As part of the My Home Energy Planner project we're working with the National Energy Foundation, an independent charity. To ensure we make the tool as useful as possible - helping people to better understand their energy use and the improvements they can make to their homes - we're conducting a survey to find out if you've previously assessed your home energy usage and what information you need when considering potential improvements.
We recently won this award for our work on a masterplan in Trent Basin in Nottingham.
The National Urban Design Awards were established in 2007 by UDG founder member and fellow John Billingham with the objective of giving more recognition to urban design work, particularly at project stage. The UDG runs an annual awards cycle which includes practice, public sector, student and book awards.
You can see a short video on the project below:
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Planning Submitted
After further community design sessions in January and February 2015, we submitted the planning application for Toxteth Food Central at the end of February.
In March 2015 we held a briefing workshop with representatives of the user groups who rent and use the existing building. The workshop aimed to explore and test ideas for the building - what spaces it might contain, who might visit and how the centre might be usedin the future, as well as how it should feel as a place.
URBED has once again been nominated for the annual Urban Design Group award for our work on the masterplan for Trent Basin in Nottingham. The winner is decided by a democratic vote, and so we would like to invite you to vote for us by following this link. Thank you!
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LGBT Centre Heritage Walking Tour
Emily was interested to learn about the existing building and carried out some research about the history of the existing LGBT Centre, using the resources at Archives+. She presented this history as a walking tour as part of the first annual LGBT History Festival in Manchester on February 14th 2015.
Along with our partners, Carbon Co-op, the National Energy Foundation and Open Energy Monitor, we were finalists in this year's Geovation - an annual challenge run by Ordnance Survey and Land Registry. This year, the challenge was 'how can we enable people in Britain to live in better places?'
URBED associate and Mancunian, Anwar Akhtar is a regular visitor to Pakistan as part of his work on the Samosa. On one of his visits he was taken to a performance of Dara by the Ajoka Theatre Company in Lahore.
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"We were born in the 80s": A History of the Joyce Layland LGBT Centre
Thursday 22nd January, 2015
Emily Crompton will lead a walking trail mapping the political, economic and social background of how Manchester built Europe’s first Gay Centre.
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