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Here are the results of the Portsmouth Society's Design Awards 2008. A full and illustrated report is available by clicking here.
Best New Building
Winner
Mary Rose School, off Locksway Road, Milton by Andrew Malbon and Ross Aylward of the City Architects' department.
Commended
Admiral Square, a group of fourteen new town houses in Nelson Road in Southsea by Willowbrook Property Services designed by Adams Poole.
Highbury College's new city centre building designed and built by AWW of Bristol and Kier Southern
Wimborne Road Infant School library & IT building in Wimborne Road Southsea designed by Daniel Bunt of the City Architects' Department.
Best Restoration
Joint Winners
Kings Theatre, Southsea which is being brought back to its Edwardian splendour by specialist contractors and graduates of the University's Restoration and Decorative Studies course.
The intricate restoration of the flint front wall of the distinctive house in Stanley Street, Southsea by Steve Langton and Steve Smith
Commended
The flats in the original wings of the Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays by Scott Brownrigg (above the Aspex Gallery and the central entrance arch) as well as the recreated clock tower by Michael Underwood of Hedley Greentree Partnership.
Best Landscaping
Winner
Marine Gardens, part of the splendid grounds of the former Royal Marine Barracks at Eastney, lovingly cared for by Mrs. Grayson-Smith and her contractors Pete Kidd who looks after the soft landscaping and trees and Mark Younghusband of FEM Planting
Commended
The beautifully designed and tended gardens cultivated by the Rev. John Mortiboys at No.13 Oyster Street facing St. Thomas's Cathedral in Old Portsmouth.
Background
If you would like to nominate a new building, restoration, re-use or a landscaping scheme in Portsmouth for consideration in the next competition, please email us at
and these will go forward for possible inclusion. Judging for the Design Competition takes place each September where our panel of judges decide which is the best new building, best restored building and best landscaping scheme completed in the City during the previous year.
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