Awards: Round Two, March 2005: Being There.v3.NEWcastle.05
Project Update, 29 September 2006
This work has now generated a new web site - 'NEWcastle' - which is intended to generate dialogue between the public – the users of architecture – and the architectural community itself. ‘NEWcastle’ creates the perception of an estate agent's site; but allows visitors to engage and interact with it at the same time. Visitors can read the conversations that took place about the ten projects, and can go on virtual tours of each of the properties. There are five residential properties – mostly city apartments – and five office or public buildings, ranging from an arts centre to business units. Themes are pulled out from these conversations and visitors are invited to create dialogue regarding the themes or come up with themes of their own.
The site also includes the weblog which Laurie Halsey-Brown, the artist, kept as she journeyed round the city in August and September.
With many thanks to the contributors:
Stephen Miller (Bill Hopper Architects)
Clive Albert (Malcolm Fraser Architects)
Tim Bailey (xsite architecture)
Peter Wesolowski (Newcastle City Council)
Phil Lloyd / Ces Maddison (Purves Ash LLP)
Jenny Gillatt / Tim Mosedale (Mosedale Gillett)
Peter Walker (Dewjoc)
John Burns (MacKellar Architects)
Dean Thody / Eric Carter (Napper)
David Coundon (Red Box)
http://www.movinginplace.net/NEWcastle/
Project Update, 03 April 2006
The aim of the project has been to interview the designers and users of ten key buildings in Newcastle, Hexham, Durham and Sunderland and within a specially constructed website profile these buildings and views to stimulate a dialogue between the public and the architectural community in the North East of England.
Advised by Andrew Guest, Director of Northern Architecture, Laurie has selected five residential and five non-residential buildings and interviewed ten architectural practices, to profile within the website which will be launched shortly.
All but one of the architectural practices are based within the North East:
NON-RESIDENTIAL
Dance City, Newcastle, Malcolm Fraser, Edinburgh
Queen's Hall, Hexham, x-site architecture
i6, Charlotte Square, Newcastle, Bill Hopper
Guildhall conversion, City of Newcastle upon Tyne
Lloyd's Court, 76 Grey Street, Newcastle, Purvey Ash
RESIDENTIAL
St Peter's Wharf, Sunderland
St James Gate, Newcastle
Durham Extra Care Facility
Central Lofts, Newcastle
Thornton Court, Newcastle
The website for this project will be launched on 4 May 2006.
Project Proposal
being there.v3.NEWcastle.05
Newcastle upon Tyne
Client
Northern Architecture
Artists
Laurie Halsey Brown
Project partners
Mathew Lennon, Public Art Officer, Newcastle City Council,
Newcastle upon Tyne
PROJECT Award
Talking Artists Award £5,000
Value of design phase
£7,000
Project description
Northern Architecture in Newcastle upon Tyne will work with
the New York artist Laurie Halsey Brown, presently based in Rotterdam,
to extend on-line public debate, knowledge and experience of architecture.
The project is planned from July 2005 to spring 2006 and will be published
in four parts: a gallery installation and audio work, drawings and photographs,
projections on to several architectural sites in Newcastle, a publication,
CD and a net.artpiece like an estate agent site, a pull-down menu of
key living and working sites to profile contemporary ideas about architecture.
Further details
Andrew Guest, Director, Northern Architecture, Blackfriars, Monk Street,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4XN.
Tel: 0191 260 2191; Email: [email protected];
Website: www.northernarchitecture.com
Artist: Laurie Halsey Brown, vierambachtsstraat 64 A, 3023 AR Rotterdam,
The Netherlands.
Email: [email protected]