New Building Design Project for National Wildflower Centre
Our latest development project is the design of an innovative,
architecturally striking educational, conference and seed production
complex at the National Wildflower Centre. With funding of £100,000
provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), we launched
a RIBA-run architectural design competition. Visit the RIBA
website for details of the design brief and competition.
This project provides a unique opportunity to create an outstanding
gateway site to the Liverpool City Region and a Science and Maths learning
facility to inspire and encourage people to visit the Centre to learn
about the relationships between nature, mathematics and physics. It
will significantly enhance the visitor experience of the National Wildflower
Centre and provide a centre of excellence, and operational hub for creative
conservation, learning and innovation. A budget of £5m will need
to be raised to deliver the new building.
National Wildflower Centre secures
£200,000 for 'Inspire'
Update: November 2009
The Centre has secured £200,000 of funding from the
Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) towards its plan to build
a new educational, conference and seed production complex. The scheme,
designed by Manchester-based Ian Simpson Architects, faced a public
consultation meeting on 20 November before a planning application
can be submitted.
Richard Tracey, head of environmental quality, NWDA said: "The aspiration
to produce a new educational and visitor facility that will engage
young people in exploring mathematics and science through wildflowers
is an admirable and exciting one which has a potentially strong resonance
with the agency's environmental quality and skills agenda." more
RIBA international open design competition
- update
Working with the National Wildflower Centre, Landlife completed
shortlisting for a RIBA international open design competition for a
new conference and education centre, inspired by natural links to maths
and physics. An incredible 296 registrations and 144 submissions were
made, the second most number of entries for this type of competition
that RIBA has ever received. By invitation, the shortlisted designs
were showcased in Liverpool and London in February and the winning design
announced on March 9th.
Winner of the new build design Riba press release
BBC News item 25th March
Ian Simpson Achitects website
Design competition web site
Presentation by Landlife CEO Grant Luscombe at the National Wildflower
Centre, March 26th 2009.
For more information on our development plans contact
luscombe@landlife.org.uk
Tel 0151 737 1819
