Winchester Trust Design Awards

The City of Winchester Trust Design Award Scheme has been established since 1984 on a bi-annual basis to recognise quality in the design of buildings and landscape within the City of Winchester. It covers new buildings (of any size) rehabilitation and restoration, landscape and planting, shop fronts, signs and environmental improvement schemes.

Design Awards 2010

The City of Winchester Trust is inviting applications from architects, landscape architects, designers or building owners for its 11th Design Awards.

Design Awards 2004

The 2004 judging panel gave Awards to West Downs Centre, Osborne School, and Winchester College Music School. Commendations were made to Loch Fyne Restaurant, Wessex Court, St Bede C. of E. Primary School and Shechem House.

Design Awards 2007

The City of Winchester Trust, celebrating 50 years since its foundation in 1957, made four Design Awards in 2007. At a well attended ceremony on Tuesday 30th October at Lanterns Children's Centre, George Ferguson, Past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who had chaired a judging panel of Trust members, presented certificates and plaques to the teams behind
(click on the thumbnails next to each winner to view a larger image):

• New houses at 55-61 Dean Lane
  Client:University of Winchester
  Architect / Developer: Regeneration Partnership
  Contractor:Landseer Estates Ltd
  
  
• John Stripe Theatre, Sparkford Road
  
  Architect:Design Engine Architects
  Contractor:Bluestone plc
  
  
• The new Lanterns Children’s Centre, Bereweeke Road
  Client:Hampshire County Council, Children’s Services Department
  Architect:Hampshire County Council Architects
  Contractor:Carillion Regional Building
  
  
• Restoration of The Pagoda House, St James’ Lane
  Client:Mr and Mrs Gatenby
  Architect:Michael Carden
  Contractor:Stuart Moore, Whittington and Moore
  
  

In addition the following were Commended:

• Adaptation and extension of St John The Baptist Church, St John’s Street
  Client:St John’s Parochial Church Council
  Architect:Daniel Forshaw Design and Conservation Architects
  Contractor:R Wilson and Company
  
  
• The new Vertical Garden Houses, North Walls
  Architect:David Gregory Architects
  Developer/Contractor:Barry Stevens Developments
  
  
• Landscape, layout and ancillary buildings of St Catherine’s Park and Ride car park
  Client:Hampshire County Council
  Landscape Architect:Winchester City Council
  Contractor:Tilhill Forestry Ltd
  
  

As well as the judging panel's Awards and Commendations, members of the Trust at their Annual General Meeting in September were invited to choose their three favourites.

These Members' Choices were Lanterns Children's Centre, The Pagoda House (both as above), and Wykeham Terrace, Bar End Road, designed and developed by Abbotswood Properties.

Describing these winners George Ferguson also mentioned other entries which had been of particular interest to the judges, including:

• New flats squeezed into a tight site at 9b Parchment Street;
• New flats at Cathedral View and Chilcomb Place, both on Highcliffe Road, which tackled difficult changes of level;
• Tight but neighbourly group of new houses at Hazel Court, Hillside Close;
• Transformation of an old cinema/bingo hall into the Middle Brook Centre/Family Church;
• New houses for key workers at St Luke's Court, Stanmore, replacing a redundant garage court;
• Wykeham Terrace (as above) which reinforced the traditional character of Bar End Road.