SPOTLIGHT
LONDON, UK
Spotlight Youth Space
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Poplar Harca
2,180sqm
£7M
December2013
SPOTLIGHT IS A WORLD CLASS CREATIVE
YOUTH FACILITY WHICH HAS BEEN SHAPED
BY THE ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF YOUNG
PEOPLE, THEIR VIEWS AND NEEDS. THE
YOUTH SPACE AIMS TO BRING THE YOUNG
PEOPLE OF TOWER HAMLETS TOGETHER TO
STRETCH IMAGINATIONS, EMPOWER, EXTEND
AMBITIONS AND REALISE THEIR POTENTIAL.
It is located on the site of Langdon Park School
in Tower Hamlets and is used by the School’s
6th Form during the school day. The project’s
key stakeholders were all consulted throughout
the briefing and design development process:
Young People; Poplar HARCA; Langdon Park
School; London Borough of Tower Hamlets
and Poplar Boys and Girls Club, however it is
the young people who have been at the heart
of everything.
SITE PLAN
1:1250
NORTH ELEVATION
SECTION
NTS
NTS
The outcome of the initial briefing sessions
was for the building to have a strong
‘creative industries’ focus to it with music
and performance highlighted as being very
important, alongisde the re-provision of the
Lansbury Boxing gym within the Centre.
The young people who were consulted
strongly felt that the Youth Space should have
a separate and distinct identity to the School.
To address this, the design concept is of two
interlocking cubes, which create a central
triple height multi-use performance space.
This space forms the heart of the building,
with circulation wrapping around it. The cube
facing the School shares a language with
the new School buildings in terms of scale,
appearance and materiality; whilst the larger,
outward facing cube reflects the Youth space
with a bespoke embossed and indented metal
cladding.
NATIONAL AWARDS
• Winner of RICS East of England Award 2014 - Communit Benefit
for TOKKO Youth Space
• RIBA East Awards 2014 shortlist - TOKKO Youth Space
• Shortlisted for RICS East of England Awards 2014 - Design
Through Innovation and the Regeneration Categories - TOKKO
Youth Space
• Shortlist for London Planning Awards 2013/2014 Best Built
Project Community Scale Scheme - Raine’s Foundation School
 Regional Finalist in the Civic Trust Awards 2013 - St Paul’s Way
Trust School
 Winner of Architectural Practice of the Year in Building Awards
2012
 Winner of RICS North West Awards 2012 in the category of
Regeneration for Wigan Life Centre
 Winner of London Planning Awards Best Built Project 2011/12 Community Scale Scheme for St Paul’s Way Trust School
 Winner of Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) North West Awards
2012 Conservation & Town Centre Regeneration for Wigan Life Centre
 Shortlisted in the RIBA London Awards 2012 for St Paul’s Way
Trust School
 Shortlisted in the AJ Retrofit Awards 2012 for Wigan Life Centre
 Nominated for the RICS 2012 National Regneration Award for
Wigan Life Centre
 Winner of the UK Commercial Property Awards sponsored by The
Daily Mail 2009 Best Public Services Development UK for Wigan
Life Centre
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
• Shortlisted for WAF Civic and Community award 2014 Spotlight Youth Space
• Shortlisted for WAF Civic and Community award 2014 - TOKKO
Youth Space
 Winner of International Commercial Property Awards sponsored
by CNBC Arabia 2009 - Best International Public Service
Development for Wigan Life Centre
 Winner of MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards
2008 – Big Urban Projects
 Commendation MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project
Awards 2009 – Mixed Use
ADVISORY POSITIONS
 Design Council CABE Design Review Panel
 Architecture Appraisal Panel for the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea
 Home Office Design Review Panel
PRACTICE TUTORS & INVITED CRITICS FOR
 Bartlett School of Architecture, London
 University of Greenwich, London
 Queens University, Belfast
 École Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris
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