Eight compete for Windermere Steamboat Museum |
The eight short-listed design teams have been announced for the competition to redevelop the Windermere Steamboat Museum on the shores of Lake Windermere in the Lake District National Park.
The Lakeland Arts Trust recently secured initial support for a £7.4m Heritage Lottery Fund bid, including £494,000 development funding, to take the project forward. The project aims to create an exciting and active museum which will use the lake and the stunning lakeside setting to display the nationally significant collection of steam launches, motor boats, yachts and other vessels which are all associated with Windermere.
The first stage of the competition attracted 114 Expressions of Interest and the shortlist was selected from an extremely high calibre field of responses.
The short-list (in order of the architect leading the multi-disciplinary design team) is as follows:
- Carmody Groarke
- Adam Khan Architects
- Niall McLaughlin Architects
- Terry Pawson Architects
- Reiach and Hall Architects
- 6a Architects
- Sutherland Hussey Architects
- Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Short-listing involved representatives from the Lakeland Arts Trust, together with Stuart McKnight (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects) acting as the RIBA Architect Adviser, Roger Tempest (Rural Conceps Group), Kim Wilkie (Kim Wilkie Associates), and Ellis Woodman (Editor, Building Design Magazine).
RIBA Competitions said the second stage of the competition will seek design concepts, in which the shortlist will need to take into account the requirement of displaying the boats and other items in the collection in the exhibition space and wet dock, and enabling visitors to see the boats being restored in the conservation workshop, as well as designing an appropriate facility for the stunning location to provide a world-class visitor experience.
Design proposals will be subject to public display and comment in late October and the design teams will be invited to present their schemes to the Jury Panel at final interviews taking place in late November 2011.
