Newsletter | June 2010
Building of the Year Award
Kroon Hall, Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, won the AJ100 (Architect's Journal) Building of the Year Award. This is the fourteenth award that the building has received since it was completed in 2009.
Judge Angela Brady called Kroon Hall “an outstanding design and exemplar for its sustainability credentials.’ She said: ‘The curved timber roof structure in the interior is a delight and the detailing looks impeccable. It is warm and welcoming and full of natural light.”
“Yale’s most sustainable building to date”, as it is described by university president Richard C Levin, was designed to be carbon neutral and is certified LEED™ ‘Platinum’. This is despite the fact that the climate of New Haven, far less clement than that of the UK, means that natural ventilation is only possible in spring and autumn.
Judge Mike Hussey said: “I salute the ambassadorial qualities of Hopkins Architects, who gave the American academic elite a stunning addition to their campus and a lesson in aesthetic brilliance.”
Project team: Hopkins Architects | Centerbrook Architects | Arup | Atelier Ten | Olin Partnership
Awards
Also announced 20th May, Hopkins’ completed project for the Norwich Cathedral Hostry has won an RIBA Award, one of seven buildings singled out for recognition in the East of England.
The Hostry is the second phase of Hopkins’ scheme for this, one of the most historically important Cathedral complexes in Britain. With minimal alterations to the medieval fabric, the practice has created two new structures – the Refectory (2004) and the Hostry (2010) that replicate the location, function and form of their historic partners, enabling a greater understanding of the Cathedral's historical organisation. The Hostry offers a new visitor and education facility, sensitively re-establishing the medieval west entrance to the Cathedral's cloister.
Schools
In the first half of this year, Hopkins Architects have announced new projects at Benenden, South Hampstead High School and Bryanston.
Each has involved working sensitively within the framework of an existing school campus to create contemporary structures. Benenden's is a three storey science building, destined to be BREEAM 'Excellent'; Bryanston’s is a music school, incorporating a 250 seat auditorium; the South Hampstead High School project is the development of a masterplan. In addition, works have started on site at The Henrietta Barnett School involving a sensitive redevelopment of the campus, including refurbishment of the existing Lutyens buildings and creating new buildings that constitute the only new development of significant scale in the heart of the historic Hampstead Garden Suburb since its inception.
Cricket
Hopkins' success at cricket in India shows no signs of slowing down. With 3 major stadia projects underway, Hopkins are building on cricketing expertise developed over a period of more than twenty years starting with the Mound Stand at Lord's.
In Pune, home of the Maharashtra Cricket Association and now the newly formed Pune Sahara Warriors, the first phase of the MCA Pune International Cricket Centre is on site and will seat 42,000 spectators, building up to 56,000 by the time it is complete in time for the next IPL season in early 2011. To the south in Tamil Nadu, Chepauk Stadium the home of the recently crowned IPL champions Chennai Super Kings celebrates their achievement with the completion of the first phase. The stadium will be entirely reconstructed to seat 43,000 spectators by mid-2011. Further south still, watch out for further developments at a superb waterside location for the Kerala Cricket Association in Kochi, also now hosts to a new IPL team.
For further information contact Theresa Simon: theresa@theresasimon.com or
Hannah Heathcote: pr@hopkins.co.uk
