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Philip Webb Award Winner

Philip Webb Award Winner

University of Portsmouth student Niall Bird has scooped the prestigious Philip Webb Award, for the second year in a row, for his “sensitive, thoughtful plans” to transform Bursledon Brickworks near Southampton into an education centre. Last year he won the same award for his scheme to revitalise Portsmouth’s Hilsea Lido.

“Winning this award for a second time is absolutely fantastic. The competition is unique as it allows entrants to showcase their work directly to specialists within the field of architectural conservation and re-use. This is incredibly useful in order to gauge how well your ideas would be potentially received within the profession.

“I don’t believe in focusing on a historic building as an object, where restoration takes a leading role. History is a chronological development of human narrative and constantly changing activities and so buildings should respond to this, adapting where necessary rather than being preserved as museum artefacts.

“I attempted to merge the building’s past and immediate future through new, sensitive additions that link the building to a relevant use in the present.”

The Philip Webb Award encourages new design in the context of historic buildings and to develop an appreciation of buildings through understanding the architectural and historical values of old buildings and the purpose, philosophy and techniques of conservation.


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