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Accordia Housing, Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge, England
2004-05
with Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
photo : Adrian Welch
Cambridge housing : Stirling Prize winner 2008
Avenue Campus, University of Northampton, England
2009-
University of Northampton Avenue Campus
Folkestone Performing Arts Centre : see Quarterhouse
Great George Street: Liverpool Housing for Urban Splash - 3 phases, England
2008-
Alison Brooks; Shed KM; Querkraft
image © 2007 ABA
Great George Street - Phase 1
Herringbone Houses, Lyford Road, Wandsworth Common, south London, UK
2007
pair of houses
Quarterhouse Performing Arts and Business Centre, Folkestone, Kent England
2009
photo : Dennis Gilbert
Quarterhouse Folkestone
Salt House, Essex, England
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photo: Cristobal Palma
Salt House
VXO House, Hampstead, London NW3
2002
Wrap House, London W4
2006
RIBA Awards 2006 - London: West London
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Private House, St Lawrence Bay - RIBA National Award 2007
One Off Ltd – Studio / showroom, 62 Chalk Farm Road, north London
1991
Ron Arad / Alison Brooks
English Architecture
Practice Information
Alison Brooks - BES B Arch RIBA
Director, Alison Brooks Architects Ltd.
Alison Brooks has established a reputation as one of the UK's leading new architectural talents since founding her London-based practice ABA in 1996. An intensely site-specific approach, drawing upon the broader cultural context of each project, has generated a continuously experimental yet award-winning, body of work. Recognised for expressively manipulating form, material and structure to reinvent typologies and dramatically sculpt space, her work often questions the nature of architecture and the conventions that surround it. Her belief in the transformative power of architecture underlies a commitment to housing design and its role in defining the character of our cities.
Alison Brooks is the first UK architect to have won all three of the UK’s most prestigious awards for architecture - the 2006 Stephen Lawrence Prize for Wrap House, the 2007 Manser Medal for Salt House and the 2008 Stirling Prize for Accordia, Cambridge, with Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios and Maccreanor Lavington. Her earliest residential commission, the VXO House, features in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture; while her most recent scheme, Herringbone Houses, have just received an RIBA Award, a Wood Award and a Civic Trust Award.
Expanding her focus to public and arts buildings, Alison Brooks has recently won international competitions for the Bridgwater Performing Arts Centre (2008) and the Folkestone Performing Arts Centre (2005), to open December 2008. ABA is undertaking masterplanning, housing and mixed use commissions in throughout the UK. After being shortlisted for the Olympic Athletes Village Panel the practice has recently been selected for the London Development Agency Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design Framework Panel. She is a keynote speaker at the 2008 RIBA conference in Barcelona.
Born in Welland, Ontario (Canada) and educated at the University of Waterloo (BArch 1988) Alison Brooks moved to the UK in 1988 after completing her studies. A successful 7 year partnership in Ron Arad Associates produced their acclaimed Chalk Farm Studios, London’s two Belgo Restaurants and the Tel Aviv Opera’s free-form interior architecture. In 1996 she formed ABA to pursue larger scale public, urban and housing projects. Her first large-scale commission, the Atoll Hotel Helgoland, won several industry awards and was described by the Architectural Review as setting a benchmark in new hotel design. This project was followed by a series of extraordinary UK residential commissions for which Brooks has gained worldwide recognition.
Brooks runs her 18-strong practice from studios in Kentish Town, London with co-director Dominic McKenzie. She is a Unit Master at the Architectural Association and has taught and lectured internationally. She has served as juror for the RIBA Awards, the Housing Design Awards and the Young Architect of the Year Awards, in which she was a finalist in 1999. She is a member of the Southwark Design Review Panel and has served as external examiner at Bath and Lincoln Universities.
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Practice - Text from Alison Brooks Architects 310107:
Architectural Association Lectures : Identity Mining
9 Feb 2007
Alison Brooks of ABA will discuss issues of urban regeneration, culture and identity in the context of their competition winning Folkestone Performing Arts Centre and projects in Liverpool and Milton Keynes.
Alison Brooks moved to London from Canada in 1989 and founded ABA in 1996. Alison Brooks Architects is recognised as one of Britain’s leading new generation of architects. Describing their approach as ‘cross-fertilisation’, the practice recently received the Stephen Lawrence Prize for Wrap House as well as awards for Accordia, Cambridge and Salt House in Essex. ABA is receiving international recognition for its work, featured in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, and representing Britain at the 2004 Sao Paolo Biennale of Architecture and the Pan-American Biennale in Ecuador. Alison Brooks has lectured in North America, Europe, and throughout the UK.
Alison Brooks Architects - RIBA Awards 2006: Wrap House London
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