Pudding Mill Lane pumping station wins NLA award

John Lyall Architects have won a prestigious New London Architecture award for our Pudding Mill Lane pumping station for the Olympics!

 

Neil Young and John Lyall accepted the NLA award earlier this week, at the impressive Guild Hall in The City of London. This award adds to Pudding Mill Lane’s CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence in sustainability.

In his opening remarks, NLA Chairman Peter Murray said:

‘As the awards jury we have sought to reward not only excellence in design but also to recognise architecture that complements the surrounding city. The New London Awards are about buildings that sit comfortably with their neighbours and adjacent spaces and the strength of the winners is remarkable. It goes to show that London is attracting the very best in the world in terms of design and built form despite the economic downturn, and is a positive sign of what is to come.’  

 

An exhibition of the entries highlighting all of the finalists will open in the NLA galleries in September and run for 12 months.

Pudding Mill is just one of a number of award winning Infrastructure projects designed by John Lyall Architects – click here to find out more!

Image copyright: top: ODA; left and right: Agnese Sanvito. Click image to open the image in its original location.

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Mapped! Our Pumping Stations seen from the air.

Google has updated its aerial imagery of the Olympic Park – so you can now see our pumping stations under construction on and around the Olympic Park! Use the plus and minus buttons to zoom in and take a closer look!

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The whole park is a hive of activity, and even though it is a dusty, cluttered construction site in these images, the park is clearly taking shape – and the public spaces and bridges are beginning to look really exciting! Roll on 2012!

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Raising the bar to deliver sustainable civil engineering

 

John Lyall will be speaking at this Thursdays CIRIA seminar in London entitled  ’Raising the bar to deliver sustainable civil engineering’.

The event will discuss the future of sustainability in the infrastructure sector,  looking in depth at a number of best practice projects – including JLAs Pudding Mill Lane Pumping station, which recently won a CEEQUAL Outstanding Achievement Award for excellence in sustainability.

For more information and to register to attend click here 

 

Pudding Mill is just one of our award winning Infrastructure projects - Click here to read more!

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Pudding Mill Lane pumping station up for an NLA award

Our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station – connecting the new Olympic sewer with London’s  existing infrastructure – has been shortlisted for this years New London Architecture Awards!

Click here to read the full shortlist.

Pudding Mill is just one of our award winning Infrastructure projects - Click here to read more.

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CHATHAM WATERFRONT Development receives planning permission!

“Chatham is on the way back up!”

John Lyall Architects ‘ regeneration scheme for Chatham’s waterfront has been awarded Planning Permission this week at public committee.

The mixed-use scheme on land owned by Medway Council and A2Dominion comprises a series of buildings in a pedestrianised landscape for commercial uses, an 80-bed hotel and 111 apartments with both river and town views. The development will re-define the sky-line of Chatham when seen across the river Medway from Rochester, integrate the public waterfront with the town centre and kick start the regeneration of the wider area.

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The project was passed unanimously, having received widespread approval from the planning committee.  Councillors remarked that the scheme  was “fresh and forward looking” and  ”vibrant”, and that it “will assist considerably in the regeneration” of the town - “Chatham is on the way back up!”

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Pudding Mill Lane shortlisted in RIBA 2011 London Awards!

Pudding Mill Lane, copyright ODA 2010

Our Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station – connecting the new Olympic sewer with London’s  existing infrastructure – has been shortlisted for a prestigious RIBA regional award. We’re really pleased to be recognised alongside some incredible architecture – such as the Olympic Velodrome!

Click here to read the full shortlist.

 

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In the Pink! Pudding Mill Lane in latest RIBA Journal

Our Pudding Mill Lane pumping station features in this months RIBA Journal – in an issue entitled: Power and Production – Architects and Infrastructure.

Quotes from In the Pink article by Eleanor Young:

“The form has great simplicity and a hunkered down sense of power.”

“Lyalls design has most in common with Rogers’ (LDDC pumping station): the circular plan and intense colour. But Pudding Mill Pumping Station is a much more polite and even refined building with its cloak of concrete.”

Click here to open the article as a pdf.

The March issue of RIBA Journal can be viewed online here.

Pudding Mill lane also featured in a 6 page article in the Architects Journal click here to open. It will also appear in the Autumn edition of Concrete Quarterly.

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Olympian Effort Flows through – Water and Wastewater Treatment article

JLAs Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station for the Olympics has been published in the latest Water and Wastewater Treatment magazine - the leading water industry publication.

In the article Claire Smith talks to various people about how the pumping station is designed very much with ‘legacy’ in mind: it will operate at high capacity during the games, but then switch to a more economical mode in the years afterwards, gradually increasing capacity again as a new community is built around it. As Ron Smith of Thames Water says in the article,  ”The Victorians did build fantastic sewers and many great buildings. This is a modern version of that. There is no reason why this pumping station shouldn’t be working in 150 years’ time. These things have been built with history in mind – where the site is coming from and where it is going to.”

The thought that this building had to last for many decades was part of our design process – durability of the building was key, but we wanted it to also enhance its surroundings, and ‘give something back’ to the public realm.

Pudding Mill Lane, copyright ODA 2010

Click here to read the WWT article as a PDF or Click here to read the full December issue of Water and Wastewater Treatment magazine

To see the JLA infrastructure brochure head to: http://tinyurl.com/JLA-infrastructure

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Masterplanning – Harlow Renaissance

Harlow Renaissance

Feasibility studies and planning applications for 4 distinct neighbourhood centres in Harlow, all involving new housing, retail facilities and health centres.

 

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JLA at the RICS Finals awards ceremony

Having won Project of the Year and Best Regeneration Project in the East of England RICS awards back in May, we were entered into the RICS National Finals, which took place at lunch today in the splendid setting of Londons Guild Hall:

We didn’t win one of the coveted national awards, but it was great to be there, and to have The Mill recognised as one of the best examples of urban regeneration in the UK!

The Mill comprises a family of buildings centred on a courtyard and includes a 23 storey tower (the tallest building in East Anglia.) The scheme is a mixture of 327 residential apartments, a major dance house and theatre, bars, restaurants and shops.

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