The Mail on Sunday
British Homes Awards 2009
SPONSORED BY VELUX
SUNNYSIDE-UP HOUSE WINS Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods DESIGN COMPETITION
BROADWAY MALYAN AWARDED ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR
TELFORD HOMES ACCLAIMED HOMEBUILDER OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by VELUX,
Knauf Insulation, Mitsubishi
Electric and Stannah in partnership with Communities and
Local Government , BRE, Modern
Built Environment - Knowledge Transfer Network (MBE KTN)
and NHBC the Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards, with the
support of BIDA
and The Landscape Institute champion innovation and are pivotal
in providing a catalyst for change in the way we design and
build our new homes.
For 2009 the Awards were again considered within 12 Categories
and, following the successful legacies of the Barratt Green
House (Home for the Future 07)
and The Avanti House with Crest Nicholson (Tomorrow’s
Lifestyle Home 08) architects and interior designers were
invited to participate in the annual design competition.
In his foreword to the CLG paper Lifetime Homes, Lifetime
Neighbourhoods published in February 2008 the Prime Minister
wrote:
“We don’t just need more homes,
we need more quality homes. Homes that are designed and built
to a high standard, and that respond to one of the biggest
challenges of 21st century- the challenge of an ageing population”
The ageing society poses one of our greatest housing challenges-by
2026 older people will account for almost half of the increase
in the total number of households, resulting in 2.4 million
more older households than there are today.
To address this challenge the 2009 British Homes Awards
in partnership with CLG, Help the Aged and Stannah, challenged architects
and interior designers to rethink not only the construction
and design of homes that comply with and surpass Lifetime
Homes Standards, but also the way communities are created
to allow ageing occupants to maintain a 21st Century lifestyle
and the enjoyment of communal amenities.
This Lifetime Homes, Lifetime Neighbourhoods competition was promoted at Ecobuild and Futurebuild (March
03-05) and presented as a gallery exhibit at BRE Insite (June 01-04). The Kosi Architects’ design “Sunnyside-up” House received 12,000 Mail on Sunday reader votes and was acclaimed the winner at the Awards presentation
in London and will be published in the 2010 edition of Design.
The key to a better place.
GALLERY EXHIBIT AT THE BUILDING CENTRE LONDON
 The award winning designs will be presented as a gallery exhibit at The Building Centre, Store Street, London between November 2009 - January 2010
To register your interest in the 2010 Awards, email: mg@britishhomesawards.com
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