Storey’s Field Community Centre & Nursery in Cambridge has been awarded the Supreme Winner prize at this year’s Brick Awards. Designed by architects MUMA, the community facility also won the Public and Outdoor Space categories.
The Storey’s Field Community Centre and Nursery serves the new community of Eddington on the North West Cambridge Development. The 100-place Nursery is arranged around three sides of a landscaped courtyard. The courtyard is contained by a brick-paved cloister and provides a sheltered play garden for the nursery children, solving the need for security without fences. On the fourth side, the civic scaled Community Centre, addresses the new local centre.
One of the judges, Andrew Taylor, said, “Storey’s Field has created a heart for the new development at North West Cambridge. The attention to detailing both inside the building and outside, including the outside courtyard area, is breath-taking and is far in excess of what is normally seen in public community buildings – a fantastic resource for the community.”
Winning the Innovation category was Coate St, a house built on a narrow plot completed with a unique mix-material façade. Fusion Brickwork was crowned winner of the Craftsmanship category for its attention to detail on Harpsden Wood House in Henley.
The 2018 Brick Awards winners in full
Individual Housing Development
Red House
Small Housing Development
Gospel Oak Infill Housing – Winner
Scala Yard – Commended
Large Housing Development
Royal Albert Wharf – Winner
Blackfriars Circus – Highly Commended
Large Housebuilder
Countryside Properties
Urban Regeneration
Silchester Housing – Winner
Carmichael Court – Commendation
Commercial
Television Centre – Winner
John Lewis Oxford – Commendation
Public
Storey’s Field Community Centre & Nursery – Winner
The Halifax Central Library – Commendation
Education
Malborough Primary School – Winner
Stowe School, Girls Boarding House – Commendation
Refurbishment
Walthamstow Wetlands – Winner
Turner’s House – Commendation
Innovation
Coate St – Winner
Step House – Highly Commended
Outdoor
Storey’s Field Community Centre & Nursery
Craftsmanship
Harpsden Wood House, Fusion Brickwork – Winner
The Tropical Ravine – Commendation
Specialist Brickwork Contractor
Anglian Brickwork Ltd
Worldwide
APT no 7 – Brickweaving, Iran – Winner
Rwanda Cricket Stadium – Commendation
Architects Choice
Creek Road
Supreme Winner
Storey’s Field Community Centre & Nursery
