RIBA Gasholder Bases Ideas Competition Winner, National Grid Architecture Contest News
RIBA Gasholder Bases Ideas Competition
Architectural Contest by National Grid Property & Royal Institute of British Architects, UK
8 January 2018
Gasholder Bases Ideas Competition Winner
RIBA Gasholder bases international ideas competition Winner
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and National Grid are delighted to announce Outpost as the winners of the ideas competition for the future use of Gasholder bases.
Model of winning design:

Gasholder bases are the sub-surface voids left behind once an old gasholder has been dismantled. Outpost?s solution for a sustainable, mixed use development was unanimously selected as the winner by the Judging Panel. They fought off strong competition from 318 Studio, CF.Architects, Jan Verhagen and Priscille Rodriguez, Max Architects and WOO (Wilson Owens Owens Architects).
WOO?s proposal for a sports venue was awarded Highly Commended.
Russ Davenport, Faulkner Browns, RIBA Adviser commented: ?Outpost presented a beautifully simple vision in their submission for which they should be commended. Their cost effective, sustainable design proposal provides an appropriate response to a shortage of affordable housing and workshop spaces across the country. The decision to build out from the base structures, effectively lining the inside wall with a timber framed, modular construction, is inventive yet pragmatic, the serrated roofline pr...