Cabinet of Curiosity shortlisted for RIBA Forgotten Spaces

[Cabinet of Curiosity]

Visions of Utopia: City Scene as a Garden of Ideas copyright Cabinet of Curiosity 2010

Cabinet of Curiosity, who formerly had their artist studio in Brixton Village, have been shortlisted for a RIBA competition for their proposal to regenerate Clapham Orangery, Lambeth. They are unique in being the only shortlisted proposal that is led by an artist designer and they are members of the spacemakers network. Their previous studio space in Brixton Village was used as a role model for the creative use of an empty space prior to the empty shops scheme.

Full details of those on the shortlist and the future exhibition below:

RIBA London:
Forgotten Spaces competition shortlist announced.

We are extremely grateful to everyone who took the time and effort to enter the Forgotten Spaces
competition. The standard was extremely high and it was a challenge for the judges to select the final 19 schemes from a staggering 150 entries submitted by a wide range of student, architect, artist, designer and engineer led teams.

The shortlist was selected by a jury that included; Mark Brearley - Director of Design for London, Paul Finch- Chair of CABE, Tony Heaton Chief Executive of Shape, Jeremy Titchen- Development Director Qatari Diar , Tamsie Thomson- Director of RIBA London, Judith Salamon - Director of Property and Planning of London
First and Rowan Moore- architecture critic at the Observer.

All of those on the shortlist will now feature in the public exhibition at the National Theatre on
24 May – 4 July; the winners will be announced at the exhibition launchon 26 May at the National Theatre.

1^st prize will receive £5,000; 2^ndprize £2,000 and 3^rd prize will receive £1,000.

Full shortlist of schemes:

Name of scheme	Entered by
A New Productive Landscape	Boyarsky Murphy Architects
Beckton Alp	MUF Architecure
Between + Nowhere	James Stopps at Solo Project
Friern Barnet Sewage Works	J&L Gibbons
Hanging Gardens of the Circle Line	Chris Hildrey at Jestico + Whiles Architects
Kingsway Hub	JAIA LTD
Millbrook Place	11.04 Architects Ltd
Millwall Dock Floating Gardens	Form Associates
Nose to Tail	Dan Dodds
Old Kent Paradise	Martin Ebert at Studio Meda
Park Lane	William Haggard at DSDHA
Plinth	Artillery Architecture and Interior Design
Reservoir Roofs	Gort Scott
Thames Archipelago	Craft Pegg Limited
The Performance of Forgotten Space	Kingston University
The Pool	Scott Brownrigg
Visions of Utopia	Cabinet of Curiosity
Voicebox	Featherstone Young
Walk the line	Honey Architecture LLP

Jeremy Titchen of Qatari Diar said, ‘I was particularly impressed by the exciting and diverse nature of the forgotten spaces and the very high standard of the submissions. Ranging from ‘local solutions for local
issues’ to ‘big ideas’ there were a great many innovative proposals that would, if implemented, make a real difference.’

Judith Salamon of London First added, ‘ The sheer number of spaces across London was surprising. The imagination applied to them was extremely impressive: it would be great if some of these projects could make it off the drawing board and into reality.’

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[Gaia Marcus]

Fantastic!
Well done :)
I love the Visions of Utopia: City Scene - looking forward to the National Theatre Exhibition