The URBANISM AWARDS 2015 THE URBANISM AWARDS CEREMONY 14 NOVEMBER 2014 GRAND CONNAUGHT ROOMS LONDON CEREMONY SPONSORED BY CREST NICHOLSON PLC
LEARNING FROM EUROPE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 13 NOVEMBER 2014 BDP LONDON AARHUS ROTTERDAM TURIN
LEARNING FROM EUROPE THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2014 BDP, 16 BREWHOUSE YARD, LONDON EC1V 4LJ The evening before The Awards Ceremony you are invited to attend Learning from Europe, an International Seminar with the finalists of The European City of the Year Award: Aarhus, Rotterdam and Turin. Come along to learn how... Aarhus is building on its position as Denmark s second city through ambitious and innovative sustainable urban growth, creating new communities and a regenerated waterfront linked by a new tramway system. Aarhus Rotterdam is seeking to maintain its position as Europe s leading port whilst diversifying its economy by co-delivering both large-scale transformational change of former port areas alongside small scale community-led projects. Turin continues its journey from a dirty industrial city to a modern, attractive destination that is home to a growing number of knowledge-based businesses, with major interventions to reclaim public spaces from cars and reuse of former industrial sites. 18.00 Registration and Refreshments 18.20 Welcome Andrew Tindsley Chair, Landscape Architecture and Chair of BDP.Khandekar, BDP Rotterdam Introduction Steven Bee AoU Chair, The Academy of Urbanism 18.30 LEARNING FROM EUROPE Presentations by the finalists for The European City of the Year Award 2015 AARHUS ROTTERDAM TURIN 19.45 Discussion and Debate 20.15 Reception Turin Turin 21.00 Close
THE AWARDS CEREMONY FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2014 THE GRAND CONNAUGHT ROOMS, LONDON WC2B 5DA 12.00 Reception 13.00 THE FINALISTS WELCOME Hosted by Ian McMillan, Academy Poet-in-Residence and John Thompson AoU, Honorary President, The Academy of Urbanism 13.30 Lunch - three-course meal 15.00 Guest Speaker: Paul Finch OBE 15.15 THE AWARDS CEREMONY Steven Bee AoU, Chairman, The Academy of Urbanism THE GREAT PLACE THE GREAT STREET THE GREAT NEIGHBOURHOOD THE GREAT TOWN THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE YEAR 16.00 Networking and cash bar 17.00 Carriages Malmö Finalist of the 2014 European City of the Year Award Guest Speaker: Paul Finch OBE Paul Finch is Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival and Editorial Director of the Architectural Review and Architects Journal, with over 40 years experience as a journalist. He is Deputy Chair of the Design Council, and former CABE Chairman and Commissioner. He chaired Cabe s London Olympics design review panel from 2006 to 2012. In 2002 he was awarded an OBE for services to architecture. Ian McMillan AoU Poet-in-Residence, Presenter of BBC3 s The Verb Consider this: it almost became a bus station. This focal point of a vibrant dancing nation Academy Sponsors: Aardman Animations Alan Baxter Associates Barratt London Barton Willmore Bristol City Council Crest Nicholson plc Grosvenor Muir Group The Osborne Group Turley Winckworth Sherwood Academy Supporters: BDP Design Council Cabe First Great Western Gillespies Jas Atwal Associates John Thompson & Partners Kevin Murray Associates Lathams Paul Davis + Partners Prentis & Co Space Syntax URBED
THE FINALISTS THE ACADEMY OF URBANISM THE URBANISM AWARDS 2015 The URBANISM AWARDS 2015 THE EUROPEAN CITY OF THE YEAR Aarhus Denmark Rotterdam Netherlands Turin Italy THE GREAT TOWN Aberystwyth Wales Beverley England Bury England THE GREAT NEIGHBOURHOOD Broughty Ferry Dundee Devonport Plymouth Holbeck Urban Village Leeds THE GREAT STREET Bridge Street / North Street Taunton High Street Berkhamsted Elwick Road Ashford THE GREAT PLACE Bishops Square London Christmas Steps Arts Quarter Bristol St Pancras Station London Image credits:
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