Date:
29th September 2011Contact:
Malcolm HankeyOrganisation:
Civic Trust Awards
The Civic Trust Awards National Panel has welcomed three new members to the group. Keith Williams, Bridget Sawyers and Wayne Head join the Panel for our 2012 Application Round.
Keith is design director and founder of London based Keith Williams Architects, a multi-award winning architectural design practice with a fast growing international reputation for the creation of dramatic, innovative sustainable architecture. Founded in 2001, the firm has received 25 major design awards and was twice winner of the prestigious BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award in 2006 & 2008.
The firm works internationally across a broad range of sectors for public and private clients and is a leading specialist designer of museum, gallery, library, civic and performing arts buildings. Keith Williams Architectsʼ broader portfolio includes commercial development, residential projects, high rise towers, one off high end houses, and urban design and masterplanning studies.
The firm employs a multi-national multi-lingual staff based in the firmʼs central London studio. Williamsʼ major projects include Athlone Civic Centre, Co. Westmeath 2001-2004, the new 7,235 sqm, 780 seat Wexford Opera House 2005 - 2008, and Clones Library & County HQ, Co. Monaghan 2004-2008 all in Ireland. Elsewhere, inter alia, the firmʼs award winning Unicorn Theatre, London was completed 2005, The Long House, London in 2006, whilst at design stage the firm is working on the new Art Gallery in Athlone, Ireland. The firmʼs Marlowe Theatre complex in Canterbury, and district Museum in Chichester, UK are both under construction and will complete in 2011. The firmʼs first high rise tower in London is a design stage.
Keith Williams is a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and sits on the National Design Review panel at Design Council CABE. He has judged numerous major award schemes, lectured widely on architecture and his firmʼs work and has recently been made Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture at Zhengzhou University, China.
Keith Williams Architects has been successful in numerous national and international architectural competitions, and its work has been published worldwide. “Keith Williams : Architecture of the Specific”, the first major monograph on the firmʼs work was published by Images Publishing of Melbourne Australia as part of their Master Architects Series in December 2009.
Bridget is a qualified architect and urban designer. She is currently CEO of the Architecture Centre Network. Until recently she ran her own cultural regeneration consultancy for 9 years, including two years as part-time Co-Director of Art, Art on Greenwich Peninsula delivering a programme of art in the public realm on behalf of a consortium comprising the Homes and Communities Agency, the two developers; Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Limited and Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd; Arts Council England and Greenwich Council. Bridget was employed by Arts Council England to co-ordinate the research and initial delivery of Turning Point, the Arts Council of England’s 10-year strategy for the contemporary visual arts.
She has provided expertise on cultural regeneration to: Homes and Communities Agency; several local authorities; Arts Council England; SEEDA; Big Architecture team at SMC Alsop; and been Secretariat to the London Development Agency’s International Design Committee. She has provided consultancy advice to the Architecture Foundation, The Building Exploratory and other architecture centres. She was an advisor to Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance Panel, involved in the appointment of Panel members and advising on the pilot programme. Bridget was previously Head of Regions at CABE and prior to that as Senior Architect at Arts Council England assessing and monitoring the quality of design and involvement of artists for lottery funded arts capital projects. Bridget spent nearly 10 years as an architect at BDP working on a range of transport, heritage and arts buildings.
She is a member of the SE Design Review Panel and Wakefield City Panel, and several architecture advisory groups. She was a specialist external assessor for arts buildings for Arts Council England and Scottish Arts Council. She has lectured and spoken at numerous events and conferences, written and contributed to a range of publications nationally and internationally.
Wayne has 15 years’ experience working on a series of projects, including healthcare, further education, universities and schools. He is currently BDP’s Project Director working on the master plan for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust Foundation.
This year Wayne led a BDP team based in Delhi to success an international competition for the design of a new campus for the Indian Institutes of Technology in the foothills of the Himalayas. A new higher education campus in the forested hills of Kamand is one of the latest of a new generation of Indian Institute’s of Technology being promoted by the government of India. The purpose of the new Institute is to research innovative, environmentally sensitive products and processes for the development of the Himalayan region.
His portfolio of schools includes an exemplar design for the DfES Building Schools for the Future initiative. He developed proposals for a zero carbon emissions primary school and youth centre, as part of officially designated Greenspace at Crouch Hill Community Park, for the London Borough of Islington. As director, Wayne led the ‘Transform Schools’ design team to success in BSF Islington reinventing eight major secondary schools in the Borough, including Civic Trust Commended Highbury Grove School and the Elizabeth Garret Anderson School for Girls, to be opened in 2012 by Michelle Obama.
He also leads the design team for City College Norwich, an innovative design which seeks to showcase the twelve vocational schools within the College, including Creative Arts theatre (completing 2012), Hotel and Catering, Hair, Beauty and Leisure Industries, aiming for targeted BREAAM excellent, zero carbon campus. He is a member of the RIBA Forum organising the appointment of UK wide Client Design Advisors and several RIBA groups including the RIBA awards short listing panel.
He is a Design Council CABE Enabler assessing education and healthcare projects. He is visiting critic at Westminster University Studio 7 and is a Stephen Lawrence Trust Mentor. Wayne is an honourable trustee of the ‘Learning from Jawali’ village school project northern India. Finally, this year he is self publishing an unusual reference book titled ‘The Dictionary of Detail’.
Wayne joins the National Panel as our first Corporate Member Representative.
