Industry News
RIBA names
designers of
2019 summer
installation
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
has today revealed that architectural design
studio You+Pea have been selected to create an
installation at the RIBA’s landmark HQ building
in central London. Their proposal was selected
from 75 submissions to an open call on the
theme of ‘Boundaries’. You+Pea’s installation
– a series of virtual and built follies - will be
on show at the Architecture Gallery, RIBA, 66
Portland Place, London from 4 June to August
2019.
You+Pea is the architectural design studio of
Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson.
Their work explores the integration of video
game technologies into architectural design.
Their installation ‘Playing the Picturesque’
will explore the movement between physical
and virtual realms and asks whether such
boundaries are now so fluid that we can
consider virtual worlds as sites for realising
architecture in their own right. The installation
will take the form of a series of scaled folly
structures extracted from real picturesque
landscapes, extended into interactive virtual
game environments through digital projections.
Twisting their traditional role as markers in the
landscape, the follies become junctions between
virtual and physical growing and changing in
response to the movement of visitors through
the gallery.
The selected project was chosen by the
following panel: Marie Bak Mortensen, Head
of Exhibitions, RIBA; Max Dewdney, Architect,
Principal at Max Dewdney Architects and
selected practice of the 2017 Open Call; Chris
Turner, Keeper of Design, Architecture and
Digital, V&A; Tom Ravenscroft, Deputy Editor,
Dezeen and Shumi Bose, Curator Exhibitions ,
RIBA.
Residents to meet for major
consultation on landlord-
tenant relationship
Housing association residents from
across the West Midlands will meet
in Birmingham on 1 May for a
major national consultation on the
relationship between tenants and
social landlords in England.
This consultation will make a vital
contribution to Together with
Tenants, an ambitious project
launched in February by the
National Housing Federation.
It seeks to build relationships
between tenants and housing
associations, as well as giving
residents a strong role in
scrutinising their landlord.
Now, Matrix Housing Partnership
– a group of seven Midlands-based
housing associations – is working
with the Federation to bring
together dozens of residents to help
shape Together with Tenants.
Attendees will give their views on
key parts of the draft proposals,
including a new charter setting out
what residents can expect from their
landlord.
The Centre for Public Scrutiny will
also run a series of ‘World Café’
workshops and Kate Henderson,
the Chief Executive of the National
Housing Federation, will give a
speech.
This event is part of the wider
consultation on the draft proposals,
supported by the Centre for Public
Scrutiny. Residents across the
country are able to give their views
through an online questionnaire, as
well as webinars and other regional
events.
Boris Worrall, chair of the
Federation’s West Midlands regional
committee and Group Chief
Executive of Rooftop, said:
“As a region we’ve wanted to bring
tenants from across the Midlands
together to have an open, honest
and practical discussion about what
really matters to them and how
landlords could respond. This gives
us the perfect opportunity for really
meaningful engagement at scale.”
Chris Handy, Chief Executive
at Accord Housing Association,
which leads the Matrix Housing
Partnership, said:
“Collectively, Matrix manages
over 65,000 homes. We have an
excellent track record of involving
and empowering our customers,
and it is vital, more now than ever
before, that we continue to build
and improve on this. It is only by
listening to what our customers
have to say, and working with and
alongside them, that we are able to
support and empower them to shape
their homes and their communities.
Having the opportunity to do this on
such a large scale will offer valuable
benefits to us all, as individual
housing associations and in our joint
partnerships.”
plus the Innovation in Personal Finance and Personal Finance
Provider of the Year categories In total the sector appears 71
times in the list of finalists. The winners of the awards will be
announced on 11 June 2019.
24 building societies reach finals
of Moneyfacts 2019 awards
Lee Tillcock, Editor of Moneyfacts, said: “All the finalists at this
year’s Moneyfacts Awards should be proud of their achievements,
with building societies once again displaying a strong showing.
Following a positive year for the building society sector in both
lending and savings markets, providers have filled many of the
finalist positions.
More than half of the UK’s 43 building societies are finalists in
this year’s Moneyfacts awards.
In total 24 building societies have reached the finals across nine
mortgage categories; five savings and current account categories;
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