Solent Design Awards choose best for community

A Solent Centre for Architecture + Design (SCA+D) product story

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Jun 30, 2010

The judges for the Solent Design Awards are set to be Design Dragons as select the best buildings or spaces in the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH) area.

The winners will only be places or spaces which enrich their communities and already it's attracting plenty of entries.

The Awards will reward buildings or public spaces where design has created something outstanding, lifting the quality of the community in which it sits.

Paul Grover, chief executive of the Solent Centre for Architecture and Design (SCA+D), the competition organisers, said: "We live among some beautiful buildings and public spaces but sadly among some hideous ones too".

"We want more beauty here and by recognising design which is visionary but practical, imaginative and uplifting, contributing to the wider community rather than being just a building".

"The Solent Design Awards will show how great design solutions can contribute real social and economic value".

Top built environment professionals have joined the judging panel and include: Sarah Gaventa, director of Public Space at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; Lorraine Farrelly, deputy head of the School of Architecture at the University of Portsmouth; Roger Zogolovitch, chairman of Lake Estates; Lisa Jackson, a town planner and urban designer as well as a sustainability specialist and master planner.