Cambridge Projects in the News

Two very different RHP projects on one page in today's Cambridge Crier!...a highly serviced fitout at the Cavendish Laboratory on the Universities West Cambridge site to aid LED research and the refurbishment of the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, recently shortlisted for the prestigious Art Fund sponsored 'Museum of the Year' award.

Cambridge Crier 4 April 2013

MAA Shortlisted for Art Fund "Museum of the Year" Award

Ten museums and galleries have been chosen to compete for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year and the £10,000 Clore Award for Learning.  You may have heard on Radio 4’s Front Row programme last night RHP’s Museum of Arch and Anth is one of them.
 

Photograph : University of Cambridge

Our competitors include the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Horniman Museum and Art Gallery, both in London, and the Hepworth Museum, Wakefield.

Celebrating the very best UK museums and galleries, the Prize highlights the innovative and creative ways that museums bring objects and collections to life, looking specifically at activity undertaken in 2012.  As well as the £100,000 prize for Museum of the Year, one of the ten finalist museums will receive £10,000 for the Clore Award for Learning, which recognises achievements in learning programmes for children and young people.  From now until the end of May judges will travel the UK to see the ten museums, revealing the winners on the 4 June.

For more information go to:

http://www.artfund.org/news/2013/04/02/museum-of-the-year-2013-finalists-announced

 

RHP at AUDE 2013

An interesting but exhausting couple of days at this years AUDE conference in Warwick, an opportunity to showcase the wide range of new build and refurbishment work we carry out in the higher education sector for a number of Universities and Colleges.

BREEAM Outstanding

A new visitor centre in Cambridge for the National Institute for Agricultural Botany has received a BREEAM score of 89.38% at the design stage.  

NIAB Nearing Completion

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Best New Building in Cambridge?

The Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology has been shortlisted for the 'Peoples Award' in this years 'Cambridge Design & Construction Awards'.

Photograph : Click Netherfield

You can view all of the entries on the Cambridge Evening News Website, follow the link below and register your vote.

Cambridge Evening News

Christmas Greetings from RHP

Schools Update

Work on our three Cambridgeshire BSF schools projects is progressing well with many of the early phases now completed and in use.  All three projects feature a mix of light-touch refurbishment, major reorganisation and extension.

Neale Wade Community College

Photographer :  Chris Chudleigh
More photos after the break.

RHP BIM Update

Over recent years our studios have undertaken a gradual introduction and training programme to develop our BIM (based on AutoDesk Revit 3D parametric modelling) strategy within the practice.
This reflects our general commitment to the continual improvement of our systems and service, and recognises current best practice and future trends.

Office Development, Phase 1 Completed Nov 2012

 More after the break.

BREEAM Outstanding Visitor Centre

CLT frame being erected

The new visitors centre for NIAB is currently under construction, the building is due for completion in Feb 2013, and is on target for BREEAM Outstanding.

The building will be low carbon in construction and has been designed to be zero carbon in use. 

Museum Opens its New Doors

We're very excited to announce the re-opening of the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (MAA) at the University of Cambridge following an extensive refurbishment and re-modelling programme. The museum houses one of the most significant anthropological collections in the UK, in addition to significant local and national archaeological material.

In the video below curator Mark Elliot introduces the new facilitiesand the collection.

For opening times and more details of the interesting collections, click on the link below...
http://maa.cam.ac.uk/home/index.php?a=31&b=visitor%20information&c=3

NW Cambridge Appointment

RHP are very pleased to anounce that we have been selected to be part of the team delivering the NorthWest Cambridge urban extension for the University of Cambridge.

Aecom masterplan highlighting RHP site

RHP have been selected to design 300 post-graduates rooms at the heart of the development, we're delighted to be part of the team and excited to be working with the client and masterplanning team (Aecom) and Wilkinson Eyre with Mole Architects; Mecanoo; David Chipperfield Architects; Cottrell Vermeulen Architecture with AOC and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects; MUMA and landscape architects from Aecom and Townshends.

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Better than the Best Ever?

The Thomas Paine Study Centre (TPSC) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) designed by RHP has been described as possibly one of the best buildings ever following a Building Use Study (BUS) carried out by the Useable Buildings Trust/Bill Bordass as part of an ongoing review process by UEA with the benefit of a Technology Strategy Board grant.

The Elizabeth Fry Building at UEA has been described by Building Magazine as one of 'the best buildings ever' and had previously ranked top in BUS studies, but in conclusion the BUS study of TPSC concluded...

"TPSC now scores even more highly than the Elizabeth Fry Building, which was, when originally surveyed, one of the most well-liked buildings by its occupants in the whole database."

Click Here to See How Its Works

Thomas Paine Study Centre, University of East Anglia

Impington Lane Housing Phase 1

The first phase of our Impington Lane housing development on the former Unwins seed factory completed earlier this year, the first phase includes a range of 3 & 4 bedroom houses and 1&2 bedroom apartments.

Photographer :  Chris Chudleigh
 More photos after the break.

Lowering Carbon in Business

"Will Hastings & St Leonards become a model for combining the mitigation of climate change with encouraging economic growth and development? A significant challenge being faced head on by a new international partnership called Answers to the Carbon Economy (ACE). This collaborative research and development project held its launch conference in St Leonards on Thursday 31 May..."

RHP were very pleased to be asked to talk at the inaugural conference of ACE, a new International Partnership promoting the reduction of carbon in business practice in cost effective and practical ways.  Phil Naylor & Nic Hoar presented details of RHP's involvement in the design of the Sussex Exchange Innovation Centre & the Enviro21 business park.

Hastings Online Article, Click to Read More... 

Queensway Innovation & Business Park by RHP

Shortlisted : North West Cambridge Development

RHP have been shortlisted in the competition to design student accommodation for the North West Cambridge development.  The competition has been led by Colander on behalf of the University of Cambridge.  RHP were selected from 48 submissions to join the six strong shortlist.

Colander the competition organisers said... "The breadth and depth of the submissions received was extraordinarily high and the Appointments Panel was faced with a cornucopia of talent, different approaches, ideas and collaborations to discuss. The final selection was difficult to make, as so many excellent submissions had to fall by the wayside but the resulting shortlist is a testament to the talent and expertise that is available across the architectural profession in the UK and Europe."

Extract from Masterplan

For more details of this exciting new Cambridge district follow the link below:
North West Cambridge Development

Measuring Sustainability: Comparing ‘Passivhaus’ and ‘BREEAM’

Sustainability can be a nebulous concept in the first place; so how do you go about measuring it?  Two well known metrics - Passivhaus and BREEAM - offer widely differing approaches.

R H Partnership have just completed a design proposal for an Enterprise Centre that is intended to achieve both the Passivhaus standard and the highest possible BREEAM ’Outstanding’ rating.

For more details follow the link below...

Latest Sustainability Brochure Launched

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ACCA, University of Sussex

The Gardner Arts Centre was designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1969. The building, with its distinctive plan of radiating concentric circles, sits at the south east corner of the University of Sussex campus. 

The existing facilities closed in 2007. RHP have been working closely with the University and Ann Minors Performance Consultants (AMPC), together with Northcroft, Gardiner & Theobold, Sound Space Design, Hoare Lea, ZBP and Arup to develop a strategy for a 21st Century arts space within the existing Grade II* listed building shell. The building will include a series of multi-purpose studio spaces, gallery, flexible auditorium space for up to 350 people, café bar and associates storage and backstage areas.

Reinventing the Auditorium

The proposed £7.2m refurbishment and remodelling scheme will create the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts - a new building for a new age.

For more images follow the link below...

“Innovative use of curves and colour set this design apart”

St Barnabas Hospice has been Highly Commended in Building Better Healthcare Awards 2011 for Best Interior Design.  The BBH Awards aim to recognize and reward excellence in the healthcare built environment.

For more images and Judges comments follow the link below...

Wrest Park : Highly Commended

The new visitor facilities at Wrest Park for English Heritage were Highly Commended in the 'Community & Education' category of the 2011 Bedfordshire Association of Architects Design & Craftsmanship Awards. 

Congratulations to all those involved.

Client : English Heritage
Quantity Surveyor : Press & Starkey
Structural Engineer : Scott White Hookins
Services Consultant : Bailey Gomm Ltd
Landscape Architects : The Landscape Agency
Interpretation Design Consultant : Cultural Innovations
CDM Coordinator : Scott White Hookins
Contractor : Coulson Building Group