The Planning Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in planning work by local authorities, consultants, developers, lawyers, voluntary and neighbourhood groups and all the other key players in the planning system.
The Early Bird entry deadline is 27th August.
The British Council, through its Connections through Culture programme in India, is offering travel grants for non-national museums to travel to India. The aim of the scheme is to enable UK non-national museums to build and develop institutional links, to share skills and to create joint projects or exhibitions with museums in India. Each grant is sufficient to cover the total cost of a week-long visit to India. The grant scheme is open to all non-national museums in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
For further details and an application form, contact Jane Weeks, Museums & Heritage Adviser, British Council jane.weeks@britishcouncil.org.
The deadline for applications is 18th July 2014 and travel must be undertaken by 28th May 2015.
Architects/designers are invited to take part in the festival submitting panels, video-architecture works, photos, installations and scale models, about the theme ofsustainability. We imagine a future in which sustainable thinking will be the common ground of every cultures’ architecture expressions, and the hybridization of social and cultural realities will represent the new frontier of our lives.
The Awards recognise excellence in design and construction using brick. Each year hundreds of entries are submitted and 17 prestigious trophies and more than 100 certificates are issued to the successful projects. The architect/designer, brick manufacturer and specialist brickwork contractor are all acknowledged on each project.
The AJ Retrofit Awards recognise and celebrate design excellence that prolongs and improves the life of the built environment.
The awards cover twelve categories from civic and community to offices, and cultural buildings to hotels and leisure. This year we have included a new category for international innovation which recognises excellence in retrofits carried out to buildings outside the UK.
The award aims to recognise excellence in the fields of learning, training and professional development and is open to archaeological organisations, individuals, partnerships and collaborative projects throughout the United Kingdom, whether paid or voluntary. This year, ATF will be presenting two Awards, one aimed at organisations and a new Award specifically aimed at individuals. The aim of the Individual Award is to recognise individual archaeologists (whether paid or volunteers) who have made an extraordinary contribution either to their own training and development or through their support for the training of others.
Awarded annually, the Carl V. Anderson Conservation Project Awards recognize ACE members for outstanding projects in conservation engineering.
The Eugene Baker Award is an honor bestowed upon an individual and it is not necessarily presented every year.
The James (Jim) Schalk Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually by ACE to promote the continued study and learning required for the conservation of our natural and renewable resources.
RIBA Competitions are delighted to announce the launch of a new international ideas competition which asks competitors to consider new, aesthetically pleasing designs for the gantry and cantilever structures on the UK rail network which could play a part in the way Britain’s railway implement future electrification schemes.
Through the F. E. Cleary Heritage Fund (commonly known as The Cleary Fund), The Georgian Group gives small grants each year towards the repair and restoration of Georgian buildings and monuments in the United Kingdom. This adds a highly practical and positive dimension to the Group’s conservation work; in many instances, even though the amount of money given is small in absolute terms, the grant makes a major difference to the viability of a restoration scheme. The intention is to pump-prime schemes, prompt other sources to make grants and to fund specific elements in larger schemes.
Around five grants, averaging about £1500 each, are given annually. Grants are usually made towards the conservation of buildings in public ownership or to which there is public access, although they may occasionally be given towards other projects such as the recording of threatened buildings.
The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings runs two training programmes for building conservation professionals; the Lethaby Scholarship is aimed at early career architects, surveyors and engineers and the William Morris Fellowship is aimed at early career craftspeople (e.g. stonemasons, plasterers, carpenters, metal workers etc.).
Applications are now open for their 2014 intake and the SPAB are looking for enthusiastic applicants that are willing to learn about all aspects of building conservation and – most importantly how to bring the philosophy of conservative repair into their daily work.
The deadline for applications is 1 December 2013.
Further details: http://www.spab.org.uk/
Best paper award
The best papers selected at DigitalHeritage2013 will have the opportunity to be published in journals, such as ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Journal of Cultural Heritage.
Best exhibition award
Best applications and installations will be selected in different categories including interactive and not interactive applications, digital art installation and emerging technologies demo.
Further details: LINK
RIBA Funding for 2013/14
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced funding research and scholarship schemes for students worth a record £250,000 in 2013/14, while £100,000 of the funds will go towards financing scholars embarking on vital educational research into architecture.
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President’s Awards for Research
The RIBA’s annual research awards exist to promote the innovation and insight that emerge from excellent research.
The awards acknowledge and encourage fresh and strategic thinking in architectural research for the benefit of the profession as a whole.
Projects are judged by a distinguished panel of experts in four categories:
Further details: LINK
Walter Parker Bursary Scheme
The emphasis of the Walter Parker Bursary scheme is to support students to enter the architectural profession. Practical experience is a requirement of architectural education: students are required to demonstrate key professional skills and competencies at the Part 3 professional examination which is the last stage before qualification as an architect.
Students of architecture can gain key experience at all stages of their architectural education. This bursary scheme provides assistance to students and graduates who are limited by financial constraints so that they can take advantage of opportunities for practical experience that will assist on their route to qualification as an architect.
These bursaries are funded by the bequest of Walter J Parker, who left a legacy to support the apprenticeship and professional training of architects experiencing financial hardship, and are known as the RIBA Walter Parker Bursaries.
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Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
RIBA writes:
Lord Foster said: ‘As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation – liberating and exhilarating in so many ways. Today it is my privilege to fund the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy – offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work – for generations to come.’
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Glasgow is internationally renowned for the creative and successful conservation and regeneration of historic buildings. Glasgow City Heritage Trust award a £500 prize for a final-year project at both Strathclyde University and Glasgow School of Art relating to architectural heritage conservation & regeneration, to promote continuing best practice and creativity in this area.
Further details: LINK
The Heritage Canada Foundation believes that historic places are the cornerstones of community, identity and sense of place. The National Awards Program recognizes individuals, organizations, corporations and rehabilitation projects that give new life to Canada’s historic places. HCF’s awards are presented at a ceremony held in conjunction with our annual conference. Selections are made by independent juries whose members represent, on a broad basis, the regions of Canada, the various disciplines relating to heritage conservation, and the voluntary heritage movement.
Further details: LINK
The annual Sussex Heritage Trust Awards are designed to recognise and reward high quality conservation, restoration and good design of newly built projects and encourage the use of traditional skills and crafts.
A wide variety of projects have received Awards including large country houses conver ted into luxury apar tments; a redundant water pumping station, a water mill and windmill, barns, oasts, and outbuildings all saved from dereliction and transformed into homes and offices; restored and re ordered churches and spires; reclaimed and restored gardens and even dovecotes; together with new and contemporary homes, ar t galleries, museums and theatres.
The Building Crafts Award and the Sussex Heritage Person of the Year Awards are presented to individuals rather than projects.
Further details: LINK
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