Awards - Jamie Fobert Architects

Our project at Kettle’s Yard has been confirmed as a successful project in the 2020 Civic Trust Awards.

The redevelopment has enabled Kettle’s Yard to curate exhibitions with major artists from around the world and to display 20th and 21st century art in optimal gallery conditions. The high-quality visitor facilities enable even more people to enjoy this much-loved House and Gallery. And the new Learning Centre has transformed Kettle’s Yard’s work with children, young people and community groups.

Established in 1959, the Civic Trust Awards scheme identifies projects which exhibit strong sustainability credentials and a high level of accessible and universal design, and which have provided a positive civic contribution.

Kettle’s Yard is one of 54 new buildings – and one of 6 University of Cambridge buildings – to win an RIBA National Award 2019.

The RIBA National Awards recognise buildings which make a significant contribution to UK architecture. We are so pleased that Kettle’s Yard now joins Jamie Fobert Architects’s little rosta of projects which have received this accolade – Tate St Ives, Levring House, Luker House, Kander House and Anderson House.

We are delighted that Kettle’s Yard is the winner of an RIBA East Award 2019, announced last night at the regional awards event in Cambridge.

The jury commented, ‘Jim Ede’s domestic museum, Kettle’s Yard, which was established in the 1950s and extended by Sir Leslie Martin in the late 60s, has been given an authentic and faithful enhancement through this careful and sensitive project. Rectangular gallery spaces, perfectly proportioned and laid out for international exhibitions, have been set into the random shape of the site with all its nooks and crannies. A deep coherence has been achieved within what had been a disparate collection of parts, and a very pleasing combination of rational and idiosyncratic architectural spaces has been created.’

We are delighted that Jamie Fobert Architects is shortlisted alongside five other practices in the Public Building category of the BD Architect of the Year Awards 2019.

Our submission included three completed public gallery projects – Tate St Ives, Kettle’s Yard and Charleston – and our reconfiguration of the National Portrait Gallery, which is currently in the design process.

Read more about all the shortlisted practices and their work here.

We are so pleased that Tate St Ives was awarded a Civic Trust 2019 Award at the 60th Anniversary Civic Trust Awards Ceremony on Friday evening, at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.

The judges commented that Tate St Ives is “a wonderful space with a strong connection to the community which provides an excellent visitor experience. Stunningly simple, elegant and suited to its context and natural landscape”.

Joana was joined in collecting this award by David Derby from Price & Myers.

Tate St Ives is a Regional Finalist in the 2019 Civic Trust Awards and the Selwyn Goldsmith Awards for Universal Design.

We are delighted that the project’s contribution to the town of St Ives and its many visitors has been applauded by
the Civic Trust Awards scheme, which was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design. It identifies projects which exhibit strong sustainability credentials and a high level of accessible and universal design, and which have provided a positive civic contribution.

The winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 will be announced this evening at an event to be broadcast live by the BBC from 20:30 tonight.

To celebrate the inclusion of Tate St Ives on the shortlist, here’s the wonderful film made by Jim Stephenson for the Architects’ Journal.

We were delighted to be awarded ‘Best Written Content’ in the Archiboo Web Awards last night.

The judges described our website as a ‘no nonsense approach with crisp, honest writing. The descriptions of the work have a nice story-telling quality without too much jargon or too many warm words that lack real meaning. You feel as though you’ve got inside the heads of the practitioners a bit and it has character”.