Spanish City Wins RIBA North East Award

Spanish City Wins RIBA North East Award

The North Tyneside project takes
home its fifth award of 2019 at RIBA ceremony.

The accolades just keep on coming
for Spanish City. Our redevelopment project received further recognition on the
16^th May, where it was named amongst RIBA’s North East Award winners
for 2019 – its fifth award of the year and the fourth it’s picked up in the
past month.

Having previously won two RTPI
(Royal Town Planning Institute) awards and a RICS (Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors) award in April, Spanish City continued to demonstrate the
extraordinary impact that it’s making on its local community – the opening of
the building last July attracted 10,000 visitors – and in the architecture
community by being named as one of four RIBA North East Award-winners for the
year.

The RIBA Awards have, for 50
years, marked the celebration of the best architecture that the UK, and the
world, has to offer. Its regional awards pay particular attention to the impact
and importance of architectural projects in specific areas of the country.

The award demonstrates RIBA’s
recognition of the way in which Spanish City’s design team approached the North
Tyneside Council project, with the panel noting ADP’s attention to retaining
and restoring original features while providing high-quality facilities and
services. The building had been reduced to a state of disrepair over the years,
and one of ADP’s key aims at the outset of the project was to restore some of
the key historical features that had been lost, while also conserving as much
original material as possible.

The RIBA judges commented: “The renaissance of Spanish City symbolises its importance to the local community and its relevance as part of the wider coastal masterplan. The pragmatism of its brief and the design skills brought to bear upon its restoration and regeneration should safeguard its future for years to come.”