17 November 2008
National Wildflower Centre International Open Design
Competition
The RIBA Competitions Office is pleased to announce the launch
of a new international open competition for the design of an
innovative, architecturally striking educational, conference and
seed production complex at the National Wildflower Centre, off
Junction 5 of the M62 in the Liverpool City Region within the
administrative Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley. The client
for the competition is Landlife with funding of £100,000 for the
competition provided by the Northwest Regional Development Agency
(NWDA).
Entries are invited from architects or architect-led teams,
which will be judged anonymously at the First Stage. The
authors of up to six schemes will then be invited to develop their
design proposals and present them to a Jury Panel at
interview. Each Stage Two competitor will receive an
honorarium of £6,000.
For further information on how to enter the competition, please
visit www.architecture.com/competitions
or contact the RIBA Competitions Office on
+44(0)113-234-1335. The deadline for Stage One submissions is
7 January 2009.
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