Jamie’s Farm – Highly Commended at this year’s Sussex Heritage Trust Awards

Category: Public and Community Award

Main Contractor: MB Cable

Full details on Jamie’s Farm

BBM are delighted to announce that our recently completed project at Jamie’s Farm received a “Highly Commended” certificate at this year’s prestigious Sussex Heritage Trust Awards.

The judges said: “Well considered, overcomes many obstacles of a listed building to create a home-from-home environment or better for an inspiring institution!”.

The Sussex Heritage Trust Awards are designed to recognise and reward the highest quality conservation, restoration and good design of newly built projects whilst encouraging the use of tradition skills and crafts.

Working in collaboration with MB Cable, BBM oversaw the design and construction required to bring a vacant farm back into use as a working farm with the facilities to host the young people who attend the residential therapeutic programme run by charity Jamie’s Farm.

More information on the works we undertook at Jamie’s Farm can be found here.

Details on the 2020 awards and a full list of all the winners are listed on the Sussex Heritage Trust Website.

The Circular Economy: Designing for the age of emergency (s)

Online lecture for the Moscow Design Museum by Duncan Baker-Brown
Date: Thursday 12th November at 16:00pm
Available on: Moscow Design Museum YouTube channel 
Sponsored by: Durat

This Thursday Duncan will be delivering a live lecture on behalf of the Moscow Design Museum. The lecture will be available to stream via the above You Tube channel. Full details on the lecture can be found here.

“From now on the practice of architecture has to be a vehicle to effect positive behavior change. We have to move on from being an agent of “The Modern Project” with its “twin killers” 1 of continued progress and growth. A project whose main benefactors are currently very busy plotting ways to convince humans in lockdown to go back to consuming Planet Earth’s natural resources and get back to ‘business as usual’ despite the fact that this strategy actively contributes towards accelerating the Climate and Ecological Emergency. Why do we continue to believe these hard-nosed, neoliberal, rightwing, head-cases? How can award-winning architects pledge their commitment to ‘Architects Declare’ one minute and get back to business as usual the next?”

We are all responsible for managing Earth’s resources

After being selected last month as one of the AJ100 DISRUPTORS The Architects Journal have released a follow on article entitled “BBM Sustainable Design: We are all responsible for managing Earth’s resources”.

The feature provides an insight into our practice, details of a very exciting project we are working on and our thoughts on the current climate emergency. The full article can be found here.

‘It’s our No.1 priority to adapt the existing built environment instead of demolishing it and starting again,’

Check out the 25 AJ100 DISRUPTOR practices that are trying to shake up the the construction industry and tackle issues associated with the climate emergency, prejudice and equal rights. Including Architects Climate Action Network, Architecture 00, Assemble, Black Females in Architecture, Built By Us, Common Ground, Pride Road, Public Practice, Studio Bark, We Made That and others. 

Right to repair – How we lost it and how to reclaim it

AJ100 – Meet the DISRUPTORS

BBM are proud to announce being selected as one of the AJ100 DISRUPTORS! Check out the practices that are trying to shake up the the construction industry and tackle issues associated with the climate emergency, prejudice and equal rights. Including Architects Climate Action Network, Architecture 00, Assemble, Black Females in Architecture, Built By Us, Common Ground, Pride Road, Public Practice, Studio Bark, We Made That and others. 

“Responding to far-reaching changes shaking up the architecture profession and in particular the climate emergency, the AJ editorial team decided last year that the AJ100 in 2020 should go in a different direction, including highlighting smaller practices and networks who are challenging the norms of traditional practice in their drive to work in a more sustainable manner.

It was decided to select 25 of these to mark 25 years of the AJ100, which traditionally celebrates business success and focuses on the 100 largest architect practices in the UK, ordered by the number of qualified architects employed.”

Further details on all 25 selected practices/networks can be found here. 

Duncan Baker-Brown makes UK Construction Week Role Models 2020 shortlist.

After a reported record number of entries, we are pleased to announce that BBM Director, Duncan Baker-Brown has been shortlisted for the UKCW Role Models prize 2020

As the UK’s largest annual construction event, UKCW brings together members from all sectors of the built environment industry. Focused on knowledge sharing, encouraging good practice and problem solving, it is an opportunity to reflect and conceive how the construction industry should respond to present and future challenges. This has never been more prevalent than following declaration of the Climate Emergency.

As part of the nomination, Duncan will have the opportunity to present at UK Construction Week 2021 and contribute to UKCW’s student initiative and blogs.

The winner will be announced at UK Construction Week 2021 (4-6 May 2021). Click here for further information about the UKCW Role Models 2020 Campaign.

We’re on the list! Fairforce release a curated Top 100 of influential Green Design Professionals

Fairforce is a community of green professionals and companies. This collaboration strives to boost success for green companies whilst maximising their carbon handprint – the environmental benefit of reducing their customers carbon footprint.

Last month their student ambassadors curated a list of 100 green design professionals who have made a significant impact on sustainability within their industry. We are delighted to see that both BBM directors, Duncan Baker-Brown and Ian McKay, make the top half of the list for their professional and academic work!

For more information on Fairforce and to see the list in full please click here.