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Nottingham Creative Village Competition: NCV

UK Architectural Competition News: Arts Project Architecture Contest in central England

15 Feb 2010

Nottingham Creative Village – Dance4

Location: central England, UK

International Architect Selection for Nottingham’s new creative village

Dance4, the East Midland’s flagship dance organisation has embarked on the initial development stage of a new capital project, working title ‘Nottingham Creative Village’ (NCV). The vision for NCV is to create a centre of local, regional, national and international significance that provides world class facilities for Dance4 and the creative industries. A 21st Century workspace that will enable Nottingham to celebrate its creative heart on the international stage.

Working with Rotherham based capital development managers, Eye, Dance4 issued a public notice in October last year calling for architects to submit expressions of interest in designing the new space.

After being inundated with submissions, Dance4 have now selected five architects to present outline statements and designs for the project by 19 February. Whilst the selected architects are varied in practice size and backgrounds they each have inspiring ideas on the development of creative sector workspace.

Nottingham Creative Village – Selected Architects

Ash Sakula Architects
District 6
Group A
Ian Ritchie Architects
Malcolm Fraser Architects

Ash Sakula Architects, London. Previous projects include LCB Depot, Leicester and the award-winning Hothouse art centre in Hackney.

Internationally based District 6, a collaboration between architect Timothy Evans of Sheppard Robson architects London, film-maker Monty Whitebloom of bigtv. and choreographer Dr Lea Anderson MBE, Artistic Director of the Chromondelays and The Featherstonehaughs.

Group A, Rotterdam. Projects include the National Museum, Oslo and the award-winning Caballero Fabriek, Den Hagg.

Ian Ritchie Architects, London. Previous projects include the RSC Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre TR2.

Malcolm Fraser Architects, Edinburgh. Previous projects include the award-winning Dance Base, Edinburgh, Dance City in Newcastle and the new Scottish Ballet facilities at The Tramway in Glasgow.

Paul Russ, Chief Executive / Artistic Director of Dance4 says: “We are very excited and inspired by each of the five selected architects, whose previous work has led to the development of inspiring buildings. We are looking forward to receiving the submissions and selecting an architect to design this pivotal development at the heart of the regeneration of the East side of Nottingham.”

The chosen architect will be announced early in March 2010. The NCV project is supported by Nottingham City Council. Funding for this phase of development has been awarded by Greater Nottingham Partnership and Arts Council England.

Nottingham Creative Village information from Dance4

Location: Nottingham, central England, UK

Architecture in Nottingham

Contemporary Architecture in Nottingham

Dance4 is an internationally recognised, experimental dance organisation. A unique voice in the UK dance sector, Dance4’s work supports artists and practitioners who are interested in the development of dance within performance and learning environments. For more information visit www.dance4.co.uk.

The five architects have been shortlisted from a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire following an OJEU process launched in October 2009.

Nottingham Arts Building by Caruso St John Architects

image : Hélène Binet