Gallery at Kew and St-Martin-in-the-Fields among 50 winners announced at weekend ceremony
St Martin-in-the-Fields picked up the 鈥楳ichel Middleton special award鈥�, at this weekend鈥檚 Civic Trust Awards.
Over 50 projects from the UK, Ireland and Europe were recognised at the event held on Saturday at the St George鈥檚 Hall in Liverpool.
The Michel Middleton special award is a memorial to the former Civic Trust director presented to a restoration project or new build within a conservation area.
The Eric Parry Architects designed scheme was described as 鈥淎n example of building conservation at its best, the regeneration greatly enhances Trafalgar Square creating safer more attractive public spaces designed around inclusion and focusing on user groups.鈥�
Other award winners include The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, designed by architects Walters and Cohen also picked-up a special award.
The state-of-the-art gallery exhibits some of the world鈥檚 most precious and fragile works of botanical art and it was crucial that the design sought to combine the needs of the collection and those of Kew鈥檚 visitors.
Other winners included the restoration of Saint Malachy鈥檚 Church in Belfast, the Creative Arts Units at Aberystwyth University and a new winery facility for Bodegas Protos in northern Spain. Landmark sculpture Dream, sited on a former colliery in St Helens received the 鈥楽pecial Award for Community Engagement鈥� and The Hull Truck Theatre was awarded the 鈥楽pecial Award for Inclusive Design鈥�.
The Awards were presented to the best new buildings, public spaces, restorations and public art by Civic Trust Awards Patron, architect and TV presenter George Clarke.
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