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Keith Williams Architects - Latest Building News Keith Williams Architects Triumph at Civic Trust Awards image from architect Keith Williams Architects were major winners, bagging 3 Civic Trust Awards in an exceptional night for the firm at the annual Civic Trust Awards ceremony at Cardiff City Hall on Saturday night (9 March). The firm’s Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury and the Novium Museum, Chichester both won Civic Trust Awards whilst the Novium also won the Michael Middleton Special Award for the best New Building in a Conservation Area. A spokesman for KWA said “ Naturally we are delighted that these important projects have received such recognition. Creating major new buildings in historic city centres is always challenging and we are delighted that our projects have been recognised in this way. It is a particular testament to our clients, Canterbury City Council, and Chichester District Council, rewarding their determination and vision in bringing exceptional contemporary architecture to their respective city centres. They should both be congratulated for that.” A full list of the Award Winners is to be found at : http://www.civictrustawards.org.uk/winners/2013/ The Novium - Chichester District Museum, Sussex, England image from architect The Novium - 9 Aug 2012 This new museum building is the culmination of a 10 year endeavour by the Council, to replace the city’s former museum, with a new building that would more effectively display the breadth of its collection. The winner of a RIBA design competition, the Novium is 2 1/2 times larger than its predecessor, a small cellular 18th Century building elsewhere in the city. image from architect Chichester District Museum - background information Work is approaching completion on a new museum in the heart of historic Chichester, West Sussex, designed by Keith Williams for client Chichester District Council. Williams was successful in the 2007 RIBA Competition to design the new museum, which is now known as The Novium. The main building was completed in autumn 2011, whilst the exhibition designed by Event Communications is in progress ready for the museum’s formal public opening, in July this year. Keith Williams Architects - Recent Design News 19 Apr 2012 Bochum Musikzentrum, Germany A team led by Keith Williams Architects with Buro Happold has been shortlisted to design the new €32 million Concert Hall in Bochum near Düsseldorf, Germany. The project for the new “Bochum Musikzentrum” is being organised by the City of Bochum and supported by the Bochum Symphony Foundation. The 4,700m2 site is located in the centre of Bochum and is part of a wider master plan for the regeneration of the city quarter, “Kreativquartier Viktoria Quartier Bochum”. The project objective is to create a new home for the Bochum Symphony Orchestra centring on an outstanding 1,000 seat concert hall. In addition to the main concert hall, the project includes a 250 seat multipurpose hall and new facilities for the local music school. The currently vacant 19th Century Marien-Church located on the site is to be preserved and will form an integral part of the overall scheme. The teams have until 4 May to complete their proposals. Shortlist: • Keith Williams Architects with Buro Happold (Berlin) • Max Dudler, Berlin, Germany • SATINJNplus Architekten, Born, Netherlands • Bez + Kock Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany • SelgasCano, Madrid, Spain • Hillmer & Sattler and Albrecht, Berlin, Germany • Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow/Berlin • Klaus Roth Gesellschaft von Architekten, Berlin, Germany • Hascher Jehle, Berlin. Germany • JSWD Architekten, Koeln, Germany 9 Jan 2012 Keith Williams Closing in on Huge New City in Pakistan Keith Williams Architects supported by EPR Architects and Pakistan based engineering group ESS-I-AAR, is heading a consortium which has made the final cut to design a vast new city to the south-east of Karachi. KWA’s group, which also includes engineers Atkins, Malachy Walsh and SLMJR Management Consultants, is now one of just two teams still in the running for the new city which will eventually house 10 million inhabitants. KWA’s project will establish a conceptual vision and a long term strategy leading to the ultimate creation of the new city of Zulfurikabad. Located in Sindh Province, historically the land of the saints and Sufis (Islamic mystics), within a 400 square mile area of the country adjacent the flood delta of the Indus, KWA’s vision for the project embraces major environmental issues in defining a new low carbon based urban morphology, whilst relieving overcrowding in Karachi itself. Keith Williams Architects which is best known for its celebrated cultural and civic projects, including the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Wexford Opera House, The Unicorn Theatre and Athlone Civic Centre, has also been involved with urban planning for many years. The Zulfurikabad project however will mark a major upscale in the development of the practice’s oeuvre. Keith Williams commented ..“Clearly this is an extraordinary opportunity, and with now more than 50% of the world’s population living in cities many in very difficult conditions in the developing world, this project gives us the opportunity to explore a new blueprint for the way we might develop our cities over the decades to come.” Keith Williams Building News 2011 Athlone Art Gallery, Ireland image from Keith Williams Architects Athlone Art Gallery : start on site news Keith Williams Building News 2010 Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, England - topped out Jun 2010 photo from Keith Williams Architects Marlowe Theatre Keith Williams Building News 2009 1 Oct Black Prince Road Tower Approved Keith Williams' 24 storey residential and commercial project at Black Prince Road in London's Vauxhall has been approved by the planning inspectorate following a 4 day public enquiry. image from architect Black Prince Road Tower 14 Sep Keith Williams Architects Cultural Projects Keith Williams Architects has ended the summer with invitations to compete for a clutch of high profile cultural projects in Austria, Norway and Germany. In Austria, Keith Williams is the only UK architect to have been shortlisted to redesign the 1980's Kulturzentrum in Eisenstadt, the seat of the Esterházy dynasty who were important patrons of Joseph Haydn, in a town which has become famous for its annual Haydn festival. The €15 million project aimed at redefining the centre's urban setting and external expression, involves the extensive remodelling of the existing building, upgrading its 800 seat auditorium, whilst creating a new wing housing a 200 seat theatre, art gallery, foyers and support spaces. In Tønsberg near Olso, Williams' office is again the only UK participant among 7 international architects to design the new Støperiet Culture House which will restore a former wharf building dating from 1903, and a 3,000 sqm new cultural building containing a theatre, galleries and music teaching spaces. photo from architect In Frankfurt, in the Dom-Römer Areal (above) the historic city centre which links the cathedral and the old rathaus, Keith Williams has been invited to design proposals for a new multi-functional public exhibition and event building, on a site containing a series of medieval and roman archaeological remains immediately adjacent to the city's Historisches Museum. In nearby Alzenau, Keith Williams has been asked to propose designs for a new music school and 1,000 seat multifunctional event hall. Competing against firms such as Snøhetta, Jo Coenen, Kleihues & Kleihues and Ortner & Ortner, Keith Williams Architects has until early November to submit its designs for all 4 projects. 2009 has been a busy year for Keith Williams with the first major monograph on the firm's work entitled Keith Williams : Architecture of the Specific (Images Publishing) due to be released in November, its 1200 seat Marlowe Theatre complex in Canterbury now under construction and its Chichester Museum due to start at the end of the year. Recent Competition Shortlisting Munich Nazi Documentation Centre and Museum, Germany 2008- 5 architects shortlisted Munich Nazi Documentation Centre Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, England 2007- image from architect Wexford Festival Opera Theatre Royal, Wexford, Ireland Keith Williams Architects image : Ros Kavanagh Wexford Opera House : RIAI Awards 2009 Shortlist Competition Entry Molde Jazzhouse & Theatre, Norway Unicorn Theatre, London, UK photo : Hélène Binet Unicorn Theatre for Children The Long House, Abercorn Place, London, UK 2007 photo : Hélène Binet Keith Williams Architects : London house Irish Architecture Awards 2007 - Best House / Extension Athlone Civic Centre + Square, Ireland - photo : Keith Williams Architects Athlone Civic Centre + Square, Ireland More projects by Keith Williams Architects online soon Keith Williams Buildings Anglia Polytechnic University Business School, England, UK Argenteuil Centre Régional de la Musique et la Voix, Paris Ashford Discovery Centre, Ashford, England, UK Athlone Civic Centre + Square, Athlone, Republic of Ireland Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, England, UK Cahors Urban Masterplan, Cahors, France Campus de la Justicia de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Central Library TU Darmstadt, Germany Clones Library and County HQ, Co Monaghan, Republic of Ireland Crawley Library and Civic Offices, England, UK Cultural Centre & City Library, Torino, Italy Irish World Music Centre, Limerick, Republic of Ireland København Philharmonic Hall, Denmark Kunstens Hus, Herning, Denmark Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach, Germany Mosegärd Museum, Århus, Denmark Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Nietzsche Research Centre & Archive, Naumburg, Germany Orange Tree Theatre, London, England, UK St Johns Wood house, west London, England, UK Sergels Torg Masterplan, Stockholm, Sweden Teignmouth Community College - Masterplan, England, UK The Earth Galleries, Natural History Museum, London, England, UK The Great Egyptian Museum, Giza, Cairo The Mercat Regional Arts Centre, Dingwall, Scotland, UK Unicorn Theatre for Children, London, England, UK Wexford Festival Opera Theatre Royal, Wexford, Republic of Ireland More Projects by Keith Williams online soon Keith Williams : former practice

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Keith Williams Architects set up in 2001
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Keith Williams : London Architect Studio

Keith Williams : Design Director
Richard Brown : Director

Keith Williams is design director of Keith Williams Architects (KWA), a firm with a stream of accolades supporting its fast growing international reputation for the creation of dramatic, innovative architecture. The London based firm was BD Public Building Architect of the Year 2006 and has won over 20 major design and construction awards for its built projects.

Keith Williams, fellow director Richard Brown and their teams have been active in Ireland since 2001 where major projects include the multi-award winning Athlone Civic Centre, Co. Westmeath 2001-2004. Currently at construction stage KWA are working jointly with the OPW on the new 7,500 sqm, 800 seat Wexford Opera House 2005 - 2008, and solely on Clones Library & County HQ, Co. Monaghan 2004-2008. Elsewhere, inert alia, the firm’s award winning Unicorn Theatre, London was completed 2005, The Long House, London 2007, whilst at design stage the firm is working on the new Marlowe Theatre complex in Canterbury, the new district Museum in Chichester.

Keith Williams is a specialist designer of cultural buildings including theatres, opera houses, museums and galleries, libraries, civic centres, and frequently faces the challenge of building in a tight urban or historic context. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Williams has given numerous lectures on the firm’s work which has also been published worldwide.

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